Good Lord I am happy I can handle my shit and not have to publicly post my executive dysfunction for the planet to see.
after 40 all meals are horror
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IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 8 months ago
aniki@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
So much of these news aggregate sites are morons reposting the same tired posts from absolute crayon eaters who bloviate about how critically incapable they are at basic life functions.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m soooo ADHD, sitting through that lecture yesterday was rough! 🙄
kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I am pretty sure I have ADHD and I still manage to meal prep.
Even if you cant, you can literally just have a backup plan like mine, for when I forget to cook I have some frozen chicken strips, potato wedges, and green beans, throw it all on a sheet pan and into the convection oven for 20-25 mins, boom you have a decent meal, bit more pricey than doing it from scratch, but it’s quick and low effort
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
I do have ADHD, and while I can manage meal prep, 99% of the time I just can’t be bothered. But I force myself to do it, because the alternative is eating a bag of crisps and a big bar of chocolate and feeling like crap all afternoon.
bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I make slow cooked chicken burritos and freeze them. Takes about 1 hour of prep, and about 6 hours to cook so it isn’t easy, but I only gotta do this occasionally. If I do this in conjunction with meal prep it takes a lot longer to prep, but then I can have a work week of food, and have like 8 burritos for when I’m too lazy to cook.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m okay cooking for just myself but I have a toddler and celiac wife so I use cook smarts. Takes away so much of the planning.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
It’s called a sandwich.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’m guessing that’s covered by the £4 meal deal, and they’re just too lazy to make their own
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For anyone who is confused, this user is talking about a sandwich. That is what is called a sandwich.
Hope that cleared it up!
gerryflap@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Here in the Netherlands a lot of people just eat sandwiches. I usually take them with me to work. Not a lot of effort
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 8 months ago
I’ll never understand how can people eat sandwiches every day, especially those woth some kind of meat in them. I’m not vegetarian but eating sandwiches two days in a row make me want to puke.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Do you eat the same thing for breakfast every day? I do. But for whatever reason, lunch and dinner is different. Can’t eat the same thing twice.
Dumb brain
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I am one and it’s peanut butter every day. For 3 years basically every working day has had a peanut butter sandwich. And that’s how the next 30 some years are looking too. It’s fine. I can live that way.
dessimbelackis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A sandwich can be a thousand different dishes if you get creative
Dave@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
I eat sandwiches every day, and the same thing or small variety. I’m not eating for the experience, I’m eating to not be hungry. I can make and eat a sandwich is less than a minute, so I can get back to doing what I want to be doing.
If I really don’t feel like a sandwich, there’s always toast.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 8 months ago
a lot of people eat the same food several days in a row, or several meals in a row.
GTG3000@programming.dev 8 months ago
Genuinely, why? Personally, I’m happy to eat basically same meals for a few days before they get boring, and you can vary your sandwiches a lot of you so desire.
AA5B@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Peanut butter? Upgrading to natural peanut butter made all the difference for me, so it’s no longer just for kids.
I even get decent marmalade, which definitely doesn’t work for kids, or a dark amber maple syrup. I currently have apple butter, which goes nicely on a peanut butter sandwich, or with a scoop of cottage cheese on the side
gerryflap@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I also eat pretty much the same breakfast every day. For lunch I can vary what’s on the bread and the type of bread. That’s just how things are here. It’s not the nicest, but it saves a lot of time and money and can also be quite nice
redisdead@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You don’t have to make the same sandwich every day.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not Mongolian I take it?? Lol
MadBob@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Same in the UK, where the post was written.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Also, there’s literally a Greggs on every corner or a greasy spoon that’ll make you a sandwich for 2.50
tweeks@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Lunch is my favourite. Nothing beats a fine sandwich with cheese.
AA5B@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Peanut butter and provolone is one of my favorites
sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Same in Germany. We have bread with butter and cheese. It’s a blessing with a good bread
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah I just make a peanut butter sandwich and prep some fruit and bring it to work. Easy, healthy, and filling
Dominic1234321@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I will ask my cousin about it lol
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cooking takes SO MUCH TIME when you’re single. But eating out is so expensive. It sucks.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Good news, they’re making eating in expensive too, so you can get the full experience!
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If you don’t have a freezer that can hold two weeks worth of meals, buy one. I have three homemade frozen pizzas and a half dozen chicken pot pies waiting right now.
