A Lunch Recipe
1. Realize that it's 4PM and you haven't eaten anything since breakfast. Debate if you should bother with food or just stick it out until roughly dinner time. When your stomach answers the question for you, get up and rummage through the fridge.
2. Try to figure out what sort of food doesn't sound too difficult or completely unappetizing. Ignore the frozen dinners and leftovers. Grab a box of pasta.
3. Try to figure out how much pasta to put in the pot. (It will be the wrong amount.)
4. In a brief spurt of motivation, grab a handful of frozen spinach and toss it in the water to cook. It will turn weird and lumpy and cool down the water from its boil. Still counts.
5. Find a block of cheese in your fridge. Slice off the moldy parts.
6. Cut your finger on the cheese grater moving it from the counter to the sink.
7. Realize you forgot to set a timer for the pasta. Pick a number that sounds like roughly the correct amount of time.
8. Strain your pasta. Briefly worry that the bottom of the strainer is coming into contact with the sink and wonder how much bacteria can transfer through the holes. Decide not to Google it.
9. Mix your pasta and lumpy spinach combo with the cheese. It won't melt all the way, but it would take too much energy to fix that in any way.
10. Eat despite the nagging voice in your head telling you it's all empty carbs and calories. Eat despite the nagging voice in your head trying to convince you to just hold off because it's better to be hungry than to gain weight. Eat.
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Feeding your body can feel like a daunting task. Don't ever be afraid to take "cheats" like frozen meals, Soylent, or handfuls of undressed salad greens. You don't have to be a meal-prepping superstar to plan ahead in small ways. Stock up on snacks that are high in nutrients and last a long time, like nuts, crackers, and hard cheeses. Hard-boil a bunch of eggs at the beginning of the week so you can have breakfast ready to go. Eat what feels good and keeps you going.
2. Try to figure out what sort of food doesn't sound too difficult or completely unappetizing. Ignore the frozen dinners and leftovers. Grab a box of pasta.
3. Try to figure out how much pasta to put in the pot. (It will be the wrong amount.)
4. In a brief spurt of motivation, grab a handful of frozen spinach and toss it in the water to cook. It will turn weird and lumpy and cool down the water from its boil. Still counts.
5. Find a block of cheese in your fridge. Slice off the moldy parts.
6. Cut your finger on the cheese grater moving it from the counter to the sink.
7. Realize you forgot to set a timer for the pasta. Pick a number that sounds like roughly the correct amount of time.
8. Strain your pasta. Briefly worry that the bottom of the strainer is coming into contact with the sink and wonder how much bacteria can transfer through the holes. Decide not to Google it.
9. Mix your pasta and lumpy spinach combo with the cheese. It won't melt all the way, but it would take too much energy to fix that in any way.
10. Eat despite the nagging voice in your head telling you it's all empty carbs and calories. Eat despite the nagging voice in your head trying to convince you to just hold off because it's better to be hungry than to gain weight. Eat.
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Feeding your body can feel like a daunting task. Don't ever be afraid to take "cheats" like frozen meals, Soylent, or handfuls of undressed salad greens. You don't have to be a meal-prepping superstar to plan ahead in small ways. Stock up on snacks that are high in nutrients and last a long time, like nuts, crackers, and hard cheeses. Hard-boil a bunch of eggs at the beginning of the week so you can have breakfast ready to go. Eat what feels good and keeps you going.
This is so real.
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