/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12012114
Have you heard of sandwiches?

>>12012121
Buying bread everyday and making the sandwich is kind of a hassle.

look into "meal prep recipes." simple way to assemble a meal is carb/veggie/protein. examples:
>sweet potato, broccoli, chicken
>rice, asparagus, salmon
>pasta, tomato sauce, pork

possibilities are endless.

>>12012114
Some non-curry stews tend to taste okayish cold too, alternatively pea or bean soup can be eaten cold in slices on bread. Also many rice dishes that can be done cold, or as >>12012121 said sammiches.

>>12012135
>buying bread everyday
?

>>12012135
You can buy them by the loaf eh

>>12012144
Does the bread not goes stale where you're from ? It does here.

>>12012147
breads okay up to a few days out of the fridge.
longer in the fridge, longer yet in the freezer.
There's zero need to buy it fresh everyday unless you're a bread elitist of some sort.

>>12012172
>breads okay up to a few days out of the fridge
I'm afraid it's not the case with the sort my baker produces.
>unless you're a bread elitist of some sort
Well I'm french unfortunately, so yeah.

You need one of these.

>>12012186
To keep the meal warm from morning to noon you mean ? How long does it last in your experience ? I would need at least 6h.

>>12012181
>Well I'm french unfortunately, so yeah.
Ah yeah. elitism abound then. Both my congratulations and condolences for growing up in a place with taste.
Should probably invest in your own oven, yeast and flour, and get skilled.

>>12012202
I can make an acceptable sourdough, but again, it's just too much work to do it twice a week. I did for a few month for breakfast then gave up.
I'll always be a lazy neet deep inside, sorry.

>>12012209
actually I forgot the thread theme for a moment, and making your own bread on the regular for work isn't workable either. (unless you're a baker by profession)
But yeah, wageslave food is gonna be of lower quality, simply because you won't have the time.
It's a sad compromise you have to make.

>>12012198
I would do 10 hour shifts with two breaks so I'd eat a liter bottle on two breaks. On the second break after about 7 hours, so 8 from heating, my soup would be just about in serving temperature.

So I think that time is well doable even on a shittier steel thermos. Glass is infinitely better but fragile.

>>12012114
I like wrap sandwiches and they get a bit better as they age.
Tortillas and "wrapout" wraps, lavash, a bag of these flatbreads do last all week before stale, I have found.
Spread with cream cheese on about half (could even be flavored). Cream will act a moisture barrier and also glue the final edge to the wrap when you roll it up.
Layer on:
smoked turkey/ham/whatever luncheon meat
cheese (optional as you do have the cream cheese already)
veggies (carrot sticks, sliced cucumber, arugula, bell pepper strips, basil, cilantro, baby lettuce, spinach, avocado, egg salad, etc).
Spice it up with pickles, jam, olives, roasted peppers, leftovers of any sort like mushrooms, rice, whatever.
If you do like cooking anything from your fridge or spice cabinet changes the flavor day to day. Pickled onions, jalapeno slices, curry paste, dried dill, yogurt salad dressing, makoto, ginger soy, anything, honestly.
I roll it up in waxed paper, and tuck that in a ziploc. Slice it before serving sometimes.

On sundays, I might make a batch of pasta salad, rice salad, couscous, pimento cheese spread, egg salad spread with cream cheese and olives. Anything you make for dinner can be packed up into leftovers into personal microwaveable freezer containers and brought out again another day as the work lunchbox item to nuke at work. You can warm up burrito filling with beans, rice, meat, toppings right from a freezer container and enjoy with chips or a burrito tortilla. I have a large covered mug that a progresso soup dumps into for a soup lunch in my desk, as emergency lunch. A box of crackers to go with it.

>>12012254
Alright, thanks for the advice, I might do the same.

>>12012135
Buying bread every day? Do people actually live like this? In America we buy a loaf of bread, and it's good for 2 weeks.

