So earlier this week I tried to get up early enough to cook breakfast for once. due to morning lethargy, I had enough time took cook it, but not enough to eat it. I was forced to invent
CUP’O’SAUSAGE!!
Basically just a bunch of breakfast links standing side by side in a coffee cup, with a bit of maple syrup in the bottom for dunking. It worked out very well as a driving food; next time I’ll be more sure to grab napkins though.
One of my best “easy” foods has been passed down many generations (OK, just from my mom to me, but still): the banana peanut-butter milkshake. Basically just a banana, heaping tablespoon of peanut butter, and milk, all blended up. Super simple, but really filling.
Also, a fun on-the-go snack is the Travel Apple (just made that up, but it sounds catchy). It’s an apple (preferably sliced up) and a plastic baggie with peanut butter and a small hole cut at one corner. Squeeze peanut butter onto apple and eat.
I just finished pitting and freezing fresh cherries to put in my yogurt. I like the way some of the yogurt gets frozen onto the fruit. Just tried adding some cottage cheese to my yogurt as well. Dairy overload, I know, but it’s mighty tasty.
I used to make PBJ-in-a-cup. A few tablespoons of PB, and equal parts grape jelly, combine in a coffee mug, stir until a smooth creamy but an odd lavender color, eat right out of the cup with a spoon. It makes a mess out of the mug but it’s sooooo yummy and a lot easier than bothering with bread.
I also used to dip frozen blueberry waffles into a little bowl of maple syrup. A little chewy but it’s faster.
Spoon full of Nutella, smoosh onto end of banana, take a bite, repeat…mmmmmm
Oh, and my hubby used to make fun of me when I’d stick a drinking straw into the jar of applesauce and slurp right out of the jar.
A potential invention: The Airline Pellet Feeder. Instead of attendants wheeling those clumsy carts down the aisle, passengers could just paw at drop-down feeders like a bunch of hamsters.
My own convenience food: big tablespoon of peanut butter. Hollow out the middle with your tongue. Pour honey into the divot. Eat.
I worked at a pizza place and one of the employees was complaining it was kinda hard to eat pizza after recent dental work but really wanted pizza. I took his personal combination pizza, plunked it onto my cutting board and proceeded to dice to about 1/4" or smaller bits. scraped the resulting mass into a bowl and stuck a spoon in it.
Ha! I love that one! How bout we just put junk machines into the seat backs so you punch in which snack and drink you want, it drops a little cup and fills it right there on your tray. Or they send them down the isle via those vacuum tubes like at the bank.
A box of macaroni and cheese, a can of baked beans, and 4 cut up weiners. My wife’s vegetarian and my kids don’t like beans, so I haven’t had it in a long time.
Years ago when we worked together, my co-worker and I came up with something.
We were talking about typography or something, and someone mentioned the ~ character, or, as I referred to it, the “squiggle”.
“But that one’s really small, shouldn’t it be a squiglito?”
“That sounds like some kind of snack food!”
And then we had it: “Squiglitos, the Virtual Snack Food![sup]TM[/sup]”
The idea was that there’d be a complete marketing campaign and everything, but no actual product. We came up with the main slogan, “Just because they’re not there doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy them!” But there were dozens of other slogans.
I created a slogan-covered mug on Café Press and still have an example.
I often have these for breakfast. Not only filling, they’re also packed full of energy. Or at least it feels that way to me.
My convenience food is burritos. I’ll make a couple of dozen at a time and freeze them. They’re great for those days when your hungry but too lazy to cook. They’re also great for when you don’t have time to pack a lunch for work. Just throw one in as bag and go!