I can cook a whole roast chicken on Sunday and enjoy chicken tacos, chicken sandwiches, etc. all week.
I can cook a five liter pot of chili/soup/stew and freeze it into pint containers; I’ve got a nice hot meal any time.
Slow cookers are another option.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My problem with that is defrosting. It requires timing and planning, which is tough due to impromptu work based meals. And some stuff once frozen tastes like crap defrosted.
I do liberally use the slow cooker.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 months ago
If you practice and prepare you can cut down on some of the time. I used to live right next to a street of fast food joints so it was never worth it to cook myself from a time standpoint unless I was just having some frozen garbage. Now it’s a 15 minute trip to pick something up if there’s no line so I cook a lot more and with experience I’ve been able to streamline things so it goes faster.
uncrme@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you find a few recipies you really like and learn how to do them from memory, and then make them a lot, you learn lots of efficiencies and shortcuts that save a ton of time. Making stuff without a recipie at all is even faster.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hahaha learn to cook. Stir fry takes under 30 min. BLT in like 5 min. Pizza in under an hr including making the dough.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I see you never have to wash dishes or chop vegetables.
sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Yeah same. I just try to cook a meal on Sunday but it doesn’t get me through the entire week. Not to mention I usually need a second meal at night when I work out. It’s too much.
redisdead@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cooking takes the same amount of time whether you’re single or not?
Like wtf.
Pasta boils at the same speed regardless of how many people are in the house.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s the problem. It’s more efficient with bigger meals. If you’re single, you have to cook and then clean. If there’s two of you, you can divide tasks.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
You can just… not? Having two larger meals a day isn’t that weird.
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I have adopted the “Central European” diet:
One large meal a day and then leftovers + bread and toppings.
Occasionally might have more but that’s my daily meal plan and works pretty great.
TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Bread is a life saver. If you don’t have time to cook just eat some bread. Healthy (depends on the kind of bread) and you don’t have to worry about beeing hungry an hour later.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 months ago
What does the rest of the world do then? Cook twice or thrice a day? That’s just silly.
OopsAllEarios@lemmy.world 8 months ago
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 8 months ago
I disagree. I like cooking and since I'm working from home I can make something nice and fast at home for lunch. But I probably would have agreed back then when I worked at the office.
sazey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love the cooking but hate the cleaning up part.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 8 months ago
Pro tip: cook in and eat from one pot :D
marx2k@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This thread just oozes of early adults that don’t understand how to spend 30 minutes preparing meals
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or possibly people living in milquetoast office park suburbs where the restaurant options are dogshit.
No shortage of good lunch foods in downtown Houston.
redisdead@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s nothing at my workplace other than a shitty microwave oven and we’re not allowed to leave the factory for lunch or dinner.
I still manage to eat decent meals because I’m not a lazy bum.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you are in an office environment, where do you prep?
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes, eventually it ends when you’re promoted to middle management and you have to forage for granola bars and cookies during the few seconds you get between meetings. Stay an IC for as long as you can.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 8 months ago
That sounds like a toxic-work-culture thing that I’m faaaar too European to understand. I’m off for a two hour lunch, don’t text me
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Someone needs to raise their sandwich game.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Or, buy lunchables. Yes they’re cheap. Yes they’re fantastic
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
There is another option.
Just going to put this out there, cook too much the previous night, don’t eat all the dinner you cooked. Place the remainder into some form of container; transport said container to work with you the next day.
Lunch is sorted when you make your dinner!
madcaesar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s crazy talk.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Didn’t know psychopaths were just showing themselves like this on Lemmy, wtf
shasta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The same meal again? Crazy talk
dwindling7373@feddit.it 8 months ago
Imagine your biggest realization as an adult being a wrong opinion.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I just cook bigger portions for dinner and eat that as lunch
anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Right! I’m surprised this isn’t a more popular approach.
Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Yes, it’s so obvious. It doesn’t take significantly longer to cook a double portion.
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Look I’m not saying that cooking your own lunch is a prerequisite for being an adult. However complaining about the quality of prepared food while not acknowledging you could just cook is sure as hell immature.
bad_alloc@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
If you want to minimize cleanup and effort, just use a rice cooker.
