Had this issue for years now, meds nuke hunger and I’m terrible at eating breakfast by the time I get back from work they’ve worn off and I have zero motivation. Fallen into the diet of nearly always having ramen, energy drinks and a beer here and then with a muti vitami.
Tried planners, can never get them to work my job having constantly changing shift patterns probs contributes to that, even tried one of those meal recipe box thingies stopped due to it A: being expensive and B: still didn’t really work.
I’m not even a bad cook either just cannot force my brain to bloody do it.
You don’t need to jump straight to cooking full meals.
Stuff like rice/beans with some sauce can be made in like 2 minutes. Like, with as much effort as ramen.
But that stuff will stay in your stomach and slowly get digested, so you’ll need less energy drinks at the end of the day.
But cooking is like anything, start out small and easy and then just slowly start adding stuff. Once doing the small things feels natural, add an extra step or two. Like just throwing a chicken breast in a pan.
Even if you used to be a good cook, it sounds like you need to go back to basics and work yourself up to the fancy stuff.
Rice in 2 minutes? This is where I realize maybe I’ve never bought precooked rice before. How can it take so little time though? The water still needs to boil right, or is it a microwave thing?
There’s microwave rice too. Check your local Korean store
I’ll have to check local grocery stores, maps showed my closest Korean Grocery store was 59 miles away, haha. I’m sure Kroger or Aldi should have something. I’ve just always bought 5-10lb bags of rice so I never thought about it being quicker some other way. Although when I moved in 2016 I left my rice cooker for a friend, and I never replaced it for some reason, miss that thing
Those 90 second pouches…
Like I said, start as simple as possible and build on it.