Why hello there! 0_O

[Mozgus]

i dont know about kansas but here in denver, a 24 pack of large ramen from maruchen is 5 bucks, VARIETY PACK. So thats bassically (iif your like me and could easily live off 2 a day) almost 2 weeks of meals for 5 bucks. thats gonna be my life once i get kiked out of the house.

You think so, but after those 2 weeks, you're going to feel nauseous at the thought of more ramen.

then thats when the 99 cent frozen pizzas come in =)

Got an oven? Because those things don't agree with microwaves.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

ive used both an oven, and a microwave, and a toaster over. I recommend the toaster oven personally, the microwave was bleh, a little soggy but otherwise okay.

[AwesomeMonstar]

ive used both an oven, and a microwave, and a toaster over. I recommend the toaster oven personally, the microwave was bleh, a little soggy but otherwise okay.

red baron ftw

[RyaNtheSlayA]

ive used both an oven, and a microwave, and a toaster over. I recommend the toaster oven personally, the microwave was bleh, a little soggy but otherwise okay.

red baron ftw

that happens to be my fav but its expensive. totinos are 77c

[molotovwars]

so why is again that you guys aspire to live shittily? haha, but someone mentioned using dried beans as a good way to make low cost filling meals. I recently learned a really good lentil soup recipe, and lentils are very cheap to buy, so since the soup is just onion a few spices and the lentils, not expensive at all. I imagine irish meals would also be inexpensive, using potatos, carrots, cabbage, cornedbeef

[lordofduct]

so why is again that you guys aspire to live shittily? haha, but someone mentioned using dried beans as a good way to make low cost filling meals. I recently learned a really good lentil soup recipe, and lentils are very cheap to buy, so since the soup is just onion a few spices and the lentils, not expensive at all. I imagine irish meals would also be inexpensive, using potatos, carrots, cabbage, cornedbeef

There is also a consideration of how long it lasts too.

My mother and I have this discussion often. She lives on the other side of the country and doesn't have very much money.

The grocer is a rather annoying place to go with no money, especially if you'd like something healthy and tasty.

let's consider a salad for instance. What should be considered a rather affordable dish turns out to be really expensive when it comes to quantity.

A head of lettuce though cheap doesn't last but a few days, and one person can't consume the salad it makes in that short of a period of time unless they ate it breakfast lunch and dinner. And I don't know about you all, but salad 3 times a day for 4 days straight just doesn't sound appetizing.

Beans are always a good measure because they last a long time. But if you are like me and can't stand beans from a can it is quite a chore to cook raw beans. It sounds like a good Sunday night meal yes, but Tuesday after a long day work and all I want to do is crawl into bed after a shower (hypothetical of course considering I work at home, but this is my roommate Frank who is a mason).

An onion actually isn't as cheap as you'd think considering how much you would end up using in a soup. One soup will take me an entire onion which is almost a dollar. And that doesn't include the beans or lentils.

Oh and lentils taste like garbage... chalky mooshy garbage.

And what about getting some meat into your diet??? Things get even worse there.

Lets consider my "cheap" sandwich which is salami, muenster, spinach and onion on rye (and I only use 2 thin slices of salami, I don't like a lot of meat). I've done the math, the price for me to have 2 of those a day for a week straight I could have 3 or 4 Wendy's Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers a day. And I don't have to prepare the Wendy's burgers. I also stopped buying those cold cuts because I "splurge" ever once in a while and by a little bit of pastrami (that shit ain't cheap)... fucking roommates would mow it down in one night and I would be left not knowing WHO the hell did it (measures taken to stop this is not a topic I want to get into... I've heard them all, I come from a family of 80 bajillion kids...)




Not to say I live on Tostinos pizza... those things are like corrigated cardboard with cheese spread smeared on it. That and they are 1.25 here, not 77cents.

[Original_Name]

Man... scary how much the internet connects people to one another... here we all came, interested in discussion primarily pertaining to old videogames, yet this vague common bond unites us enough to actually show some interest in what one another ate for lunch today. I don't know any of you on a level anywhere near personal (well, I bought a defective Sega CD from one of you, and one of you called me a pretty boy once, but that's about the extent of it), yet I actually found myself reading every post in this thread about the mundane details of your diet. Thank you, Al Gore. We are truly connected as a planet.

Anyway, I ate some Chick-Fil-A, which is one of like, three fast-food restaurants that doesn't give me a violent stomach ache. They use peanut oil instead of cooking grease, so that makes it taste better to me, plus it's easier on my stomach. I ate some blue corn tortilla chips as well... don't know why they taste better to me than the regular ones... maybe I can taste the salt better? Or maybe I'm just a fancy bastard; who knows. Actually, I just proved that I'm a fancy bastard by using a semi-colon in a completely irrelevant tangent about what we ate in a completely irrelevant thread about God-fucking-knows-what in an irrelevant sub-category of a website devoted to old videogames.

Anyway, someone mentioned Ramen; does anyone else just crunch it up in a baggie, add the seasoning, shake it up, and eat it dry?

[lordofduct]

Anyway, someone mentioned Ramen; does anyone else just crunch it up in a baggie, add the seasoning, shake it up, and eat it dry?

HELL YEAH!

That's the only good way to eat it. Chicken flavour, on the go. You can just pour it down your throat while driving in rush hour traffic to work.



...wow that's probably the saddest thing in the world. Driving to your dishwashing/mall/shitty job while shoving ramen down your throat. Reminds me of when I'd get off this job I had at a gas station 45 minutes south of here, sleep in the cooler for an hour or 2, head to school, then go back to the job at the gas station.

They fired me when I cut my hours back to only 70 a week... "you don't work as hard as when you started here."

WHAT!? Way to go Florida and your 'right to work' bullshit law.

[Original_Name]

Dude, that sounds absolutely abysmal. That's how you spent your school years? I'm sorry, bro. Like, forreal. I'm displaying actual sympathy for your condition through Al Gore's great contribution to mankind.

You get definite props for being specific enough to say chicken flavor, as chicken flavored ramen tastes the best dry. Top Ramen is my favorite for dry ramen. Their seasoning tastes the best.

[Abras]

Heh, I know this girl who is (very) lactose intolerant and yet she eats a ton of dairy. She takes medication for that but something tells me they're not meant to cope with anywhere near that amount. I guess that's why she gets diarrhea all the time. I mean I like ice cream too but not more than I love my digestive tract.

Now normally I wouldn't mention that here, but hey, everyone else is spouting inane details so I figured why not?

Oh, and that girl's pretty attractive. She's not really nerd-guy-dating material, but she certainly doesn't look like a hooker...