| For those people who don't know how to cook and are living alone. Maybe some peanut butter and jelly on a bread and water. Instant noodles or canned foods. Not too healthy menu but maybe you guys have other suggestions. PS: I'm assigned to a far away place with my job and are gonna start living on my own. And I don't know how to cook T_T |
yvancAug 18, 2010 5:53 PM
| I think so, yes. Wouldn't be a very healthy lifestyle and one would undoubtedly get sick of it. |
| Yessir. I've been eating can foods and instant noodles all my life (only when mom is not home to cook for me) lol |
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ZoiQ said: you go eat out Fast Foods are also bad for the health. |
yvanc said: Fast food is better than no food.ZoiQ said: you go eat out Fast Foods are also bad for the health. |
yvanc said: there are usually other places to eat besides fast foodZoiQ said: you go eat out Fast Foods are also bad for the health. |
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| What windy said. It never hurts to learn. But I sometimes make a salad, a sandwich, etc. since that's just putting things together. |
zharnotczar said: it also depends on what you get. mcdonald's salad with grilled chicken != angus burger. doubtful it's healthier than home cooked food where you can monitor everything, but it's not bad either.yvanc said: Fast food is better than no food.ZoiQ said: you go eat out Fast Foods are also bad for the health. and getting a sandwich at a good sandwich place is always good if you don't feel like making one yourself or want a change. |
| Cooking basically involves following the instructions on the back of the back, it's srsly not that hard. But providing you can operate an oven you'll be fine, there's tons of oven ready meals. They're not that healthy but you can live off of them. Sandwiches too. Get a decent range of prepared fillings (meat slices etc). |
| Learn to cook pasta. It's the main food of the single man. It's easy to make and you can eat it with almost anything. |
| I don't mean to be rude but... 30 years and no idea how to cook? Really? Anyways, you can probably buy some vegetables that can be boiled fast or can be eaten raw (cucumbers, tomatoes [technically a fruit], cabbages, zucchini, a bunch of Chinese vegetables I dunno in English, etcetc) and dump them into your noodle soup. For meat, you can probably dump a few eggs in, too. If you can find a decently large Chinese grocery store around your neighborhood, there's bound to be cooked meat there instead of those cold ham or whatever you guys eat. Making a salad is probably easy for you, too. Stuff like lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, carrots can be eaten raw and with some flavoring (there's aplenty in just about every grocery store), you can try them out and see which one you like the most. |
| I make do pretty well on microwaveable soups and chilis. Some bagged salad and V8 help with the vegetable group. Also, it may sound childish, but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are fucking delicious and people are practically born knowing how to make them. |
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| Learn to cook. It's simple stuff. |
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| Ok how about this if all comes to worse just eat fruits. 1. You don't have to cook them. 2. They are food. lol XD |
| Thor got deleted... D: |
| Cup noodles :D Pasta dishes and soups aren't too hard to make. |
Samurai_Aug 18, 2010 7:03 PM
| Baking chicken is easy providing you can operate an oven and stir fry some frozen vegetables and you have a meal. |
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| Ditto on the learn to cook suggestion. I don't know how to cook but I just look up what I want on Google and then buy ingredients and follow the recipe. Also eat out. Not at Mc Donalds though. Almost everything there makes me gag or gives me horrible stomach pain. |
| Become a Pastafarian and learn the wonders of pasta. |
| Salad, pasta, TV dinners, ramen noodles, canned foods, cereal, frozen pizza, things you put in a toaster, etc. |
| just be careful with the pasta. eating it alone won't keep you full for long since it's loaded with empty carbs. plus they make people chubs easily. |
windy said: But, if you eat the right things with pasta, it's friggin' great!just be careful with the pasta. eating it alone won't keep you full for long since it's loaded with empty carbs. plus they make people chubs easily. |
| Don't ever think about trying bread and water alone (which I believe your original question was about before you edit the post), you can survive with that for a few months at most, but your health would rapidly and dangerously deteriorate after a few weeks as you would suffer severe lack of vitamins and necessary nutrients that bread and water alone don't provide. You will certainly end up in the hospital if you keep living on such a diet for long. Now, if you add canned food and instant noodles, it might be more nutritive, but that's still bad for your health. I study away from home and I'm no gourmet cook either, and my flatmate is even worse than me, but we still manage to have some easy and fairly healthy meals such as veal scallopini/turkey scallops (you can add to these mushrooms, peppers or whatever you want, and though I really don't like meat, I force myself to eat some in a while), tomato and mozza omelette, vegetable salads and easy stuff like that. You don't have to be a cordon bleu cook to eat correctly, all you need is a bit of motivation, there's no reason to live with tasteless canned food and instant noodles even if you aren't good at cooking. Also, seriously, take good care of your health, it's your most valuable capital. |
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| Well, I don't have a lot of cooking options as the place I'm living at has no oven. So I eat a lot of spaghetti and microwave dinners. Not the best, but I'll be back in civilization in six months anyway. |
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| i would not advise eating just cup noodles seeing as its really unhealthy and it is very likely that you could die from just eating that. If your really cannot cook food, you should just go out and buy food. Don't go to fast food joints, go to actual restaurants where cooks actually spend time making your food. It might be more pricey than fast food or other junk food, but it is undoubtedly healthier and you will live longer... =) |
