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Two cans of air fried garbanzo beans. I don't consider it cooking because it takes all of 19 seconds to open the cans, drain, spray cooking spray and turn an air fryer on. Gives me what feels like a bag of potato chips at a much healthier nutrition on the cheap. Toss some tajin seasoning on there and away I go.

Depends on your definition of cooking. My "lazy and unpretentious" meal is pasta with whatever. If I have a pre made sauce, that. Perhaps some frozen cream spinach, that works too. A couple eggs mixed into the hot, strained noodles is pretty tasty too. If my stash is completely empty, a piece of butter. Then top it all off with some grated parmesan, and eat it quick before the shame sets in.

Edit: works just as well with rice

Fried rice:

Leftover rice from the fridge

1 egg

Frozen veggies from the freezer

Soy sauce

Simply heat through in a pan.

I'm not seeing it here so I will recommend:

Always have some frozen shredded chicken in the freezer.
It's super easy to make. Chicken, broth or water, some veggies like celery and onion and salt if you just used water and let it simmer in pot with a lid on at a low temp or use a pressure cooker for even more hands off and then hit with a mixer to shred the chicken.

You can make several pounds of it in advance and then just wrap up portions of it in Saran wrap or foil. Bag it and put it in the freezer. It's now very resistant to freezer burn and it's a perfect ingredient for lazy days.

Tacos, grab some chicken add some cayenne cumin and lime juice and throw it in a tortilla.
BBQ, mix with BBQ sauce and heat up throw on bread or a bun or even better some yellow rice or rice-a-roni. You can add it to soup, you can turn it into all your classic chicken dishes and it's there and waiting for you.

Shredded chicken.

Sandwich or hotdog with chips.

Or a Soylent and some toast/ bread.

Peanut butter on bread. Just put a layer of PB on there, fold it in half. I take three with a glass of milk and I'm good to go. Great for those times when I've forgotten to eat dinner and I just want to make the bad feeling in my tummy go away.

What is up with the rest of these comments though, half of them still involve cooking. Who the hell has patience for that?

Greek yoghurt. Plain,no sugar or fruit. Cucumbers and oranges with tajín. Hummus with celery sticks.

Jamaican patties. You can pick up a big box of them frozen from almost anywhere (at least where I live) and heat them up in one minute. I mentioned to a Gen Z in the fall that this got me through many a college all-nighter and noticed when I was at their place last weekend, they were all stocked up! Feels good to pass on the torch…

Some store bought soup and a bit of toast or something from the freezer, most likely pizza.

• Cereal
• pasta or rice, frozen vegetables, cheese
• Vegemite on toast

pineapple slices straight out of a tin can

Cup noodles with two eggs

We make homemade soup in bulk and freeze them in mason jars. Very easy to have a healthy meal in five-ten minutes - just pull from the freezer and reheat on the stove or microwave. Make a quick grilled cheese with it if feeling ambitious.

Ricecakes and hummus, Beans and toast

Frozen za and(or) beer.

Bottle of soylent. 400 calories, chug it and forget.

Bologna bowl, good for when you're poor and/or lazy.

Slap a slice of bologna in a bowl, slice of cheese on top of that, then crack an egg on top of that and nuke it in the microwave for about a minute and 30 seconds. Good with toast or as is.

Spam Musubi

Instant ramen or few slices of bread with cold cuts and some cheese microwaved till the cheese melts.

Some of my favorites are peanut butter sandwiches, big chunka cheese, apples (any fruit really), hot dogs/sausages, 30 to 40 olives.

Bags of carrot sticks is my go-to for when I really don't feel like cooking or eating unhealthy.

I usually have Rice left over in the fridge cause I always cook it in big batches. Egg fried Rice is so quick and simple.

Humous and baguette

If I'm poor or badly prepared rice with chili crisp and and potentially egg. If it needs to be fast or very lazy 2 bananas and half a liter of milk through the stick blender. Otherwise cereal w/ milk or yoghurt, grocery store bedrolls croissant and such, prepared sweet yoghurt or instant ramen.

Can of soup.

Popcorn, whatever fruit I have at home, glass of milk. Comes out to 500+ cal easily.

A couple of eggs cooked in the microwave to hard-boiled consistency, mashed with some Japanese kewpie mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and pepper.

Assemble together with slices of bread to make sandwiches. Pair with cherry tomatoes and sliced cucumbers for a quick side salad.

Minute rice, yogurt and sweet chilli sauce mixed together.

Some broccoli or cauliflower florets steamed in the microwave (salt, pepper, butter, tsp water, in a bowl, covered with a plate, nuc for 2 mins) and draped with a slice of cheese.

Frozen wraps are the bomb. Take seconds to thaw and the possibilities are endless. Put on it whatever, and it is good.

Whenever I get lazy I just throw some seasoned chicken drumsticks in my airfryer and then add some Uncle Ben's rice. Almost 0 effort.

Chips with cheese melted in the microwave.

Can of refried beans, cheese, tortilla, whatever sauce, microwave, top with whatever veggies.

Toasted bagel with cream cheese, a canned protein, like salmon or smoked oysters, and capers. Super easy, and it also feels fancy. It's helped me out of a rut on more than one occasion

One can of no beans Hormel chili, one can of black beans, rinsed and (somewhat) dried. Mix in a big bowl, microwave until hot, add sour cream and shredded cheese, and use it like dip with tortilla chips. If you're good at rinsing the beans, and your microwave doesn't suck, you can have this ready in 5 minutes. And the only dirty dishes to deal with are a single large bowl, and a spoon.

Another thing I tend to eat a lot when I get home from work in the morning and don't want to do anything, is literally just a bunch a wheat thins, a block of pre-sliced sarento cheddar cheese, and a container of sliced pepperoni from the deli. Takes like 2 minutes to grab those while I'm waiting for the bus home from work. Fuck ton of sodium, though. Same with the chili, I guess.