What do you eat when you're lazy?

[RandomAnthony]

NPR has an article this morning on salads "lazy cooks" can make.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...

What do you make when you're lazy/busy? Do you tend to eat less healthy then?

I'll go with pasta just about every time I don't feel like making a big deal out of cooking...but peanut butter and jelly never fails me, either...

[Sarah]

I like shredded salads but that's way too much effort for a lazy day, since I hate washing shredders.

In the summer I will often make a giant smoothie or a salad rather than cook. My version of salad is a giant hunk of spinach or bibb lettuce from outside or the farmer's market, some tomatoes from the garden, some nuts, some goat cheese, some storebought dressing.

I keep a box of trader joe mac & cheese for the days I am most tired but know that I need to use up veggies before they go bad. I add in lots of veggies and pretend it is good for me.

Laziest of all lazy dinners is cottage cheese, yogurt, or cereal.

I'm far lazier about making a good lunch than a good dinner.

[Rachel]

If I'm lazy I whip up instant noodle or make do with bread and cheese, old England style.

[Rachel]

But then again...I don't do the cooking, so I'm assuming in my case, this thread is for when I'm feeling nippish and have nothing else to do other than relax with a book?

[Phil]

Cereal.

[janine]

it depends on the season. in the summer definitely a salad with anything i can find in the fridge. in the winter soup from a can with some bread.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I just get that bagged lettuce, dump some in a bowl, and put stuff on it, like some tomato, avocado, and carrot. Done! What, I'm supposed to shred it? Forget that!!

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Popcorn.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Oh! Clark, I had popcorn, cherries, and chocolate chips for dinner Sunday night.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Cereza?

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

And cerveza is beer. But I wouldn't mix the two, beer and cherries.

Well, maybe if I had some popcorn, too...

[Sally, la reina]

I'm too lazy to read the rest of the thread but I'm here to say that I just ate a handful of Wheat Thins, one string cheese, and a carton of Blueberry Fruit on the Bottom yogurt.

[Sally, la reina]

Thank you, thank you. I won't be here all day.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Yogurt is great lazy food. Unless it's moldy.

[Jonathan]

I think I could subsist entirely on corn flakes and fruit.

And bourbon.

[Sally, la reina]

mmmm, bourbon.

And Jackie, :p, sometimes you can just scoop the moldy part off. It is like cheese.

I'm adding cheerios and frozen pizza to my list.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

The ravioli from the cheese aisle at the supermarket is really good, too. Boil it for 6 minutes, put some heated up spaghetti sauce on it, et voila!

[smetchie]

I'm drinking Bourbon right now.

[Jonathan]

Gretchen wrote: "I'm drinking Bourbon right now."

Brand? Ice? Straight? Water?

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Scrambled eggs with buttered toast and orange juice is good, too.

[Sally, la reina]

Bun, I ate agliolio a lot when first pregnant and couldn't really fathom the idea of eating any thing but knew I needed to eat something to finish the day. I got through Sept and Oct with a smoothie for breakfast and noodles for linner.

Jackie, I love those precooked noodles. Their spaghetti noodles are delish with butter and parmesan too.

I like Knob Creek. Sweeter likes Evan Williams. If we're feeling fancy we like the one with the drippy red wax top. Whassat?
Also, I like Crown, but it is pretty pricey and not really bourbon but I consider it in the same whiskey category the same way I used to consider Southern Comfort.

[Jonathan]

I think the one with the red wax seal is Maker's Mark.

I like Knob Creek too, but it's not always easy to find in this area. Evan Williams, I've never tried. Personally, I'm pretty content with Jim Beam. Scotch can be nice too.

[Félix]

I would go for that for sure.

[Phoenix]

There are about 15 different meals that I make that take less than 10 min. Things like taco salad, spagetti out of the jar, grilled cheese sandwhiches w/tomato soup, tuna melts, etc. If I'm being super lazy we'll go out to eat. I usually cook from scratch so it's nice to be lazy once in a while.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Rice, couscous, quinoa, yogurt, deli potato salad, popcorn, eggs, tuna salad on crackers.

[janine]

french toast.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Cheez-its. Microwave popcorn. Chips and salsa. Lean Cuisine.

[Scout]

Lean Cuisine - Oriental Chicken Rice Bowl or Lasagna. Or my favorite from college - popcorn with salt and pepper and a side of swiss cheese.

[Susan]

Fruit. Nuts. Chips. Cheese. Peanut butter on bread or a spoon. Sometimes I just drink coffee and forgo the food. This is all for when I am only concerned with my own food and not responsible for others. If it is a meal for everyone, I get someone else to take care of the meal.

[Riona]

I order takeout. Or have a lean cuisine/other frozen food. Or just nibble on granola bars or whatever I can find in the pantry.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Often my pantry is empty due to the lazy nibbling I've been doing in it.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Cinnamon graham crackers spread with peanut butter.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Crackers dipped in tahini.

[Scout]

Cashews.

[evie]

Food cooked by someone else.

[Susan]

Every time I see crackers dipped in tahini, I begin to crave it.

[Heidi]

Pickles, grilled cheese sammie, pasta with butter and parmesan (I haven't made that in a long while)...

[janine]

Food. Any food available.

[Riona]

Right now I'm feeling supremely lazy -- it's raining and I've been running errands all day -- so I stopped by the deli for some wings and fries on my way home from the subway station. $5, 5 minutes, and it came with a free drink.

[Scout]

Canned tuna with basil and parsley, boiled egg and sweet pickles

[Félix]

Scout wrote: "Canned tuna with basil and parsley, boiled egg and sweet pickles"

You had me 'till you mentioned pickles, Scout.

[Susan]

That is not lazy food. Too much preparation.

No to pickles, Ixyfel?

[Scout]

To each his own, but my mom makes those pickles, and they're tasty.

[Susan]

Homemade pickles! Yum!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Oh yeah, my grandmother made watermelon pickles and they KICKED ASS.

[Susan]

Watermelon pickles?! I have never had the pleasure.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Watermelon rind pickles. Sweet. I can't even come up with enough curse words to explain how good they were.

[Susan]

Were they crispy? A crispy pickle is the ticket for me then add varied string of curse words.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Don't all pickles have the same texture? They weren't crispy like a potato chip. She may have pickled other things in there besides watermelon, but they all ended up with the same flavor because they were pickled with the same sweet pickling brine. I remember cloves floating around.

[Riona]

I had little pieces of pickled watermelon rinds in a salad at a super expensive restaurant once. They were good, and I don't even like watermelon.

What about fried pickles? I've only had them a couple times but they were awesome.