Depression Meals
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@Auspice Yeah, but the stock cube just makes it even easier and means I don't need to wash up a pan.
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I blame all of you for this string cheese I'm calling 'probably lunch and dinner' because y'all have made me feel like this is a valid life choice at this point.
(This post brought to you by my urge to avoid cooking more today because I already ADD'd the oven timing and burned what I was going to be eating when I fell down a pinterest vortex.)
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@surreality said in Depression Meals:
(This post brought to you by my urge to avoid cooking more today because I already ADD'd the oven timing and burned what I was going to be eating when I fell down a pinterest vortex.)
What helps me tremendously is the fact that both my stove and my oven have built in timers that turn off the heat automatically. That means I haven't burned anything or set something on fire for years. I also absolutely adore my rice cooker.
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
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@Groth said in Depression Meals:
both my stove and my oven have built in timers that turn off the heat automatically
shiiiiiiiiiiiiit
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Holy fuck, new item on lottery house wishlist right there. Damn. Yes.
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@Grayson said in Depression Meals:
Boil kettle. Open pack of fresh pasta tortellini from fridge (the stuff often keeps for a month or more, and it's not hugely expensive). Add stock cube/pot/whatever to bowl. Add boiling water. Stir until stock. Add pasta. Ignore for a bit. Eat.
It ends up like an Italian sort of won ton soup, you can pick the type of stock and what stuffing you want in the tortellini, and it's filling. I've got a plastic container with sealing lid and steam hole that'll fit a whole pack of pasta, so I just have to add boiling water, stir, add pasta, and wander off with it.
I’ve never tried keeping the water I’ve cooked tortellini in before.
That actually sounds good. Gonna try it.
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Noodles and cottage cheese. As I eat this for lunch I think it is probably depression food.
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Raw cookie dough, fuck the chocolate chips. I'll actually eat around those.
I don't like sugar-y shit when I'm not depressed. My dad died over the summer so how the fuck I didn't get salmonella poisoning, I have no clue. I certainly ran up on it and punched in the face, like it needed to come at me.
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@saosmash said in Depression Meals:
Noodles and cottage cheese. As I eat this for lunch I think it is probably depression food.
This should close the thread, really.
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Catching salmonella from eggs is very rare, about 1 in 20,000 eggs. It's why bartenders can get away with using raw eggs in drinks. If you're using pre-packaged cookie dough, a lot of them are pasteurized.
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How have I not seen this thread? This is seriously my every day. Not that I feel down every day but I spend so much time thinking what to feed others that I don't feed myself properly.
My ride or die meal is arroz con pollo, yellow rice with chicken and vegetables. I usually like is asopao which means it's more stew like in texture and consistency but it feels like a hug from inside. Basically any food that can make me feel like it's hugging me from the inside is my go to Depression food. I have a recipe for it somewhere. It's really easy to make. One pot, chicken, rice, stock, veggies and sazon Tropical which has all the seasons you need for this.
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So it's not a depression meal and yet... it is.
I woke up today an hour late.
I realized I hadn't showered in 3 days.
I barely got a lunch and breakfast (I eat breakfast once I get to work because if I eat in the first 2-3 hours of my day, I get sick) together.I realized I was deep in SAD. Shit I needed to do around the apartment was going undone, etc.
So, as my workday wound down, I realized I really wanted meatballs. So I told myself: self. You need groceries. If you get groceries, you get the stuff to make meatballs. If you MAKE THE MEATBALLS, you can have them.
So I did. And it not only kept me from grazing or eating ramen or (worse) ordering delivery... it got me out of my funk enough to do some stuff around the apartment. And y'know what? I enjoyed it. I made something delicious, from scratch, without a recipe.
It wasn't easy but it was absolutely worth it. But I think it still counts.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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And that’s why I torture myself by making a difficult meal when I’m depressed.
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Yeah, I just realized I do it to. I want very complicated things when I'm not feeling well (aka depressed).
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As somebody who suffers from chronic major depression I find packaged ready meals pretty great. Waitrose (the 'posh' supermarket here in the UK) sells really nice ones and you can get three for like seven pounds (nine dollars?) So that is most of a week worth of dinners for the cost of one ordered in delivery meal.
If I am feeling ultra lazy than I microwave them but you can also just shove them into the oven for a half hour and they taste better, also they freeze so you can order them in bulk and pile them into the freezer. It is a zero effort way to get genuinely decent food that would otherwise be a huge pain to cook, I mean when am I ever going to actually make chicken and mushroom risotto for myself?
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My go-to low effort meal of the week is boiled hot dogs.
Preparation steps are- Put water on boil.
- Hopefully remember you put water on boil before it's all gone, turn off the heat.
- Throw in the hot dogs.
- Come back a few minutes later to take them out of the water.
- Enjoy!
Now if only they'd stop selling the buns and weiners in different amounts.
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I have meal prep containers in the freezer with enchilada filling. Spinach, black beans, diced tomatoes, corn and ground beef. All cooked. Enchilada sauce spooned over it and slathered in mild cheddar. No one else in the house eats it. But when I can’t be arsed to make dinner or I just want to hide in the bedroom and who the fuck gives two shits about my teenager and my husband, I grab one, throw in chef mike and 5 minutes later I scurry back to my bedroom with some flour tortilla’s and close the door. I can stand in the kitchen for five minutes. Keeps for months in the freezer. They rarely last one month. When I get down to two containers I get the ingredients for more and make another batch. It’s comfort food and halfway decently healthy and fuck the world I want to curl up in bed and eat it without being bothered. That’s my go to depression meal. Thank you Martha stewart/Marley spoon for that recipe.
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Last night I had ... farfalle with olive oil and salt. It was going to be noodles and cottage cheese but after I made the noodles I discovered the cottage cheese had gone off.
Tfw you fail at your depression meal and your food gets even lamer, lol. Motivation has been a real problem this week. I have to assemble a packet of collateral information for an expert doing an exam for me and I managed to not do it all yesterday even though I "was going to" multiple times. I have to get pretty bad before I start letting it impact my work this way.
Generally just blech.
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@saosmash said in Depression Meals:
Last night I had ... farfalle with olive oil and salt. It was going to be noodles and cottage cheese but after I made the noodles I discovered the cottage cheese had gone off.
Tfw you fail at your depression meal and your food gets even lamer, lol.This happens to me so often because the depression and ADHD clash. I have a bad tendency to forget a single item at the grocery store. It's how I learned to make alfredo sauce, from scratch, on the fly. Sans recipe. In that 'uhhhhh I think if I do this and this and th- oh hey it worked.'
But other times (particularly when depressed) it's just been....... I guess I'll just do this instead (womp womp).
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@Auspice said in Depression Meals:
It's how I learned to make alfredo sauce, from scratch, on the fly. Sans recipe.
Isn't Alfredo sauce literally just cheese melted into butter?
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
