cheap lunches and dinners

[aveareya]

Hi Guys - looking for cheap lunch and dinner options. Of course the tried and true ramen- recently figured out how to nuke it which helps.  Bags of fruit that I can munch on - cheaper than potato chips if I cut up apples and have them by my desk. A few things like stroganoff and sketti - but really don't have many really cheap things for food. Got

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[fireshaper87]

get some rice and ken's italian dressing with aged ramano.... cook the rice and then mix in the dressing.... quick, easy, and Cheap.
Corned beef hash sandwiches.
You could always go to the weight watcher's isle in the grocery store.... I'd assume it'd be cheaper, and my brother actually prefers the taste.
Pasta salad with feta cheese (Pasta of choice, feta, petite diced tomatoes, oil, vinegar, basil, oregano, italian seasoning, garlic powder, oregano)...... Or just use the ken's salad dressing on pasta
standard canned soup (chicken noodle is my fave)
Grilled cheese and tomato soup
And finally... Flintstone's vitamins.

[hoshiadam]

Peanut butter has good fat in it, and a good amount of protein. It's actually pretty good for you, compared to most things people put on sandwiches.

Tasty cheap foods:
*Little Ceaser's pizza. I used to get 4 meals out of one pizza...that's about $1.37 per meal. With breadsticks, $1.64
*Lettuce. A quarter head of lettuce can be a tasty (and filling) addition to a meal.
*Buying in tiny bulks - Spending $10 on chicken tenderloins might seem like a lot, but if you get 4-6 meals or more out of it, it isn't.
*Generic cereal instead of brand name

*Don't go to the store hungry or full - either way you'll not purchase what you wanted to.
*If you do go out, get water instead of another drink, since most places are at around $2.00 for a non-water non-alcoholic drink.

That's about all I can come up with right now.

[thegeneral]

Those bags of lettuce in the grocery store are good. You can get two good meals out of them. Just add your favorite dressing.

Plan to cook a larger than normal dinner and have the leftovers for lunch the next day.

If you like fish or crab you can buy a bag of imitation crabmeat for about $3.00. That makes a good, fast meal.

Also, those roasted whole chickens at Kroger and WalMart can probably last you a couple meals, and they're $5 or less.

[lilisonna]

Avoid pre-bagged anything if you're counting pennies. Get regular lettuce and just wash it.

If you're really fond of fish, Harry's has fish-bits that you can buy and cut up. You waste a decent amount, but you do get fish out of it. Lots of work, but it's like $.99/pound.

Cheap Foods

[lilisonna]

When I was flat broke, I did a lot of pasta dishes. They're cheap, easy and filling. Realize that to get nutrious, cheap food, you must actually do some cooking.

Basic Cheap Noodle Dish: 1 box cheap elbow or other noodles (find the noodle that's on sale; buy as much as you can). Ramen can substitute, but isn't as good.
Some amount of ketchup (again, cheap as you can find) + some soy sauce + whatever leftover red wine that suibhne has lying around. Optional additions here include 1 can of tomatos. (Alternate substition is Spaghetti sauce if desired

[thetempestchic]

I unsually just go to Kroger and pick up the 10 for ten items. It doesn't really help with recipes, but it changes alot ( right now tuna is 10 for 10) so you can get a decent amount of food for very little. I will drain my roomies of what they like as we are all on a shoe string budget.

*hugs*