How to eat cheap?

[AspiringDoc2]

I don't know how to cook, and I'm having a tough time preparing healthy meals for myself. There isn't much choices here on campus.

Just wondering how people eat cheaply and healthily. I usually cook rice, but it's hard to order dishes here.

Is there any easy way to prepare and cook chicken or fish with microwave? I'm open to suggestions. Thank you.

[restlesseye]

i feel your pain. its tough.

here is a quick tip.

1)go to the grocery store and get stewing beef or something similar and cut it into very thin strips. thinner the better because it will cook quicker.
2)sprinkle it lightly salt and pepper
3)dash of olive oil
4)some garlic powder
5)sprinkling of worchestire sauce (about a couple of spoons)
6)a few dashes of soy sauce
7)mix it really good
8)heat up a skillet or a no stick pan on high heat (make sure your pan is hot enough)
9) stir fry it for about 10 minutes or until the water is gone from the bottom of the pan
10) pour over raman noodles (which you were boiling from before without the msg packet)

should take about 20 minutes total and super easy to clean up
when you get good at doing this then start adding veggies like onions green peppers etc.... but dont do that right away without perfecting the way you like the meat done.

you can use chicken, pork, beef or whatever. the thinner you slice it up the faster and safer your meal will be.

good luck. would love to hear if you tried it.

most of all its CHEAP. whole meal for under 10EC with leftovers.

[jaywalk81]

PB and J my friend. ham and cheese.

[restlesseye]

PB and J my friend. ham and cheese.

variety my friend.... need variety otherwise you go coockoo

[theplatypusman]

olive oil (or butter if you wanna die young), carrots, tomatoes (grape tomatoes are good), onions, garlic (more the better), salt, pepper, paprika, any seafood (salt water fish is best).

Slice the onions and carrots, and tomatoes if you don;t get the grape ones

Take the fish or seafood drizzle with olive oil, add salt and pepper, and paprika (mostly for color, to little does nothing, too much destroys it)

Heat the olive oil on medium high heat. Add the veggies, suatee (probably spelled that wrong) them for like 2-3 minutes, then add the fish, turn over every minute or two, cook until ready. Fish is ready very quick, it should take less then 12 minutes for most filets. If the garlic starts to burn or toast turn down the heat. Season with more salt and pepper if needed.

If you get crazy you can add a little butter to the olive oil for flavor, use peas and green onions.

[Toddaa1]

I don't know how to cook, and I'm having a tough time preparing healthy meals for myself. There isn't much choices here on campus.

Just wondering how people eat cheaply and healthily. I usually cook rice, but it's hard to order dishes here.

Is there any easy way to prepare and cook chicken or fish with microwave? I'm open to suggestions. Thank you.


Besides the PBJ and ***** diet, there are many places that sell meals for cheap around here (Nicks, jade palace, grill master, the ladies in grand anse), you just need to resist the urge to eat sushi twice a week. You can also hit up those catered gatherings on campus for a freebie. and in desperate tiems there are plenty of crabs...

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[theplatypusman]

If they have mussels or clams on the island. Take some olive oil, white wine (its better) or cooking wine, 4 or 5 cloves of garlic, some fresh herb like rosemary or thyme, salt and pepper.

Heat the olive oil to medium high. Just throw all of it in, spices last. Shouldn't need too much salt cause of the salt water already in them. Just heat until the mussels open. Some won't, don't panic and toss those out.

Serve with starch, toast, whatever.

[theplatypusman]

With chicken, you can do a lot too. Take you chicken, like restless said, and cut into small thin pieces. This increases surface area (thus adds flavor and cooking speed). Take some olive oil and drizzle the pieces of chicken. Season the pieces with onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper, or pretty much any spice you ador. Look for "season all" if they have it. Add your favorite sauce. Let it sit in the fridge for a couple of hours (you can prep in the morning).

Later that day take the chicken out and cut up some veggies. Onions and green pepper are good. Carrots, peas and corn work. Whatever you got. Sautee the chicken some, add the sauce teriyaki, dabs of soy, or worshtsire (spelled that wrong I know), when you got about 5 minutes left add some sauce. When you add the veggies depends on how soft you like them. If you like them soft add them at the beginning.

[theplatypusman]

Microwaves are for people without taste buds.

[restlesseye]

start thinking about eating properly. a healthy diet = healthy body = healthy mind.

