I don't know what beats my chicken(diced chicken breast, not that crappy cold cut chicken) + franks red hot + lettuce + ranch wraps

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Peanut butter and banana, bitches. Potassi-YUM!

Sneftel, you have no idea how happy I am to have you back in action. Haha made me lol. I emphasize the out loud part of that phrase too.

Quote: Original post by Trapper Zoid
My usual cheap lunch lately has been a simple bowl of rice with soy sauce. Simple but I like it.

Flamboyant.

I'm enjoying the one benefit of living in a dirty little town, the restaurants selling 2Y noodles. (0.3 USD, 0.23 EUR apparently) Not a taste sensation, but it's hard to beat for cheap warming fare.

Otherwise I'm partial to left over food from the night before, fried rice works well cold, meat can become a sandwich.

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Quote: Peanut butter and banana, bitches. Potassi-YUM!

that just sounds disgusting, but I'll try one when I get home so I can actually know what I talking about.

Wow, that was surprisingly not bad.

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Quote: Original post by shuma-gorath
(After having caught the oversight in the other post ...)

For those intolerant of peanuts, I understand that they now have something called SunButter, made of sunflower seeds, which supposedly looks and tastes PB-ish.

is that actually selling? personally i now hold a psychological aversion to the entire format.

Upon googling "sunbutter reviews," the first two pages yield the following reviews:

Whoa!
Hey, now!
Aye, Cap'n!

And I did not selectively look for positive reviews; these are just what I've found. The one downside I did find--in the first one, I believe--was the price; in that case, however, it was a health food store--which tend be expensive anyhow, obviously.

Admittedly, these do not answer "Is that actually selling?" but this is will give you an idea of the reputation.

There are a few things that you can get done cheap if you know how to cook. For instance:

12 eggs : €3.40
3kg flour : €3.60
500g tomatoes : €3.00
500g cheese : €4.00
500g salad : €1.60

The total here is €16 if you count salt, pepper and oil, and it allows you to create around 100 pancakes. With two pancakes per lunch, that's €0.30 for a nice lunch with vitamins, protein and calcium, and a nice taste as well. Besides, those are price quotes for buying the things online—you can get a 25% to 50% discount if you go for the classic marketplace (since those are classic farm products) instead of online downloading or wal-mart, which could get your lunch as low as €0.15! The downside is that it's meant for large groups of people (as those 12 eggs won't last you 100 days).

just to let you guys know, a spork sucks at spreading peanut butter.

Its not the best but pancakes can be frozen.

I made a bunch for some family members who were coming over for breakfast the day before they left the state. Long story short they had to cancel. I just threw them in the freezer and had breakfast for the next week.

So get to making those pancakes.

When I was a Starving Studenttm I got by for several months making boiled bean sandwiches.

You start by taking a cup or so of plain old white pea beans -- at the time, about $0.49/kg, now about 10 times that. Boil the beans in enough water to cover, adding more water as necesary, about an hour until the beans are almost mush. Mush then. Add seasonings (cumin/jeera, cayenne/chilis, salt, whatever) and if you can get it, bacon drippings from your employed roommate's previous meal. This amount of beans makes enough for about a week's worth of sandwiches for just pennies.

To make the sandwiches, spread the cooled bean paste on bread. Steal some of you roommate's cheese if you can get away with it and add. Microwave in the school caf, consume.

Really. It's better than you think and good for you. Also good fried and served with rice or spread generously on bread fried in drippings.

Waffles freeze better and reheat better. Just pop them in the toaster for a bit and out comes a nice crispy tasty waffle.