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I have the privilege of cooking a homemade dinner for my partner and I every night. :3

r/kitchencels community on Lemmy when?

Bruh my meals, if I remember to eat anything, are basically just a protein shake and a cheese stick. Every day. Or occasionally just chocolate chips and milk because it’s fast and tastes good enough I can eat it even if my body doesn’t want to eat.

If I had the motivation to buy and cook a frozen pizza for an actual dinner, I’d feel like I’d been cured of mental illness lol

Edit: To alleviate any concerns, I’m well aware of the health detriment. This is the worst I’ve been in a while, but I am working on it.

Also thank you to the comments because just remembering this post made me remember to eat food rn lol. I’m eating some fruit now and am going to make some ramen with carrots and an egg later (totally forgot I had carrots lol)

In case anyone else reading this is like me this is your reminder to eat food today; do it now before you forget again

Eat a fuckin vegetable holy shit. You’ll feel so much better.
- You’re 100% right, unfortunately my brain doesn’t connect the feeling better to the eating vegetables and I totally forget I bought them by day 2 and then end up throwing away rotting vegetables a week later.
  But I did just buy a mini fridge so hopefully keeping food nearby will remind me it exists and my brain won’t be able to use the excuses of “it’s so far away” or “you might have to interact with people in the kitchen or on your way”
Get yourself a microwave meal, they're honestly much better than they used to be, nuke it and eat it. Preferably one that contains vegetables but any will do. You'll feel amazing for having real solid food inside you. :)
Bro, beware of scurvy. Seriously.
- Oh don’t worry I do also have apple sauce packets that I remember exist some days lol
ikr on a "bad day" I'm basically just grabbing a slice of bread and opening the fridge to find something edible to wrap it around.

I find the frozen pizzas are a lot better if I put them in the oven a bit.

Especially if you remove the plastic wrapping first
- You eat pizza without the peel?
- When i worked retail we had someone try to return a cooked frozen pizza that had the plastic melted onto it and our corporate policy forced us to take it back. Everyone was thinking the customer was just stupid but i think they were trolling us.

Protip: pimp your pizza.

Slap on some nice cheeses, some nice cold cuts (if you're into meat), sprinkle some basil and oregano, can even dump a more consistent pizza sauce over it of you're feeling frisky! Turns a 5/10 slab of whatever into a 7/10 slab of whatever with custom rims and a body kit!

get some nduja, hot sauce, and fresh basil on that motherfucker. Delivery pizza is obsolete.
Protip: Follow the instructions. Lotta people yolo it and then complain frozen pizza sucks
cheddar and chicken slices, take it or leave it :3
Dice up a bit of fresh garlic. Put some Sriracha on there. Get creative and indulgent! The frozen pizza is the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it.

1: Buy a roll of pizza dough.
2: Buy one of those 20 cent cans of tomatopaste.
3: Buy cheese, not shredded cheese because that's more expensive and less tasty.
4: Add those items on top of the dough, add vegetables/meat/fish/whatever to taste.
5: Enjoy vastly superior pizza for roughly the same price.

A bunch of tortillas are cheap and work almost as well as pizza dough, and are less work.
I say this as somebody who makes their own two day fermented pizza dough. Honestly they're 75% as good.
- Premade garlic naan. Still get that doughy inside and thick crust but it gets crispy on the bottom. So good and way better than frozen pizza dough.
3: Cheese... Do you have any tricks for shredding fresh mozzarella? I tried freezing it for a bit but that still just gums up the shredder. Other people say just pick it apart, but man that takes forever.
- Ive had good results basically dicing the mozz into little cubes
- Get a lump of dried mozzarella, not fresh. Or better yet, try Oaxaca cheese

Frozen pizzas are… quite the range. Some are legitimately a pathetic excuse that barely approximates the concept of a pizza. Some are pretty good, not great but not bad.

In ether case I can’t imagine eating one multiple nights in a row.

I'd say even the pretty good ones can be great not the best pizza but like legitimately quite good if you get a pizza stone I think a large chunk of the problem with frozen pizza is regular ovens just don't cook them that well and the pizza stone largely fixes that
Same, and it’s always worth it adding cheese on top.
In any case, there are other kinds of cheap, relatively decent foods out there. It shouldn’t be hard to have variation even on a budget. Not ideal, but not nearly as grim as frozen pizza every day.
- The crazy thing is, frozen pizzas aren’t that cheap. Like, they’re not super expensive, but hardly eating on a budget.

You should try other frozen foods

Or look up 10 or 15 minute recipes

Exactly. In the time you get the oven warm and cook the pizza, you can prepare something else. I admit pizza is easier, thou.
- A lot of ovens have convection heating now. You can go from opening the freezer to eating an entire pizza in under 20 minutes, dirty only a cutting board and knife, and the hardest step is remembering to set an alarm

Premade thin pizza crust
Layer of fig spread
Layer of pizza sauce
Mozzarella cheese
Prosciutto
Some globs of fig sauce
A little more mozzarella
Bake in oven