Had this issue for years now, meds nuke hunger and I’m terrible at eating breakfast by the time I get back from work they’ve worn off and I have zero motivation. Fallen into the diet of nearly always having ramen, energy drinks and a beer here and then with a muti vitami.
Tried planners, can never get them to work my job having constantly changing shift patterns probs contributes to that, even tried one of those meal recipe box thingies stopped due to it A: being expensive and B: still didn’t really work.
I’m not even a bad cook either just cannot force my brain to bloody do it.
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Mostly by being an ingredient-only house. If there’s nothing too convenient around and you’re hungry enough, you might be more inclined.
Also you can make big things that you can pick off of throughout the week. I used to make giant pot roasts, which are great because you just dump stuff on top of a roast and pop it in the oven for a couple of hours without having to fuss over it, and eat that for a day or so, get bored with it and make tacos with the meat, etc.
I cook a pot of spicy beans and use it throughout the week with tortillas, chips, toast, or rice.
Cook one day, eat for 5. Finding a meal you like, and can do this with is pinnacle imo, I agree
You don’t need to jump straight to cooking full meals.
Stuff like rice/beans with some sauce can be made in like 2 minutes. Like, with as much effort as ramen.
But that stuff will stay in your stomach and slowly get digested, so you’ll need less energy drinks at the end of the day.
But cooking is like anything, start out small and easy and then just slowly start adding stuff. Once doing the small things feels natural, add an extra step or two. Like just throwing a chicken breast in a pan.
Even if you used to be a good cook, it sounds like you need to go back to basics and work yourself up to the fancy stuff.
Rice in 2 minutes? This is where I realize maybe I’ve never bought precooked rice before. How can it take so little time though? The water still needs to boil right, or is it a microwave thing?
There’s microwave rice too. Check your local Korean store
I’ll have to check local grocery stores, maps showed my closest Korean Grocery store was 59 miles away, haha. I’m sure Kroger or Aldi should have something. I’ve just always bought 5-10lb bags of rice so I never thought about it being quicker some other way. Although when I moved in 2016 I left my rice cooker for a friend, and I never replaced it for some reason, miss that thing
It’s really hard to have a routine when your work schedule is irregular. I don’t think you are wrong to rely on easy to prepare stuff but you need more nutrition, yes? My kids say I have ADD, and most of them do, my second to youngest was having trouble because Adderall so I got her some easy things.
Bagged salad packs with the dressing.
Packaged Hummus from the grocery, on Triscuit crackers, has a lot of calories with fiber & nutrition from the hummus.
Apple with sliced cheese or peanut butter
Do you like tuna? Make tuna salad at the beginning of the week, or a can dumped on one of the aforementioned bagged salad mixes.
Hard boiled eggs last a long time in the fridge, also an egg dropped into your ramen would add nutrition.
Keep your work schedule in your phone calendar and set an alarm for dinner.
For breakfast cold fermented oatmeal is amazing, we call it summer oatmeal. Mix rolled oats with yogurt, coconut water and/ or kombucha/kvass/tepache if you have it, juice or water if you don’t. Mix in dried fruit and nuts and seeds, even chocolate if you want. It should start a little sloppy as the oats will take up the liquid. Taste and adjust, sweeten if you want, I don’t. Put it in the fridge and each morning take a little for breakfast.
And also, don’t stress about eating regularly if you don’t have weight issues. If your body is feeling ok and staying in a healthy size you don’t need to force yourself.
Crockpot/slow cooker meals. Especially ones that are good as leftovers. I do everything from beef stews to pulled pork bbq to shredded chicken etc. I also find it’s so much easier to eat healthy and still feel full which makes me less interested in beer and snacks.
