I have the privilege of cooking a homemade dinner for my partner and I every night. :3
r/kitchencels community on Lemmy when?
Bruh my meals, if I remember to eat anything, are basically just a protein shake and a cheese stick. Every day. Or occasionally just chocolate chips and milk because it’s fast and tastes good enough I can eat it even if my body doesn’t want to eat.
If I had the motivation to buy and cook a frozen pizza for an actual dinner, I’d feel like I’d been cured of mental illness lol
Edit: To alleviate any concerns, I’m well aware of the health detriment. This is the worst I’ve been in a while, but I am working on it.
Also thank you to the comments because just remembering this post made me remember to eat food rn lol. I’m eating some fruit now and am going to make some ramen with carrots and an egg later (totally forgot I had carrots lol)
In case anyone else reading this is like me this is your reminder to eat food today; do it now before you forget again
Eat a fuckin vegetable holy shit. You’ll feel so much better.
You’re 100% right, unfortunately my brain doesn’t connect the feeling better to the eating vegetables and I totally forget I bought them by day 2 and then end up throwing away rotting vegetables a week later.
But I did just buy a mini fridge so hopefully keeping food nearby will remind me it exists and my brain won’t be able to use the excuses of “it’s so far away” or “you might have to interact with people in the kitchen or on your way”
Canned vegetables
i think one of the best things to do is just stop thinking about it and do it. it works for me, and hopefully works for you too. USE YOUR WILL POWER!
I have ADHD; executive dysfunction is a bitch, but yeah later in the day when my meds are kicked-in, that’s usually when I can do this. My schedule is just bad rn with school and work so I either don’t have the time or am exhausted.
Bro, beware of scurvy. Seriously.
Oh don’t worry I do also have apple sauce packets that I remember exist some days lol
Get yourself a microwave meal, they’re honestly much better than they used to be, nuke it and eat it. Preferably one that contains vegetables but any will do. You’ll feel amazing for having real solid food inside you. :)
ikr on a “bad day” I’m basically just grabbing a slice of bread and opening the fridge to find something edible to wrap it around.
I find the frozen pizzas are a lot better if I put them in the oven a bit.
Especially if you remove the plastic wrapping first
You eat pizza without the peel?
I’m not ALLOWED to eat the peels
Smoke some cigarettes to suffocate the toxins, you’ll be fine
woke mob back at it again restricting your god given freedoms
FINE, I’ll peel your stupid pizza
When i worked retail we had someone try to return a cooked frozen pizza that had the plastic melted onto it and our corporate policy forced us to take it back. Everyone was thinking the customer was just stupid but i think they were trolling us.
Protip: pimp your pizza.
Slap on some nice cheeses, some nice cold cuts (if you’re into meat), sprinkle some basil and oregano, can even dump a more consistent pizza sauce over it of you’re feeling frisky! Turns a 5/10 slab of whatever into a 7/10 slab of whatever with custom rims and a body kit!
Protip: Follow the instructions. Lotta people yolo it and then complain frozen pizza sucks
cheddar and chicken slices, take it or leave it :3
get some nduja, hot sauce, and fresh basil on that motherfucker. Delivery pizza is obsolete.
Pizza sauce is so easy to make yourself - fry a clove of garlic in a teaspoon of oil, add a can a chopped tomatoes, a pinch of salt, a pinch of sugar, a pinch of oregano - let that simmer on the stove, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes or until all the water has boiled off and you have a thick puree then spread that on your chosen base and add some cheese. Voila! If you learn how to make your own dough then a homemade cheese pizza will cost pennies and taste better than anything you will get in the supermarket.
You lost me at making my own dough.
Just buy a pre-made one then
The only real problem with making your own dough is the rise time when you just want to slap it together and eat.
Pre-made pizza bases will save you time, making your own is super cheap but I appreciate it takes time. I’ll usually make a big batch on a weekend and then just freeze balls of dough which I can use later.
Dice up a bit of fresh garlic. Put some Sriracha on there. Get creative and indulgent! The frozen pizza is the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it.
Frozen pizzas are… quite the range. Some are legitimately a pathetic excuse that barely approximates the concept of a pizza. Some are pretty good, not great but not bad.
In ether case I can’t imagine eating one multiple nights in a row.
Same, and it’s always worth it adding cheese on top.
In any case, there are other kinds of cheap, relatively decent foods out there. It shouldn’t be hard to have variation even on a budget. Not ideal, but not nearly as grim as frozen pizza every day.
The crazy thing is, frozen pizzas aren’t that cheap. Like, they’re not super expensive, but hardly eating on a budget.
There are frozen pizzas near me (a relatively expensive food area, for America), that cost $1.25 (~17c an ounce) and have almost 500 calories. I’m not advocating for the frozen pizza diet at all but that level of price/calorie ratio is pretty impressive.
The cheapest at my local super market is 4 bucks for the same.
… you wouldn’t happen to be living in the mid west would you? Frozen pizza is notoriously cheap there due to supply chain reasons.
I live in Montana which isn’t quite the Midwest, but close. I checked my previous store in coastal California to see if that was what was making the difference, and the pizza is the same price there - Kroger branded $1.25 (Ralph’s in CA, Smith’s in MT)
I’d say even the pretty good ones can be great not the best pizza but like legitimately quite good if you get a pizza stone I think a large chunk of the problem with frozen pizza is regular ovens just don’t cook them that well and the pizza stone largely fixes that
1: Buy a roll of pizza dough.
2: Buy one of those 20 cent cans of tomatopaste.
3: Buy cheese, not shredded cheese because that’s more expensive and less tasty.
4: Add those items on top of the dough, add vegetables/meat/fish/whatever to taste.
5: Enjoy vastly superior pizza for roughly the same price.A bunch of tortillas are cheap and work almost as well as pizza dough, and are less work.
I say this as somebody who makes their own two day fermented pizza dough. Honestly they’re 75% as good.
Premade garlic naan. Still get that doughy inside and thick crust but it gets crispy on the bottom. So good and way better than frozen pizza dough.
3: Cheese… Do you have any tricks for shredding fresh mozzarella? I tried freezing it for a bit but that still just gums up the shredder. Other people say just pick it apart, but man that takes forever.
Ive had good results basically dicing the mozz into little cubes
I don’t know why I never thought about just dicing it, makes perfect sense. Funny how the mind works, thanks.
Get a lump of dried mozzarella, not fresh. Or better yet, try Oaxaca cheese
I’ve never seen dried mozzarella but I will try this if I do, thank you.
Good luck. Sometimes, I’ve had a hard time finding the dry aged to mozzarella too. It’ll look different from the fresh stuff because there won’t be any moisture in the packaging. It’ll have a texture like stringcheese.
You should try other frozen foods
Or look up 10 or 15 minute recipes
Exactly. In the time you get the oven warm and cook the pizza, you can prepare something else. I admit pizza is easier, thou.
A lot of ovens have convection heating now. You can go from opening the freezer to eating an entire pizza in under 20 minutes, dirty only a cutting board and knife, and the hardest step is remembering to set an alarm
Haven’t seen an oven less than 30 years old without a convection setting. That said all the pizza instructions say top+bottom heat so that’s what I’ll use
- Premade thin pizza crust
- Layer of fig spread
- Layer of pizza sauce
- Mozzarella cheese
- Prosciutto
- Some globs of fig sauce
- A little more mozzarella
- Bake in oven