>>12012114
Cook a roast chicken on Saturday or Sunday and use the left over roast chicken to prepare other meals. Examples are; simple wraps with crunchy veg and a sauce, mixed with noodles, sesame seeds and beansprouts, or my personal favourite, chicken Bahn Mi.

>>12012431
No, "we" don't. But thanks for being part of a generation that helped damage America.

Make a bunch of chili and freeze it in quart containers.

>>12012431
If it's good for two weeks, it's not bread.

>>12012456
Are there any veggies that I can put in a chili without getting crucified by the next texan to visit my town ?

>>12012114
saag paneer, make your own cheese, serve over rice or with bread

>>12012481
After looking up a recipe, that looks like something I would enjoy.
Is it usually consumed hot or cold ? The recipe doesn't mention it.

>>12012114
pasta salad is always good

>>12012607
if the recipe doesn't mention it, it's probably okay either way.
If you're paranoid you can assume hot by default.

>>12012114
Skip lunch and have larger breakfasts and dinners. You'll get used to it very quickly, and may even find yourself thinking with greater clarity.

Plain beans and rice its all u deserve wage slave

>>12012653
What I deserve doesn't matter.
I get money in exchange for my labor, so I can buy what food I want.
I don't need some third party deciding whether I deserve to get it.

>>12012653
Also I love bean and rice, but I share my office with other people and don't want to stink up the place too much with my farts.
Guess it won't be as much of an issue with spring coming as the windows will be opened all day.

I always make pic for lunch but instead buy thin-sliced chicken breast and bolio buns since they're relatively the same shape.

>>12012687
>farts
Why don't you just hold it in?

Salads.
Boiled eggs.
Baked chicken thighs/quarters.
Rice.

These are all things that meet your quotas, they're relatively healthy and easy to make and something you can survive on for long periods of time.

>>12012700
>fast food
>made at home
what

>>12012719
Is that even possible ? It just keep coming back a minute later, I can't concentrate on work in those conditions.

>>12012470
Shredded kale. But to answer your question..no

https://youtu.be/rgNieLXfFco

My lunch 75 percent of the time minus the salmon. Great when eaten cold. I like to add paprika too

>>12012764
Oh forgot to add that since couscous is kind of like pasta. You should finish then in 2 days. I don't want you to die like that guy that killed himself for eating 4 days old fridge pasta

>>12012776
Tell me about what's supposed to pasta after 4 days in the fridge please.
We were eating tabbouleh (couscous+tomoato+herbs) often when I was a kid, and kept it way longer than 2 days in the fridge. Never had any issue.

>>12012790

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/01/28/student-dies-from-eating-5-day-old-pasta/amp/

>>12012821
>The report’s authors said the spaghetti had been stored at room temperature before the 20-year-old used the microwave to warm it up.
>it’s important to be wary of food left out without refrigeration
Yeah, I guess I'll be fine as long as I keep it in my fridge.

>>12012114
You could just skip lunch and eat a bigger breakfast and dinner.

>>12012114
Batch make oatmeal every week. Good hot or cold. Can add in berries or granola (keep separately in a baggy as it gets soft if kept in same container as oatmeal). Can season in different ways and tastes like dessert. Can do the same thing but w/ yogurt instead of oatmeal (or mix yogurt into your oatmeal). Fairly healthy at worst, tasty, can diversify it decently

>>12012607
i would eat it hot for sure

>>12012114
Hard tack. Good enough for soldiers good enough for you.
Cheap too. Just flour water and salt.

>>12012114
Do you not have access to a microwave?

>>12013068
>yogurt
Can you imagine a food more cucked?

>can be eaten cold

That's a little rough but might as well make a gazpacho and a Vichyssoise. Add some extra protein to both for the work energy. Sandwiches as said before would be also ideal. Refrigerate your bread and start baking. You might try some American hash recipes or when you get your dough game going well, some pizza. Asian rice dishes or really anything that is beans, rice, ground beef, chicken etc. with seasoning is fine. Pick a spice or herb and go with it.

