Depression Meals
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Easy Mac. Cheesy hot dog made in the nuke (tastes better than it sounds). Leftovers. Frozen spaghetti meal, or spaghettios I doctor with some garlic salt and onion powder
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Chicken-flavor ramen, big ol' squirts of sriracha, squeeze half a lime in the bowl. I can and have eaten it literally every single meal.
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@Wizz said in Depression Meals:
Chicken-flavor ramen, big ol' squirts of sriracha, squeeze half a lime in the bowl. I can and have eaten it literally every single meal.
The best thing about chicken-flavour ramen is it's usually vegetarian.
This is good shit. It burns your gut so instead of worrying about emotional pain, you're more focused on the imminent diarrhea.
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Fries
Or nothing. Maybe a diet coke.
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Take the time to make a big plate of deviled eggs.
Then sit down and pound those fuckers.
ETA, Double-Stuff EL Fudge cookies. Not Oreos. Never Oreos. Just a whole thing of Double-Stuff EL Fudge cookies, a glass of milk and my abundant self-loathing and general sadness.
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@Ghost said in Depression Meals:
@Auspice said in Depression Meals:
I'm still so glad I broke myself of buffets years ago.
Too many days in my early twenties of getting stoned AF and going to Cici's or a chinese buffet.
Indian buffets are pretty unfair, IMO.
If you go to an Indian restaurant/buffet, then you can have everything you want (biryani, naan, etc) for $12 and unlimited plates. But if you want ONE meal (say, just Chicken Korma) then they unleash this weird TIERED PRICING payment thing that results in it coming to around $17.
Curry chicken? Yes.
With rice? Yes (cash register sound)
With naan? Yes (cash register sound)
One naan or two? OMGFUCKOFF.Of course you're paying more, you're ordering à la carte.
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@Derp Ohgods, that one is new to us. He was already debating a stormtrooper face, the death star, and the falcon... that's fucking AMAZING, though.
Lottery kitchen will clearly just have to have them ALL for some sort of 'every flavor of waffles' day.
Though re: Taika, I do a variation of the wedding soup, too, but a super easy one with the egg drop method. Nuke chunk of frozen spinach (optional) to throw in; if I am too bleah I don't bother. (I will try, though, because spinach is one of those foods that will help me physically feel less bleah.) Throw spinach in broth while broth heats. Crack two (or more depending on how much you're making at once, 2-3 is good for one of those boxes of premade broth) eggs in bowl, scramble. Drizzle scrambled eggs into hot broth and stir broth to break it all up. Keep stirring like... up to a minute while the eggs cook in broth. Ladle out as needed. Add salt or pepper or grated cheese if you want, mix in or throw on top. (This is how my grandmother would do the wedding soup, she'd just also have meatballs. I tend to not have meatballs around or the patience/ingredients to make them when I make this version.)
Stupid quick and dead simple for quick protein and greens and relatively healthy ingredients on the cheap. Can probably convert to vegetarian relatively easily with egg substitutes and veggie broth/etc.
Also a very good 'I need chicken soup because I feel like garbage' soup.
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Open a can of chicken breast, dump into a bowl, toss two to three heaping spoonfuls of Duke's mayonnaise in there, a squirt of mustard, a few dashes of some sort of hot sauce, and take a fork to it to mix and shred the chicken. Apply chicken salad to two slices of bread and pair with a glass of milk.
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Heat up frying pan; add butter to pan; crack open an egg and drop contents into frying pan, making sure to bust the yolk, fry the egg, place between two slices of toast that have been smeared with mayonnaise.
Those tend to be my go-tos.
@Kanye-Qwest said in Depression Meals:
Who is doing this when they are too depressed to eat??
I enjoy cooking, so it actually helps brighten my day a bit.
Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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Some of you express depression very differently than I do. I love cooking. It's the last thing I want to do sometimes.
Bratwurst become an option (because I just boil them) but really it's just a good old peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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Sometimes, things which objectively require more prep work and actual cooking are somehow easier than objectively simpler things.
Absent leftovers, a pan, olive oil, chopped onions and garlic is just what my hands do when I can't be bothered. I may turn it into a meal, I may just season it and slap it on some bread-like surface.
I try to have leftovers, though.
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Lowest effort: cereal.
Some effort: Fried egg.I've also just grabbed a block of emotional support cheese and that was it.
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@moth said in Depression Meals:
emotional support cheese
I am stealing this phrase to shamelessly exploit when I get side-eye at the overkill on the cheese aisle at Trader Joe's, because this expression is a serious truth of my life.
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@moth said in Depression Meals:
emotional support cheese
If I ever buy a label maker, this is the very first one I shall create
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I've known two people in my life with a profound hatred• of cheese. I always chalked this up to a sense of self-loathing so deep that even in my most depressive states I can't comprehend it.
• Not allergy or lactose/other food intolerance problem, which I'd understand, obviously.
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Kraft Mac & Cheese (with hot dogs cut up)
Top Ramen
Instant Oatmeal
Chicken Noodle Soup
Chef Boyardee Ravioli
Hormel Chili
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@Ominous said in Depression Meals:
I enjoy cooking, so it actually helps brighten my day a bit.
I enjoy cooking too, but when I'm depressed, I don't want to do things I enjoy. I want to lie in a congealing pool of self-loathing and misery and stare at the wall until an hour has passed.
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If I'm being really honest here, one of the main ways I get food in me when depressed is that my husband notices (if he's home), or sends a text on his way home from work (he works out of state, and until recently that meant being gone a few nights a week) asking if I want him to pick something up on the way home.
If I have enough presence of mind to know I need to eat something -- or if the liver stones are getting rambunctious because I haven't eaten (this is spectacularly ow) -- I will send him a text with something like 'bring home a food'. It is rarely more detailed than that, and is usually just that or 'i need a food' or 'food plz' or 'wife requires fooding'/etc. (I forget where the shift key is at that point, because sending the text is enough effort. If there is no shift key, he automatically knows by now he needs to stick to comfort food or something mild and destined to be filling and put me right to sleep.)
I would also be lying if I didn't admit to 'emotional support vodka', even if I can't ever have much of it these days (again, liver stones I prefer to not agitate).
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Baked beans on toast
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Cinnamon sugar toastToast is my friend. >.>
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@RavenGirl said in Depression Meals:
Baked beans on toast
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Cinnamon sugar toastToast is my friend. >.>
Mine too. Beans on toast with cheese. Poached egg on toast, with avocado if I have one that isn't mushy or rock hard. Cheese on toast.
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If this thread has taught me anything, it’s that British people know their toast.