- Costs 30€
- Put in rice and lentils at a ratio of your chosing, cook with oil and salt
- Optionally spices and tomato paste
- Put in frozen veggies either in a steaming basket or directly in the rice
- Chuck in an onion (quartered if you’re lazy) and some garlic
- Yoghurt on the side
Congratulations you now have a healthy, cheap meal you can make at home or at work. If you eat directly out of the cooker you only need to clean your spoon. No cutting board needed either.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
£4 sounds pretty cheap if it’s a decent meal
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I mostly eat leftovers from last night’s dinner.
scytale@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The trick is being able to eat the same meal for the entire day. Cook once and eat it throughout the day. lol
Antiproton@programming.dev 8 months ago
Grow the fuck up.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Most of my lunches are leftovers, but many of them are things like a burger or a bratwurst that I can cook with little effort. Or I can buy something.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Learn how to cook. It’s not that hard to throw something together that’s good after being microwaved. The other day I made some bitter-orange chicken with rice. It was 30 minutes waiting and 4 minutes coating the chicken in the pan with the sauce.
Emerald@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Honestly they should just make nutrition bricks. Just combining nutrients into a brick. It could even be modular so you can add/remove various nutrients based on your nutritional needs. The perfect life would be working for the nutrition brick manufacturer and then going home to eat some nice nutrition bricks.
flerp@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I look forward to lunch every day. I make myself a wrap with some sort of oven cooked filling and a bunch of fresh veggies and some apple slices and a small bag of wasabi peas for dessert.
ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Some of us are given free meals to eat in our paid meal breaks.
Nothing fancy though. Most times, the chef only makes a starter or a dessert. Rarely both.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A Br*tish person complaining about lunch, that’s rich.
Maybe try having a proper one, like the rest of Europe, and you will find the answer to all of your complaints.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Is this some sort of British joke that I am too Indian to understand?
BoxerDevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sandwiches are never a bad option.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 months ago
In Brazil, if you work more that 6hs a day, the company have to give you lunch. The majority of them, give you a pre paid debit card that can be used in restaurants. This mean that they are a lot of money there that can be used in restaurants, so any office building have lots of restaurants around.
From my union contract, I get 40R daily to lunch, and the restaurant I go they serve “prato feito” (beans, rice, salad, meat) for 25, and use the rest for some icecream or to eat something with my wife at weekends.
Theme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
If you’re not eating a croque monsieur for lunch, that’s your fault, and you deserve to be miserable
Fester@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This person’s problem can be solved by a sandwich. Takes like 3 minutes to make, or can be prepped earlier, no cooking necessary, has color, is fresh, not frozen, beats any fast food meal in price and quality. Also can even be healthy if you shop wisely. Can be different every day. Can be hot or cold. The possibilities are endless. Sandwiches are the best.
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sandwiches were literally invented to be home made, portable fast food, for hunters, workers, and the like. Not only are they ok with being wrapped up and carried, if made right they actually get better when wrapped up and squashed.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I agree sandwiches are the best. But my metabolism is just too efficient at turning carbs into fat and high blood sugar. There’s just no substitute for good bread in a sandwich, all attempts at compromise/substitutions ruin the whole thing.
Nikki@lemmy.world 8 months ago
wraps are just as convenient and use far less bread, i love a good turkey wrap for lunch
Oisteink@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What type of bread are you using, and how thick are your slices? These work fine for me, but theres also rye versions. frutimian.no/2016/08/…/matpakkebrod-i-langpanne/ - note link is in norwegian.
I dont mind spending time preparing if it means i get great taste.
RBWells@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t have this problem, but lettuce wraps are shockingly good too. A good sturdy lettuce, sliced turkey, smoked cheddar and some chipotle mayo (canned chipotle en adobo, pureed, just mix some of it into mayonnaise to make a spread.) Onion if you have it. I don’t understand why it’s good, it sounds like nonsense but I do this when I don’t have time to make bread, but do have good lettuce or homegrown lettuce in the garden. It is delicious and feels good to eat.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 8 months ago
What do you consider ‘good bread’? Don’t buy supermarket bread, go to a good bakery and get some nice, freshly baked whole-grain bread, that should be much more difficult to turn into sugar.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t forget lettuce sandwiches.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Get some keto bread. It’s basically pure fiber in bread shape. The aldi keto bread is fantastic
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
You can even eat it riding a horse!
thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Or cool a bit batch of your own soup at the weekend. Then microwave it for lunch.