There are thermoses that can keep stews warm.

>>12013231
I’m new to this board, what’s wrong with yogurt?
The kind I get is 0 fat, high protein, and tastes good. Versatile as well.

>>12012458
What about rye

protein shake and protein bar

>>12012114
>eaten cold
onigiri

I'd go between onigiri and "loaded" pb sandwiches when I had to bring lunches for uni

>>12013231
Yeah, soy comes to mind. Are you new here?

>>12012135
>buy two(2) piece of bread
>every day
>three times

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/235997/unstuffed-cabbage-roll/?internalSource=recipe%20hub&referringContentType=search%20results&clickId=cardslot%2049

I make this a lot, substitute 1 lb of the ground beef for 1lb of sausage and cook it until the cabbage is the texture you like, also use red cabbage if you want it to be healthier

>>12012260
What is makoto?

>actually having to refrigerate food
I visit the market twice a day for fresh food produced locally and not injected with poison.

>>12012458
Pumpernickel is good for a month.

>>12013218
In a common room with way too many people for me. I always spend the lunch break outside.

>>12013480
Yeah, onigiri are good, I make them sometime.
But like sandwiches, I don't like that I have to make them every morning, since I have to get out of bed earlier just for that.

>>12013451
>>12013814
Okay, fair, they don't really sell this kind here so I didn't think about it.
It looks like a really dense bread tho, can you make sandwiches with it ?

>>12013811
That's nice to hear anon. Most of my meat and veggies comes from the saturday market, but I would rather starve than having to cook twice a day.

>>12013463
I already have huel for breakfast (to save time), I'm not sure that it would be good to have a second liquid meal in the day.

>>12012114
>I recently had to quit my neet ways and start selling my labor.

What kind of job OP?

>>12015105
I make onigiri the night before. Same with my peanut butter sandwiches. I cannot wake up early in the morning.

The secret to a good pb sandwich is to put pb as the first ingredient on both sides. It won't soak into the bread really so will provide a good seal for jelly, honey, maple, whatever you may choose to also add.

>>12013231
>/pol/ showing what a true asset to /ck/ it is

>>12016728
Everyone on this site uses that word. Even people who I know don't use 4channel use it.

>>12012114
What I make to eat as a wage slave.
>Any quiche
>Stir fry
>Tagliatelli with chickenbreast, mozarella and arrabiata sauce
>Cold macaroni with tuna, chives, boiled eggs and mayo
>Ceasar salad
>Salad with chicken, feta, olives, tomatoes, red onions, bell pepper and tzatziki
>Farfalle with smoked salmon, honey-mustard vinagre, radishes and cucumber
>Butter chicken with rice
>Mashed potatoes with porkmedallion, blackwell sauce and carmalized carrots
>Mashed potatoes with chicory wrapped in ham and bechemel sauce with gruyere


I spend alot on food thou.

>>12012470
I put baked beans in my chilli.

Do like this anon said >>12012650 but pack some nuts or cheese to snack on just in case you get too hungry. You can make a big salad ahead of time, too. I filled a large tupperware container with some lettuce, onion, cucumber, and cheese several days ago and have been making salad out of that mix ever since. I add some ham, pepper, and dressing when it's time to eat it. It's been pretty convenient for me.

>>12012114
cabbage soup
>sauté diced onions and garlic in canola oil
>add sliced carrots
>add cabbage of your preference
>add optionally kohlrabi, pascal selery or even meats like bacon or ground beef
>spice with pepper, allspice, salt and bay leaf

>>12015105
needs way more veggies get some veggies on there maybe some veggies and activated eggs and some nice de-acidised veggie clubroot (organic) get also some veggies for health like parsnips and microsalad with veggie shavings like carrote and some veggies for side dish

>>12012431
I buy two months worth of bread and milk all at once and freeze it all.

