Mostly by being an ingredient-only house. If there’s nothing too convenient around and you’re hungry enough, you might be more inclined.

Also you can make big things that you can pick off of throughout the week. I used to make giant pot roasts, which are great because you just dump stuff on top of a roast and pop it in the oven for a couple of hours without having to fuss over it, and eat that for a day or so, get bored with it and make tacos with the meat, etc.

This is most likely a symptom of something. Maybe get a in depth physical, some blood work; and possibly see a licensed professional to check for signs of depression.

Lack of energy is a symptom of a lot of things so I wouldn’t rule anything out.

Crockpot/slow cooker meals. Especially ones that are good as leftovers. I do everything from beef stews to pulled pork bbq to shredded chicken etc. I also find it’s so much easier to eat healthy and still feel full which makes me less interested in beer and snacks.

It’s really hard to have a routine when your work schedule is irregular. I don’t think you are wrong to rely on easy to prepare stuff but you need more nutrition, yes? My kids say I have ADD, and most of them do, my second to youngest was having trouble because Adderall so I got her some easy things.

Bagged salad packs with the dressing.

Packaged Hummus from the grocery, on Triscuit crackers, has a lot of calories with fiber & nutrition from the hummus.

Apple with sliced cheese or peanut butter

Do you like tuna? Make tuna salad at the beginning of the week, or a can dumped on one of the aforementioned bagged salad mixes.

Hard boiled eggs last a long time in the fridge, also an egg dropped into your ramen would add nutrition.

Keep your work schedule in your phone calendar and set an alarm for dinner.

For breakfast cold fermented oatmeal is amazing, we call it summer oatmeal. Mix rolled oats with yogurt, coconut water and/ or kombucha/kvass/tepache if you have it, juice or water if you don’t. Mix in dried fruit and nuts and seeds, even chocolate if you want. It should start a little sloppy as the oats will take up the liquid. Taste and adjust, sweeten if you want, I don’t. Put it in the fridge and each morning take a little for breakfast.

And also, don’t stress about eating regularly if you don’t have weight issues. If your body is feeling ok and staying in a healthy size you don’t need to force yourself.

lol, this advice is excellent, but the sheer number of options is completely overwhelming with ADHD.

This kept me from deciding for one option for a long time. I settled with a hot air fryer eventually, but it doesn’t really matter.

What helped me a lot to take the pressure off is engineered staple food: Something that’s always ready, and much more healthy than most takeout. This is Food, Huel, all good. With 0 appetite on meds, a This is Food drink is perfect.

With that fallback in place, the stress of “must cook” is gone so I can actually cook :-)

There is no shame in supplementing with Huel, YFood or alike, even muti vitami is fine. I’m also a fan of a refreshing alcoholfree beer!

Lots of good advice here. I like frozen meals or even veggies to keep the routine on some of these days. They need to be heated in a pan opposed to frozen pizza which u just shove into the oven.

I can also recommend a simple rice cooker which u can set and forget, as it switches into warm holding mode when it’s done w cooking the rice.

Simplicity was important for me. I started with just getting breakfast right: something I like, that’s healthy, every day. Boring, but I can do it.

Once you have that nailed, do something similar for lunches.

This plan doesn’t account for nutritional needs at all. It’s just something I can do.

Edit: meals you can make in a slow cooker or large pot are ideal. I turn the temperature off low and can take breaks to play computer games or whatever to break things up. Once I’ve everything chopped and added, I turn on the heat. It takes me quite a while this way, but I can make enough for a few days.

Keep your work cloths on when you get home until you’ve made a meal.

I’ve found if I quit the “work mode” and get cozy my odds decrease exponentially. If I don’t have someone to cook for (which is easier than cooking for self).

Trick your brain.

Get some ready to eat meals from Costco. Most the time youre just heating in a pot for good food that can be jazzed up as needed for minimal effort.

Heb has meal simples that are incredible one portion oven meals for like $10

i used to work from the office. i would get home from work, turn on the oven, then go get dressed into evening clothes.

this forced my to think about what i was gunna put in the oven and got me in the habit of thinking about dinner every night before i got hungry.

For me the desire to put up with the effort to cook something came, when I bought a Ninja Speedi… because the time reduces to pretty much throwing the ingredients together. Pick something to cook (potatoes, vegetables, pasta, rice,…) and throw it in the bottom. Put the divider in and put the thing to fry at the top (meat, fries, veggy pattie, whatever). A bit of water in the bottom, timer to 12 mins, temp to 180°C and hit start. 16 or so minutes later you have your meal. It starts to heat the water to produce steam and then turns on the recirculating heat for the configured time, so your food gets steamed and fried at the same time. Not having to juggle different pots and pans at the same time made cooking much more pleasant.

You don’t need to jump straight to cooking full meals.

Stuff like rice/beans with some sauce can be made in like 2 minutes. Like, with as much effort as ramen.

But that stuff will stay in your stomach and slowly get digested, so you’ll need less energy drinks at the end of the day.

But cooking is like anything, start out small and easy and then just slowly start adding stuff. Once doing the small things feels natural, add an extra step or two. Like just throwing a chicken breast in a pan.

Even if you used to be a good cook, it sounds like you need to go back to basics and work yourself up to the fancy stuff.

Slow cooker, put 2kg brisket and ~120ml water in, low setting, 8 hours. Put brisket on rack, coat with a mix of tomato sauce, BBQ sauce, and mustard. Into oven at 200°C for about 20 minutes. Take it out, wrap in foil, cool until near freezing, then slice thin.

This is cheaper for 4 days of lunches than one day of takeaway for me. No nursing the food, just set a reminder and forget.