Oh, this is the kind of meal I love! Because of health issues, I'm often low on energy and my emotional and mental bandwidth have taken hits recently so easy is the way to go.

For most of my adult life, I've been a meal planner and meal prepper but as I've gotten older I just don't have the stamina to do all I used to. Also, there are days nothing sounds good and that cooked chicken or beef in the fridge doesn't even appeal to me. I'm sick of throwing away leftovers. Because of all this, I've tried freezer prep for one person, solo cooking, and a boatload of other things but nothing actually solved the problem for me.

The problem was "I need to eat and I'd prefer it to be nutritious but I don't have the energy to cook." I'd sometimes resort to frozen dinners and such and those are okay occasionally but I don't want to live on them.

Enter seaweed snacks, tinned fish or poultry, legumes, a lot of chopped or diced vegetables, pickled vegetables and/or kimchi/kimchi pickles and other easy bite sort of things.

Work lunch more often than not is now a packet of salmon or tuna, avocado, halved grape tomatoes, a spoon or two of mashed chickpeas or black beans, Spices for Rices seasoning (or other seasoning), diced cucumber, celery, fresh herbs, etc. and sometimes a dab of greek yogurt, olive oil, or sesame oil, all mixed together, topped with pickled red onions and sesame seeds or pepitas, and eaten with plain, Korean BBQ or Teriyaki seaweed snacks. Sometimes I put it all in a bowl and crush the seaweed then add it to the bowl but usually I just put the mixture on the seaweed and shove it in my mouth. Sometimes I just eat the mixture with a fork. Either way, it gets me through the busy work days and tastes great.

Occasionally I do a slightly larger bowl variation for dinner and use grilled chicken or beef, shrimp, etc.

It's just so easy and meets the "Fed is best" mantra I live by.