zharnotczar said: yes indeed! meat sauce and/or parmesan cheese and a glass of milk om nom nom. or just good 'ol mac & cheese.windy said: But, if you eat the right things with pasta, it's friggin' great!just be careful with the pasta. eating it alone won't keep you full for long since it's loaded with empty carbs. plus they make people chubs easily. for anyone interested, quick mac & cheese that's better than that kraft shit: annie's. it goes on sale a lot at the supermarket near my house so it's cheap too. |
| Surprised one has yet mention, just buy a cookbook...srsly saw one yesterday with 365 recipes for like $10....you got yourself plans for a full year with that not to mention longer if you don't go out to or buy pre-made stuff |
| Something cool to be placed here in the near future. |
yvanc said: cut a deal with your roommate or neighbor - pay them a weekly fee to cook a bit more than they normally would for you. it's cheaper than eating out all the time and probably healthier too.For those people who don't know how to cook and are living alone. Maybe some peanut butter and jelly on a bread and water. Instant noodles or canned foods. Not too healthy menu but maybe you guys have other suggestions. PS: I'm assigned to a far away place with my job and are gonna start living on my own. And I don't know how to cook T_T |
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| Always have fruit, vegetables in your fridge. Optional: cheese and white wine. |
| My cooking skills are very limited, but i'm never going to starve. 1. Frozen dinners: lots of variety, and you can look up the exact nutritional value of what you eat. Plus you don't have to assemble ingredients. Good if you're busy or need something to take to work. 2. Get ground beef, it's easy to cook in a variety of ways that takes little to no skill (burgers, tacos etc). Grilling porkchops or salmon fillets is really easy too, but you might need some herbs/seasonings to taste. 3. Most supermarkets have a section where you can buy pre-cooked whole chickens. You can eat it plain or take the meat and make it into a variety of dishes with very little additional prep (sandwiches, salads, burritos...whatever you can think of). 4. If you have access to Asian groceries, getting those Japanese curry boxes is a good idea. You can cook up a big pot of it without any more effort than cutting up the meat and veggies and letting it boil. You can either make a thicker sauce and serve it over rice, or make it thinner and serve it alone as a stew (add more quantity of veggies/meat then). It freezes well too. |
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| always buy fruits like banana and apple. cereals, bread, peanut butter, jams, milk, crackers oatmeal, noodles, microwave ready meals, learn how to do salad, lettuce, cucumber, tomato, carrots etc. (dont forget the dressing) buy food processor for guacamoles, good for nachos or tacos have some stock of health bars, chocolate bars, candy bars, cookies for visitors coming dial for delivery and of course learn how to cook if you have spare time. even just frying, so you could make hotdogs and sunnyside up eggs for breakfast. have an electric stove and non-stick pan for starters. (good for pancakes) |
dillianAug 19, 2010 12:29 AM
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| when i first moved out of home it was take-away for 6 mths...groceries I bought were food you didn't need to cook or could just stick in the microwave....that was 5yrs ago..now I got someone to cook for me when she's over and all i have to say is 'i love her cooking' and it'll be done...i still don't know how to cook though apart from boiled egg, scrambled egg, and egg on toast...and toast(if you can call that cooking) |
| Oh I got it!! There is always rice. ;D .....don't tell me you don't know how to cook up rice cuz I would - nvm. |
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Mythica said: Salad, pasta, TV dinners, ramen noodles, canned foods, cereal, frozen pizza, things you put in a toaster, etc. I support this, canned foods are the most glorious of them all |
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| My mother teached me a few weeks ago how to make french fries,and it's becoming very usefull when I'm alone ;D |
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kira999 said: My mother teached me a few weeks ago how to make french fries,and it's becoming very usefull when I'm alone ;D OMG, congratz to u then xD |
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| Cookings not that hard, you can get a lot of microwave stuff now, even for veggies and stuff. I'm a student and I've been living off of pizza, garlic bread and cup a soups over the holidays xD Hehe, I'm still alive. Seriously you should get in the kitchen and experiment, veggies only take a few mins if you throw them in a pan full of boiling water! xD |
yvanc said: ZoiQ said: you go eat out Fast Foods are also bad for the health. There is this thing called a restaurant you know. |
Monad said: yvanc said: ZoiQ said: you go eat out Fast Foods are also bad for the health. There is this thing called a restaurant you know. restaurants are expensive, I'll be broke in no time if I eat in a restaurant everyday. |
yvanc said: That's why you eat pasta! It's cheap, easy to make, delicious, and cheap!Monad said: yvanc said: ZoiQ said: you go eat out Fast Foods are also bad for the health. There is this thing called a restaurant you know. restaurants are expensive, I'll be broke in no time if I eat in a restaurant everyday. |
| lol, you don't know how to cook!? I didn't even need to be taught. Just put the burner on medium to high and boil away. Seriously, how difficult is that!? |
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kira999 said: My mother teached me a few weeks ago how to make french fries,and it's becoming very usefull when I'm alone ;D lmfao, lololol, wut it with all yuu people? Cooking is as easy as turning on your tv's. |
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