Living on your own - What do you eat?

[DJKid]

Aren't Oats and Almonds more like a snack instead of a meal? I'd like to hear what your meals are specifically throughout the day with the supplies you all buy...

 

[Maxtro]

I'm in the same boat. I'm now living on my own and I don't have a clue how or what to cook. Are there any websites out there that teach you how to cook for one?

 

[speakeasy]

There's only about a bazillion books out there that specialize in healthy meals that take 30 minutes to make. I have one I bought from Whole Foods Market not long ago. I want to learn how to make some of these meals. I don't often cook and tend to just make stuff that's easy and quick. For breakfast, bacon and eggs, yogurt, waffles or french toast and a piece of fruit. Anyone can make that. I also bake chicken at times and have some steamed or boiled vegetables with a baked potato. Spaghetti is a snap to make. I like making vegetable beef stew. I make a big pot of that and it'll last me 4 days. I make a lot of turkey sandwiches with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, avacodo slices and cheese. With some baby carrots on the side, it's healthy and filling.

 

[I-tallionStallion]

Haha...just for fun I'll post what I eat/drink

12 whole eggs a day
4 bananas
1/2 gallon milk
1 gallon water
1/2 pound brown rice
1 pound beef
1/2 chicken/seafood
8 tbsp olive oil
9 scoops whey
3 big salads or bowls of veggies like green beans, broccoli, spinach
fish oil

-this make's six meals a day

This website is good for healthy/low-carb solutions

 

[DJKid]

These dollar menu items at fast food chains aren't bad either

 

[oakraiderz2]

Haha...just for fun I'll post what I eat/drink

12 whole eggs a day
4 bananas
1/2 gallon milk
1 gallon water
1/2 pound brown rice
1 pound beef
1/2 chicken/seafood
8 tbsp olive oil
9 scoops whey
3 big salads or bowls of veggies like green beans, broccoli, spinach
fish oil

-this make's six meals a day

This website is good for healthy/low-carb solutions

Holy sh*t. How much you spend on food?

50-70 bucks aweek is all u need..

i get like 3 bags of frozen chicken, rice, veggies, cold cuts, whole wheat bread, fruit, turkey meat, spaghetti sauce, whole wheat pasta. and i eat the same thing pretty much all the time.. set diet is the best thing

I need to do this. I always buy a bunch of sh*t i dont need cause i dont have to pay for it, but i need a set diet. I havent been working out so right now its whatever, but when i start ill do it.

 

[Poonani Maker]

I eat, on $10/day, roughly, and this includes, raw spinach (about 2 hand/mouthfuls outta the fridge in the mornin, and in the evening), ramen noodles (17 cents a pop) in the evening, no lunch unless offered by someone, an energy bar in the morn (about $1), 1/2 an energy drink in the morn ($.75), maybe chips and dip in the evening ($2-3), dessert in the evening ($2-4).

 

[DJKid]

I eat, on $10/day, roughly, and this includes, raw spinach (about 2 hand/mouthfuls outta the fridge in the mornin, and in the evening), ramen noodles (17 cents a pop) in the evening, no lunch unless offered by someone, an energy bar in the morn (about $1), 1/2 an energy drink in the morn ($.75), maybe chips and dip in the evening ($2-3), dessert in the evening ($2-4).

Wow you really have a stringent eating regimen although I don't know if the ramen noodles (high in sodium), energy drink, chips dip and dessert are the healthiest. But let me get this straight though; For breakfast you eat raw spinach, an energy bar, and an energy drink. You skip lunch, and then for dinner you eat ramen noodles, spinach, chips and dip and dessert?

 

[Bible_Belt]

fwiw, I think the cheapest food would be dried beans, peas, or lentils cooked with brown rice. I once calculated that a beans & rice meal cost me about 35 cents for all I could eat. Billions of poor people can't be wrong, some version of this meal is what most of the world's poor eat every day.

You have to soak dried beans overnight, and they take longer to cook. If you want to make it easier, you can really splurge and buy canned beans and instant rice. They are 2-3 times more expensive than their dried counterparts, but a full meal will still cost only about a buck.

 

[theunflushables]

Another quick and easy meal. Take a full stalk of broccoli chop it up. Add it to boiling water for 3-5 minutes. Remove broccoli with slotted spoon and put it in a blender. Add a bit of the water you boiled the broccoli in and puree. Add additional water until you get a soupy consistency. Add salt to taste. Broccoli Soup, done.

