2min noodles, 1 scoop of protein powder and a multivitamin. Eat smart
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jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A bag of rice, soy sauce, sugar, some cabbage and some chicken will make you more and better food than any fast food restaurant.
When I was struggling, I made meals, mostly from the microwave. Make Chinese food in bulk homie. Freeze some of it in packs so you don’t have to eat the same meals every meal.
Going to a fast food restaurant is not saving you money, even before McDonald’s raised their prices.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Adalast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
50% of your daily sodium intake and really expensive pee does not sound all that smart to me. Not saying it is untenable, just not really all that healthy. To make it healthy you would have to get the most expensive noodles, Whey protein powder, and something other than a multivitamin as most of the content of those are water soluble which means that the excessive amounts you are ingesting are not retained by your body. If you were to cut it in half and take them half a day apart you would get more mileage out of it.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
The multivitamin is a replacement for vegetable. I could try replacing it with one of those veggie shakes but they’re expensive. Maybe I grind 100g of mixed veggies and slam that.
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is so far from healthy. You gonna blow yourncolon not eating fiber. Vitamins are not a replacment for vegetables. They are an augmentation at best
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I do something similar, but minus the powder. I blend kale, garlic, spinach and pesto and blended in a blender and then mix it with some Chinese noodles. Then I freeze it into blocks and put it in the freezer. I microwave it for 2 minutes and it’s a meal.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
I might try that because I’m always looking for easy meals.
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Make sure to add fats like avocado oil. In order to feel full you need fats.
Adalast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The issue is that it wasn’t about saving money, it was about saving time without destroying your finances. Not that I am one, but I can empathize with a single parent working two part-time jobs for 12 hours/day, both at minimum wage, being exhausted and knowing she has kids to feed at home but absolutely 0 energy or effort left to prepare a meal. Pulling through a fast food place and picking up some burgers or maybe a happy meal to see the smile on his/her kid’s face when they see the bag/box after a long day missing them. Prioritizing spending what little energy and time s/he has left on actually spending time with the kid.
Please remember that there are different kinds of poor. Single-poor or college-poor are very different than single-parent poor or 2-income-family-but-still-worried-about-paying-rent poor.
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I want to emphasize that you can make food fairly quickly with the microwave with little to no effort. Not saying it’s not going to be mentally difficult to do.
Cooked rice is small packets that microwaves stay for months. So does teriyaki chicken in small packets. This meal is what I started out with and then started graduating to more advanced meals. Even advanced meals are microwaveable.
Making bulk mac and cheese from scratch using shredded cheese and salt in macaroni literally takes 15 minutes and you can microwave after being frozen.
I involved my kids in making meals. It’s part of our family building activity.
Being broke sucks. I know. I was also there. But Chinese food is sooooo freaking easy to make and freeze.
At one point I had 2 microwaves, with the 2nd one being donated from a friend.
DM me for these recipes. Mac and cheese can be made within 15 minutes. Teriyaki chicken could be made within 20 minutes if you skip the chicken marinating. Each time I make a meal that meal can last for a week with two mouths to feed. Eventually there freezer would have up to 5 to 6 different meals at a time that we cycle through
Adalast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh, I don’t need them personally. I work from home and make enough that my wife doesn’t have to (barely, but she has health issues that make normal employment impossible, especially with the changes to ADA in recent years). We are able to cook meals just fine. I was merely coming to the defense of those who were not able to defend themselves and pointing out some logical, logistical, and epistemological errors/falacies in your argument.
All that said, thanks for the offers though and I hope someone who is struggling takes you up on it.