Roseyland

Being a single guy, I’m not big on cooking. Actually I love cooking, I just don’t like the time required or the cleaning up. This has led me to create a few super quick and reasonably healthy recipes. I’m not talking 30-minute meals here, I’m talking 2 minutes or less and you eat out of the bowl you made it in. Are you judging me? Stop that. I created this recipe when I was looking for a way to eat more beans. Beans have a ton of health benefits. They are high in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and soluble fiber. Go beans. You might be thinking that peas are a vegetable, but you’re wrong, they are a legume, and legumes are actually fruits. That would make this a fruit salad. Here are the ingredients:

As you can see, I do a lot of my shopping at Whole Foods. You are probably thinking that I’m some sort of only eats organic health food hippie. Well, no, not really. Please note the bacon bits. I do like Whole Foods, but I mostly shop there because it is convenient. Whole Foods does have good produce and the only healthy bread I like, but I’m not sure I’d drive more than two miles to shop there. Anyways, the ingredients are: 1 can of peas, shredded cheese, bacon bits, and ranch dressing. I’d make sure to get low sodium peas. Sometimes canned foods contain insane levels of sodium, and I hear that’s bad. First step: put the peas in bowl and heat in the microwave for 45 seconds. You don’t have to heat the peas, but I find it feels more like cooking if you heat something up. Once the peas are heated, add 1 or two handfuls of the shredded cheese and a couple tablespoons each of the bacon bits and ranch dressing. It will look like this:

Now mix it all up. This is another step that feels like real cooking. After mixing it will look like this:

Mmm… Pea Salad. I have this about once a week and it makes a good dinner. It is filling and reasonably healthy. Here is an in depth nutritional analysis: 470 calories, 38g of carbohydrates, 24g of fat, 27g of protein, 18g of sugar, and 10g of fiber. You could use light dressing if you wanted less calories, and it would be great with a little chopped red onion. I never have a red onion laying around though, and chopping an onion might require a little too much effort. Some people use mayonnaise instead of ranch dressing, but mayonnaise is gross, don’t do it. There you have it, a two minute meal. You can now look forward to future two minute meal post such as: tuna fish sandwiches and spicy cheesy black beans.