What is the ULTIMATE college/bacholer/budget food?
10-21-2009, 07:29 PM
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I think because all of the wannabe yuppies shop there. I HATE how oblivious most of the shoppers there are. "Oh, I think I'll walk as slowly as possible down the aisle regardless of whether or not anyone is behind me."
10-21-2009, 07:36 PM
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One of my supervisors looks just like him, we have so much fun with it!
"Sir, do you want a picture with Seth Rogen?"
mmmm, dry cereal and beer... perfection!
"Sir, do you want a picture with Seth Rogen?"
mmmm, dry cereal and beer... perfection!
10-21-2009, 07:47 PM
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i just had chili and rice. it was free chili made by a friend and it wasn't really rice. it was some paella rice i found in the cupboard from like a year ago. which reminds me of...
stagg chili + random pasta
canned tuna + velveeta shells and cheese
both winners... i had that once a week in college. i also tended to grab whatever steak was on sale and a 10lb bag of potatoes (for like $2). broil the steak, cut and season the potatoes and stick 'em in to be steak fries.
stagg chili + random pasta
canned tuna + velveeta shells and cheese
both winners... i had that once a week in college. i also tended to grab whatever steak was on sale and a 10lb bag of potatoes (for like $2). broil the steak, cut and season the potatoes and stick 'em in to be steak fries.
10-21-2009, 08:08 PM
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The two greatest cheap foods are:
1. Gohan Desuyo! (a.k.a. Japanese survival food) and rice:
And
2. Chuuka Zanmai, the BEST instant noodles on the planet (can even put some ramen shops' noodles to shame)
1. Gohan Desuyo! (a.k.a. Japanese survival food) and rice:
And
2. Chuuka Zanmai, the BEST instant noodles on the planet (can even put some ramen shops' noodles to shame)
10-21-2009, 08:39 PM
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When I was in college, I got a rice cooker as a gift. That was my staple. Large bag of rice from costco, flat of green beans, pinto, and black beans. Rice cooker cooks a ton of rice easy and perfect. heat green beans/beans in micro. Find affordable meat. Actual meal for HELLA cheap and quick.
I lived on that.
I lived on that.
1: Best cheap meat dish: 2 cups of rice and 2 Chinese Sausage (Lop Cheurng?)
no pun intended... Cool the Chinese sausage while heating up the rice. Perfect!Also doubled as a easy way to heat up soups and Top Ramen too. Best alternative if no chinese sausage... KIM CHEE! (especially Kohala brand Kim-chee)
2: Mac & Cheese w/ 1lb ground beef.
3: Toasted sourdough bread and French's Yellow Mustard FTW
10-21-2009, 08:40 PM
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I hear you. I remember being so effin broke when I first got out of the army just trying to find a job, let alone a decent one. I remember several times having less than $20 to buy food to last me 2 weeks, seriously. What I had to do was go to grocery outlet (hella cheap, but almost expired food basically) and they had 4 for a dollar mac and cheese and 4 for a dollar cans of tuna (I wasnt about to be picky on whether it was water or oil added). I would make the mac and cheese with just water no milk and add the tuna. When you where hungry it was the most delicious thing you have ever had. I would also go to the wonder/hostess store and get $0.39 loaves of bread and freeze them so they wouldnt mold, and get a jar of mayo and some bologna (always the cheapest btw) and if I was really ballin that paycheck some processed cheese in the wrapper, lol. But top ramen and cup-o-noodles were a given, I think they were 5 for a dollar at the time I could take them to work so it was a winner.
10-21-2009, 08:46 PM
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Huge bag of rice - and random sauces:
Peanut Sauce, Soy Sauce, Teriyaki Sauce, and sometimes a BBQ sauce.
Back in the day, I would subsist on that for weeks on end. One big plate of rice fills the tummy, and is about as cheap as you can get.
Peanut Sauce, Soy Sauce, Teriyaki Sauce, and sometimes a BBQ sauce.
Back in the day, I would subsist on that for weeks on end. One big plate of rice fills the tummy, and is about as cheap as you can get.
10-21-2009, 08:57 PM
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choku dori - WHERE do you find Chuuka Zanmai for cheap? That's one of my favorite instant noodles, but it's always like $1.20 a bag!
This week in college I ate/ made:
1. White rice with pork sung (dehydrated, chewy, cotton-candy-looking pork strings. sounds gross but we Chinese like to eat it with porridge
$4.00 a jar, 25-40 meals)
2. White rice with spiced and flavored fermented tofu ($2.50 a jar, 15-20 meals). One tiny block of that will literally satisfy a whole meal cuz its so flavorful
3. Clam chowder in a can... sometimes with white rice
4. Asian sweetened bread
man I'm poor. I miss those 3-4 dish meals + soup that my father used to serve to the table every night
This week in college I ate/ made:
1. White rice with pork sung (dehydrated, chewy, cotton-candy-looking pork strings. sounds gross but we Chinese like to eat it with porridge
$4.00 a jar, 25-40 meals)2. White rice with spiced and flavored fermented tofu ($2.50 a jar, 15-20 meals). One tiny block of that will literally satisfy a whole meal cuz its so flavorful
3. Clam chowder in a can... sometimes with white rice
4. Asian sweetened bread
man I'm poor. I miss those 3-4 dish meals + soup that my father used to serve to the table every night
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