I bet bacon would work well, if you have the spoons to cook the bacon while the pasta boils, and feel like pushing the recipe in a carbonara direction.
I Googled and here's a proper carbonara recipe, which has eggs too (extra protein!):
More complicated again, but it's still very limited in terms of ingredients; depending on how your brain functions, you might be able to do it on autopilot if you practiced it a few times when you're not tired.
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Date: 2011-03-31 07:07 am (UTC)I Googled and here's a proper carbonara recipe, which has eggs too (extra protein!):
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/mighty-appetite/2008/01/buona_sera_spaghetti_carbonara.html
More complicated again, but it's still very limited in terms of ingredients; depending on how your brain functions, you might be able to do it on autopilot if you practiced it a few times when you're not tired.