Don't make cooking a chore!

I've discovered that I can have a variety of foods almost every day of the week if I stock my pantry with some basic ingredients. Such as stocking some common Indian spices for Indian cooking; for Italian, some good home made sauces, herbs, mozzarella or parmesan reggiano cheese, and olive oil. For chinese, things like spicy schezuan sauces, noodles, sesame oil; and for Thai some of the basic ingredients such as Pad Thai,chile paste and coconut milk. Same goes for Mexican as well. All one would need are some asian vegetables and the usuals you buy in a regular grocery store. Set aside about 30 to 45 mins. every other evening for cooking and it is quite simple to cook a meal to last a couple days.