Quick, cost effficient meals.

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BAM.

Healthy, quick, delicious, fulfilling.

I eat at least one of these day.
 


Will be having this in a few hours (not the chips). Takes just 5 minutes fried and is fairly cheap!

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McDonald's dollar menu.
Wendy's double stacks.

Subway's 5 dollar foot long split over two meals.
 
CodSpot said:
Yeah, I guess I didn't really mention it in the OP, but this thread was meant for meals you can whip up while working. Meaning, stand up, go to kitchen, whip it up, be done making it within 5 minutes back at the desk on the grind.

Lot's of good ideas though :)
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Rice cooker + crock pot + tupperware + fridge + microwave= a couple hours prep time total for the week and you could be eating gourmet all week.

I mean, that's what I'd do if I wasn't married and had to cook often.

This is gonna sound gnarl but it's really good, poor quick man's peanut fried rice. Rice, olive oil, peanut butter, soy sauce, curry and that hot as rooster sauce up thread in a bowl, microwave, stir, eat. Takes like 2 minutes tops if you have pre-cooked rice kicking around. Which is like $24 for a 40 pound bag at the local grocery store.
 
crackp0t said:
When I was little my dad made his own version of SoS for breakfeast (it was a sauge patty on a piece of toast with gravy on top). I asked him why it was called shit on a shingle he said it was a military thing. In the military it's actually chipped beef with some kinda funky white sauce.
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It's a flour gravy mix. Pretty simple recipe.

take your chip beef with some butter. Mix water and flour until a "pudding" consistency or gravy consistency and serve over toast.

My grandma used to make that for me as a boy...
 
MSTeacher said:
Damn straight.

2 scoops protein powder
2 tbsp pb
1 banana
20 oz. almond milk
whatever else

drink that shit down and you're full of solid energy for 2-4 hours.

Every weekend I hard boil a shitload of eggs, make a pot of rice, and cut up a shitload of broccoli, cauliflower, onion, pepper, mushroom, green beans, potatoes, etc. Eat it all over the course of the work week.

Quick meals:

taco salad: crushed corn chips, heated refried beans, lettuce, tomato, onion, pepper, black olive, salsa. Dump in a bowl, stir, shovel. ~5 min.

egg in the hole: take a hole out of the middle of a slice of bread & fry an egg in it. ~5 min.

easy curry: canned chick peas, frozen veggies, tomato paste, curry powder. Saute veggies & chickpeas, add curry then add tomato paste. Excellent with bread or chips. ~10 min.

heavy duty miso soup: miso paste, scallions, seaweed, tofu. Throw it all into two cups of water and heat it. Use lots of every ingredient and it's a full-on meal. ~5 min.
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That sounds pretty good---healthy and tasty. Going to have to try that, as at times, my lifestyle isn't exactly conducive to eating right.
 
bizzykehl said:
I eat Jimmy Johns atleast 3x a week for lunch. Place an order on their website and literally they show up within 5-7 minutes and I'm eating. If you live near a JJ try it out, it's epic.
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I can't believe I've never heard of this place. I thought I'd eaten at practically everywhere around me. There is one like 10 mins away, going to check it out for lunch today I think.
 
I eat BLT's and grilled cheese sandwiches at least 3x a week.

The wonderful life of college...
 
sushi rice with seaweed.

Cook rice, wrap in seaweed with some avocado, prawns, whatever
 
bizzykehl said:
I eat Jimmy Johns atleast 3x a week for lunch. Place an order on their website and literally they show up within 5-7 minutes and I'm eating. If you live near a JJ try it out, it's epic.
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Holy shit this looks amazing. College food sucks here and there's a Jimmy Johns nearby that looks like it delivers to my dorm.
 
Bring a can of Campbells chicken rice soup (or chicken noodle soup) to a boil. Drop in 2 eggs, wait a minute, stir. Add some saltine crackers/oyster crackers. Enjoy.

Takes less than 4 minutes to cook. I eat this for breakfast every day because it's quick, cheap, filling, and easy to make. Eggs, soup, and saltine crackers are less than $10 for a week's supply.
 
Boil up a bunch of eggs and stick them in the fridge in a container. Eat through the week.

Throw some cut up chicken breasts in a casserole dish and put some garlic powder and random seasoning on it, 425 for 25 minutes. Put it in the fridge in a container and eat all week. You can put chicken in just about anything.

Microwave soup or chili (all canned soup is really high in sodium, though, even the "low sodium" stuff, so don't do it a lot)

Low-fat hamburger patties on a George Foreman or other kind of countertop grill.

Bagged salads + bagged baby spinach. Throw some in a bowl with one of sliced chicken/crumbled grilled hamburger/egg/sliced ham, and some other random veggies (onion, tomato, green pepper, etc) and top with feta or your favorite cheese. This may take a bit longer, but damn it's good. You can get sliced onion and peppers in most grocery stores, so you just need to prepare your meat of choice ahead of time. If you want to eat cheaper, you can cut up your own lettuce and other veggies, but it takes a little longer.

Tuna or salmon and crackers.

Cottage cheese.

Cereal or oatmeal w/sliced banana or other fruit.

Fried/scrambled eggs with some microwaved turkey sausage or ham.
 
breakfast food is the cheapest, fastest, and heartiest food. my girlfriend that i live with will be out of town for a month, so i'm going to load up on eggs, juice, bread, etc.

also, canned fruits and veggies are a great way to eat healthy on the cheap and easy side.
 
Quick lunch:

Ramen noodles or instant rice
Roasted garlic-thyme butter (make in advance)
Corn
Peas

Make the rice or noodles
Put the corn and peas in a sauce pan and melt butter over them
Add to the noodles or rice when they are done
Delicious, cheap, healthy meal
 
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