Does making toast count as cooking?

We always have left overs...a quick plate of nachos fills gaps..pop corn for sure...I can't say there is ONE thing...finding something to eat w/o full scale cooking is pretty easy at my house.

Whole wheat or multi-grain slice and raisin cinnamon slice for pb&j sandwich, sometimes toasted, with coffee or milk or two whole wheat or multi-grain, sometimes toasted, with slices of cheese from a block, sometimes with ketchup, usually microwaved, with coffee or milk.

ole joyful

Cheese, almonds, big glass of kefir. Sometimes a spoonful of peanut butter, but rarely a sandwich because if I'm fixing a sandwich, I'm usually up for making a 'real' meal.

I used to eat fruit with cheese and crackers. Or make tuna or a grilled cheese sandwich. These days I use Doordash! LOL

We keep canned ravioli. Soup. Tuna. Chili. Oatmeal. Cold cereal. I often open a can of green beans. Yogurt and fruit thrown in the blender = smoothie.

I always have a container of nonfat Greek yogurt mixed with a little brown sugar and about a 1/4 C. of heavy cream (because I'm not a yogurt fan) ready for my yogurt parfait of blueberries, strawberries and sliced banana. If I want something hot, I make a piece of avocado toast with sliced hard-boiled egg or some eggs, bacon and toast. DH will make himself a hamburger. I keep patties frozen along with some mushrooms that I sautéed and froze. Takes him about 5 min. to cook it up. I also always have chili, soups, meatloaf and spaghetti sauce in the freezer ready to go.

Instant noodles.

Warmed up leftovers, if there are any. Maybe cottage cheese or Cheerios.

Ramen!

dcarch

Like Lucille, I usually have something that I really like that I froze and put in the freezer. I usually freeze a couple of portions of whatever soup I make. I also have frozen some chicken and dressing...that I would eat. If push came to shove, I buy hamburger patties from Sam's that are already cooked and come frozen. HEB makes some too. I would heat up a patty in the microwave and make a hamburger, or if I didn't want to do that, I would put some barbecue sauce on it and eat it that way.

My freezer is stocked with meals, mostly homemade soups and chili and a few frozen store bought dinners.

Peanut butter and honey sandwich.

Depends on time of day. If lunchtime - can of beans with a bit of olive oil, red wine vinegar and dash of a couple spices. If dinnertime -- popcorn. I eat popcorn for dinner 2-3 times a week. I make it on the stovetop in one of those whirlypop things and spray it with butter flavor Pam and salt -- it's a good high volume lower-cal food this way, and all the chewing de-stresses me after a long workday (I'd be big as a house if I were eating microwave popcorn all the time...). DH works this time of day -- so I only have to worry about feeding myself :0)

Cheese and crackers

I never *want* to cook. What I'm seeing so far are mostly 'snacks'. They don't quite answer Sue's criteria about being "Really Hungry".

DH and I will sometimes have a no-cooking entree from Eating Well or Rick Bayless' Frontera selections. I add leftover beef or chicken to one of these 9 - 11 ounce M/W entrees. Add some good bread and butter, and voila! A hot meal!

My lunch today will be a thick slice of bread with a hunk of white cheddar, toasted/melted in the toaster-oven.

Almonds, dried cranberries and Greek yogurt, full fat, are my go to no cook meal. Barring that, it is bread and cheese with fruit afterwards.

"I have been known to open up some canned fruit and have with cottage cheese..."

I've do that, too. Still fond of canned peaches and cottage cheese. :-)

There's always something I can grab from the freezer for the microwave.

Mixed together

Most of what people have posted to me is cooking or at least I call putting things together by the old term "fixin something". I keep sliced cheese available or have a cookie for those times of both really hungry and do not want to fix something. Based on the above suggestions most of my meals are other peoples snacks.

Peanut butter and butter on hot toast. Cheddar cheese and marmalade on crackers. Cold baked beans with chopped onions. Leftovers micro zapped with a paper plate over top. And, ramen without the flavor pkt and with pasta sauce and olives.

Can be anything recently, but peanut butter on a spoon often holds me over to the next meal.

With so many restaurants offering free delivery I often do that to help support the local restaurants.

Sliced apple with cheese or peanut butter.

Avocado toast.

Tortilla chips topped with cheese and heated in the microwave.

I usually have a package of prepared fajita chicken strips, and a squeeze package of refried beans in the fridge. Wrap it up in a flour Tortilla and heat it in the microwave, with or without cheese.

We always have boudin in the fridge and freezer for a quick meal.

My husband likes a can of chili beans, heated or cold. I cook a package of hot dogs in the oven and put them in a zip lock in the fridge for him to grab.

I can make do with very little but he prefers a full meal. I have slowly been breaking him of that! 😊

Cheese and crackers, seafood dip or hummus and veggies

Oh, I like mdln's combo.

Nicole_ I thought I was the only one who loves canned green beans. Often I'll fry a can of 'French' green beans & a can of Button Mushrooms, stir in a couple tbsp of Sour Cream and eat that for a treat. I can just imagine the shudders of some Gardenweb participants who are against 'canned' vegs. I also love canned vegetable soup 😏.

I mix berries in plain whole fat Greek yoghurt. Sometimes a sandwich which could be tuna or turkey. Maybe leftover chicken. I slice up thin cucumber slices and lettuce on sandwiches. I usually keep clean lettuce in fridge.

Peanut butter on Toast!

