What are healthy and easy meals I can make at home? I’ve never really lived on my own before and am used to my parents cooking for me, what are some meals I can make from ingredients at a local grocery store if I’m also allergic to bread and can’t have anything with wheat in it?
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How about this, you go to the store and pick up meat, vegetables and spices. And then you put them in a fricking pot. And then heat it all up. It’s that easy you little-dick philistine.
Why so mean?
This anon's post, but less hostile.
it is actually pretty easy to cook. here's some ideas to get you started. nothing fancy. if you want a specific recipe, i'd go on wikipedia, look at the common elements of a dish, then find a recipe on google that hits all of those points. be careful of asian recipes, since a lot of them use sauces/spices to cover up the taste of low quality ingredients. a lot of the best recipes out there are dead simple.
pick one meat, and three vegetables. heat the pot with some olive oil on the bottom. onions go in the pot first, then meat, then the rest of your veggies. cook until the meat looks done through, add some herbs/spices if you want (i like a touch of salt, black pepper/cayenne pepper, and "herb mixes" that most grocery stores sell).
suggested meats: beef cuts, chicken, lamb, kangaroo (if youre an ausgay), pork.
suggested vegetables: onion, capsicum (bell pepper in the states), potato (potato is better for a stew though), carrot, peas, brocolli, or some mushrooms (not a vegetable but you can pretend it is).
you can also chop up some garlic to add while you chop your veggies.
add some stock, cook longer, and you get a stew. easy peasy.
if you want, you can put on a second pot with rice/pasta. just put it in boiling water and wait.
make sure you have some containers ready since you'll usually have some leftovers, especially if youre buying ~1kg of meat at a grocery store.
forgot to mention - when you add the onions, cook them for a little while so they can soften a little. then add meat, cook for a little bit so it browns just a bit, then add the rest of the vegetables and cook to completion. you do it in phases with the three ingredient groups (onion, meat, other veggies).
there's also a lot of variation possible when youre just cooking meat & vegetables - different spices, meats, and veggies will give you access to a lot of different tastes so you won't get bored of chicken+brocolli forever.
theres a difference in asking for recipes on a health & fitness board and asking for recipes on a cooking board - primarily, that we won't recommend adding a shitton of butter to everything.
>carrot, peas, brocolli
>you'll usually have some leftovers, especially if youre buying ~1kg of meat at a grocery store.
>we won't recommend adding a shitton of butter to everything.
Post body.
Not that anon but his cooking recommendations are very sensible and I follow similarly. It’s really watered down of course but the essence in it is great. The big thing I would add is try to make all meals / snacks “complete”, meaning a source of protein (meat/eggs/cheese/beans/tofu shit/protein supps), source of carbs (rice/potatoes/pasta/bread/beans/whatever else), source of fat (usually comes from meat plus whatever cooking oil so don’t need to worry about this much) and good source of fiber too (non starchy veggies, or starchy veggies too, plus if you pick whole grain carb sources you’ll get a few extra grams of fiber here and there).
I will post my body on his behalf.
thanks for defending my honour, mate. much appreciated.
like i said, its supposed to be some dead simple cooking advice - as unpretentious as possible for someone who's presumably never used a stove before. of course a little butter on a steak is delicious, of course a bulker is capable of eating a kilogram of good meat, of course the vegetables i picked aren't macro/micro optimised. but it's healthy enough and very easy for someone just trying to escape the goyslop machine with some simple home cooking.
I think you are implying that butter is unhealthy and that a human male should only eat 0.5 kg/1 pound of meat a day, since you said 1 kg (2.2 lbs) of meat is going to need packed in "multiple containers" after a day of eating. Both of those are stupid assertions. But I think your advice is generally good, to be sure.
How did you get your gyno bro? Not enough aromatase inhibitors?
he doesnt have gyno crabBlack person, take your meds
He doesn't have forearms or legs, either. Imagine roiding for this.
>he has nothing
>he roids
Indecisive ass homie
Stew
Boiled eggs
you have to be moronic to not know how to cook healthy meals for yourself.
Chicken boobies with rice.
I made my own cream of tomato soup this weekend.
