#15 minute meals

[mike-wachowski]

dont be sad. Put some tater tots in your oven for 15 minutes or how long the package says they need to bake for. While that’s baking one small roughly chopped onion and two cloves garlic minced in a large pan with some avocado oil on medium heat. Let the onions sweat until they turn slightly yellow, then add in 3 sliced carrots and a whole kielbasa sliced into half-inch rounds. Let the carrots soften then add in your favorite mushrooms, sprinkle the whole pan with Cajun seasoning (onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, cayanne, black pepper and salt) and cover the pan and let it steam and brown until your tater tots are done. Serve your pan hash over your tater tots and enjoy

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

What the food pantry on campus does:

- gives me snacks and drinks to supplement my regular groceries, breakfast stuff, maybe ingredients for 1-2 actual meals

What the food pantry is really bad at doing:

- giving me food I can make into proper meals for the week

Oh you want juice? Here’s 2 little juice boxes. Nothing else; they’re limited. You want pasta sauce? 1 can; limited. You want produce? 2 produce item limit, except for the apples which are starting to spoil. You can have all of those. You want frozen chicken? One container only. Oh, they’re all stuck together and frozen? Sorry, you can’t have two; no chicken, I guess. Pasta? One box only. Rice? Two small bags, max. Breakfast bars? Yeahhhh, those are a snack, and you can only have five snacks, total. But if you put those pop tarts back, you could have some! Oh, you want donuts instead? Sure! But that’s a bakery item, and you can only have one baked good, so you’re gonna need to put that bread back. You want ziploc bags? Here, have two. Not two boxes, two bags. Item limits. Sorry. You can come back next week!

How the fuck are people supposed to actually *use* these things for weekly meal planning if there’s not enough to last a week???

I swear I am grateful for these resources I’m sure they’re doing the best they can with what they have I’m just *frustrated*. I’m trying to spend less on groceries bc I can’t really afford them. It’s nice that the food pantry gives me these small portions to last me a couple days. But that still leaves several days with not enough food unless I’m really creative or go grocery shopping, and I simply do not have the energy or time to be really creative.

[newtness532]

mmmm grapes 🍇💚

[blood-orange-juice]

A ridiculously easy way to cook white fish fillet is to stew it in coconut cream.

You just add some ginger, cardamom, coriander seeds, chili and garlic, sear it from both sides in a pan, pour coconut cream into the same pan and stew for 4-5 minutes. It fixes absolutely everything that might be wrong with it (too dry, too oily, smells of fish).

Sambal is a good addition too (with or without coconut). I was very lucky to have a Malaysian landlady once (she invited me for dinners during covid lockdowns) and came to appreciate sambal fish.

[strohller27]

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[gender-euphowrya]

you know how people warn not to mix cleaning products because the chemicals combined might create stuff like mustard gas

i feel like there should be the same common sense when it comes to skincare products

[vampiricgf]

martys worst behavioral quirk is that whenever he doesn't get what he wants he takes it out on berry like starts biting her and playing rough if I say no to anything like if he's being naughty or begging for more treats when he's already had enough he'll glare at me, go pout for a second, then start whooping berrys ass just because she's like. there so I have to go in the bathroom with him for a minute so he can calm down and be normal

[meatcute]

yooo there was a pharmacist walkout at cvs in kansas city a couple days ago apparently :0 thats fucking awesome i hope this is a sign of things to come. no one i work with deserves the conditions were under rn

[lilgynt]

eating disorders making ur stomach hurt when you’ve finally eaten or drunk something after a hot minute is so fucking evil it’s not funny. the bowel issues too

[katierosefun]

i was so brave today (cooked dinner instead of ordering takeout)

[luminiera-merge]

you should legally be allowed to fight recipe writers who put "best" in their recipe name to see if they deserve the title. "trespassing"? "how did you get in here"? "i'm just relaxing in my own home, what did i do"? "i'm calling the police"? irrelevant. put up or shut up you 15 minute bitch

[athousandsuns2010]

literally what am i gonna do without family mart

[miraclelevel]

1/9/24

[emdotcom]

I keep finding myself saying "It's normal to be this level of tired all the time," & the more I say it, the less I believe it.

[sleepless-crows]

ever since i got braces ive gotten so tired of eating like it feels like a chore i have to do and before i used to eat so much and i loved eating but now it takes me longer than an hour to finish one meal and its so so so tiring

[companion-showdown]

not sure what time the new round will be out