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Your Favourite Cheap Meal

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Never understood the love of HP sauce. I dated a girl who would drown her breakfast in that shit; grossed me out. D:

KT
 
KeithTalent said:
Never understood the love of HP sauce. I dated a girl who would drown her breakfast in that shit; grossed me out. D:

KT
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It started at a young age for me. I can't eat mashed potatoes without it. I only use it for potatoes/steak and my world famous rice tuna dish.
 
Local NY style pizzeria serves up $3.99 lunch combos....2 slices and a soft drink. That's what I had for lunch today. It's hard to beat that....ohh the grease! Plenty of calaories....perfect for a cold day.
 
I buy the big 24 packs of chicken thighs and cook them 5 at a time for weekday lunches. Sometimes I will grill them or smoke them, but more often than not I do sticky lemon chicken.

http://youtu.be/mARkUax2jg0

I buy the big bags of mixed veg from Costco and heat up a cup or so with the chicken.

A few years ago I did the math and figured my lunches were like $1.50 per day.

For breakfast I usually have a boiled egg and a piece of fruit, apple or banana or something.

Cheap dinner? Simple. Steak. I buy small cuts of sirloin (usually three steaks per pack, or about 4 oz per steak). Pair that with a sautéed onion (practically free).
 
What is HP sauce? I see that it's a Heinz product. I'm guessing it's something like Worcestershire or A1 steak sauce.
 
ramen (without the "flavor packet"), chicken thighs (seasoned with salt/pepper, grilled, and shredded), and whatever vegetables are on sale.
 
Carson Dyle said:
What is HP sauce? I see that it's a Heinz product. I'm guessing it's something like Worcestershire or A1 steak sauce.
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TIL that HP sauce is apparently a pretty popular brit brown sauce. Wierd. Has an interesting history actually.

But yeah never seen or had it. Maybe it's a noreaster/Canucks thing.
 
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Hey! you stole my recipe!!!!
 
I have this thing called a job. I don't have to worry about my meal being cheap. If it costs a little extra and doesn't taste like a dog's asshole, I'm okay with that.

For a board of millionaires, you guys sure post about a being fucking cheap on eating...


Now, if we were talking about something like penny pinching on employee wages, I'd fully support that!
 
smackababy said:
I have this thing called a job. I don't have to worry about my meal being cheap. If it costs a little extra and doesn't taste like a dog's asshole, I'm okay with that.

For a board of millionaires, you guys sure post about a being fucking cheap on eating...


Now, if we were talking about something like penny pinching on employee wages, I'd fully support that!
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If I were stupid rich I wonder how fat I'd be... it would be steak and lobster 5 times a week.
 
Elevenpog said:
If I were stupid rich I wonder how fat I'd be... it would be steak and lobster 5 times a week.
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Hardly. I'd hire a personal chef and a meal planner to make me delectable delights, in the perfect serving size every night. And, then my person trainer would help as well.
 
smackababy said:
For a board of millionaires, you guys sure post about a being fucking cheap on eating...
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How do you think we got filthy rich? gotta be smart with your money.

Besides, you can only have so much beluga caviar and panda tear martinis before you get sick of it and go back to the stuff you were used to when life was simpler.
 
smackababy said:
Hardly. I'd hire a personal chef and a meal planner to make me delectable delights, in the perfect serving size every night. And, then my person trainer would help as well.
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Too much effort. Just get surgery. Besides when you're drinking on the beach at 10am you eat a lot
 
HN said:
How do you think we got filthy rich? gotta be smart with your money.

Besides, you can only have so much beluga caviar and panda tear martinis before you get sick of it and go back to the stuff you were used to when life was simpler.
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You don't get filthy rich pinching pennies. Saving money doesn't make one rich. Eating like a poor person in a 3rd world country isn't going to get you rich either.

Spend the extra money and get some decent food and use that energy to actually do something that will earn you money.
 
Nachos + cheese + salsa, in microwave. Quick and easy. Spread nachos, add cheese, put in microwave for like 30 seconds, then dip in salsa.

I sometimes put hot sauce on the nachos too. Frank's Red Hot, or any other sauce I may happen to have on hand.
 
smackababy said:
I have this thing called a job. I don't have to worry about my meal being cheap. If it costs a little extra and doesn't taste like a dog's asshole, I'm okay with that.

For a board of millionaires, you guys sure post about a being fucking cheap on eating...


Now, if we were talking about something like penny pinching on employee wages, I'd fully support that!
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you must be one of those millionaire middle class'ers :colbert:

(I don't really eat cheap anymore except my $6 chicken and rice from the lunch truck that lasts me for 3 meals, but I was a poor college student once)
 
loki8481 said:
you must be one of those millionaire middle class'ers :colbert:

(I don't really eat cheap anymore except my $6 chicken and rice from the lunch truck that lasts me for 3 meals, but I was a poor college student once)
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I'm just some yuppie scum. I developed my skills, all the while curse those yuppie scumbags I saw, just to become one. I guess the only alternative was to become a hipster, and fuck that noise.

There is no point in eating cheap if you have money. All this money being saved isn't being put to use anyway, especially by the people on this board. Oh, you saved $500 this year on food costs? I bet that new video card is going to make you so wealthy...

I prefer to enjoy my comfortable life without having to have delusions that somehow eating a decent meal is going to hold be back from becoming super wealthy.
 
smackababy said:
For a board of millionaires, you guys sure post about a being fucking cheap on eating...
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So . . . you were never young, stupid, impulsive, newly on your own, and into deferred maintenance on your body, if you thought about it at all . . . prioritizing what pennies you had on entertainment options rather than something so boring as sustenance?

And . . . now that your older and should be wiser, you spend an inexcusable amount of time posting on a juvenile internet message board?

Attention, monsieur, YOU ARE REGRESSING! 😱

There, there, shed your tears as this tragic realization into the warm, comforting embrace of this disposable plastic ramen bowl.
 
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