What are some easy recipes for a single person who dislikes cooking?

1. Quesadillas are super versatile. Your basic one is 2 flour tortillas, Mexican blend cheese in between, pan fry with butter. Serve with salsa and guacamole if you want to upgrade. Some other variations: Pizza style - mozzarella and Parmesan, tomato sauce, pepperoni or salami Veggie - sautéed mushroom and spinach, Swiss cheese Breakfast - sautéed potatoes, chorizo, Mexican blend cheese, scrambled eggs
   — enroutetodonuts


2. Get a crock pot. It doesn’t have to be expensive. You can stick a chunk of meat in it with some seasonings. You can dump some broth and veggies in it and have soup. You can dump cans of beans, tomatoes and seasoning in it for chili. Set it to low and have a meal ready at the end of the day when you get home from work. Plus your pad will smell awesome when you get home. A crock pot is a game changer for a lazy single guy. [Food Network Easy Crockpot Recipes](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/packages/comfort-foods/slow-cooker-meals/easy-slow-cooker-recipes)
   — red-bearded


3. OK, got a few for you. Here we go... 1. Baked potato with toppings: Take a raw potato, scrub it and coat it lightly with butter. Stab a few times. Put in an oven preheated to 400 degrees F. After 30 min, turn it over and leave it in there. After 30 min more, take it out, cut it open and top with cheese, butter, sour cream, bacon bits, whatever. Almost no effort other than making sure you allow an hour for the thing to sit in the oven. 2. Rice pilaf: Put a pot on the stove and put in it 1/4 cup of butter or margarine and 1/2 cup of dry spaghetti noodles that have been broken up into roughly 1-2 inch pieces. Turn on medium-high heat. Before it gets hot, take a measuring cup and measure 1.5 cups of dry minute white rice and set aside. Then fill that same measuring cup with 2 cups of water and 2 chicken bouillon cubes. Stick that in the microwave and cook for about 2 min until the water is pretty hot and you can break up the cubes with a spoon. The butter in the pot is pretty melted now... Stir the butter and spaghetti noodles in the pot, basically sauteing the noodles. Keep at it until not runny and the noodles are more golden brown (don't walk away or stop stirring for this part - those little bastards will burn quickly if left alone). Then dump the dry rice over the top, dump the chicken broth over THAT, stir it all together, cover and turn the burner to low. Let that sit for like 15 min, stirring occasionally. Damned tasty side dish, four ingredients total. 3. Pigs in a blanket: cut hot dogs in half, roll in storebought crescent rolls, and bake according to roll directions. Dip in whatever sauce you like. 4. Pouch chicken: Take a big sheet of foil and put on it a raw chicken breast that's been salted and peppered. Add teriyaki sauce and maybe some garlic (or tomato sauce and cheese, or veggies, or whatever the hell else floats your boat). Fold the whole thing into a foil pouch with the edges folded over to seal it all in. Make the pouch kinda roomy inside so the steam can expand. Bake in a preheated 400 degree F oven for like 25-30 min depending on how big the chicken is (check the internal temp to make sure it gets to 165 F so it's done). 5. French toast: Beat a couple of eggs with a dash of milk or cream, a dash of vanilla extract and a dash of cinnamon. Dip bread in the mix until coated on both sides. Fry on a medium-high skillet on the stove (spray with nonstick spray or melt some butter on there first) and flip after a few minutes to get it all toasty on both sides. Top with syrup, or powdered sugar, or whatever. 6. Pretzel chicken: Heat a skillet of oil on the stove, medium-high heat. Take a bag of pretzels and put a bunch of them in a large ziploc bag. Seal tightly, pressing most of the air out. Use a rolling pin (or a baseball bat works great for this) to roll the bag until the pretzels are all tiny bits. Beat an egg or two in a bowl. Dip chicken breasts into the egg, then toss in the pretzel bits. Once coated, put in the hot oil. Flip after a few minutes. Again, check for internal temp of 165 F for doneness. Works really well with the rice pilaf above, and the toughest thing about it is the pretzel smashing part. 7. Spaghetti and meatballs: Boil water and cook noodles until al dente (firm to the bite). Meanwhile, you can use storebought sauce in a jar and mix with storebought frozen meatballs. Put the sauce and meatballs together in a saucepan or even a microwave bowl. To get the best flavor from this, mix the sauce and meatballs together in a saucepan an hour or two in advance and let simmer on the stove on low heat. Stir occasionally. When you're ready to serve, spoon SOME sauce and meatballs over the pasta - don't drown the noodles. That's gross. 8. Slow cooker beef tips: Put a couple pounds of raw beef tips, two cans of campbells cream of mushroom soup, some garlic, pepper and a splash of red wine into a slow cooker in the morning. Turn on low and walk away. Later, serve over noodles or rice, both of which just require boiling water. 