By fast, do you mean preparation time or cook time?
We buy turkey/pork loins at the store. Just line a pan with aluminum foil, take the turkey out of the package, put it on the pan, put it in the oven. It takes about an hour to cook, but no more than 2 minutes to deal with.
On sunday night, I patted out ten 4-oz turkey burgers and cooked them all at once on the grill. 2 of those per day will be my lunch, and it'll last all week. Put a small cube of cheese on each of them, oh man that's tasty.
Green giant, Birdseye, and Kroger all now have frozen vegetable steamers. One of our favorites is a big bag of green/yellow beans and carrots. You just put it in the microwave for about 5 minutes, then dump it into a bowl. They have at least 10-15 different varieties.
Some even have pasta and sauce in them. Take one of them, toss in a few strips of pre-cooked chicken (or tofu for him) and it's a meal.
How about a shrimp ring? Mix up a big salad and throw in some shrimp.
I'll second the rotisserie chicken idea. Check the grocery store at around 8pm. That's when our local Kroger usually discounts them. They cook them at 4 o'clock and put them out on the stand. One of them is $7. They have them out in time for people to grab one on the way home from work for dinner at 6. But if you wait until a little later, they mark them down to $3.50. They can't keep them till the next day, but there's nothing wrong with them.
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