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What foods can I cook in bulk that still taste good when reheated a week later? I would like to learn how to cook 5 different meals that I can eat throughout the week. I will make these meals on Sunday and then I don't need to think about food until next Sunday. This will be my solution until I find a wife or live in a country that offers 24 hour street food.

Soups generally work for this.

If you reheat the soup, do one of two things:
(1) Ladle out a big bowlful into a separate pot... heat that up... eat it.

OR

(2) Reheat the whole pot, BRING TO A LONG BOIL, then ladle out what you want, then eat it.

(1) is better than (2).

If you do (2), then either
(a) Use a copper-bottomed pot, not aluminum, to cook in. The copper-and-something alloy pots to not disintegrate and inject toxins into the food when being re-heated from refrigerator-cold. (I'll let you research the details on this. I looked it up a while back.) Best place to find copper-bottomed pots is at a "thrift store" i.e. a "goodwill".

OR (b) pre-heat the cold pot before re-heating by letting it warm up to room temperature. If necessary, use a VERY low heat to speed the process if you ar every hungry. Once the pot itself is room temperature, you can turn up the heat and boil.

As an alternative to soup, very healthy, you could "cook up" a "mess" of greens - turnip, collard, dandelion, or mustard, or a mix -- with a huge piece of "fatback", which seems like a big chunk of unsliced bacon. The flavor of the juice is unbelievable. And addictive.

I posted this on the Ladies forum awıle back. It's a flexible recipe, you can use any meat or combinatıon of vegetables here, as well as different spices for different flavours. This can be stored for the week & you have have it with bread, a salad, a soup, potatoes, or on some rice, or just by itself. This is a main course dish. Once you make the main-course store it in the fridge or freezer & just have it with different side dishes throughout the week.
http://www.happierabroad.com/ladiesforu ... ?f=15&t=55

Renata wrote:Stuffed baked chicken with carrots, onion & mushrooms served with white rice & a cucumber yogurt sauce.

The dish looks a bit messy, that's because after it baked all the oil was drained out. We don't like oily. Then all the carrots, onions & mushrooms were placed in to bake for 10mins. The veges were preseasoned with lemon-salt, black pepper & rosemary.

The chicken was seasoned with salt, black pepper, chilli, tumeric & coriander, by using a kitchen scissors to seperate the meat & skin. The seasonings were stuffed & rubbed in under the skin to trap the flavours in the meat while baking.

It's an effortless dish & a complete meal that can be prepared in 10 minutes, then baked in 30 minutes at 350'.

Side dishes were steamed white rice & the sauce was made by grating a cucumber & wisking it into some yogurt, add a dash of salt if you like. This can be done while the chicken is baking.



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drealm wrote:What foods can I cook in bulk that still taste good when reheated a week later? I would like to learn how to cook 5 different meals that I can eat throughout the week. I will make these meals on Sunday and then I don't need to think about food until next Sunday. This will be my solution until I find a wife or live in a country that offers 24 hour street food.

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drealm wrote:What foods can I cook in bulk that still taste good when reheated a week later? I would like to learn how to cook 5 different meals that I can eat throughout the week. I will make these meals on Sunday and then I don't need to think about food until next Sunday. This will be my solution until I find a wife or live in a country that offers 24 hour street food.

Whatever that will "freeze well". Just freeze it after you cook it.

However, understand that food lose its vitamins from processing (washing, cutting, peeling, chopping, cooking) and time. For vegetables it's best consumed as soon as possible after it's harvested.

Also, street food is often not very... healthy when consumed on regular basis.