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I would've started watching the Witcher sooner if someone had told me how hilariously corny it was. Y'all buried the lede.

Delivery pizza.
Instant mashed potatoes.
Straight up spoonfuls of peanut butter.

I struggle to even eat when depressed so it has to be something really easy.

@Darren said in Depression Meals:

@Auspice said in Depression Meals:

@Darren said in Depression Meals:

Take one box of Kraft Mac n Cheese. Use half & half instead of milk, real butter, 2 slices of Kraft singles plus a couple of slices of sharp cheddar (or Velveeta if you like it gooey). Prepare the mac 'n cheese, then toss in two or three hot dogs that have been cut into quarter inch circles, and one of those tiny single-serving size cans of peas. Combine well, nuke for a minute, then enjoy! You can swap out the hot dogs for half a can of Spam that has been cubed and fried until crispy on all sides.

I do this except with a can of chili.

Hmm, sounds interesting.

Wolf brand no beans is the best choice.

ETA: it is not remotely healthy but it is solidly cheap comfort food that will fill you up.

@Ganymede said in Depression Meals:

When I get depressed, I drown myself in work. Including cooking. Also, non-carb stuff because when I’m down the cure is to get further down.

You're lucky that you can manage to drown yourself in work.
When depression hits me (esp. seasonal), it's a chore to even drag myself out of bed.
(And yet at night, when I go to bed, I lie awake reading or watching tv)

@Kestrel said in Depression Meals:

@Ganymede said in Depression Meals:

When I get depressed, I drown myself in work. Including cooking.

You have the kind of depression I wish I had.

EDIT: ditto @Testament below
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no shit.

When I'm drowning in depression I can spend 10 hours straight just watching TV.

Being sick or depressed is the only time my cleaning/organization falls to shit.

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.

@Tinuviel said in Depression Meals:

@Ghost Oh don't get me wrong, we have buffets with every kind of food under the sun (that can be cooked in massive batches in 20 minutes or less) but we just... call them buffets.

Chinese buffet is its own special beast where there is, as mentioned, more than just Chinese food. But they're generally cheap, don't rush you out the door to make room for more customers (other places will do this), and open 365 days a year.

@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.

My favorite Indian buffet in SC was like this. Everything they made was just holyshitsodelicious ... but it was like, you had to go to lunch on a weekday or else you'd be paying $20-25 a person. Weekend buffet cost more. Dinner entrees were insane.

Oddly enough, Greenville, SC had some really awesome food options that I just haven't found elsewhere. No Indian as good as that one. No falafel as good as Pita House (run by three generations from Jordan). No Vietnamese as good as Mekong (that place kept a garden out back for fresh herbs/veggies and homg you could tell- it was also cheap... two people could eat lunch w/leftovers for $20).

I need to get a new garlic press. I prefer fresh garlic, but crushing garlic by mincing / squishing with flat of knife blade is just so tedious. So I began buying the jar stuff.

@Tinuviel said in Depression Meals:

@Auspice said in Depression Meals:

squishing with flat of knife blade

Big knife + rubber mallet.

I don't have space for a rubber mallet in my kitchen

billie eilish's everything i wanted is just too good.

I also keep Amy's Burritos in my freezer for 'really just need to stuff my face with something but have no willpower to cook a thing'

Oh, and those steamer veggie bags. I have like, 10 in my freezer rn of various types. Good for a side dish, sure, but also a slightly healthier meal (if you're doing straight veggies vs like, broccoli and cauliflower drowned in cheese) than many other options.

@Sunny 's post reminded me. In addition to the steamed veggies, I usually keep chicken tendies in the freezer.

I mean sure I could keep chicken breasts and bake them but.... the tenders take less effort (a) and the breading helps satisfy the depression need for comfort food (b). So yes, lots of depressed nights tossing chicken tenders on a sheet pan and a bag of steamed veggies in the microwave.

I feel obligated to share that The Mighty Boosh is currently on Hulu.

fuuuuuuuuuuuck cedar

@Pyrephox said in Critters!:

My current, and first, cat was a stray who worked himself up into the wheel well of my car as a six/seven week year old kitten. The shelters were closed for a holiday weekend, and by the time they got around to opening again, I couldn't imagine giving him up.

Now he destroys my blinds and gives me snuggles.

I had a job at a bowling alley for a few months once. In the middle of summer. One day I look out at the parking lot and see this little floofball of a kitten climbing up in wheel wells to get out of the sun.

Knowing how our clientele was, I had this terrifying thought of leaving work that night to find a dead cat and I could not handle that (I am that person who can handle all the violence in a movie but the instant a cat is hurt at all even off-screen, I bawl). So I got a coworker to help me catch her.

I was GONNA take her to a shelter, but my SO went from being angry at me in texts to meeting her and going THIS IS OUR CAT NOW.

She was a long-haired tuxedo, practically munchkin-cat in size, and the prissiest little princess.

@Rinel said in Depression Meals:

Or, when it's really bad, some weird sort of self-harm through fasting. I unironically suspect I'm beginning to develop an eating disorder.

tbh I've had the same fear. I'll go through bursts of starving myself (either on purpose as body hatred or due to depression) and then when I'm back on an upswing I end up binge eating for a couple days.

@Rinel said in Depression Meals:

@Kestrel

counterpoint: i am balding and ugly and horrible

me except fat and ugly and horrible

so I flashback to all the doctors that told me I clearly just eat too much and make myself eat a meal a day (or less because 'fasting') because I'm just a hideous, gross fatty

... then invariably my anemia kicks in and I end up feeling ill so I binge eat to (badly) counteract it and... yes it's a bad cycle.

Accurate representation of ADD.

@Wizz said in Random funny:

Eleven years later this is still one of my favorite videos/songs of all time, and I still find myself singing along to it sometimes, so juuuuust in case you have somehow never been exposed to the magic of Babycakes: Be. Aggressive. B-E. AGGRESSIVE.

This is the best Neely and I still quote it on the reg.