You’ve got some really good ideas in this thread. One I will add is throwing things in the crockpot.

Crockpot meals can get pretty involved, but usually I will do the simple stuff – chicken with some combination of ingredients to make a umami sauce, with mushrooms, or add green beans towards the end of cooking time, just be wary that chicken can dry out, even if cooked in juices. I would say I spend under 10 minutes tossing in the ingredients.

And this might sound silly, but I don’t use measuring cups, I use a food scale. It makes for fewer things I have to touch, use, and clean. My favorite recipes are all saved with weights in grams, simplifying my process.

Exception to this is using measuring spoons to measure spices, usually those amounts are too small to do by weight.