meal ideas!
low energy (“do not ask me to do any prep work at all, so help me god”)
- mozzerella cheese wrapped in pepperoni (“pizza tacos”!)
- hummus and pretzels or naan (putting the naan in the microwave for like 10 seconds…heavenly)
- canned chili (with shredded cheese and sour cream if you have it! boom done!)
- instant miso soup (warm and lovely!)
- cheese and cured meat, olives, canned fish, crackers, dried fruit, or whatever easy “charcuterie” type items you like
- alternate bites of apple and spoonfulls of peanut butter (mixing honey or chocolate chips to the peanut butter is my favorite)
- a “deconstructed sandwich”: bites of lunch meat, pickles, cheese, cherry tomato, etc (I love roast beef and white cheddar for this)
- yogurt and granola or fruit
medium energy (“I’ll boil water but don’t ask me to chop shit”)
- boiled eggs and fresh veggies (put a little salt on top of the eggs for pizzaz!)
- buttered noodles (take it up to level 10 and add roasted garlic; takes 30 mins in an oven, only one swoop of the knife required)
- baked potato with toppings (I like cheese, bacon, broccoli, green onion, and sour cream)
- quesadilla (add some canned beans, cilantro, or avocado!)
- pot roast (requires a lot of time but not a lot of actual work. I love it with peas!)
- cuban sandwich (bread, swiss, pickle, mustard, ham… my favorite thing to panini-ify by far)
- pan-fried tofu with scallion sauce (this sauce goes well with everything and tofu is no exception)
- pancakes or waffles! (I love mine with jam)
- ham, pickle, and cream cheese roll-ups
- fried eggs (with toast and lots of butter…so comforting)
- fruit smoothie (bananas, frozen strawberries, yogurt…or whatever!)
- I hate salad but could write essays on this copycat olive garden salad (throw it in a bowl! chopping required if you use onion)
- spaghetti (controversial maybe but angel hair > spaghetti noodles)
- pasta salad (olives broccoli fresh mozerella… those little mini pepperonis… yeah)
high energy (“I don’t mind chopping some things up!”)
- stuffed shells with spinach
- chicken and roasted garlic (oh my god…..one of my all time favorites)
- beef tacos (I like mine with cilantro and onion, and when I’m feeling especially high energy I love a tomatillo salsa)
- chicken alfredo
- tom kha gai (a thai soup and my absolute favorite! you just need access to galangal)
- lasagna! (freezes well and then boom! low energy meal for later)
- pad thai! (not as hard as you’d think, as long as you have access to tamarind paste!)
- potstickers! (this is a lovely group activity if you want to cook with housemates!)
- rice and beans
- bang bang shrimp (ogughfhgfuh I love it. you can also do bang bang tofu!)
- minestrone soup (so many nice veggies!)
- fried rice (put whatever you have on hand in there! broccoli, peas, carrot, and beef is my favorite combo)
- broccoli cheddar soup
- spring rolls and peanut sauce
- skewers (such as beef, onion, zucchini, bell pepper… you don’t need a grill, oven works!)
- roasted turkey with garlic parmesean asparagus
- pork chop with mashed potatoes
other tips:
- whenever you think of a meal you’d like to make, take 3 seconds to google search it, take a screenshot of the image results, and put it in a “food ideas” folder. instant visual menu!
- if you’re on instagram, there are a bajillion different recipe accounts that post videos! a few of my favorites: jipsoon_kitchen, eatwitzo, cordandthekitchen, chungeats, tiffy.cooks, two_plaid_aprons
This is all great!
I got this website from a nutritionist and it’s become my absolute favorite way to find new recipes. The search filter options are fantastic! Sorting by method really helps me because I think that’s what makes the biggest difference in how much energy you need.
And here are some other ideas for low/medium energy meals:
- Cottage cheese with crackers, fruits and/or veggies.
- Guacamole with veggies and/or tortilla chips
- Chickpeas/garbanzo beans with tzatziki. You could add rice, lettuce/spinach, and/or pita.
- Buffalo cauliflower with yogurt dip. You can roast or microwave the cauliflower, top it with hot sauce, and add bleu cheese or shredded cheddar on top.
The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020) dir. Catarina Vasconcelos
Did I daydream this, or was there a website for writers with like. A ridiculous quantity of descriptive aid. Like I remember clicking on “ inside a cinema ” or something like that. Then, BAM. Here’s a list of smell and sounds. I can’t remember it for the life of me, but if someone else can, help a bitch out <3
This is going to save me so much trouble in the future.
My new year’s resolution is a far more selfish one than last year. It is to make my motto, eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow, you may be dead.
HEAVENLY CREATURES
1994 — dir. Peter Jackson
There is no such thing as werewolves. They’re imaginary. Our killer is a guy. And I’m gonna find him and I’m gonna kil- and we’re gonna bring him to justice… legally and together.
Jim Cummings as John Marshall
THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW
2020, dir. Jim Cummings
If you’re applying for office jobs and you’re lying about being proficient in Excel (which you always should bc nobody knows anything and google is free) a handy video to give you the basics on Excel’s functionality is Joel Sposky’s You Suck at Excel Video. It’s about an hour long and gives you enough background info to know what people are talking about when referring to Excel, and from there you can do your own further research. There are also handy little guides and notes people have taken on the presentation that go over the highlights here and here <3
KAJILLIONAIRE (2020)
dir. Miranda July
An emotionally stunted 26-year-old woman, Old Dolio Dyne, is in a manipulative relationship with her con artist parents, who treat her as an accomplice to their petty thefts and scams rather than as a daughter. The family owes $1,500 of back rent on their apartment, which is actually a leaking office space attached to a soap factory. During a con, the family meets Melanie, an eyeglass store clerk who joins them in future ventures and ends up shaking the foundations of Old Dolio’s life. (link in title)
“There is a female friendship in this movie that plays as strongly and as powerfully as any of the romances. If feels very real and very nuanced” —Zawe Ashton
“(…) As much as this film is about the love story of Mr. Malcolm and Selina, it is as much a story about female friendships, and about Julia and Selina’s bonding — and also the ups and downs in a female friendship as well.” —Freida Pinto· MISS SELINA DALTON & MISS JULIA THISTLEWAITE ·
Freida Pinto and Zawe Ashton · Mr Malcolm’s List (2022)
btw archive dot org is SUCH a treasury when it comes to out-of-print poetry anthologies… i am having the time of my life, truly ❣️
some of my bookmarks:
- against forgetting: twentieth-century poetry of witness,
- postwar polish poetry (edited by czesław miłosz!),
- poems for the millennium: the university of california book of modern & postmodern poetry vol 1 + vol 2,
- essential pleasures: a new anthology of poems to read aloud,
- poems that make grown women cry + poems that make grown men cry,
- the oxford book of short poems,
- a book of women poets from antiquity to now,
- first loves: poets introduce the essential poems that capitivated and inspired them (so many literary greats!),
- the poets’ grimm: 20th century poems from grimm fairy tales,
- disenchantments: an anthology of modern fairy tale poetry,
- arthur, the greatest king: an anthology of modern arthurian poems,
- chapters into verse: poetry in english inspired by the bible,
- killer verse: poems of murder and mayhem,
- poetry in medicine: an anthology of poems about doctors, patients, illness, and healing,
- a mind apart: poems of melancholy, madness, and addiction,
- friendship poems + marriage poems + motherhood poems + fatherhood poems,
- billy collins’ poetry 180 + 180 more,
- good poems + good poems for hard times
- the penguin book of… modern african poetry + irish poetry + japanese verse + hebrew verse + love poetry + sick verse (sic!)