Here is my average daily meal:
Breakfast: Cereal
Lunch: Peanut Butter Sandwich with soda
Dinner: Either pizza (Tony's or Digionro) or a cheap burger.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;18480887]Everyone who posts something in a box or a can is dumb.
There's plenty of cheap food if you just look around, and it isn't hard to make at all. Drizzle some cheap oil in a skillet, fry some bacon and eggs for a few minutes, enjoy.
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Eggs come in a box
Mate, i'm telling you now, it is honestly worth learning how to cook some simple meals. Ask your parents (I usually ask my mum and she gives me loads of awesome recipes [egg-fried-rice, bolognese, macaroni and cheese, an awesome omelette with green and red peppers and some cheese in the middle, 3 eggs and some peppers and it fills you up like crazy]).
Most cooking takes about 40 minutes. Worth it in the end, when you've got a full belly. Also, as time goes on, you'll start dicing stuff up quicker and learning how to gauge when stuff is ready, so you don't burn shit.
I'm 17 and I can cook pretty well.
[QUOTE=lum1naire;18480692]buy some sidekicks yo
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omggg rammen? NARUTTOOOOO[/QUOTE]
why haven't you been permabanned yet
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[QUOTE=ARR DARMA;18481404][B]NO[/B]
They are
1. Expensive
2. 1,200 calories[/QUOTE]
be a soldier
:v:
[QUOTE=WarShredder;18502532]At my grocery store they sell this box of kraft macaroni and cheese that costs like $2.36, while the standard size box (posted earlier in this thread) was like $4+. This cheap box uses a gelatin cheese, meaning it you don't have to add the powder, butter and milk because you can squeeze the cheese in and mix away. The best part is that the box is rather large, and can feed 2 people, because a lot of times I can't even finish the whole bowl if its just me eating![/QUOTE]
$2 for mac and cheese wtf?
You are getting seriously ripped off. I can get mac and cheese at my local market for 36 cents. If I want Kraft brand it's 76 cents.
fish dicks and sausage bread
hamburger dressing
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[QUOTE=G12-A5;18503063][img_thumb]http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Business/images-3/dominos-pizza-slice.jpg[/img_thumb]
Trust me a college persons best food ever. If its just you and your dorm mate all you need to do is order a large pizza and you have dinner, and breakfast.[/QUOTE]
Pizza is the most expensive fast food.
If you get bread rolls (preferably French rolls) and bake it with garlic spread, instant garlic bread. Just watch the oven.
Also cheeseburger rice: [url]http://www.ricerecipes.org/hamburgerricesoup.html[/url]
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This is coming from a fellow college student just so you know.
Bookmarking this thread for future reference. It's hard making food in the dorms.
[QUOTE=B-hazard;18487180]Whenever I am hungry I make some variation of a fried egg sandwich, here are a few combinations that taste pretty good:
[b]Optional extra's to all of these:[/b]
Cheese.
Brown Sauce (to be honest this shouldn't be even optional, a fried egg sandwich is boring without it).
Toasting/Frying the bread.
[b]Classic:[/b]
Good ol' Fried Egg.
[b]Egg 'n' Pickle:[/b]
Fried egg.
Pickle.
[b]Egg 'n' Beans:[/b]
Fried Egg.
Baked Beans.
[b]Egg 'n' Chips:[/b]
Fried Egg.
Chips(could add beans or ketchup).
[b]Double Monster(all out crazy style):[/b]
2x Fried Egg.
Baked Beans.
Chips(fries for you Americans).
Pickle.
Make it double decker for a Double Double Monster.
[b]Egg Banjo:[/b]
Fried Egg.
Chips.
Toasted or fried/Egg fried bread.
Fried Egg Sub:
Any of the above except in a sub.
Honestly, they are filling, delicious, cheap, and best of all only take 2-5 minutes to make.[/QUOTE]
Egg's with chips? That doesn't sound right.
Wait are you from the UK?
[QUOTE=TropicalV2;18509169]Red Onions- 0.59$/lb
Green Peppers- 0.88$/lb
Potatoes- 2.86$/5lb
Carrots- 1.72$/bunch
Basil- 2.11$/bunch
It's not that expensive to eat healthy food, you just have to prepare it yourself. All of those ingredients right there could make you soup for about a week.[/QUOTE]
You're forgetting some kind of broth, and you're going to need something with protein in it.
Those things are enough for a pretty good salad. Buy some bread with it and you're ready to go.
And you will most likely actually save tonnes of money buy not buying pre-made foods. At least that's the case in most of Europe - it might be different in the US but I doubt it.
You'd be best of if you found some vegetable market in your vicinity though.
Frozen dinners. My favorites are Marie Calendar's Chicken and Fettucini Alfredo with Broccoli/Shrimp Scampi, Claim Jumper Shrimp Scampi, and Stouffer's Salisbury Steak/Macaroni and Cheese/Meatloaf.