[helpfulgrad]

tuna - melts, casserole, plain

rotis - chicken, beef, goat, potato (bout 5 EC each)

soup - get some veggies together

salads - bake some chicken breasts; cut them up, put it in the freezer. You can make chicken caesar salad by taking out the cut up breasts and heating them when you need to.

stir-fry - same deal as above. Get some veggies together in a frying pan, add chicken and your favorite terikayi or other sauce. Eat with white rice

5 ideas that are pretty healthy and not time-consuming. Good luck.

HG

[Naveenanirada]

restlesseye you suggested:
"9) stir fry it for about 10 minutes or until the water is gone from the bottom of the pan "

I am going to do this recipe with pork tomorrow- just clarify 'stir fry' for me,do i need to add any extra oil & if yes how much?
Thanks

[restlesseye]

restlesseye you suggested:
"9) stir fry it for about 10 minutes or until the water is gone from the bottom of the pan "

I am going to do this recipe with pork tomorrow- just clarify 'stir fry' for me,do i need to add any extra oil & if yes how much?
Thanks

sure just add about a tablespoon of olive oil to your already heated pan. make sure its really hot before you throw your meat on it.

toss it if you can but dont agitate it too much. as you cook you will see the water come out of the meat just as your skillet begins to dry stop cooking and get it off quick. you have to time it and determine how chewy or how juicy you want it. remember to cut it in thin strips so it gets well cooked.

enjoy!

[restlesseye]

take it easy on the salt when you cook pork. pork is already quite salty and make sure you get that fat off.

just at the end of cooking pork just give it a dash or two of concentrated lemon juice and sprinkle a bit of oregano on it.

when i do pork i usually stir fry onions and garlic first and then put it aside

i cook the pork and then at the very end when the water dries i throw the onion garlic mix in. cut the onions in big rings.

[Naveenanirada]

Hey Restlesseye,
Thanks abunch for the instructions & the recipe. :lol: :lol:
I will let u know tomorrow how I fared .
Peace.
Adios

[restlesseye]

Hey Restlesseye,
Thanks abunch for the instructions & the recipe. :lol: :lol:
I will let u know tomorrow how I fared .
Peace.
Adios

no worries. i wont be able to check until monday when i get home. im flying out tomorrow.

[daguru]

wow, im jealous.

[Naveenanirada]

Restlesseye,
Have a safe flight.:D
Da guru-sorry about that man-I will try uploading apicture for u. :D
adios

[emt036]

wow, im jealous.

yeah, me 1,867 (or however many of us there are still stuck on grenada)

[Plainsman]

The Big Bite in Spiceland Mall is incredibly cheap. Typical meal:
Ham and Cheese Sandwich or Hotdog with all the trimmin's = $4 EC
Vegetable Samosa = $2 EC
Bottle of Water or Soda = $3 EC
Total = $9 EC (Or less than $4.50 US)

[basupran]

Holy crap this is hard. I try to eat healthily and cheaply with ~200g protein/day and healthy carbs and I finally figured it out. Tuna is my best friend. You can also microwave cook some chicken, but it tastes horrible no matter what you do. For the vegetarian days, fat free cheese from the supermarket for 10ecs/lb.... anyways, I can write more later but I have to get back to my torture chamber I mean desk full of biochem packets.

[IndianBabu]

Oh good god, Babu is getting hungry reading all of this.

Chicken Makhni and Chicken Vindaloo from Kwality are still Babu's top choices.


IndianBabu

[ikep]

I have the easiest recipe of you all...

Get a wife...

[jaywalk81]

I have the easiest recipe of you all...

Get a wife...no that is the hardest one and probably the most expensive one...considering that most of us are singe here

[Amanda]

I have the easiest recipe of you all...

Get a wife...

but then you got to feed her too...it adds up

[Naveenanirada]

Sorry restlesseye,
I am late, but could cook only today as I realised yesterday that I did not have cooking gas.Got me till this morning to fix that.
The recipe was easy to follow , the only liberty I took was to cut the pork into dices coz strips were not easy for me.And I added some potato cubes.
The result was incredible, the sauce was dark[probably coz of soya] and with rice it felt like soul food.The flip side, I cooked too little-I realised that after everyone wanted a 2nd helping.
Guess what, I could not take credit coz while preparation I had to log on to valuemd.com to look at the recipe like twice[I did not write it].


