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I lived on pasta and rice when I was in Spain and marathon training. Great source of energy for dirt cheap and they can be altered a thousand different ways.

Chipotle...

Chipoltes make everything better.

If you're around Lexington, Moe's ... it's way cheaper than Chipotle or Qdoba (and they give you chips with your food).

Moe's cheaper than Chipolte! But its all the way out in the Urban Sprawl.

Plus cute girls work at Chipolte.

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You could just walk around the grocery stores and eat all the samples. I do that at Wild Oats.

Here's a recipe for some pasta sauce or stir fry sauce:

Heat up about a half cup or 3/4 cup water and add 3 Tbs each of red wine vinegar, soy sauce (cut back to 1 or 2 Tbs to decrease sodium), brown sugar, and peanut butter. Heat to dissolve the peanut butter and pour over cooked pasta. Add some hot sauce or crushed red peppers for spice.

Peanut butter is cheap and packed full of healthy fats and protein, brown sugar should be in every food cupboard for use in oatmeal, tea, etc, soy sauce isn't the greatest for you but adds flavor, and the vinegar adds a bite to whatever you're cooking. To make the sauce fancy heat some garlic in oil before adding to the water, maybe add some pepper or all purpose spices to taste, add onions and sunflower seeds for some crunch.

The best part is that this tastes just as good cold as it does hot.

Try lemon juice instead of the vinegar (lemons are more portable and... French). Garlic is pretty cheap and full of good things. Boil it with your pasta (if it's fast cooking pasta like angel hair you'll want to let it boil in the water for a while).

Here's a good, cheap, hot, low budget meal:

Make a white sauce (stir some flour in butter in a pan over medium low heat until it turns golden and then stir in some milk until you've got a thick sauce). Stir in a can of tuna, some frozen peas, maybe some peanuts or those "chinese noodles" in a can, herbs and spices to taste (a pinch of salt while cooking is equal to a teaspoon sprinkled on later), and serve over toast, rice, or pasta. If you've got two pans you can use for this sautee some onion, garlic, bellpepper, basil, oregano and stuff and add that with the tuna to go "gourmet" with it for cheap and easy.

For SUPER unhealthy, try making a white sauce, stirring in cream cheese until it's melted, and add a package of those fake crab meat or lobster meat things, stir in and serve over heavy pasta. It's insanely delicious, super cheap, and very bad for you. On the other hand, one plate of that is enough calories for two days of hard labor.

Good luck!

rhunt wrote:

512OW wrote:Tommy Caldwell eats Big Macs. I eat chili dogs and vienna sausages.

Its all in your head. Fuck a diet.

Good point. I guess if you climb 14a on gear and 14d on bolts you can probably get away with eating Big Macs..

Actually I think it is "14a on gear and 15a on bolts". Didn't he put up a sick line in Colorado? Anyhow... what's a diet?