When you don't want to cook, rely on rotisserie chicken, eggs, quesadillas, or pasta with jarred sauce for minimal effort meals. Options like grilled cheese, nachos, microwave sweet potatoes, and "adult snack plates" (hummus, veggies, cheese) provide quick, satisfying nutrition with almost no preparation.
Many young adults would agree with Jackson that they don't have time to cook. A survey in an article published by a Chicago family-run pizza business, Home Run Inn Pizza, asked 1,000 Gen Z adults and found that 75% cite time as the reason why they don't cook more.
Why Recipes are holding you back from learning how to cook
What is the 2 2 2 rule for food?
Non-profit organisation Love Food, Hate Waste recommends the 2:2:2 rule. Two hours to get them in the fridge. Two days to eat them once they're in there. Or freeze them for up to two months.
Cooking with an ADHD brain can be extremely challenging due to the intense executive functioning demands involved, causing frustration, stress, and, ultimately, burnout.
A chaos menu is like a culinary rollercoaster. It's a list of options that don't follow the norm but instead entice diners to explore. Restaurants and home kitchens are embracing chaos menus, offering everything from fusion tacos to ramen pizza.
For many, the kitchen stirs up feelings of frustration, overwhelm and dread rather than creativity and pleasure. Diet culture's rules and rigidity often clash with the desire to simply enjoy food without fuss. If cooking feels like a guilt-laden chore dictated by unrealistic standards, you're not alone.
Between baked chicken parmesan, chicken pot pie casserole, and chicken noodle soup these weeknight dinners are easy to pull off. If you like Swedish meatballs and creamed spinach, this is the perfect dish for you.
A "Cowboy Supper" has two main meanings: a hearty, simple casserole in the US/UK (sausages, beans, potatoes/corn/tomatoes), or, in Northern Ireland, a chip shop meal of chips, baked beans, and deep-fried sausages, sometimes with battered burger/fish. Both versions are comforting, budget-friendly dishes featuring classic, satisfying ingredients like beans and sausages, served in different forms.
Seven-cent meals were an initiative led by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression, aiming to provide nutritious, low-cost meals (around 7.5 cents per person) using simple ingredients like eggs, potatoes, beans, and organ meats to set an example for frugal American households, though the resulting bland, utilitarian food became infamous. Meals often featured items like deviled eggs with mashed potatoes, spaghetti with carrots, prune pudding, or "shrimp wiggle," focusing on sustenance over luxury.
Trend expert Shayan Faraz says that the CL emoji 🆑 means to clear or delete something. It's designed after the red “clear” button on old-school phones and calculators. Send the 🆑 emoji to talk about clearing schedules, clearing the air after an argument, or cleansing yourself of anything from social media to sugar.
That symbol (🎀) is called a Ribbon Emoji, often representing gifts, something special, cute, or pretty, and is used for holidays or baby girls, but it's also part of the broader concept of awareness ribbons used to support causes like breast cancer (pink ribbon) or AIDS (red ribbon).
According to an interview with Elle, Swift swears by Ina Garten's spaghetti and meatballs, Nigella Lawson's Mughlai chicken, and Jamie Oliver's chicken fajitas with molé sauce, and says that she will be making these three recipes "at dinner parties for life."
A Silent Dinner means eating with other people without speaking. Everyone stays quiet from start to finish. Just eating slowly and calmly. People do this to focus on: The food.
