Suck at cooking. Anyone else eat like this?

That's absolutely fine. In fact - better than fine. It's balanced, wholesome and healthy. It gives you enough fuel and it's basically hassle free. I'd say you're eating better than 80% of the general western population.

I was brought up on dinners like that and only gained weight when I moved out of home and started messing around in the kitchen. Incidentally, I also got regular colds and some horrific bouts of actual flu when I cut out meals like this.

I switched back to these meals after 6 months and lo and behold...everything went back to normal.

Swap out chicken for salmon a couple of times a week, maybe red meat once a week. Switch around some of your veggies so you don't get bored. Yum.

If you're happy, that's fine. We eat like that a lot of the week because we're hungry when we get home and chucking on some steak /chicken/pork/lamb to cook while I steam some veg and make a carb side is quick and easy. No need to get fancy unless that's your thing.

Okay, so I suck at cooking and was wondering if anyone else does this. For dinner everyday I have a protein, veggies and a carb for dinner and yes it's something like a breast of chicken, a potato and a veggie. Is this okay as long as I change the meats and sides? I am pretty okay with breakfast, as it doesn't require too much cooking for me, and my snacks are okay too. To me it's not boring and it really does help make things easier. I literally cannot cook for crap and don't care for new recipes and the whole prepping thing. Anyone else out there the same way?

I eat like that a lot of the time and I like to cook. It just seems like a normal balanced meal like I grew up on (do people really make fussy things with lots of prepping most meals?) and I tend to work late so really have to do something quick. I switch up the potatoes with other starches, fruits, dairy, or another vegetable depending on what I've had the rest of the day, try to eat a wide variety of vegetables, and eat lots of different cuts of meat, so I never find it boring.

I suck at cooking too. I eat chicken breast almost every day, sometimes twice a day. Heh. I also eat eggs for breakfast, and then the only thing that usually changes is the type of raw veggies I eat. Sometimes it's broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, or a salad. *shrugs* I figure, so long as I try to eat a veggie with each meal, I should be ok.

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That's pretty much how we eat every supper. Most the time I don't even cook the veggies. Just cut them up and eat them raw.

That's how I started. But if you start to get bored then maybe try one new recipe each week. If you can make chicken breast you can probably cook other stuff with no problem. I like Pinterest as a source of new recipes. Trying new recipes can be overwhelming at first but you may surprise yourself.

Isn't that, you know... cooking?

My thoughts exactly.

A crockpot will be your best friend ........ Make a roast: 3# Beef Roast, 1 container of Beef Stock, couple of cans of veggies (or fresh if you like), salt and pepper, cook on low over night or high for 3 to 4 hours and yum! Make chicken: 1 pack of boneless skinless chicken breasts, 1 onion, and 1 bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce (or even salsa) and wow...another yum!
Pintrest has all kinds of healthy crockpot recipes!

This is what I have and I consider myself quite a good cook

Just hit your macros.

I have a spreadsheet (I have a dozen of them, but anyway) it cycles through about 20 different meals. Most are a variation of meat, veg, starch. Meats: Fish, Chicken, Beef, Pork. Fish can be breaded filets, or Coleson's catch stuff (tonight is tuna I believe. Love the salmon though). Chicken can be whole done on a vertical roaster, or thin sliced breasts, or breast tenderloins (cut up to mix in the starch or breaded and deep fried. <- I usually don't fry mine. Don't feel like dealing with calculating the calories), or chicken sausage links for sausages and peppers. Beef is roast, steaks, cut up and served in "gravy" (roast drippings), or a ground beef meal (spagetti, hamburgers, or hamburger helper.). Pork is chops, ribs, or roast, and the roast can be sliced or slow cooked and shredded for bbq.

Our veggies: Peas, String beans, corn, sliced carrots, mixed. (all frozen.)

Starches: Rice (either done in cooker or boxed), various noodle dishes, or potatoes (baked, mashed with honey and butter, or boxed sliced potatoes. Can't stand instant mashed though.) Oh - I never peel potatoes anymore. Even when mashing. Yum. Sometimes, for BBQ, burgers, fried chicken, or something like that, we'll just have french fries (chips) (oven baked, except for fried chicken night, then it goes into the (now seasoned) oil the chicken was cooked in) or chips (crisps).

It's amazing the variety you can come up with with basics. My family is fairly picky. Everyone has something they will not eat (My son and I can't stand boiled greens. My husband and son don't like eggs, broccoli, or cauliflower, my daughter hates hot dogs. And no one likes beans in general except my husband. (although refried beans in a burrito are required. ) But everyone will at least tolerate the above. And since it comes out to 20 meals, with leftovers scheduled for once a week (although sometimes it ends up being pizza or something that night, depending on what we're doing) we aren't eating the same thing too often.

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Frozen chopped onions. Best thing I ever found. I keep a bag in the freezer, and it takes all the work out of one of my least favourite jobs in the kitchen!
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I NEED THIS!!!!! Why have I not seen this at Coles????? Cutting leaks even make me cry!