phaeton wrote:

> So I ask, what are some simple yet effective meal ideas that you enjoy
> or have enjoyed, or employed when time was scarce? Thanks for any input.

When I had two or three jobs, back before I got my sanity back, I did
some of the following:

1) When making pasta, make three or four times as much as you need. Cold
noodle salads are good and travel well.

2) Likewise potatoes. Leftover baked, boiled, mashed, or roasted
potatoes are a good thing to carry in your lunch.

3) Soup. Make a BIG pot of soup once a week (you can throw together a
pot of soup in a few minutes and let it cook while you study for an
hour) and eat it all week. You can jazz it up when you're home (with
salsa, sour cream, whatever goes with whatever soup you're making).

4) I used to make a big pile of burritos and/or hummus wraps, and freeze
them, then stick one in my lunch every day. By lunchtime, they'd be
thawed enough to eat, and if I had a microwave handy, I could heat them.

Also, find places on your routes that serve healthful foods, and start
patronizing them. There's no law that says you have to make all your own
food, even if you're trying to keep from eating junk.

Serene
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