These are great ideas, please keep them coming! 🍽

In past year, had more meals at home and "brown bag" lunch than probably the past 20 years. My credit card that gives high points for restaurants has barely been used; sorry, I don't really enjoy take-out food.

I make toast and scramble some eggs in butter with some cheese. Or I heat a can of Progresso soup and have it with cheese and crackers. Or I have cereal and milk with a banana or blueberries. I also keep individual size servings of Bob Evans macaroni & cheese in the refrigerator and can zap one of those in the microwave and mix with a can of tuna.

seagrass

Baguette, butter and really good ham.

Cottage cheese and peanut butter mixed, on crackers or toast.

About canned green beans. Ordinarily I prefer my veggies raw or cooked fresh or frozen, but not green beans, which taste best to me from a can. Interestingly, when I did Weight Watchers years ago, they recommended canned green beans as an any-time snack. A half-teaspoon of Miracle Whip and you had something quite filling with almost no calories!

I guess I am the only person here who does not eat peanut butter, and I do not have peanuts in my house either. I do have almond butter and cashew butter in the fridge but seldom eat either of them.

I do keep bean dip on hand and can eat that with chips, although I usually make a burrito with it, which would probably be considered cooking. Quesadillas are easy to make also.

I often have hummus in the fridge and eat that with lavash or sourdough bread. I usually add olives to it before eating it.

For sandwiches, I have cold cuts and sliced cheese (Swiss and Provolone), and I generally add pickles and lettuce or sauerkraut, which I also always have.

pnb sandwich or swiss cheese / onion sandwich. usually with some chips or cottage cheese (or potato or macaroni salad if I have it here). and I often do have leftover soup / chili / mex rice in the freezer in individual meal sizes. sometimes even frozen scrambled eggs (with stuff mixed in it). I also like the french style canned grn beans. I often make up a 1/2 recipe of the grn bean casserole for myself and eat it for several days. it's easy and I just pop it into the AF for 20 min. I also usually keep some small pieces of cooked chicken breast in the freezer. they thaw quickly.

I slice up some cheese or have some yogurt. Hummus. Maybe an apple.

Restaurants with delivery, never mind free delivery, dont come to my neck of the woods.

There's cooking and then there is COOKING :-) Anything that is easily reheated in a pan on the top of the stove or in the microwave does not really count as "cooking" in my book. So soups, stews and most leftovers are fair game. Same with grilled cheese or oven broiled sammies or paninis. I also don't find most breakfast meals to involve a lot of cooking either. Hotdogs in the micro are a go-to as well.

Probably my preferred choices that require no heat at all are crusty breads with cheeses, some meats or pates, crackers and fresh or dried fruit. With a glass of wine, that is my dinner several nights a week!

"I guess I am the only person here who does not eat peanut butter, and I do not have peanuts in my house either. I do have almond butter and cashew butter in the fridge but seldom eat either of them."

I love peanut butter and almond butter but never keep them in the house -- I will stand there and eat THE ENTIRE JAR (all 1,000,000+ or whatever calories), I can't stop myself, they're trigger foods for me. Ice cream, candy, chips I can leave alone, but not peanut butter -- go figure {shrug}.

eggs or cereal.

Depends, I didn't feel like cooking today so I took some frozen soup out of the freezer and a roll.

I'm always hungry after my evening work shift and it's cereal. Sometimes I'll switch it out with cheese and crackers. I can't sleep on an empty stomach.

A piece of bread and lunch meat or cheese. Instant mashed potatoes doctored up with butter cheese and sour cream, anything I cooked and froze in individual portions in the freezer.

My Pasquini LIVIETTA T2 espresso machine makes a wonderful Nutella Macchiato. With a wedge of cheese cake, I am happy until next day.

dcarch

I grab handful of Pistashios or crackers and spinach dip

Rare is a situation where restaurants or pre-prepared foods (like previously made stuff in the freezer or even purchased convenience foods like frozen dim sum) are available -- otherwise it is charcuterie (cheese, meats, crackers, bread), fruit, salad

Dip and crackers, toast (sometimes with an egg or two), French toast, prosciutto wrapped around sliced mozzarella, or oatmeal. Yogurt. Or we'll go into town to one of the many restaurants (family/local, or national chain/fast food) and get something there. A local place makes a good Reuben and most around here make a good burger and fries. Mmm, now I'm getting hungry. On the healthier side, a good salad always sits well with me. At work, we make a wonderful chicken Caesar salad. Before the pandemic, we did have a nice, assorted salad bar. Doesn't help matters much that I get a 50 or 20% discount (50 while I'm there, a half hour before or a half hour after, otherwise, it's 20%). Sometimes, mum will pick up some chicken (fried, rotisserie or baked), from the grocery store and we'll have that for dinner. I miss our local KFC, the local grocery stores don't even compare.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

A salad. I love them. Sometimes I dislike prepping but I keep in mind how good it will taste.

yogurt with walnuts, flax, and maybe a sliced banana. or peanut butter and banana on toast.

If for some reason Hubs isn't here and I'm hungry but don't want to cook, I'll have peanut butter on toast. If Hubs is here and neither of us feel like cooking, we'll probably have tuna sandwiches.

I don't like peanuts or peanut butter, but I buy peanuts in the shell and shelled raw peanuts for the birds, and I have peanut butter that I add to my suet mix....again, for the birds.

I really don't mind cooking. I will cook a complete meal for myself, even if I am alone.