9. Slow cooker taco chicken: A few raw chicken breasts, a packet of taco seasoning, a cup of chicken broth and some time. Put it all in the slow cooker in the morning and walk away. When you come back hours later, shred the meat with a couple forks. Serve later on storebought tortillas with cheese and pico and whatever else you want. Seriously, slow cookers are your best friend when you hate to cook. 10. Chocolate eclair cake: This is a huge hit at parties and gatherings and takes almost no effort. Make a packet of instant vanilla pudding according to package directions, and let it set up in the fridge. A little later, mix that pudding with one container of Cool Whip. Get it all mixed uniformly. Then take a 9x13 pan and line the bottom with a layer of honey graham crackers. Spread half of the pudding mix over that, then add another layer of graham crackers. Then the rest of the pudding mix, and then one more layer of graham crackers. Then take a can of storebought chocolate frosting (peel off the foil under the lid first) and microwave on medium heat for 30 sec at a time until runny. Pour the liquid frosting over that top layer of graham crackers and spread it out evenly. Put the whole shebang into the fridge and let sit, ideally overnight, to set up. Wham bam shazam, best dessert ever, especially in summer. Edit: Jeez, this blew up overnight. Let me add some notes... First, not a lot of veggies on this list, for a couple of reasons. One, I'm not a big veggie person, but mostly two, most veggies I cook with don't require a ton of actual cooking. You can buy storebought salad mix, or fresh tomatoes, or even canned veggies in a pinch if you want some greens in your meal. Fresh tends to be how I roll with veggies, so "cooking" doesn't compute. I like sliced tomatoes with a TINY pinch of salt on them (the fresher, the better, and do NOT store your tomatoes in the fridge), or microwave corn on the cob (wrap a fresh shucked ear of corn in saran wrap and microwave for 5-6 min on high), or a variety of salads (romaine with chopped green apple, pecans, raisins and feta cheese is very yum). My husband likes cut brussels sprouts lightly oiled, peppered and salted and roasted in the oven for a few minutes until golden brown. Whatever works, you do you, boo. Second, people have some strong opinions about how to bake a potato. Again, you do you. My way takes longer but gives you that flaky fluffy inside, while microwave is just plain fast if you want your damned potato now. I do the microwave way more than I care to admit, but when I plan ahead, the oven is my method of choice. Third, pigs in a blanket on THIS side of the pond are crescent rolls and hot dogs, but the UK version sounds amazing because bacon is awesome and should really be in everything. How about we agree that there's no wrong way to eat overly salty meats and just enjoy whatever format we use? ALL pigs in blankets are great! Edit 2: OK, some more notes... A. I make no promises or assurances regarding the nutrition content of these recipes. OP wanted easy, not healthy. The rice in particular has pretty much no nutritional value. That said, the chocolate eclair cake isn't bad as desserts go, especially if you use sugar free/fat free pudding mix, skim milk, lite Cool Whip and low-fat graham crackers, and if you don't use all the frosting on top. But overall, if you want a healthy meal, or something with a ton of ingredients, or something gourmet, there are other recipes out there. This list is basically stuff that either I ate as a poor college student or that I make because I'm trying to talk myself out of ordering takeout. That's it. B. Seafood. I LOVE seafood, but I didn't include it here because a lot of people don't like it or are afraid of cooking it themselves. For what it's worth, seafood is really easy... You can steam your own shrimp if you have a steamer, you can saute tilapia filets coated in a mix of parmesan cheese and bread crumbs on the stove, or you can bake some salmon with a little lemon, butter and dill. Sky's the limit, but don't be scared of seafood! Plus it tends to cook fast so if you're in a hurry, all the better. C. The red sauce and meatball recipe above is NOT my first choice for pasta sauce, just the easiest/fastest. The homemade red meat sauce I make takes a lot longer, goes a lot on "feel" as to how it tastes, and is way better the second day or even reheated after a month in the freezer. Please don't think I'm a philistine for recommending jar sauce and frozen meatballs; if I could do homemade every day, I would. Edit 3: Seriously, the comments from people who complain that these aren't healthy enough recipes (even though nobody asked for healthy, just easy)... Just for that, MOAR RECIPES! 11. Beer battered fish: Use cod or haddock for this. To make the batter, put 1 cup of flour in a bowl and mix in one egg. Add some garlic powder, salt and pepper (how much depends on how much you like these things). Then take a beer and gradually add the beer in, stirring all the while, until you get a batter consistency (I use Newcastle for the beer - it's generally good to use something not too light and not too dark, but YMMV). Heat some oil in a pan on the stove, medium-high heat. Pat the fish dry, dredge lightly in some plain flour and then coat with the beer batter. Don't put the fish in the pan until the oil is hot. Fry a few minutes on each side until batter is golden brown and fish is cooked through (time depends on how thick the fish is). 12. Peanut butter mousse with apples: Mix 3 tbsp Cool Whip with 1 tbsp peanut butter. Mix together until fluffy. Slice up an apple and dip the slices into the mousse. Yes, I use too much Cool Whip in my life. I make no apologies for that; shit's delicious. Also, this is a snack, not a meal, obviously.
   — amiker7709






4. Crockpot, chicken, jar of salsa, eat (not right away)
   — bananarammagramma


5. Buy rotisserie chicken from the grocery store to avoid cooking
   — perfumista


6. Toss into the blender 3 fingers worth of rum, 2 bananas, block of tofu, ice cubes, water. Press the "make noise" button. When the noise changes from ggKKKRR-rKkkt to Whrrrrrrr, its ready. drink from the jar of the blender or pour into about 2 large glasses Filling, tasty and 5 minutes from start to rinse. variations; toss in any fruit you have around, banana is a pretty bland base, strawberries and blueberries work great. makes an excellent breakfast food. Decent protein, fiber and the rum is optional, or so I'm told.
   — ralphvonwauwau






7. Ham and cheese toasties, 10 of them to be precise.
   — smegmaticasthmatic


8. Cereal + Milk.
   — RedditDevoursSouls


9. Chicken Alfredo and spaghetti are pretty easy to make just store the leftovers. Steak and eggs if you want something more filling.
   — JiminyFeckit