Easier than a frozen pizza...

[FDF12389]

I know we've got a lot of threads like these, but I'll try to put a twist on it. I'm looking for extremely easy, healthy meals to make. A frozen pizza takes about 20 minutes and the only dish I need is a paper towel...

Is there anything healthy that can be comparable?

Last night I made up 5lbs of mashed potatoes with diced jalapenos as some carbs for the week. Because of that for dinner I had a pound of mashed potatos, a pound of broccoli, and two glasses of milk. Is this unhealthy for a gainer meal?

What else besides chicken breast and potatos can be prepped ahead of time and heated quickly?

 

[blackdogdeek]

I grill several pounds of steak for dinner once a week. Throughout the week, I will take some of the leftovers, cut it up into slices, then heat it up in a pan with some butter and salt. The whole thing takes about 10 minutes.

Once a week, I will also bake about 3 pounds of chicken thighs sprinkled with garlic salt on them. They are easy enough to heat up and a nice change of pace from chicken breasts. Reheating in the microwave takes less than 5 minutes.

Last night I browned a pound of ground beef in a pan and then added soy sauce and some leftover rice to the pan. Total time was about 20 minutes.

If you have a grill, you can make a bunch of pork loins and then reheat them during the week.

 

[smackababy]

^Pretty much this. If you want quick and healthy stuff, taking a day (like a Sunday) and preparing a lot of it for the week is pretty easy. Now, eating it, is another story. Perhaps, heating up a tortilla and putting everything in that is pretty easy.

Personally, I break down all my groceries into individual meals. Cooking takes the same time as making a frozen pizza, I just have to actually cook it. It is hard (and expensive) to buy individual meal portions, so buying in bulk, separating, and thawing only what I am going to cook for the night makes it a lot easier.

Also, a rice cooker is about as easy as it gets for making food.

 

[killster1]

fast easy breakfast every morning.. olive oil in pan, pour egg whites, huge handful washed organic spinach, a few kalamani olives flip in 3 mins pour some chili Verde sauce on and eat. Some mornings i am fancy get a avocado tomato tortilla etc. chicken breast in pan with olive oil, sprinkle two cut onions on top, flip after ten mins eat after 20 straight from pan SO delicious..

 

[ooom]

fast easy breakfast every morning.. olive oil in pan, pour egg whites, huge handful washed organic spinach, a few kalamani olives flip in 3 mins pour some chili Verde sauce on and eat. Some mornings i am fancy get a avocado tomato tortilla etc. chicken breast in pan with olive oil, sprinkle two cut onions on top, flip after ten mins eat after 20 straight from pan SO delicious..

Yum!

 

[HN]

on a pan:

tortilla
meat of choice and/or veggie of choice
cheese
tomato sauce
tortilla

quesadilla pizza. That can't possibly take more than 20 minutes.