As far as food is concerned, if you want to eat healthy without actually cooking, i'd recommend frozen food.
Usually it has less additives than other premade food (what you call "microwave meals"), and you can mix and match to your taste.
It would take more than 5mn of microwaving, but you can probably survive 20-30mn of waiting, if that's the only compromise you have to make ? Though you'd have to check if your microwave has a defrost function, or is a combo microwave/oven.
Also, you wrote about food, but not beverages: what do you usually drink during and in-between meals ?
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Tobias 1102~1Y
I eat frozen stuff sometimes (though I can't say it's especially healthy stuff, just things like beef burgers), but 30 minutes is a loooong time when you're used to 5, and I feel like I'm in anticipation mode the whole time. If I lived alone and didn't have to worry about random guests walking in mid-way through, maybe I'd do that more often.
I used to drink just pure water, now I drink tea (with milk and no sugar). I googled it and it seems there's no discernable difference between the two with regards to hydration (tea is essentially just flavoured water anyway). I got a big 2 litre bottle a while back with the aim of drinking that every day, but that proved too inconvenient for various reasons. Now I drink 4 or 5 cups of tea a day adding up to between 1/2 and 2/3 of that 2 litre bottle.
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Astreon152~1Y
As long as you don't drink sugared beverages and rehydrate often it's fine, so I'd say what you're doing is perfect ?
If all you're using is the microwave, would it be possible to have one in your room ? Or at least somewhere guests won't suddenly barge in ?
Usually it has less additives than other premade food (what you call "microwave meals"), and you can mix and match to your taste.
It would take more than 5mn of microwaving, but you can probably survive 20-30mn of waiting, if that's the only compromise you have to make ? Though you'd have to check if your microwave has a defrost function, or is a combo microwave/oven.
Also, you wrote about food, but not beverages: what do you usually drink during and in-between meals ?
I used to drink just pure water, now I drink tea (with milk and no sugar). I googled it and it seems there's no discernable difference between the two with regards to hydration (tea is essentially just flavoured water anyway). I got a big 2 litre bottle a while back with the aim of drinking that every day, but that proved too inconvenient for various reasons. Now I drink 4 or 5 cups of tea a day adding up to between 1/2 and 2/3 of that 2 litre bottle.
If all you're using is the microwave, would it be possible to have one in your room ? Or at least somewhere guests won't suddenly barge in ?