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[quote=Anonymous]To begin, I wouldn't worry about abandoning your typical foods as much as adding fresh vegetables and fruits. Find a salad that appeals to you, or pick up some berries. These foods will add nutrients you may be missing more than leaving you feeling like your taking something away. You'll also discover what appeals to you. Vegetables can be a bit simpler to prepare than an entire dish. You can roast, steam, or saute with a bit of trial and error. (Learning what's in season is helpful b/c produce just tastes better when at their ripest.)

Add to pasta or rice. Pasta is super simple to prepare...rice may be a bit more of an effort.

Another step would be adding a protein. Just learning to cook chicken or fish would give you a lot of options. You can then learn to add different seasonings, sauces, combinations. I do like prohomecooks on youtube b/c he explains a lot for beginning cooks, and he has lots of easy to prepare 15 minutes meals with simple ingredients.

The more you discover what flavors appeal to you, the more you can build from there. Samin Nosrat has a great book, "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat". It's also a series on Netflix. https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/ She shares some of her own lessons in what makes great food and breaks it down into four components. Although she's a chef, she breaks down cooking to simple ideas.

That's what I would suggest to someone who is a beginner.

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