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

  • harmbugler@piefed.social
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    23 hours ago

    Rice cooked in microwave (so easy and decent), with chili beans. I make the chili in a big batch and divide it into portions and freeze it.

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      17 hours ago

      I second this. I like to keep some red beans and rice in the fridge for when I don’t feel like cooking.