This does cost more and requires more time to cook meals. If your short in time get a stir fry recipe book there so many different ones out there and they have veg usually some bit of meat and a sauce that you can make your self as best as possible less process less cals. Stir fresh only take 10mins and there so much variety of them.

I only cook dinner. Either meals are for either two or one and I always cook a 6 serve meal at dinner I then use the old square Tupperware to store away the other meals after a few days you have a variety to choose from for lunch as well not just dinner. Breakfast I start off with the exact some thing that is a massive high whole protein source. It's the best way to start the day. If you find yourself regularly craving for a particular processed food it's likely because it uses sugar as a preservative and there's a sugar addiction. To fix sugar addiction remove all sugar from diet and every time you crave you eat something high in fat like a bit of processed meat or nuts it tricks the brain after 1 month Max the sugar addiction should be gone. Removing sugar and eating high fat is not a good idea long term it'll actually cause an early death so only for short term purposes it's good for like easy cheat to get rid of sugar addiction.

nage - it's the french term for a veg stock typically used for seafood

Maybe theirs a latin connection ? portuguese and Puerto rican , some Puerto Ricans from the islands have portuguese ancestry.