This article won't be very useful to you if you're a real adult who knows how to cook real dishes.
I'm following Neel Nanda's advice and writing about a cool thing I learned recently. And the most life-changing thing I learned this year was that You Can Boil Most Vegetables. Just like pasta. And they will actually taste good!
I won't waste your time discussing why vegetables are good for you, but I will mention something I never saw mentioned before — if you need a certain amount of side-dish or sauce to compensate for dryness/chewiness of the protein part of your meal, boiled vegetables will do the job perfectly while costing you about 0 calories.
Pros of boiling your vegetables vs frying them:
Most vegetables take from 3 to 15 minutes to cook, and it will take additional 3 to 15 minutes peeling and cutting. If you have a big pot you can boil enough for at least three days in one go. If you only have a small pot get a bigger pot. Boiled vegetables are of little interest to spoilage bacteria compared to, say, meat, so you can store them in fridge for almost a week.
No more 'but I don't have an oven', 'but I don't know how to cook', 'but I don't have time'. You're allowed to start being nice to your microbiome.
List of vegetables I boiled successfully (I'm only including low-carb vegetables, you don't need me to tell you that you can boil a potato):
Vegetables I personally didn't try boiling but it seems like other people are doing it:
So, I'm proposing an experiment:
It took me several months of being in pain to finally find courage to transition to keto from a diet of soylent and ready meals (yeah) and I was shocked how easy it actually was to fry a steak and boil some broccoli. So hopefully this experiment will be convincing.
P. S. If you have a freezer, frozen vegetables are even easier but they often don't taste as good. The ones that go in little pre-portioned plastic bags that you can microwave are usually great though.