Since I often dont have the time to make food up for myself (plus anything reasonably decent takes about 2 hours that I dont generally have), I have in the last year or so gotten used to the idea of buying and stocken frozen lunches and dinner.
However like fast food after a couple of days they begin to taste like the same bland thing. I suppose this is what flavoured astronauts food must taste like. Anyways considering that I dont plan cooking that much except on the weekends and I dont want to eat out too much, any suggestions on making the food more palatable?
Are there other people out there who dont find time to cook and have found ingenious ways to keep their taste buds happy?
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**plus anything reasonably decent takes about 2 hours that I dont generally have*
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cook in installments:biggthumb
koie chhuTi waghera naheeN aati:)?
haftay bhar kaa pakaa kar freez kar liya karo.. pakaa pakaayaa khareednay kee kiya zaroorat hai:p
Are there other people out there who dont find time to cook and have found ingenious ways to keep their taste buds happy?
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Look for someone in teh community who caters as a side business. In philly, I was introduced to a family who had a pretty good side business going by providing home cooked meals for the students. It was cheap too
$30/week got me lunch and dinner for 5 days, I guess they thought students will eat out or cook over weekends. I paid a little extra to get additional days food also, or if I wanted specific items.
They delivered around campus area once a week, ppl who were not that close, could pick it up.
The advantages were thatthis was real homecooked food, tasted great, had variety..was helthier than desi restaurant food, or eating out all teh time, was cheaper and convenient.
You just had to wash the tupperware and return it. You are in a college town area, look around you may find some family doing this catering business. or you can strike a deal with some desi restaurant.
Ever since my parents left the country, I've been getting by on frozen supermarket battered fish for dinner virtually each and every night. Then again, I rather enjoy not having variety in my diet (I've had the exact same lunch virtually every day for 6 months at work), so continually eating the same frozen food is no problem for me :)
i also do most of my cooking on sundays, and try to plan my meals ahead of time.
but for those times when i need to fix a quick meal, i usually i get parathas (like aloo or methi parathas) from the desi stores.
i heat em and eat em with achaar.
i also get a couple of tins of punjabi karhi. you just heat it up, and it's good with rice.
i get tins of vegetarian duck (soy) and substitute them instead of meat in my biryani preparation. it cooks in 1/4 the time, tastes good adn is healthy.
thai curries are also prepared very quickly provided you have the essential ingredients, like coconut milk, and the curry paste.
if i've some prepared qeema at hand, then i just boil some macaroni, add it to the qeema and heat it thoroughly. sprinkle some cheese over it.. it's ready.
check out the thread on sandwiches also, it might help..