Lentil soup.

I call this recipe Baja balls

Get a crock pot and fill it with some plain frozen meatballs.

Dump the entire contents of a can of crushed pineapple in there, maybe a can of pineapple rings too if you’re feeling fancy.

Cover with low sodium teriyaki sauce and cook on high or medium depending on how much stuff you have to do today.

Cook up some rice when it’s looking done.

If you want it to be extra fancy you can garnish with some chives and sesame seeds

Takes literally no effort to make (especially if you have a rice cooker), kid friendly for all of the parents out there, nothing too expensive goes into it, and literally everyone I’ve given it to went crazy over it.

• rice
• bag of frozen vegi
• protein

meals for months, just rotate the veg and meat you’ll be gold.

go to an Asian grocery store and get some sauces to add a whole new combo for more meals.

Engineered staple foods. Huel, “This is Food”, Soylent etc.

Also pretty nice is a hot air fryer and a freezer. Grilled salmon right from the freezer, frozen vegetables with sauce included. Kind of a luxury dish, same effort as fries.

Are you talking about when the executive function is completely offline? Because if that’s hitting hard and I’m going “I’m hungry but I can’t make anything” my go to is a quesadilla.
Seriously if I can stand and heat a frying pan, it becomes easygoing to warm up some tortillas in the fry pan and throw some cheese between them. Bingo bango bongo you’ve got a Mexican cheese sandwich.
And then as I’m eating the first one I can be making a second and maybe throw in some ham or some salami, or better yet some leftover taco meat. All of a sudden I’m not so hungry and I’m happier having eaten something and maybe I can be motivated to eat some veggies or fruit.

A smoothie. Banana, avocado (if they’re not $1/oz), maybe some frozen fruit, 2C oats (cooked prior, 1qt in fridge), 1C yogurt, protein powder, salt (or peanut butter), fresh water

No thinking involved. Add to blender, pour into face hole. Then, coffee. Calmly. 🖖🏼

p.s. There are a lot of great suggestions & tips in the comments, so please understand that mine is especially for those times when you realize you’ve not had nutrients in several hours and must eat rightgawdamnednow. It’ll flip those switches back to green, but there are numerous more fulfilling and dietarily sound solutions.

Egg, cheese, and potato burrito. Never fails to satisfy. Cut up and par boil a potato, toss it in the strainer to get it craggily, oil it up with spices, bake for 20 minutes. Scramble some eggs and throw it on a tortilla with cheese.

sad bastard cookbook. Recipes start from basic survival level and you can add more depending on how you feel.

Breakfast:
Simple: Scrambled eggs on a tortilla and in a burrito
Something More:

• Greek Yogurt, similar enough to sour cream but healthier
• Shredded cheese
• Spinach
• Can add a little milk or flour to the eggs and whisk it all together before adding it to the pan to make the eggs fluffier
• Plenty of spices can be added on top of salt and pepper to give it even more flavor

Lunch and Dinner:
Simple: Penne pasta, spinach, some form of cubed or ground meat, alfredo sauce
Something More:

• Squash (Green, Yellow, Mexican - all good)
• Broccoli (I sometimes like to steam them in a separate pot, though you can grill them in the same pan)
• Mushrooms (lionsmane and shitake have some good health benefits)
• Onion
• Garlic
• Shredded cheese
• Can save some if the water you boil the pasta in to add to the final product after, apparently this adds more flavor though in all honesty, I’ve tried this a few times and it’s adding a few extra steps with no payoff

Both of these can utilize a lot of the same ingredients, making meal prep easy. I like having big containers containing everythjng already cooked, and then I can just add to the same container day after day. Less dishes overall, and just takes the one day of cooking a bit to make the rest if the week super easy.

A rice cooker with a steam basket is great for this. Rice down below with some marinated protein and a courtesy vegetable up top. Think chicken thighs and sweet potato, sliced beef and broccoli, tofu and edamame, etc. To marinate just put your protein in a ziploc bag with equal parts olive oil, lemon juice and soya sauce.

Japanese curry is another nice easy one. Boil your protein with potatoes and carrots for 20mins, add the package of curry blocks, stir and let it sit for 10 mins. Serve it with rice or udon noodles. Pretty minimal effort and can be done in a large batch like chili

Canned beans on rice.

Spaghetti with jarred sauce.

Baked potato or baked sweet potato with whatever toppings are around.

If you are really having trouble, keep on hand nuts and dried fruit, Triscuit crackers (high calorie), olives and hummus. You don’t have to cook any of that, and can arrange it into a few healthy meals. Keep cold oatmeal in the fridge - oatmeal, yogurt, water or juice or kombucha and some nuts & dried fruit.

A pot of chili in the slow cooker can be supper all week.

Egg fried rice. Throw some vegs and/or leftover meat in there too. It’s easy, it’s fast, and I can adapt it to what I have in the fridge.

Rice (rice cooker or microwaved from the fridge) + frozen vegetables + hummus/canned beans/edamame + fridge sauce such as chilli crisp, soy sauce, sambal oelek, etc.

Hummus + crackers

Big ol bowl of lettuce, store bought dressing, a fuck tonne of nuts.

Super zero brain? PB&J sandwich. Or a deli meat sandwich.

Rice from the rice cooker, fry an egg on top. Pretend you’re in a Ghibli film and crush that shit, instant mood boost.