$2 lunch - now with pic!

[FleshLight]

Best you can do is probably the $2 pizza from Costco.

 

[darkewaffle]

If you're just eating a mcdouble or whopper jr. and getting some decent stuff the rest of the day, it's not really all that bad. At one point in my life I was getting burger king almost everyday but still was able to lose weight.

Some professor lost weight with a diet that consisted of 2/3 twinkies/snack cakes/etc. Losing weight is stricly calories in vs calories out, it's not a real reflection of health.

Admittedly the prof actually became numerically healthier on some fronts, but I think that was more a result of the decrease in raw calorie intake rather than the source of the calories.

 

[vshah]

damn, lunch is usually $9-$13 for me

i must start packing it from home.

 

[chalmers]

Some professor lost weight with a diet that consisted of 2/3 twinkies/snack cakes/etc. Losing weight is stricly calories in vs calories out, it's not a real reflection of health.

Admittedly the prof actually became numerically healthier on some fronts, but I think that was more a result of the decrease in raw calorie intake rather than the source of the calories.

If all he was eating was truly little debbie stuff, I'd imagine the numerically unhealthier fronts outweighed the healthier ones, heh.

 

[Schfifty Five]

If you spend more than $2 for lunch you are doing it wrong. Forget these high prices at fast food places. I order a double cheeseburger and value fries at Micky Dees and only pay two bucks.

Whereas at Wendys that same order would be $8.

esplain.

 

[slag]

On Monday I made a massive pot of lentil soup that supplied me with a dinner and four lunches this week, plus another eight lunches worth of soup that I threw in the freezer. Beat THAT for both cost value and nutrition.

Might as well just go throw up in a jar and eat that. Lentil soup is shit and eating the same thing 4x a week is just pathetic.

 

[Oyeve]

living the highlife huh ?
.10 cent nissin ramen ftw

Oops, I meant .12

There was a sale, 6x6packs for 3 bucks. I buy tons on sale. Drop in an egg or some leftover porkchop. Yum!

 

[SandEagle]

taco bell $2 meal deals. unbeatable

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2010-05-14-tacobell14_ST_N.htm

 

[blackdogdeek]

my local popeye's has a manager's special: 5 pieces of dark meat for $5.

 

[ShawnD1]

Sugar water and stick of butter is cheaper.

wtf? Butter is cheap as shit in the US. Up here butter costs about $5.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Some professor lost weight with a diet that consisted of 2/3 twinkies/snack cakes/etc. Losing weight is stricly calories in vs calories out, it's not a real reflection of health.

Admittedly the prof actually became numerically healthier on some fronts, but I think that was more a result of the decrease in raw calorie intake rather than the source of the calories.

Yea, I won't say it's the healthiest thing you can eat. Just that a little bit of it a day isn't absolutely terrible for you either.

 

[ShawnD1]

If all he was eating was truly little debbie stuff, I'd imagine the numerically unhealthier fronts outweighed the healthier ones, heh.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html

But you might expect other indicators of health would have suffered. Not so.
Haub's "bad" cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his "good" cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent.
"That's where the head scratching comes," Haub said. "What does that mean? Does that mean I'm healthier? Or does it mean how we define health from a biology standpoint, that we're missing something?"

 

[stag3]

what about tax?

 

[Wyndru]

If you spend more than $2 for lunch you are doing it wrong. Forget these high prices at fast food places. I order a double cheeseburger and value fries at Micky Dees and only pay two bucks.

Whereas at Wendys that same order would be $8.

You are doing it wrong at Wendy's, they have a dollar menu too.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Some professor lost weight with a diet that consisted of 2/3 twinkies/snack cakes/etc. Losing weight is stricly calories in vs calories out, it's not a real reflection of health.

Admittedly the prof actually became numerically healthier on some fronts, but I think that was more a result of the decrease in raw calorie intake rather than the source of the calories.

There is no single study where any participant has lost the amount weight of weight predicted by the calorie deficit. Why? Its quite simple the human body is not a closed system like a bomb calorimeter and therefore the calories in < calories out will never hold true. Every weight loss study based on calories in < calories out eventually plateaus! why? There is a mechanism when the brain thinks its starving it will store any calories beyond the bare minimum to fat.

Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating, and not sedentary behavior.

 

[ShawnD1]

Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating, and not sedentary behavior.

A disease which never existed 50 years ago. Humans evolve quickly these days :hmm:

 

[IceBergSLiM]

A disease which never existed 50 years ago. Humans evolve quickly these days :hmm:

50 years ago I don't think we were consuming processed carbs in such extravagant dosages. They put corn syrup and sugar in frozen vegetables for Christ sakes wtf do you need sugar in vegetables for?

 

[ShawnD1]

It's so they don't taste like penis. Nobody likes vegetables.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

It's so they don't taste like penis. Nobody likes vegetables.

so you know what penis tastes like eh? :hmm::awe::biggrin:

 

[FelixDeCat]

 

[Wyndru]

Mind = blown.

You realize dollar menus have been around for years at most fast food restaurants, right?

People abused the nuggets though, they cost more than $1 now :-(

 

[bfdd]

1.50 hotdog and drink from costco is still the best value... wish there was one near my work

I wish there was one closer to my work There's one place I go to, 6 bucks for a pastrami and beer. Eat half a sandwich and have the beer for lunch, eat the other half for dinner.

 

[Oyeve]

In Manhattan its the $1.69 menu. Sometimes there is a dollar menu but its not as plentiful as other places.

 

[ahenkel]

lunch today was 1.38 two cheeseburgers from DQ and a water.

 

[bfdd]

It's so they don't taste like penis. Nobody likes vegetables.

i like vegetables... most, some are ass

i'm about to go spend 6.99 on enough Burmese food to feed me for 3 meals.