>>12012114
Stir fry rice dishes
Onigiri
Sandwiches
Pasta salads or meals are fine cold or room temp
Straight up sourdough roll on its own
Handful of salami with biscuits

There are huge options.

I work in the evenings so at lunch time i cook my lunch and evening meal.

But you could cook dinner when you get home then pack it for tomorrow's lunch.

The thing i hated most about bringing meals places was freshness. I hated the 4th day of the same meal, that's progressively gotten worse as each day goes by.

Cooking daily gives you taste and variety in equal helpings

>>12012454
Neck yourself.

>>12016646
Kinda webdev, kinda sysadmin.
Devops would be the trendy term I suppose.

>>12017477
I would like to most humbly apologies if my use of the word has offended you anon.

>>12018912
No large freezer unfortunately, and no room for it in my hole. Never heard of freezing milk before, how does it compare to UHT milk ?

>>12012135
he's not going to make it in the employment world, fellas

>>12020004
I already earn enough to fulfil the first two levels of my pyramid of needs, and to afford enough weeb shit to forget about the next ones.
Local government, I can hardly be fired, and will someday be able to work from home, which will remove the most unpleasant aspects of labour.
Am shitposting from my office right now.
I've really no need to "make it".

>>12012114
get used to peanut butter sandwiches anon.

>>12016677
>>12020118
Peanut butter is very expensive here, something like 20€/kg at my local store.
A shame, I loved eating PBJ when I was studying abroad, it wasn't nearly as expensive.
(Or maybe I didn't realize due to the different currency.)

>>12012135
>buying bread everyday
Just buy a loaf. Or buy bagels.

>>12012456
Came here to post this. Chili is actually really damn good coming out of the fridge cold, it's thickened up some so it feels more filling too.

>>12012454
Yeah we do. Bread lasts a long time over here. Even longer if you freeze it.

When I was a wage slave, I was lucky enough that there was a grocery store right next to my workplace.

So during my lunch break, I'd always go there and get a chocolate croissant and a slice of salami pizza from the bakery section.

That was my lunch every day. A slice of salami pizza and a chocolate croissant.

>>12020183
Given my already very sedentary style of life, I'd rather stray from this sort of food. Otherwise I'd be fine eating rice and olive oil every lunch.

>>12020180
Yeah, I like chili and make some now and then. What keeps me from making it my perpetual lunch is the lack of vegetables (I don't think beans count) and the rather expensive beef meat that goes into it.

I used to make salads in advance, except missing the main ingredient, chicken.
I'd prep the different veggies in tupperware and store them in the fridge and like before going to work I'd cook a chicken breast so it would still be juicy by lunchtime.

>>12012114
post recipe. im interdasted

>>12020183
When I was a call center wage slave I'd eat a king sized white KitKat bar and a diet A&W root beer for lunch

Never ever take a call center job

>>12020395
The OP is just a stock photo.
If you mean the chicken-carrot stew :

- cut the chicken in cubes ~5cm, marinate in brine overnight
- slice the carrots in largish pieces (1cm), put it in a big, hot pot to sauté
- meanwhile, sauté onions in a pan, then brown the chicken in them
- put the onions and chicken with the carrots, add tomato sauce and coconut milk
- add as much curry powder as you like
- let it boil for maybe one hour

Add some water if the sauce is too thick and explodes rather than boil
Shouldn't need any extra salt, it will come from the brined chicken
~1kg carrots
~1kg chicken
~500g onions
~500g tomato sauce
~200g coconut milk
For a week worth of lunches.

Fuck, my cooking vocabulary in english is atrocious, I always get confused by your misuse of french words.

>>12020442
I'll die before I do.

>>12012145

Borsch

My favourite, fits in a small bowl:
1 can of chickpeas (you can sautee these for some crunch, up to you) with cumin-garlic-lemon dressing
topped with 1 serving of full fat yoghurt with a spoon of tahini mixed in
garnish with flatleaf parsley and some diced tomatoes (or make it into a salad w/e)

I make this for the entire week every sunday