Your best “I can’t even” dinners

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's one idea:

-bring a large pot of water to a boil
-add pasta
-when pasta is 6 minutes from done, add broccoli florets
-when pasta is 4 minutes from done, add raw shrimp
-when pasta is done, drain water from pot and add jarred sauce (pesto, tomato, whatever)
-eat from bowls or directly from the pot if it has really been a day

LOL. Like this is hard!!

[Anonymous]

Quesadillas. Quick and easy plus you can load with frozen veggies if you like.

I always grill the cheese on the pan first to golden then I put it in the tortilla with frozen corn. Or you can do ham/cheese.

[Anonymous]

I had a big bow of sliced tomatoes with a round of burrata for lunch, extra salt and pepper. The tomatoes are finally in season!

[Anonymous]

ham and cheese sandwich with apples on the side

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Taco night with impossible meat or just canned refried beans and cheese and tomatoes/avocado if we have it. Dumplings from freezer, heated frozen peas with butter. Hot dogs and chicken sausages with a side salad.

Ewwwwwww I don’t eat carby Frankenfood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Red lentil soup (cook fastest). Dump them in with water, garlic, onion, olive oil. Add carrot and celery if you have the energy and serve with frozen garlic bread.

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Heat a couple of cans of progressive lentil soup. Microwave carrots, dice and throw in with lots of olive oil. Sauté some already washed in a bag mixed country greens with olive oil and garlic. Add greens to soup, too with freshly grated Parmesan and through a few croutons in there and some Tabasco.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Red lentil soup (cook fastest). Dump them in with water, garlic, onion, olive oil. Add carrot and celery if you have the energy and serve with frozen garlic bread.

g

Heat a couple of cans of progressive lentil soup. Microwave carrots, dice and throw in with lots of olive oil. Sauté some already washed in a bag mixed country greens with olive oil and garlic. Add greens to soup, too with freshly grated Parmesan and through a few croutons in there and some Tabasco.

^ throw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dal and rice
Cold sesame noodles
Breakfast for dinner
Avocado toast
Soup and grilled cheese

Relatable

Little dal packages sometimes. Microwave or be classy and heat some water

But where are you finding decent avocados?

I fear they've gone the way of fresh tomatoes. You get one good month and then it's suck city for 11 months

[Anonymous]

Trader Joe’s has the best avocados

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m curious which of you who responded are thin, with normal weight families. I’d like to put some of your meals in our rotation. I suspect some of these meals, if eaten regularly, would make me or my family fat. Some of the chicken and veggie options seemed okay - the pasta, spam, quesadilla stuff seemed too unhealthy to do weekly.

I’m all for eating healthy but you sound eating disordered and your kids will end up messed up.

This was my reaction to that comment (and I haven't posted any meal ideas here, fattening or otherwise lol). First of all, equating thin=healthy as a direct correlation is problematic, and incorrect. While morbid obesity obviously isn't good for your health, you can be thin and very unhealthy. And a couple extra pounds does not necessarily detract from your health, particularly dependent on your frame. Also, thinking that chicken and vegetables are the only things that constitute a healthy diet and/or you you'll be overweight and/or unhealthy (again, because they are NOT necessarily the same thing) if you eat things that are not those is also incorrect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is 10. We usually have a sitter twice. Week and I prepare something for sitter to heat up. She really likes the Trader Joe’s parm chicken but last night I didn’t have the energy to make her lunch for today, let alone dinner. So tonight she’s having oatmeal and a banana for dinner.
I’m having a frozen dinner at work.

sad and pathetic.

Oatmeal and fresh fruit? Seems fine to me. If it works for breakfast, it works for dinner, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Red lentil soup (cook fastest). Dump them in with water, garlic, onion, olive oil. Add carrot and celery if you have the energy and serve with frozen garlic bread.

g

Heat a couple of cans of progressive lentil soup. Microwave carrots, dice and throw in with lots of olive oil. Sauté some already washed in a bag mixed country greens with olive oil and garlic. Add greens to soup, too with freshly grated Parmesan and through a few croutons in there and some Tabasco.

^ throw

Yum. I want this now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Red lentil soup (cook fastest). Dump them in with water, garlic, onion, olive oil. Add carrot and celery if you have the energy and serve with frozen garlic bread.

g

Heat a couple of cans of progressive lentil soup. Microwave carrots, dice and throw in with lots of olive oil. Sauté some already washed in a bag mixed country greens with olive oil and garlic. Add greens to soup, too with freshly grated Parmesan and through a few croutons in there and some Tabasco.

^ throw

Yum. I want this now.

I like Progresso’s Lentil Soup with Roasted Vegetables. It already has carrots and other vegetables in it. I like to serve it over rice. Greens are a great idea. Maybe next time I’ll throw in some spinach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m curious which of you who responded are thin, with normal weight families. I’d like to put some of your meals in our rotation. I suspect some of these meals, if eaten regularly, would make me or my family fat. Some of the chicken and veggie options seemed okay - the pasta, spam, quesadilla stuff seemed too unhealthy to do weekly.

We are normal weight. We just eat less. I don't need to eat a giant plate of quesadillas. I can have one tortillas worth and raw veggies.

Us too but tall and active. Also not obsessed with being thin thin.

[Anonymous]

For true "I just can't" evenings, we have frozen pizza. when I have a little more energy, I will saute tilapia (always keep some in the freezer) in olive oil and lemon. I put some seasoning salt on the tilapia first. I got the "recipe" from a whole foods demo.