Tiredness food :)

[yvi]

So, after yet another 10 hour day after which I had no strength to go shopping, I have to ask:

What food do you people keep in stock to tide you over these days?

EDIT: Gosh, you are all amazing. So many great ideas to keep me going over the next few weeks :)

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[ninetydegrees]

In cabinets: pasta, basmati or thai rice, potatoes, onions and other spices, a bag of breadcrumbs, flour, lentils (already cooked and not), dehydrated bakmi goreng, canned sardines, canned tuna, sour cream, tomato sauce, pesto sauce, maple syrup, cereals, milk, Swedish toasts.

In the freezer: chicken legs, fish fillets, fish nuggets, mashed beef (for bolognese sauce), vegetable purées, fried potatoes, some kind of pommes Dauphine called pommes noisettes, Chinese and Japanese dumplings, edamame, raspberries, chocolate cake, soup, bacon cubes.

In my fridge, I try to always have eggs, grated cheese, cream cheese, ham, smoked salmon, carrots and any other vegetable I can keep for a while. I'm an extremely picky eater and it helps a lot if I have vegetables at all time.

Some of my favorite 'lazy' dishes:
- rice salad with tomato and tuna
- potato salad with tuna and onions or shallots
- ham and already-cooked lentils
- red cabbage salad, edamame and chicken leg
- dumplings with sweet potato purée and edamame
- fish with simple butter sauce and eggplant/potato purée
- duck breast with pommes noisettes
- cheese omelet with red cabbage salad
- smoked salmon and pasta with pesto sauce
- raspberries with a little sugar, a slice of chocolate cake and mascarpone

Not all of these can be instantly ready but they all require very little cooking.

When I do some heavier cooking, I often make big quantities I can eat whenever I want later in the week or that I can freeze.

[yvi]

Gosh, you have the most organized stock ever :) Seriously, this sounds like you can go for quite a while without having to go outside, if needed.

Love your ideas and I suppose most of those can be thrown together creatively without worrying too much about following a recipe .

[ninetydegrees]

I can and have actually but I learned the hard way: I can eat cereals and pasta for days if I don't have anything else to eat and am too lazy to go outside. :/

Exactly. All you need to know is how to boil water, use a microwave or an oven and make some salad dressing (if you don't wanna buy all made one). And there are tons of little things you can add to make dishes a little tastier that don't require any cooking: mozzarella or Greek cheese, walnuts, pine nuts (you can also roast these), garlic and parsley butter (this you can make yourself and freeze it and it'll last you ages or you can buy), maize kernels, prickly pears or grapes, apple slices of even slices of orange too.

Oh I forgot to mention something: honey. This is great to cook apples and bananas with but also with meat (in tajines for example) and it helps a lot with sore throats ;)