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No-cook lunches and dinners: cold recipes with protein

Recipes for days when you have no energy to cook: every one comes together without a stove, oven, or microwave, using raw, canned, or jarred ingredients, or ones you buy already cooked, such as rotisserie chicken or peeled hard-boiled eggs. Lunches and dinners come first, then breakfasts and snacks. Nearly all include a clear protein source, because protein does the most to keep you from getting hungry again soon.

The numbers on each card are per serving and are not eyeballed: they add up the per-100 g values of each ingredient in the food database, which come from USDA FoodData Central. If you take a GLP-1 medication and fill up fast, start each plate with the protein and leave the sides for last. For more ideas, read Batch Cooking With a Small Appetite: Cook Once, Eat Well All Week and 15 Filling Lunches, Dinners, and Snacks That Keep You Full on Fewer Calories.

Rule: No step needs a stove, oven, microwave, or toaster. If a recipe asks you to toast bread, warm a tortilla, or boil anything, it is not included.

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