Bread is easy to do in a pan. I once had a very small kitchen and tried to do one-person meals with a single pan and minimal prep or washing up.

I would cook a few fried eggs then push them over to the side (moving that half of the pan a little off the flame) and fry the unbuttered bread on the open part directly over the heat. Toasting the bread like that soaked up the leftover oil from the eggs for easy cleanup and kept everything warm. Cheese is a good addition, but salt and pepper (and maybe dead horse) is enough.

You can also microwave a potato til soft and roughly chop it up. Serve with butter and seasonings (salt, pepper, and paprika), or a little tin of tuna drained of oil. Or fry the pre-zapped pieces to brown them and push them to the side to do some eggs.

If you’re careful you can cut and stir/flip with only a fork, season the food in the pan or bowl, and eat straight from what it was cooked in. Leaving you to wash only one pan and one fork.

Also try frypan toasted sandwiches https://aussie.zone/post/9662764

Chicken and Red Lentil Yellow curry. Meal Prep. About a dozen serves.

1kg red lentils, soaked 2-24hr then rinsed. Whisk lightly while rinsing. 1 whole chicken. Boil 1hr. Separate into meat, bones and broth. Bake bones 40 mins then reboil in broth, re-strain broth, discard bones. 5+ litre pot required. Mines 6.7L. In the big pot, four diced onions, 50g cooking oil, 150g MaePloy Yellow Curry Paste, 5g salt/citric acid/msg, stock. Simmer for about ten minutes. Then add drained lentils, chicken meat and enough water to cook it all. Not too much, you don’t want the tasty oil to rise to the top and overflow. Simmer until the lentils are cooked to your taste, I cook them into a mud in a little over an hour.

It’s a big days cook, but if you plan it out, it’s a bunch of 5-10 minute jobs throughout the day.

Usually comes in at under $2 a meal. Leave the chicken out if you want vegan (yellow curry paste is the only one without shrimp). Add any leftover veggies in or bags of frozen veg.