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No. 253
Buying a rice cooker is decent advice, though rice isn't hard to make in a pot (2:1 water to rice ratio, bring it to a boil, once it boils, turn it down to minimum heat, cover, and let cook for 40-50 minutes).
Stir-fries were a godsend to me when I first moved out and started cooking for myself. It's a very simple thing to make taste good. Make some rice, fry some chopped veggies, nuts, meat or meat alternatives (to save $$$, I would only use meat once or twice a week), splash some soy sauce on the veggies while they cook, then dump that shit on your plate, dump the rice on there, add some more soy sauce if you like and voila.
Curries are also a great way to make tasty stir-fries. Once your veggies/meat are almost done frying, pour in some coconut milk, a nice big glob of coconut oil, and scoop on some curry powder. Mix it around until the curry has a thick, creamy consistency (don't over-do it on the coconut milk). Again, dump that on some rice and you are good to go.
Like >>250 said, make a large batches of things and keep them in the freezer. A big pot of chili (black beans, kidney beans, tomato sauce/soup, chili powder, cayenne pepper, mushrooms, corn) which you then dish into single-serving size containers and put in the freezer. Quick, nutritious meals for when you don't have time to cook.
Having a slow cooker is nice. Once or twice a month I'll go to the butcher shop and see if there is some kind of pork, beef, or bison roast on sale. If there is, I'll pick one up, throw it in the crock pot with a can of cream of mushroom soup and some diced potatoe. After 4-6 hours, the roast will be cooked, so I pluck it out, slice it up and ladle some of the potato/mushroom/roast run-off gravy soup thing onto it. You can also make stew in the slow cooker really easily. Chopped potatoes, peas, sliced carrots, diced onion, leek, mushrooms, and a sliced chicken breast or two or some chunks of beef, add some water and some salt and pepper and you'll have a nice pot of stew in 3 hours or so.
For lunches to take to work/school, get sandwich or wrap stuff (deli meat, mayo/mustard/whatever spreads you like, whole grain bread or wraps, lettuce... You could also make a big pot of burrito fixin's (cook some ground beef, sliced peppers, chili powder) and then a serving or two of that into a container and take it to work with a wrap or two, some lettuce and a container of shredded cheese. Put together a burrito for yourself at work. Yummy.
For breakfast, I like to make oatmeal in a 50/50 water/almond milk mixture. A little honey on that.
You'll save money by buying your staple ingredients in bulk (beans, chickpeas, rice, quinoa, etc) and supplementing that with fresh veggies. Grocery shop with weekly meal plans in mind (what do I need for quick breakfasts before work? What do I need for lunch at work?) and make larger batches which you can then keep in the fridge and eat over 2-3 days or keep in individual servings in the freezer and eat over 2-3 weeks.
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