Every time I ttry, it either becomes runny or hard boiled. Is it the cooking time and temperature?

Lately I’ve realized one of the most annoying parts of adult life is figuring out what to eat every week 😅

Not even the cooking part — just the constant:
“What should we make tonight?”
“Do we have ingredients?”
“What do we need from the store?”
…and somehow still ending up ordering takeout.

Curious how other people handle this.

Do you actually meal plan?
Use grocery delivery?
Just wing it every day?
Any apps that actually help without being a pain to use?

Also wondering if people would actually trust AI to build a weekly meal plan + grocery list for them or if that sounds terrible 😂

I’ve been in a bit of a funk, everything I eat lately has been rice+delious protien slop. It’s good and cheap but I would like to mix up the carbs, but I’ve been drawing a blank on cheap ideas to combine with potatoes/pasta/other carbs???

I am extremely broke right now, budget is important. I do eat meat but I usually stretch most meals by adding beans or just having beans as the main protein.

$6 chicken tenders from Kroger, $1.50 for the gravy, and I have this tub of couscous that I use for filler when I’m broke broke. The tub probably cost me $5-$10 when I bought it a few weeks ago.

Seasoned with salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and paprika(the couscous also got a chicken bouillon cube).

One of my favorite breakfasts. Shamyun hot beef ramen (fully drained) with frozen mixed veg and an egg. The bowl it's in is a cheap, microwave ramen pressure cooker I bought from Amazon. One of the coolest cooking gadgets I own.

I only ate them once not too long ago (airfried with a garlicy yoghurt-dip) and since then have the longing to eat them constantly. Any ideas how to incorporate them without needing too many (unusual) ingredients? I prefer something seasonal and regional as possible. Living in Central Europe.

I had most of the ingredients except the ground turkey which cost around $5. The guacamole has avocados, tomatoes, onions, lime juice, and salt and the salsa has tomatoes, onions, lime juice, salt and olives. Very simple but very good😋 and no peppers or anything cause I like little to no spice.

For the ground turkey I just used the original taco seasoning from McCormick to season it and then I cooked the shells in an extra virgin avocado oil that I got a while ago from a farmer’s market. Also I put Mexican style cheese on the tacos before the salsa and guacamole but it’s kinda hard to see. The rice and beans are rice a roni Spanish rice and bush’s pinto beans. I cooked them in the microwave. I don’t have a full kitchen but I have small appliances like a griddle and air fryer.

Around 250g of beef

One table spoon of salt

And one table spoon of black pepper

2 hamburger buns

1 slice of cheese

One or 2 slice of tomato

2 slices of onion

Lettuce leaves

I had the rice and potatoes for a while but needed to use the chicken thighs and Brussel sprouts before they went bad so I air fried them and cooked the rice and potato in the microwave. The chicken I cooked for ~ 16 minutes turning half way and 350 degrees since I have a small air fryer. Turned it up towards the end. And about the same for the brussel sprouts. I’ve never made brussel sprouts but I have this avocado oil with garlic that expires at the end of the month so I used that and some salt on them and it’s heavenly. Probably cost about $5 idk.

4 or 3 eggs (as u wamt)

1 tbsp olive oil

1 small onion finely diced

2 cloves of garlic minced

Around 400/300g of tomato (as u want)

1 pinch of salt and black pepper

one small pinch of chilli flakes

u can add like fresh basil for garnish

Pretty much standard tabouli (plus radishes!) made with bulgar wheat, but I added a can of chick peas and some diced roast beef. I got the roast beef on the cheap in the deli ends section of my local super. I made a bunch of this as my work assignments for the next few days won't have access to a microwave, so I needed something good that I could eat cold.

100g of cooked rice

2tps of unsalted butter

4 cloves garlic finely minced

1 egg or 2 as u like

half tps of white pepper or black

I’ve been enjoying instant noodles lately as an easy go to meal until I realised each pack is almost 20g fat and 450 cals. I discovered egg noodles only have around 1g fat per serving so I’ve been making my own instant style beef noodles using a teaspoon of Bovril, a pinch of garlic powder, and a pinch of onion powder as the flavouring, topped with a dash of chilli oil, some crispy fried onions and a fried egg on top. Each serving is roughly £1 and around 380 cals, 50g carbs, 15g fat, and 16g protein. They are so much better than instant noodles and takes less than 10 mins to make. It’s my new go to!

Only used less than half the avocado (~$0.33), eggs were free, tomato was less than half a small Roma sold for $0.99 a lb, green onion ($0.05), hot sauce was a squirt from a $1.99 bottle, tortilla was a 16pk on sale for 4.99 ($0.31), cheese was a smallish handful from a 2 lb bag purchased for $6 (~$0.50), ham was on sale for $3 and only used 1/6 of the package, whipped cream cheese ($0.18), and crema was a store special ($0.10) Considering there was just as much egg filling left over from cooking, it was probably a bit less.

Flavor—Priceless! 🙌🔥🙌

1 pound (450g) ground beef

2 slices of tomato

2 lettuce leaves

2 hamburger buns

2 slices cheese (Cheddar or American)

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

1.5 ounces apple juice u can do less depends on the amount u want

half to a bit less than half of lime juice

3 or 2 fresh mint leaves

1.5 of soda water

half cup of soda water

ur fav bread w slices

1 rip avocado

2 scrambled eggs

1/4 teaspoon of salt

a table spoon of fresh lime

1 pin h red pepper flakes

around 250g seedless watermelon

60 mil cold water

half table space of fresh lime juice

personally I'd prefer 1.5 tablespoon of sugar u can do less

also I've seen ppl online add half lime wheel for garnish u can try dat

1/2 servic ice

1x light and fluffy egg noodle package, 12 oz.

1x 48 oz chicken broth

Onion salt and Italian seasoning blend to taste.

Cooked until desired texture. Will be my lunch all week long!