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I thought the lazy-part was that you don't buy any ingredients from the store before you need them in the cooking process?

My lazy meal is a bit cost prohibitive if you don't have the equipment, but if you have an instant pot, a rice cooker, and an air fryer equivalent, it's super easy to make orange chicken with stir fry veggies, using all stuff you can get ready at the grocery store.

I just throw rice in the rice cooker, frozen veggies and about half a bottle of premade sauce (like $1 at Aldi) in the instant pot, and breaded chicken, like popcorn chicken, in the air fryer, then wait. Mix the chicken in with the veggies once it's cooked, and then serve over rice.

If you do non-breaded chicken, you can even cut out the air fryer, and just cook it with the veggies. Either way, you just have to set the instant pot to zero minutes at high pressure, and it'll be cooked

My go to lazy meal.

$5 Costco cooked rotisserie chicken. Pull the meat off the bones.

Frozen bell peppers/ onion mix

Fajita seasoning seasoning

1/2 cup Rice w/ a few spoonfuls of salsa, butter, add salt / pepper to taste

1 Can O beans.

Fry up the veggies w a little oil, add cooked chicken, season w fajita seasoning lightly, remove / put in a bowl.

In the same Pan as the chicken, cook the beans.

Takes like 10 minutes n u got fajitas with only 2 pans to clean. Can I make a way better version taking 5x as long? Certainly, but do I want to? Usually no.

My lazy meal is pasta with tomatoe sauce. Add basil and raw garlic if you get fancy with it :D Parmesan if you are the rich kind of fancy

Just steam and eat the onion, it's actually delicious

I think there's an important distinction as to which meal, a lazy breakfast is a raw bagel, a lazy lunch is bread and deli meat (or microwaved single meal), dinner is frozen pizza or some rice and meatballs

You people put in a lot of effort. My lazy meal is a can of chicken (the kind you don't have to use a can opener on) and as many raw vegetables and nuts as it takes.

If I want to put in some effort, pre cooked rice pouch, can of chicken, a can of vegetables, and a can of tomatoes. Anything more than that definitely isn't lazy.

Sriracha, mayo, bread, nooch

There's different levels of lazy. If you can't bring yourself to chop an onion every once in a while, you probably just need to practice it a bit or something, because that shit isn't hard.

Being a bachelor, I often chop an onion and end up with like 4 or 5 meals worth of onion chops, so a lot of "lazy meals" are "get some chopped onion out of the fridge."

A lazy meal must have at most two items to clean up, including the cutlery

Some people are just so fast at cooking. My roommate makes the same food in a quarter of time I need and I guess it comes down to me spending so much time confused and doing unnecessary things.

Individual serving mashed potato cup, with a chopped dollar store sausage mixed in before microwaving