All in all a good day and thanks again reslesseye-hope Canada is treating u good. :D

[Nimitt]

Restlesseye,

I am gone for a month and you went from med student to chef!!!!!! :lol:

[GeorgeMD2B]

The best way to eat cheap is to make your own meals. I'm not at SGU, and not sure about grocery prices in Grenada, but its generally cheaper if you avoid eating out.

[restlesseye]

Restlesseye,

I am gone for a month and you went from med student to chef!!!!!! :lol:

im just setting up a backup plan just incase i bomb the boards..... would anyone like fries with that?

[jaywalk81]

Restlesseye,

I am gone for a month and you went from med student to chef!!!!!! :lol:

im just setting up a backup plan just incase i bomb the boards..... would anyone like fries with that?can i swap the fries with a salad instead?

[Rico]

I have the easiest recipe of you all...

Get a wife...

but then you got to feed her too...it adds up

I like this one Amanda HAAAAA :lol:

Rico

[Naveenanirada]

I have the easiest recipe of you all...

Get a wife...

but then you got to feed her too...it adds up

I like this one Amanda HAAAAA :lol:

Rico

Well here's a related story-u can draw your own inferences from it.Here it goes:

Once in a quiet Himalayan valley lived a spiritually aware young man.He was not at all materially driven.As a matter of fact he had run away from a big Indian city just to escape the rat race at a very early age.
All he had was couple of loin clothes, which he had made out of a dead goat's leather-the emphasis is that he did not kill the goat for the loin cloth but it was dead anyway.
He never killed for food , but ate fruits and berries.
Basically he was happy, till one day some mountain rats ate one of his loin cloths.He was upset and told so to a passing traveller about his rat eaten loin cloth.The traveller advised him to get a cat.
So soon he had a cat.That was cool coz the rats were scared to come near his loin cloth.But to feed the cats milk, he had to get a cow.And to feed the cow he had to go all the mountains to get grass.And soon he was getting way tired. So he married, thinking 2 people would be better at working out the grass and the cow thing.
Soon he had a kid and then another.And his wife started getting very demanding & suggested that it would be better if he went to the city , got a proper job.
So he went back to his dad, who was a doctor.His dad told him about med school.Well to cut it short, he is somewhere in the Carribean studying Medicine right now.
And people think he is crazy when he says that just to save his loin cloth he became a doctor................................ :D

[sheikh1]

I have the easiest recipe of you all... Get a whife...

I have a whife, but I do all the cooking, and she washes the dishes. People she know the :wink: world is changing.

[Rico]

I have the easiest recipe of you all... Get a whife...

I have a whife, but I do all the cooking, and she washes the dishes. People she know the :wink: world is changing.

Then I think I should get married after the first semester... :D

Any one is looking for a first termer single male ( I promise I will wash the dishes every other day ):wink:

Rico

[sheikh1]

One can eat cheap by bringing their food, from the U.S. and puting it in the deep freezer, and eat it for a month

[jaywalk81]

instant noodles!

[emt036]

One can eat cheap by bringing their food, from the U.S. and puting it in the deep freezer, and eat it for a month

Before anybody tries this, just FYI: Customs can charge you 50% duty on imported food, negating any cost savings.

[daguru]

yeah, but i went shopping in my mom's cupboard before i left for all sorts of canned goods and whatnot, and i brought that down and didnt have too much trouble. oh, and also, my mom made me a bunch of food that i then froze and brought down here as frozen meals that just required me to microwave them to perfection. the flight was only about 4 hours, plus 3 or 4 more hours for travel time, etc., and so the food stayed pretty much frozen the entire time, and i had like two dozen free meals! plus, anytime i get homesick i can just whip out one of my mom's specialties, and im good to go!

[Naveenanirada]

yeah, but i went shopping in my mom's cupboard before i left for all sorts of canned goods and whatnot, and i brought that down and didnt have too much trouble. oh, and also, my mom made me a bunch of food that i then froze and brought down here as frozen meals that just required me to microwave them to perfection. the flight was only about 4 hours, plus 3 or 4 more hours for travel time, etc., and so the food stayed pretty much frozen the entire time, and i had like two dozen free meals! plus, anytime i get homesick i can just whip out one of my mom's specialties, and im good to go!


True it is,maternal love comes in waves, micro waves................. lucky boy/girl:D :D
But hey this is not cheap eats-this is priceless.......................