I’ve recently been fixated on the idea of struggle meals, probably because I’ve been struggling both financially and mentally. I’ll share a couple of mine:

-Egg on hash brown patty: as simple as it sounds, bake a frozen hash brown patty, cook a sunny side up egg and put it on top. I like to season the egg with salt/msg, pepper, and garlic powder, then add a few drops of Tabasco sauce. Bonus points if you have avocado to spread on the hash brown first

-Flaming Hot Cheetos taco: toast a corn tortilla on both sides on a pan, then add sour cream and shredded cheese and flaming hot Cheetos as the “meat”, add any other taco toppings you like/have (shredded cabbage/lettuce, hot sauce, etc)

Would love to hear everyone else’s struggle meals when you just don’t have the means mentally/financially to put much effort into cooking

  • nognom@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Back when I ate meat:

    • 1lb cooked ground meat
    • Whatever pasta shape you like
    • Season with lemon pepper
    • put in as much pasta and ground beef as you want in a bowl, season with lemon pepper

    Now that I don’t eat meat:

    • Can of pinto beans, sometimes I buy the seasoned ones
    • can of diced tomatoes
    • cooked rice
    • I cook the beans and tomatoes together with both juices (I’ve done this replacing beans with a can of lentils)