(August 19, 2016 at 1:07 pm)Bella Morte Wrote:

(August 19, 2016 at 9:52 am)Expired Wrote: Buy it ready cooked and microwave it.

Not as good though.

Maybe not but I'm a busy man.

(August 19, 2016 at 9:03 am)Rhythm Wrote: I've been on a home-made pilaf kick lately.  Made it so many ways.  Salsa pilafs, chicken and peas an carrots, beef pilaf, orzo/no orzo, vermicelli..different rices...roasted red peppers and garbanzos, peanut butter pilaf (not kidding, try it).  Garam masala pilaf, salmon and cilantro.....soooo good.

Really makes a difference on my dinner time bottom line with the army I'm feeding, it's filling..nutritious...and totally made from scratch, so, delicious.

Gonna have to ask you for some of those recipes because, I too, feed a frigging army.

On another note: making baked ranch chicken, rice and Brussels sprouts for dinner tonite.

(August 19, 2016 at 2:16 pm)Expired Wrote:

(August 19, 2016 at 1:07 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: Not as good though.

Maybe not but I'm a busy man.

Yeah, but it's not really hard to cook stuff from scratch even when busy. And those shitty ass microwave meals, while they are cheap and easy, they aren't nutritious and are filled with chemical crap.

(August 19, 2016 at 3:27 pm)Bella Morte Wrote:

(August 19, 2016 at 2:16 pm)Expired Wrote: Maybe not but I'm a busy man.

Yeah, but it's not really hard to cook stuff from scratch even when busy. And those shitty ass microwave meals, while they are cheap and easy, they aren't nutritious and are filled with chemical crap.

Two words, people: Pressure Cooker.

You can come home from a busy day, quickly brown a roast, stick it in your pressure cooker, and 20 minutes later you're sitting down to a delicious dinner in which you can cut your meat with a fork.

Steal my wallet; steal my car. But touch my pressure cooker, and you die.

(August 19, 2016 at 3:25 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: On another note: making baked ranch chicken, rice and Brussels sprouts for dinner tonite.

Crushed cornflakes with hidden valley ranch dressing powder, pocketed, filled with butter and parsely.  

(August 19, 2016 at 3:27 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: Yeah, but it's not really hard to cook stuff from scratch even when busy. And those shitty ass microwave meals, while they are cheap and easy, they aren't nutritious and are filled with chemical crap.

And disgusting on the side.

(August 19, 2016 at 3:27 pm)Bella Morte Wrote:

(August 19, 2016 at 2:16 pm)Expired Wrote: Maybe not but I'm a busy man.

Yeah, but it's not really hard to cook stuff from scratch even when busy. And those shitty ass microwave meals, while they are cheap and easy, they aren't nutritious and are filled with chemical crap.

I don't mind having a few chemicals in my body.

(August 19, 2016 at 3:46 pm)Expired Wrote: I don't mind having a few chemicals in my body.

It's not so much the chemicals, but the last microwaved meal I conveyed to the nearest bin after taking the first bite. So it's not really cost efficient.

(August 19, 2016 at 3:46 pm)Expired Wrote:

(August 19, 2016 at 3:27 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: Yeah, but it's not really hard to cook stuff from scratch even when busy. And those shitty ass microwave meals, while they are cheap and easy, they aren't nutritious and are filled with chemical crap.

I don't mind having a few chemicals in my body.

I couldn't agree more with what abaris said. It's not so much the chemicals that I mentioned, it's more the fact that most of them are barely edible slop.

Don't get me started on microwave lasagna.

Just tales some planning.  You have to frontload the prepwork (and this also means you have to select a menu that works for frontloaded prep).  Bonus points if prep can be used for more than one dish (hence all my different pilafs).  

I'm Mr. Mom, and Farmer Bob, and I still have time to clown around for you fuckers.... I'm busy too.  

A good pattern is -light vegetarian or near vegetarian - heavy meat dish (chicken breast, steak, whatever) -then soup. You only have to repeat that cycle twice in a week and the leftovers go into the next dish or the soup. That leaves one day a week for eating out - or a special meal. I usually make tikka masala on sundays - alot of it. Or grill out in the summer/make pizza in the winter.

Homemade pizza, btw, best quick thing for busy people. Just chop up a bunch of toppings, put em in the fridge, and get a dough culture going in the fridge too. Want a Za? Plop out a peice of the dough, sauce it (made in advance, frozen, and thawed when needed) and pop it in the over for 10-20 minutes depending on the type of crust you've made.