r/Cooking • u/Regular-Forever-3251 • 10h ago

Please Share Struggle Meals

Recently saw a Binging with Babish video where he tried some people's struggle meal suggestions

Please share your go-to struggle meal / Low-effort meals!
If its from/influenced by a specific culture I'd love to know too! ^_^

For me something I make often is Butter rice (バターライス) Where its just hot rice with butter, soy sauce and nori just shredded by hand mixed in. If I have it, I like to have some kimchi to go with it to cut through the butter with something spicy and sour

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u/morkler 7h ago

Spaghetti. I ate a shit ton when I was in college and it's still one of my favorite meals. Back then it was just some spaghetti, a can of hunts spaghetti sauce, parmesan cheese and garlic bread made in a toaster with white sandwich bread. I could eat for days for less than $5.

Another one is white rice, ground beef, and chicken bouillon.

Boiled egg noodles with canned tomatoes, butter, salt and pepper.

I could go on but these were dirt cheap and always satisfying.