Roasted some tomatoes, bell peppers, onion and garlic then pureed it and added some cooking cream and salt. Was pretty gud.
There's tons of recipes involving chicken on the web, check them out. Avoid everything that includes frying in oil.
If you have chicken with skin and still want it crispy, brush a little bit of olive oil on it (no more than a tablespoon) and put it in the oven at 450 for 45 minutes, flipping the chicken at the half way point.
Potatoes are pretty easy, too. Cut a russet potato into 3/4", drizzle a little oil, add salt, pepper, and minced garlic (if you don't want to mince the garlic, grate it). Throw those in the oven at 400 between 30-40 minutes.
Broccoli is also easy. Cut the broccoli into florets, and just repeat the process you would for potatoes, but only cook the broccoli at 400 for like, 20 minutes. After they're done splash a little lemon juice on the broccoli.
There you go, 3 course meal with 8 ingredients.
You can also sub Chicken for fish.
If you make enough you can save the leftovers for dinner the next night.
Skip the broccoli, never put olive oil in an oven at 450º (if you do this and it doesn't smoke up your entire place you are buying fake olive oil), and add sour cream + butter to your potato.
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>healthy and easy meal
Literally just eggs + butter. You can't screw it up unless you cook it for too long. In that case, cook it for a shorter amount of time. Eat 4–8 eggs depending on how much you lift.
>what about carbs?
You should be eating fruit and honey, neither of which require cooking.
>what are other things that are easy to cook?
Steak, then deglaze the pan with balsamic vinegar. This means you pour vinegar in the pan when you are done with the steak. It cleans the pan for you and makes a delicious glaze.
You can also just literally cook ground beef and add anything you want to it in terms of spices or other accoutrements and have that on standby for the entire week. Most people frick up their ground beef because they put it in a cold pan then "drain the fat" (it's not fat, just water) and then have very dry nasty ground beef. Cook your ground beef in a hot pan.
Don't forget about things that don't require any cooking. Namely, dairy, so milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, other cheese, etc.
Rice veggies meat
Mashed potatoes
Spaghetti
Chilli
Tacos
Burgers
Ramen - add whatever meat and eggs
Mac and cheese
breakfast
Avocado toast
Eggs
>mac and cheese
And beef. If you aren't adding ground beef to your mac and cheese you aren't doing it right. Same applies to spaghetti (any meat works). Nice post otherwise.
Hey just wanted to ask: what is the best meat alternative for protein? I'm talking shit like lentils and chickpeas.
Facing tough times financially right now and 1 little pork cutlet per person is not enough.
why don't you just go on budgetbytes bro. those meals are simple and will get you started for cheap.
i make the baked banana oatmeal recipe from there all the time its so good and simple
Good job at taking care of yourself.
Essentially, prepare-ahead food that you can make in large quantities that'll last in the fridge is your best shot. The most important thing is that you actually like what you eat, but your taste buds/appetite has probably been warped, to a certain degree, with fast foods and unhealthy shit. I'd suggest eating/cooking from whole foods (no packaged shit, no smoked meats, no sausages, just meat, veggies, milk products, etc.) and tracking your calories and macros for like a month or two, trying to figure out what you like and after that, you'll have an idea what you like and what you don't like, plus you'll have created some sort of innate sense of calories and macros and you won't have to track all that stuff all the time. This might take more time, but learning how to track calories and macros eventually really pays off.
There are countless meal prep food youtubers who try and condense all this stuff, the only I know is Josh Cortis, who does both meal prep and snack prep. Also get a kitchen scale, I am a ISTgay so I use it all the time, so I don't realize how useful it is in ISTcooking, but a digital scale is fricking GOAT when cooking.
I'll try and sample some stuff that I usually cook or rather what I'd usually eat if my eating wasn't fricked up now. My fricked up eating is because of mental health issues (ex-fatty who is terrified of gaining weight combined with overworking) and health issues (IBS).
cutting? chicken/turkey low fat dairy and veggies
bulking? beef/pork, dairy and veggies
As for carbs oats and rice all year round.
Literally all you need, add spices to taste.