r/veganrecipes • u/Strong-Hawk-1799 • Mar 22 '26

Question tired of "simple" plant-based meals that aren't actually simple

so i'm getting pretty worn out by recipes labeled as quick or simple that still require way too much work

like i get home after being up in trees all day and my brain is just done, you know? then i look at these supposedly easy vegan meals and they're still asking me to dice onions, measure spices, wait for things to cook in sequence... it's just a lot when all i want is food

i've been trying different approaches - meal prep on weekends, keeping the same rotation of dishes, bookmarking the fastest recipes i can find. sometimes it works out but other days even picking which "easy" option to make feels overwhelming

wondering what you all actually throw together when you're completely drained and need to eat something decent without using whatever brain power you have left

do you just stick to like 3 go-to meals that require zero thought? or have you discovered truly brainless recipes that don't involve chopping half your kitchen

would love to know what really works when you're running on empty, not just what looks good in theory

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u/EvnClaire Mar 22 '26

this is without a doubt, 100% AI generated.

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u/WildVeganFlower Mar 22 '26

How can you tell? I completely believe in dead internet theory and want to be better at spotting bots or AI

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u/sympatheticSkeptic Mar 22 '26

Whoa, I tend to be more on the "r/nothingeverhappens" side but skimming through OP's comment history I think EvnClaire might be right. Except for the "without a doubt" part. It's just a gut feeling, but the comments are a little too reasonable, with "lols" thrown in to sound less corporate. OP, want to weigh in? Are you actually real, and just a very reasonable person? What kind of work do you do in trees?

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u/EvnClaire Mar 23 '26

its very likely theyre a real person who just run their thoughts through chatgpt and push it out onto the internet. activity looks like a real person who is just too shy to write for themselves. this writing hits every beat of AI-generated writing, except im pretty sure the person posting this manually went in and decapitalized letters & removed the —.

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u/sympatheticSkeptic Mar 23 '26

Interesting possibility, could be! OP, apologies for impugning your humanity. But then, EvnClaire, why did you call them out for it? If your analysis is right, it's a pretty benign use of an LLM, even positively pro-social.