#for now i will make my salads and grilled cheese w glee

[stinkrascal]

Hey jaiden! This might be a weird question, but I recently started living by myself, and one of my biggest struggles lately has been figuring out what to eat everyday, cause I have to find cheap and easy stuff since I’ve never been a really good cook lol. For some reason I thought you might know of some recipes that might work for me? You don’t have to answer this, but thank you so much if you do ❤️ hugs

i'm not a very good cook tbh, and my taste in food is especially bland, but i can share the few things i do know! i'll put it under the cut bc ik i'll ramble lol

i stock up on sandwich ingredients since it's cheap and easy to make and u can make a bunch of them!!! if u have money for a frying pan u can make sandwiches soooo good. i make a lot of grilled cheese in the frying pan!!! i just put 4 slices of turkey w a slice of american cheese in the middle and top it with white bread, then coat the pan in butter and fry the grilled cheese on either side for about 1-2 mins on low temp, until the bread turns golden brown, n that's it!!! u can add other stuff im just rlly bland w my food yk. i also make a lot of tuna fish sandwiches lol, i just mix tuna with mustard and mayonnaise (you can guess how much you need of either tbh) and put that between two pieces of toasted white bread, u can add seasonings to it but again im bland lol

SALAD STUFF is a huge one for me, i always try to have salad ingredients at the house bc its such a good snack!!!! the way i make salads is really easy, i get spinach and spring mix salad, cut up 2-3 strawberries depending on their size, then throw in blueberries, purple and/or green grapes, a can of mandarin oranges, and top it off with a FUCK TON of feta cheese, and that's it!!! u can top it off whatever dressings u like, idrk what dressings would go good w this so use your own discretion ig but yeah its super easy to make, this is one of my go-to meals!!!!

if you have a frying pan, tilapia is really easy to make and it's cheap too!!! you literally just brush the top of the tilapia with olive oil, season it with whatever seasonings you like (i usually only put a little salt, pepper, and a light dusting of tony's chachere's) then fry it on both sides and then you're done!!

i make a lottttttttttt of smoothies, which you do need a blender for, but if you do have one they're really filling for meals!! my favorites are strawberry banana and peanut butter banana smoothies. i just put a cup full of crushed ice, a single banana, 3-5 strawberries depending on their size, a tablespoon of sugar, guess the amount of milk needed, then blend that all together!!!!! the peanut butter banana recipe is the same, except instead of 3-5 strawberries i put in a tablespoon of peanut butter!! theyre both soooooo good and filling and easy to make, definitely would recommend!!

generally a lot of small grocery stores will have weekly sales papers at the front of their store that are free for customers to take, it's good to get in the habit of getting those papers and basing ur meal preps off that!!! some stores will have better deals than others for the same thing, the sales papers helps to keep track of it all :') maybe that's basic info to some of u but i literally didn't know this until i met my bf's mom and it has changed my life lol

otherwise most of the food i eat is canned/refrigerated meals or store bought pizza tbh it's embarrassing how little i know how to cook lmao, but there are tons of recipes on the internet! i find a lot of helpful tutorials on youtube, instagram, and tiktok!!

[honeysucklepink]

Tagged by @lazygirlblogging

A - Age: 44 B - Biggest fear: wasps, hornets, a cat getting into my engine and me not knowing it, nuclear apocalypse C - Current time: 3:24 p.m. D - Drink you last had: Water with some Dragonfruit Peach tea powder mixed in (but I dropped the packet and most of it ended up soaking the water in the pouch instead and I couldn’t squeeze the rest out so I said “fuck it”) E - Every day starts with:  My girl cat jumping on the bed and yowling loudly in my face. F - Favorite song: Right now is probably The Weeknd and Daft Punk “I Feel It Coming,” but all time is like picking a favorite child. I’ll say the Glee version of “Teenage Dream.” G - Ghosts: are they real? I don’t wanna say they aren’t, because if they are they are probably really sensitive about it. I - In love with: the Buffalo Barclay at Chicken Salad Chick. K - Killed someone: Do we mean literally take someone’s life or like “slay hunny” kind of kill? IDK, I’d say my fashion game is on point. L - Last time you cried: Watching the Try Guys on YouTube with their dads, particularly this one with Eugene and his dad. M - Middle name: No. What do you want next, my mother’s maiden name? My social security number? Next…(I’m stealing this answer from @lazygirlblogging cause yeah...plus I HATE my middle name and am so glad I replaced it with my last name-turned-maiden name) N - Number of siblings: 1 O - One wish: For just one thing, ONE thing to go the Dems way for fucking once. P - Person you last called/texted: Called: Returned a call from a PhD student asking how to set up connection files for EBSCO databases in EndNote. Texted: my husband while I was at the grocery store. Q - Question you are always asked: “Did you feed the Freak?” (Freaky is the outdoor cat that is sort of ours? She adopted us. When Hubs is out of town at tournaments I’m responsible for feeding her.) R - Religion: Raised Presbyterian, had a whole “got saved” period in my mid 20s, toyed with full on atheism but now agnostic, because I’m not gonna pretend to know or not know either way. S - Song last sang: "I’m Your Man” by Wham! It was the last thing on Sirius XM when I got to work. T - Time you woke up: 9-ish? Today was a sleep-in day since I’m working tonight. U - Underwear color: black V - Vacation destination: Hope to make it back to New York this year for Elsie Fest, will also probably go to Orlando to visit sister and hit Food and Wine Festival at EPCOT. W - Worst habit: Procrastination...I’m especially bad at responding to phone messages and emails. Don’t get me started on Thank You notes. X - X-Rays you’ve had: dental x-rays, my whole head once (I was having migraine issues), and my elbow when I was 6. Y - Your favorite food: Ooooh, pretty much anything involving tomatoes and/or carbs and/or cheese; pizza, spaghetti, grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato and mayo on white bread in the summer, caprese salad, cheese quesadillas with pico de gallo or salsa, etc.  Z - Zodiac sign: Gemini.

I’m tagging @slayediest, @black-john-lennon, @sleepdeprivedmind and @spaceorphan18 and anyone else who’s interested.