I finally bought a microwave oven after two years of being unable to cook rice. I basically can't cook anything without ruining it. I also can't really take care of myself wrt food. I've tried Mr Ben microwave rice but it tastes horrible. I'm getting most of my nutrients from avocado smoothies. I just need something I can heat up and tolerate the taste of, giving me enough calories to walk around, that I can eat every day until I find a wife or shoot myself, kthx.

There's microwave rice that you get in most supermarkets now, can't remember the brand name.  It's not in a bag, it's in a white plastic dish.  It's more expensive than the bag stuff, but I usually buy it when it's on special offer as it keeps for ages.  I have it with tinned mackeral in tomato sauce.

Btw, you are aware that not all wives can cook?

A man showed me how to cook rice.  You stir it as it starts to boil, put the lid on the pot, turn the heat down low and don't take the lid off the pot for 10 minutes, by which time the rice is cooked.

Lemon juice+ whatever frozen stuff you enjoy eating.

Lemon juice, because hummins can't survive without Vit C.

In fact, primates can't survive without Vitamin C... huh.
Keep lemons safe from cockroach infestation!

It sounds like most wives could cook better than him.

I made rice today. I honestly don't find it much harder than using a microwave, it just takes longer. Rinse, let rice soak, drain, add as much water as there is rice, bring to a boil, put heat on low, turn heat off, eat it. Lentils are basically the same minus the rinsing and soaking and you don't have to cover them. Cleanup is harder but as long as I don't have anything else going on it's very doable. I guess my description is more complicated than Marcia's but it's better this way.

If one doesn't want to cook the easiest thing is to eat bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables, and whatever meat is cheapest or some lentils, which can be left in water for a while to sprout instead of cooking of them, although I haven't tried this. It's also possible to cook enough food for the rest of the week during the weekend, which is presumably less busy, and then simply warmed up during the week when one has less time and energy to devote to food. One could even get tupperware with enough for each day. I've eaten rice and lentils cold and I actually think they're fine this way, so one could even skip warming them up. Add in some baby carrots and apples and you're actually pretty healthy, minus the lack of b12 that can be made up for with milk or a multivitamin.

Avacado smoothies don't sound like a bad idea.

This post was last modified: 08-08-2010 03:58 AM by q w e r t y.

Baked white or sweet potatoes.  Cook them for 3 minutes, then see if they're soft, if not do another 2 minutes, check, add one minute until cooked.  Can pour just about anything on them:  chili, vegetable soup, cheese soup, frozen veggies in a bag with cheese sauce, etc.

Frozen fish fillets, instant mashed potatoes and canned peas.

If you're in the USA:  microwaveable mac and cheese.  Add tuna and peas.
pizza that is microwaveable.
popcorn
Get the magazines Quick Cooking or Taste of Home, by Reiman Publications.  They have some simple (5 ingredients or less, 15 minutes or less recipes).

It might not be the tastiest, but I have grown to like oatmeal.  I make microwave oatmeal or oatbran every day.  It certainly is one of the most healthful and cheapest things you can eat.  The key is adding things to give you variety.  I find milk (or soy milk) raisins, applesauce, walnuts, and cinnamon good.  Sometimes I will add chocolate chips instead of applesauce.  Adding a little cereal that is usually eaten cold with milk also adds variety quickly and easily.  After you cook it, you can add milk and or yogurt.  Getting the texture to your liking makes a big difference.  You need to experiment.

For rice, get one of the plastic rice cookers that are designed to be used in the microwave.  They work great and are much easier to clean than the old fashioned rice cookers.

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Don't buy expensive "Microwave Oatmeal."  Regular oatmeal works fine in the microwave.

See, I know how to cook rice. It turns out differently every time, and maybe once in twenty it will be not horrible.

I'll check out oatmeal.

The idea of 'adding stuff' makes baked potatoes sound hard but I'll investigate because I sometimes like baked potatoes.

Okay I'm loving Oatso-Simple (I'll do it myself next time, just wanted a taster).

You can cook regular rice in the microwave.  We used a ceramic casserole with a lid.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQBw5n7FN-Q (in a large bowl)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjsIU3JaW...re=related   (in two mugs)

also frozen vegetables.  You can cook pasta in the microwave too.  scrambled eggs.

I'm sure if I cooked rice in the microwave it would come out hard, sticky, and different every time. I'll try it though.

you need a electric rice cooker, microwave rice is like eating dust, no nutritional value.
they only cost around $15 in chinatown or at a walmart.

White rice in general "is like eating dust"... it's a starchy grain, that's all. Though some cereal grains have nifty little B-vitamins, there are better ways of getting them

Don't worry about cooking rice.  Just buy an order from a take-out chinese restaurant.

Take care if you're heating something that has a high fat content (some cheese dips).  They can melt plastic bowls.

Other meals I've fixed with a microwave:

Beef stew heated up and buttered bread (we called this cowboy stew)
A can of diced tomatoes, a can of corn mixed together in a large bowl, cut up hotdogs and heat all.  Makes a kind of soup.
Baked beans heated up and buttered bread
Smores
You can cook an egg as long as you don't cook it in the shell.  Crack it into a cup or a very small bowl.  Make sure you pop the yellow to let the steam out or it will explode.  Watch kind of carefully to see that it cooks to the way you want.  Can be as hard or soft as you like and can be eaten with toast or bread.