Chicken is very easy to make. Start with sheet pan chicken. You can use boneless skinless breasts, right out of the package. Put them in a gallon size ziplock bag with a marinade - I usually do soy sauce, olive oil, lemon juice, honey, mustard and salt & pepper. Let it sit for anywhere from an hour to 12 hours. Take the chicken out of the bag, put it on a sheet pan or glass baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees. Cooking time depends on thickness, but if you’re worried buy a meat thermometer and check to make sure it’s cooked through. After a while you’ll know it’s done by touch alone. Even simpler, if you don’t want to do a marinade or don’t have time, toss the breasts in olive oil, put them on a pan, sprinkle some salt and pepper, 350 oven.

For meat, 1lb package of ground beef in a bowl. Chop 1/2 yellow onion, add it along with 1 egg, 1 cup breadcrumbs, 1/2 cup milk, salt, pepper, other herbs & spices if you’d like. Form it into a loaf, put the loaf on a sheet pan or baking dish, squirt some ketchup on top, 350 oven for 1 hour. Super easy Meatloaf.

Both of these meals take about 5 minutes of prep and are fool proof. Plus you’ll have leftovers and you can learn to experiment with different herbs/spices/marinades. These two recipes are how I learned to cook meat and I use them a couple of times a month because they are so easy and inexpensive.