2 words: rice cooker
You can find them in thrift stores for $5 all the time. Get one with a steamer tray. You can make rice and put some sausages or cubed meat that has been seared for 1 minute a side in the top with some sliced vegetables in the steam tray. The meat juices mingle with the vegetables and the drippings fall onto the rice. You don't even need spices. Though i would recommend some lipid in the water over the rice.
If you're using frozen vegetables and tube sausages the entire preparation takes less than 5 minutes. Cook time is about 30 minutes. You can have dinner ready by the time you take a shit and a shower then set the table. And it can easily feed 2, and still have leftover rice you can fry with eggs and vegetables the next day. You'll have to get a second steam tray if you want to feed 4 since you'll need more vegetables and rice.
You can also boil potatoes in them.
in college my girlfriend and I would make our own hotpockets with biscuit dough and varied fillings, like scrambled eggs and ground sausage (or cubed ham) with peppers, onions, and cheese (tomatoes got weird with freezing and microwaving), or hamburger balls with bacon and cheese mixed in, and of course pizza. Prep would take about 30 minutes and bake time would be about 12 minutes for 4 trays of 6. Just roll the dough right onto a 9"x13" cookie sheet, cut into 6, place toppings, and fold to seal, slitting the top to prevent bursting. Cool, then wrap in sandwich bags then freeze.
Also, 5# of potatoes backed right on the racks. Keep a bowl in the refrigerator. You can slice them for quick home fries. We did that nearly every day. She got breakfast in bed while I got ready for class since we lived right across the street from the CS building.
Solid post. I've never been a big starch person (except with soups/stews) We sub cauliflower, broccoli, and various squash where most people will have rice, potatoes, or noodles.
While I tend not to eat many processed foods, you're right in that the time is cut significantly if you would go that route. (and if you buy 5 bags of potatoes are almost always on sale and are always inexpensive) Another solid option that's cost efficient is eggs. They're nothing but protien and even healthier if you remove the yokes).
Oh, you can boil eggs in a rice cooker, too. Then you'll always have a hard boiled egg to throw in your bag.
Eggs are insanely versatile and delicious. I'd upvote your posts, except that I've been given the "I'm AOU's master and hero" badge here...plus upvoting itself is for faggots.
Your posts are worthy of reading to people who consume trash food though.
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