 what is up guys karma medic here and today as you guys can see i'm in a different place i'm in an apartment in toronto this is where i'm staying while i'm here today i wanted to do something a little bit different i wanted to talk about the kinds of food that you can cook at university because i know as students we're either not bothered to cook or we're too busy and we feel like we don't have time over my four years at university i feel like i've mastered how to cook quickly efficiently make little mess and be able to meal prep high protein and highly nutritious meals throughout the week so preparing your meals is actually a lot easier than a lot of people think it is you can do it in about an hour max an hour and 15 20 minutes one day on the weekend and you'll have five meals ready for the rest of the week so the different meals that i'm going to be showing you guys throughout this series of videos is not going to be anything like plain pasta or anything simple like that it's going to be really big and nutritious meals that will be something that you're looking forward to eating so the two things that i focus on when i'm cooking my university meals is that it needs to be very fast and efficient i don't want to waste time cooking because i'm sure as you do we have plenty of other things to do in our day and so the cooking that i do also involves keeping the utensils and the plates and everything like that to a bare minimum so that there's less cleaning up to do afterwards and the second thing is i don't focus on making my meals look any good i don't focus on making them the perfect dish or the perfect looking dish it just needs to be food that i can consume after the gym when i get home so all the meals that i cook are very very simple they contain a meat a carbohydrate and a lot of vegetables and that way i always feel like i'm eating a balanced meal and i can vary the types of meals that i'm having but anyway without further ado let's jump to the kitchen and let's get cooking so first things first we've got three of these round strip stir-fried beef and the reason i have three is because i go to the gym every other day i run at least once or twice a week i play basketball as well and so all of my meals need to be super super high in protein next are the vegetables and i've tried to keep it as simple as possible for this one we just have two bell peppers over here a bunch of bean sprouts i don't know if you guys use this but this is like one of my favorite vegetables cook because the texture is just so good and crunchy then i have one jalapeno pepper just because i like a little bit of spice and we have carrots too and then the main grain that we're going to base this meal around is quinoa generally most of the time it's going to be most efficient to prep all of the veg so cut up and clean all the vegetables that you need to do then you work on the meat once the meat is done you add the vegetables once the vegetables are done you add the quinoa and the water so let's get started by first cutting up some vegetables two different vegetables to the mix and that is bok choy that i mentioned before and also green onions so i'm going to cut those up now and add them to the bowl keep on seizing the meat before we start cooking it and usually when i season meat all i do is throw in some salt and some pepper and that's it because personally i don't care but i know a lot of people really enjoy seasoning and so i brought over my good friend arson he's going to take care of the seasoning with the meat first thing you're going to need to do is cook the meat once the meat is done till about i'd say 60 70 percent i add on the vegetables so that while the vegetables are cooking we don't overcook the meat and then after that we'll add on the quinoa place down some olive oil and i usually put it to about a medium height but we see how the cook is going on with time and we can adjust everything as we go along all right so now that the oil has warmed up a decent amount i'm going to add on the meat and really what you want to do is like leave it here for i'd say about seven to ten minutes something like that mixing it about every now and again to make sure that it's even on all the different sides i don't really do things based on time um it's just sort of like gauging it as i go along here's the meat we're going to make sure that it's covered in a decent amount of oil and as it heats up here it's going to start to cook quite nicely and now we can do a time lapse with that so now if you guys take a look you can see that the meat is at least 70 percent cooked something like that so it's almost there and because there's still all of this meat juice here i want to use that to help flavor the vegetables as well so i'm going to start adding all the veg in and this simply could not be any easier i'm literally going to throw the vegetables down onto the food i'm going to keep all these big leafy objects to the side what you want to make sure is that you get the smaller vegetables down to the bottom so that they can cook and then leave the bigger vegetables up on top and you might be thinking this looks like an absolute mess and how in the hell is this going to turn into a decent meal but a lot of this shrinks in size as you cook it and everything becomes a lot smaller given a little bit of heat so as you guys will see this will become a lot more manageable in just a little bit of time all right guys so now all the vegetable volume has gone down let's take this piece of carrot that is hot that is really hot i mean wait a little bit more and then we'll add the quinoa the vegetables cook the meat is cooked and now what we're going to do is add the grain and so how i do this is also very very easy i literally just throw the couscous or the quinoa or the rice whatever it is you're cooking with this meal on top of the food and i'm going to use two packets because i want to make a lot of food for the last about a week and now you just add a bunch of boiled water and you want to add a decent amount of water you might have to add water again if the quinoa is not fully cooked and it's reaching the point where the water is disappearing but basically that's it you leave this on a light simmer so you don't want to see that the water is boiling very strongly you want to just have it bubbling a little bit so the meal a little bit less of a boil than that but anyway it's just going to stay like that for about now 10 15 minutes and the meal will be finished so we'll catch up then all right so now that the food's done cooking we can do was basically the easiest and best part which is packaging into different Tupperware's that you can easily have throughout the week so a meal like this would usually take me about an hour to cook that might sound like i'm exaggerating or something but honestly not at all i just put on a youtube video to watch in the background and i just burst through this cutting up everything really quickly putting everything on the stove and it can honestly be done in an hour all right so horseland is going to have the official taste test now he's going to let you guys know if his food is actually good or if i'm just trying this whole time i don't know what i'm doing and yeah let's see what it tastes like give your honest opinion like off camera very average no i'm kidding it's actually pretty good and it's very nutrient dense which is what you need as a student has a lot of protein too and it's healthy etc etc so yeah all right so that is it guys hopefully you guys enjoyed this video and you can actually follow along with me cooking and everything if you guys found this useful definitely let me know in a comment down below and i have plenty of other meals to show you guys all kinds of different things to show you guys how to cook so if you guys want to see more videos like this leave a like on this video and also leave a comment down below anyways that is it for me i hope you guys enjoyed and i will see you in the next one peace