Make some buttered noodles, and throw some cottage cheese in the pot so it melts. Not the cheapest thing to make but it tastes good
Lol, MREs.
Just put beef and carrots and make a soup, then cook noodles with it for great justice.
[QUOTE=G12-A5;18503063][img]http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Business/images-3/dominos-pizza-slice.jpg[/img]
Trust me a college persons best food ever. If its just you and your dorm mate all you need to do is order a large pizza and you have dinner, and breakfast.[/QUOTE]
Sadly I'd do this way too often. :(
Pasta + Cheese Mix/Sauce + Grated Cheddar = Epic in my mouf.
Cheap Noodles (always seem to be better than regular noodles IMO) + Soy Sauce = Epic in my mouf.
Jacket potatoes, sausages, cheese and beans.
Nice and easy and tastes awesome.
Brussels Sprouts with Bacon
Ingredients
* 4-6 slices bacon, chopped
* 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
* 1-1.5 pounds Brussels sprouts, sliced
* Salt and pepper, to your taste
Directions
Brown bacon in a medium skillet over medium high heat.
Take bacon out and set aside.
Add extra-virgin olive oil to the pan, let heat for a moment or two and then add Brussels spouts and coat in oil.
Cook Brussels sprouts 2 to 3 minutes to begin to soften, adding a small amount of water (1/2 cup or less) if needed to keep from burning.
Cover and reduce heat to medium low.
Cook 10 minutes, or until tender.
Transfer sprouts to a serving dish with a slotted spoon and top with cooked bacon bits.
Season with salt and pepper.
This seems fancy and is a good way of getting some vegetables, and tastes delicious as hell because OMG BACON BACON BACON.
Oh, also the breakfast burrito.
Scrambled eggs, whatever meat, whatever cheese, and whatever potato you'd like. Wrap, and eat.
Get a slow cooker. You can do all kinds of stuff with it, especially if you are willing to invest two or three hours or so into cooking on a weekend.
My favorite thing so far:
Take three packs of chicken breasts. Can be pretty cheap if you have a bonus card for the store's secret club ( like 1.89 a pound ). We get 9 pounds or more for this.
You'll need a fluid to cook the chicken in, which is up to you. You can use your favorite salad dressing ( my family likes Gazebo Room ), broth, soup, or just water.
Take the chicken, clean most of the fat off and add to the slow cooker until it's about half full. Heat your fluid up to boiling or near that, a quart at a time, in the microwave, and pour over the chicken until mostly covered. Crank it up to high, cover, and walk away. Check on it every half an hour or so until the chicken is done and can be pulled apart in strings.
Take the chicken out of the cooker and place into a colander / strainer and let cool.
One cool enough to handle, pull the chicken into shreds and store in gallon bags. Three packs of breasts will fill one bag and maybe another depending on how tight you pack it.
You've now got many meals worth of shredded chicken. Use it for helper meals that require chicken ( you can get away with using the beef or tuna ones as well ), your own meals, or even just sandwiches.
If you want to make chicken salad, you'll need to break down the chicken further unless you enjoy chunky chicken salad. I do this in a pan and have the heat at medium high. I just stir and break up with a wooden spatula until it's really fine, and mix in mayo until it's as smooth as you like ( I like it thicker like a dip, so I skimp on the mayo, but you can use as much as you like. More mayo will make it go further, but only to an extent ).
I know that's more than you were interested in time-wise, but this is one of those things that will save you time all week - after all, it doesn't take long to heat up a hand full of chicken and make a sandwich, burrito, or a meal out of it.
I'm aware stingy usually means overcooked, but honestly it isn't really noticeable in this application since you'll be using it, more than likely, somewhere that you add moisture to hydrate it again anyways ( mayo, sauces, etc ).
[QUOTE=wraithcat;18552643]Those things are enough for a pretty good salad. Buy some bread with it and you're ready to go.
And you will most likely actually save tonnes of money buy not buying pre-made foods. At least that's the case in most of Europe - it might be different in the US but I doubt it.
You'd be best of if you found some vegetable market in your vicinity though.[/QUOTE]
Problem with that is you'd have to spend 1-2 hours cooking/preparing alone every night if you choose to get only 100% raw ingrediants to put stuff together, plus it's much harder cook right (esp. if you want it done in a timely manner).
When I come home from school at 9-10pm, the last thing I want to do it stand up in my kitchen for over an hour cooking some meal. 5 minutes at the most, and even then I get cranky.
Next time I get potatoes I'll just get pre-prepared frozen chunks or something. Still pretty cheap and it'll save an assload of time. It takes fucking forever to cook, chop and prepare normal potatoes out of the bag when all you have is a standard knife and not a special potato cutter/frier/etc.
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