cookbook or website for VERY easy, clean healthy dinners for a student

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Microwave oatmeal cups

Or Lentiful cups for a change of pace.

Hummus and veggies, or hummus and frozen brown rice that is heated in the microwave.

Baked sweet potato

Whole grain toaster waffle (assuming you have a toaster) with pb and j.

I would tell him to eat well enough at lunch that it's his primary meal, and eat something like the above for dinner.

[Anonymous]

Steamable rice bag (these are shelf stable and have many grains and quinoa) frozen roasted chicken chunks, frozen mixed veggies. Nuke it up and add a sauce: general tso, spicy peanut Szechuan, Alfredo, pesto. The ready sauces aren’t great but better than a frozen meal. He can add an egg for breakfast. Lots of variety possible. Sprinkle cashews or pumpkin seeds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Park your helicopter. Abort mission.

Absolutely!! He will survive.

Lol but yes, this. He will figure it out UNLESS you are interfering and then he’ll just be helpless for longer. Don’t turn him into one of those guys that doesn’t know how to put a meal together for his wife or kids because his mom always did it.

[Anonymous]

I found this list of 30 recipes for my son, but most do involve a stove top or oven.

https://www.budgetbytes.com/top-10-recipes-for-college-students

He went through with me and I helped him find 3 go to recipes he could make, and freeze extras for microwaving.

[Anonymous]

https://www.amazon.com/Easy-College-Cookbook-Affordable-Recipes/dp/1641529385/ref=asc_df_1641529385/?tag=&linkCode=df0&hvadid=416662155241&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4330708118331636845&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9051727&hvtargid=pla-850845731200&psc=1&ref=&adgrpid=95590145444&asin=1641529385&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

[Anonymous]

Buy him an induction hot plate, then he can make his own meals. Or an Instant Pot.

[Anonymous]

Who in here really thinks the teenage/young adult boy is going to cook nutritious meals with the hot pot and meal service his mom sends? Be for real!

[Anonymous]

1. It's just one meal a day - presumably the breakfast and lunch are healthyish.

2. It's just for the summer.

3. I worked with a guy who ate nothing but McDonald's and Chipotle for 3 years. He lived.

[Anonymous]

Cold cut sandwiches. (Meat or cheese or super firm tofu). PBJ.
Condiments and lettuce.

Fried eggs

Quesadillas.

If he's adventurous, stir fried arbitrary vegebtales and meat/tofu and soy sauce.,

You can't force him to want to cook.

[Anonymous]

He doesn't want to cook because the shared kitchen is always in use.

Truly, microwaved dinners are fine. He's probably eating two or three of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Park your helicopter. Abort mission.

This
Did he never have to make his own meals at home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Park your helicopter. Abort mission.

Absolutely!! He will survive.

Lol but yes, this. He will figure it out UNLESS you are interfering and then he’ll just be helpless for longer. Don’t turn him into one of those guys that doesn’t know how to put a meal together for his wife or kids because his mom always did it.

You are setting him for a life of no one will cater to me as well as mommy does. Adulting is hard, but ramen is easy. He will be fine.