Low Spoons Food Thread

@Aniseed

discovered the wonders of potato flake chowder a while ago, it is the best 'need more filling soup' fix :D

 

This is kinda more advice for either those who have cooking spoons to help those that don't or for those, like me, who have random cooking spoons days. Pre-prepping and freezing foods is a god-send on the days where just walking into the kitchen is a battle.

Cook noodles and drain them. Then run them under cold water to get them cooled. Drain again and toss cold noodles in a light amount of oil. Put them on a foil/parchment lined baking sheet in the freezer. (if doing this with spaghetti noodles or other long noodles, twirl them into little nest piles on the baking sheet) When frozen, put into portion baggies and back in the freezer. This makes near-instant noodles later. Just toss in the microwave or into a pot of warm sauce.

Edit: Forgot to mention, cook the noodles till just barely softened. If you cook them all the way they will turn mushy when re-heated

 

Also: if you're fridging cooked noodles with no sauce, put them in a container and cover them with water. To heat them up, pour them into a strainer and pour boiling water over. :D

 

It's not always cheap to buy meat, so we buy chicken in bulk when it's on sale and throw it in our freezer. Something we recently discovered is broiling it for about 10 minutes/whenever its done on a sheet pan. you can cover it in easy sauces like peanut sauce, or canned salsa, buffalo sauce, bbq sauce, and then you can throw any variety of veggies on the same cookie sheet as the chicken and they'll roast along with it.

For extra lowspoon clean up, cover the cookie sheet in foil and cleanup is just tossing it.

 

I cook with latex gloves on for this exact reason. I can't touch meat or fish without my brain screaming at me but the gloves are enough of a barrier for me.
Not perfect, environment wise, but i'd rather eat things i cook than lose all appetite because i touched uncooked meat directly.

 

So, I need to think of some kind of food I can keep in my dorm room that's a) not sweets and b) is filling enough that if I forget to eat or am too tired to go to the dining hall I don't go to sleep or work hungry. My roommate's got a little minifridge, and there's a room down the hall with a microwave and a sink, so does anyone have any ideas?

 

cheese sticks

 

Bread is always good. Peanut butter is fine; you can just scoop out a spoonful and eat it when you can't brain sandwiches. If you expect to want to make peanut butter sandwiches, get the more expensive, denser kind of bread, not the dollar loaves.

 

My strategy was a lot of almonds. I'm not sure I recommend it as an exclusive one, but nuts are pretty good for being filling and nutrient-rich, and they don't make your blood sugar yoyo.

For something a little more meal-like, pre-cooked sausages can be microwaved to warm and then eaten. If you aren't having them that often, they don't keep that long in the fridge once the package has been opened, though.

Edit: thought of sausages, didn't want to double-post.

 

Depending on how much food it needs to be to feel like it's a "meal" to you, those yogurt cups that have granola in a plastic thing on the top might work. They're a little pricey, though, and you'll need to keep plastic spoons around. (I haven't done this but my mother does it a lot.)

Actually, if your local grocery store sells pre-made trailmix and the kind with at least some fruit and some nuts in it is okay by your budget/taste, that's actually decently healthy and you don't even need the fridge for it. (Haven't tested this, admittedly.)

If you buy the right kind of apples (i.e. biggish ones that don't taste awful) they make good meal substitutes occasionally, but mostly in terms of feeling full--they're probably not a good idea to use for this frequently. (I've only done this once or twice when super busy or too tired to find real food, and I always ate something pretty substantial for the other meal)

 

idk about prices and stuff but I've found just doing a big pot of like pasta-veg-meat at the start of the week then like freezing half of it does me good for the rest, mostly. Tortelolli - that's the stuffed pasta thingies - are a godsend for a diabetic who needs to keep their bloodsugar up but doesn't want to chose between that and stuff that tastes of something.

 

YOOOOO

i would suggest adding nuts though

i fucking love nuts

edit: replaced gif with video because huge gifs make me panic

 

Oh shit, I didn't know they sell those. I always prefer to buy soup that comes in one of those pre-packaged rather than a can but they can be hard to find.

A very unhealthy but tasty meal I ate this weekend: one of those things of chili, cooked in the microwave and then mixed with a jar of off-the-shelf queso salsa in a big bowl, eaten with tortilla chips.

 

I assume you mix before baking. And that´s a lot of butter, would it work with less?

 

I'm not sure...it looks like the idea is that the butter melts and permeates through the cake mix. And I think the apples stay underneath, like a cobbler. Less butter might not be enough to mix with all the dry stuff. Plus, 8 oz is less than 250g...I'd expect to use roughly that much for a big cake or crumble.

 

have definitly seen unmixed butter deals like that before, usually you'd cube the butter up smaller i guess and place it more evenly across the surface area

 

no mixing, just dump and crock. it'll steam itself.

 

here is the video version
fun fact: ever since my latuda reaction i've had this thing where large gifs terrify me, and it flared up today

 

That looks rather good. Unfortunately I don't have a slow cooker, and they are quite expensive around here :(