Air fryer. Seriously. I can have a ton of frozen foods in stock and eat exactly how much I need or will eat rather quickly. It's not exactly healthy, but it's calorie intake. If I didn't have frozen food I'd be gaunt, or super fat/broke from fast food. The fact that I'm still alive is owed to my kid, my dog and that air fryer.

Poorly.

Cook a huge amount when you can, eat leftovers forever.

You're a student? I guarantee someone on campus has already done the hard work of making a calendar with all the events with free food for students on it. Subscribe and dine.

Me, I have a job that feeds me at least one meal a day. I eat what I can there.

rice cooker to me is easier than ordering food. Plus it only needs to be a few times a week as leftovers are microwaved and my containers are glass and sized about right for a meal so just eat it in it with no additional dishes.

I have kids with ADHD who all think I am, what I tell them to do when they get too skinny (maybe it is racoon food, but)

Buy Triscuit crackers and hummus and olives and nuts. High calorie in a small package but not unhealthy, some good fats are calming.

Take a banana with you, and a water bottle. Sandwiches are also such good travel food.

In a pinch, a spoonful of peanut butter. But the one that doesn't have high fructose corn syrup.

Try to stay away from refined sugar until you are eating better and more regularly. Don't be afraid of caffeine though.

It is hard. I have done full time work and school, it's hard for anyone. It's not you. Can't say life ever slowed down but school was the worst for me.

Sorry, just read down and saw you need to cook for someone else too.

Chili in the crockpot.

Canned beans on rice.

Those cooked chickens from the grocery make good quesadillas.

Ramen, you can throw shrimp in there while it's cooking, or some of that leftover chicken.

I slam my head into the plate or bowl and then suck everything up like one of those bottom-feeding fish.

I just don't do like once a week shopping. I go out every single day to get what I am going to eat because when I buy stuff in advance to just keep at home, I end up not wanting it and it goes bad. I also have a hard time thinking of meals to get and make when I am not hungry. So it's easier to just go out and get what I want, when I want it. Most of the time, it's a premade dinner or sandwich from the grocery store across the street I just have to heat up.

Sporadically.

There's a startlingly large quantity of meals that start with olive oil and seasoned meat in a pot and end in being served over a carb that you can make ten pounds of in less than an hour. I keep dried onion flakes and a jar of minced garlic on hand for when (buying and) cutting fresh aromatics is too many steps. But really, skipping enough "you should do this it makes the dish better" steps can turn everything from beef stroganoff to japanese-style curry to cottage pie into one-pot meals that provide "leftovers" for a week or more. If you crave variety, you can compress the effort and do the same amount of work "per week" but commit more time to one day: this lets you make three or four ten pound Meals that are then divided into freezer-safe portions that can be defrosted or reheated as desired. So instead of "red sauce pasta week, teriyaki chicken week, bacon and egg and hashbrown bowl week, etc" you spend a day per month prepping 3-5 meals and then just microwave those meals for the next month. This strategy basically requires a chest freezer though. Pairs well with compressing your month of grocery shopping task into one big trip to Costco where you can buy 40lb of raw meat to prep into meals.

Take shortcuts, be lazy, compress all the effort into one "task" ("meal prep for 2h a week" or "meal prep for 6 hours once a month" instead of "make 3 quick meals every day"). Basically ask yourself "what is actually wrong with eating hot pockets for three meals a day" (expensive, not actually that good tasting, lacks a lot of important nutrients) and fix that problem by making something better that takes just as little effort as a hot pocket does when you're actually hungry.

I don't eat all day then at 11pm I microwave some frozen thing or pickup halal or fast food. I want to eat better and more consistent but I can never get myself to cook or figure out recipes etc. I love the food I cook I usually make stuff that I really enjoy but its super hard to get myself to keep up with it all.

“Dad’s Lava Chicken” (my kids call it that); it takes about 30 minutes from start to finish (depending on how much I have to trim the chicken), and makes tons of left overs. Pro tip: don’t cut the asparagus, break the ends of with your fingers.

A super easy Tuna Casserole (if you’re into that sort of thing).

A White Bean Chicken Chili. Tons of left overs.

My personal fave: Balsamic Vinaigrette Chickenin the crockpot.

Ps. I also buy ready-made salad and use just balsamic vinegar and pepper as the dressing for my veggies.