Quick and healthy lunches for around $3-$5 bucks?

[c3LL]

When I started weight-training I also got really into keeping a healthy diet and doing the 6 small meals a day.

But now I'm back into school and the school I'm in is intense! The way it works is I have 4 hour labs and 4 hour lectures through out my day, each day, so I usually only have around 30 minutes to grab a lunch/snacks before heading back to class.

I have no time to head home to fix something up in that 30 minute time frame and I also find that I'm only eating 2 - 3 meals a day of crap.

I want to get back into the 6 small healthy meals a day again. So is there actually anything out on the road where I can grab healthy lunches and snacks besides like a fvcking subway or something?

I also need something relatively cheap because I am in college and on a budget.

 

[WORKEROUTER]

I am in the same boat as you man. I am currently trying to gain mass and am on a 4 day per week split workout plan, and I soon plan to begin training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Anyway, try making food in advance. I recently bought a nice size cast iron skillet. Consider cooking two servings of meat, then eating the second portion the next day (bring it with you).

Eating food out is expensive if it's any good; otherwise it's crap. I cannot think of anything that's healthy in my area that is under 5 bucks (minimum is around 6). But for six bucks, you can get a whole pack of beef, veggies, and a pack of spaghetti.

 

[incognito42]

I might have some advice....


Eat at Subway. It costs $1.99 for a deli-style, ham, turkey or tuna sandwich. The bread has 6 grams of protein, and getting turkey or ham will give you about 18 grams of protein, for 2 bucks. Get the tuna, and you're getting 25 grams of protein and abopuut 550 calories. I am an aspiring D3/juco/wherever footbalkl player, and work as a delivery guy right now while I train to go play in January. I hear people all the time complain that the only thing both easy and affordable, that fits in their daily plans, is something off the $.99 menu from McDonalds/Burger King/Wendy's etc. Go to Subway! I dropped my body fat from 23.8% in December 2003, to 10.5% December 2004. I am now seriously pusuing playing, so I make spending money on quality food more of a priority now, and Im trying to put on lbs so I spend more, and dont do the Subway thhing so much anymore because it doesnt give me enough calories.

If you are trying to gain weight, the deli-style tuna sandwich is still the cheapest and easiest way I know to get all those protein and calories. Stay away from the mayo and learn to love mustard with everything.

Dont know if this would help you any, but it's my piece on the subject

 

[c3LL]

I didnt know they had sandwiches for $2 bucks!

I appreciate that info. Im just looking for better things to eat besides mcdonalds/taco bell crap because it doesnt give me anything healthy and wont contribute to my lifting at all.

 

[JazzPimpNYC]

Subway IS the ****. I just started working there last week and I get foot-long sandwiches for 50 cents each. I dropped about 6 pounds of fat and the definition is really coming through. I get a foot-long turkey on wheat, no cheese, no mayo or mustard, some lettuce, spinach, green peppers, oil, and lots of vinegar. I eat a quarter of the sandwich every two hours and that gets me through the 8-4 work day for me. After work, I get a 6 inch cheese steak for dinner and that's all I have for the day. I stopped lifting temporarily because I'm working on lowering my body fat % for summer definition. Lifting while doing this diet could make me sick.