 

[DJKid]

fwiw, I think the cheapest food would be dried beans, peas, or lentils cooked with brown rice. I once calculated that a beans & rice meal cost me about 35 cents for all I could eat. Billions of poor people can't be wrong, some version of this meal is what most of the world's poor eat every day.

You have to soak dried beans overnight, and they take longer to cook. If you want to make it easier, you can really splurge and buy canned beans and instant rice. They are 2-3 times more expensive than their dried counterparts, but a full meal will still cost only about a buck.

I'm a self admitted novice when it comes to cooking. How do you go about cooking the dried beans, lentils and brown rice? I struggled with the box rice on the "let it simmer part" lol... Also what does your daily eating regimen entail? I read you compete in MMA so I'd assume you try and eat healthy...

 

[Poonani Maker]

Wow you really have a stringent eating regimen although I don't know if the ramen noodles (high in sodium), energy drink, chips dip and dessert are the healthiest. But let me get this straight though; For breakfast you eat raw spinach, an energy bar, and an energy drink. You skip lunch, and then for dinner you eat ramen noodles, spinach, chips and dip and dessert?

That's right. It varies though, but for instance, today, I ate a Powerbar, handful of spinach, half a punch Rockstar (could have supplanted 1/2 a 6-hour energy with water), then off to work (8:00 AM), then NO water (unusual for me, usually drink about 3/4 gallon throughout the day) until 7:30 PM, then for dinner, I ate Chilli with Ritz crackers (2 sleeves), and half a cup of Starbucks Frappacino ice cream, and WATER.

All that comes to roughly $10. Tomorrow will be a variant on this. I've been eating like this for 4 years, hardly ever getting a lunch.

My blood pressure always hovers around 100/70, I weight 170 usually, 6'2", pretty much all muscle. The ice cream or some other dessert every now and then will add the fat though.

 

[Quiksilver]

pretty much all muscle.

Either you are very lucky with genetics, or you have a very distorted view of what "all muscle" means

 

[OzyBoy]

heres what i live on

1. Pasta
2. Pb n J
3. Roman Noodles
4. Frozen pizza

thats enough vareity for me lol and its cheap.
Believe it or not i only spend about $20 on food whole week.

Sometimes i do treat myself and goto Meijers and buy $2 half a pound steak.

I am a lot like this. I spent about $25 last week. I am trying to change however

 

[Poonani Maker]

Either you are very lucky with genetics, or you have a very distorted view of what "all muscle" means

Due to my job, I can work off most of the bad stuff I eat, but my diet is kinda strange or lacking. I could probably use a better diet for myself, because I usually just eat what I want.

 

[Bible_Belt]

I'm a self admitted novice when it comes to cooking. How do you go about cooking the dried beans, lentils and brown rice? I struggled with the box rice on the "let it simmer part" lol... Also what does your daily eating regimen entail? I read you compete in MMA so I'd assume you try and eat healthy...

I usually buy the 'boil-in-bag" rice because it's easy. Boil water, add bag of rice for ten minutes. Dried beans would soak overnight and then simmer all afternoon at a low boil. I like them well-cooked. Season with garlic, salt & pepper, or just about anything else.

Here is how I eat when training for a fight:
http://www.sosuave.net/forum/showthread.php?t=157517

Like I said in that thread, keep in mind that I am trying to maximize lean muscle mass without gaining weight, whereas most guys in the gym are trying to get bigger. Eating cabbage and doing sprints will not make you bigger, only leaner.

 

[Luthor Rex]

*****.

I also cook meat & eggs in a frying pan. Waffles, english muffins, frozen meals. Strawberry shortcake. Cheesecake.

 

[martinM.]

Eggs are pretty simple to cook and relatively cheap. I like eggs.

 

[mothballs]

PB&J
Eggs
Cheese
Bread
Pasta
Oatmeal
Cheerios
Easy Mac
Tunafish
Hot Dogs
Ramen
Bagged salad
Milk
Tomato Juice
Orange Juice
Cranberry Juice
Grey Goose
Jameson

Every few weeks I might get fancy and make some pesto sauce or a batch of chili or other made from scratch thing that will last me a week as a side dish.

I think I spend about $100 on food a month.

 

[alphamailman]

Peanut butter sandwich, pasta w/sauce, frozen ground beef patties, hot dogs, apples, oranges, bananas, oats, chips & salsa, pretzels, baby spinach (from a bag), frozen chicken breast, frozen veggie mix, frozen cauliflower, sometimes nutri-grain bars, deli meat (ham or turkey), bbq sauce, mustard, capers

water and whey protein shakes are usually what I drink, sometimes miller lite or a cup of decaff