What's a typical meal for you guys?

Seeing that we're all involved in some of the more expensive hobbies around (gaming, dev kit collecting, anime) you have to wonder...what's your typical diet like? I'm sure many of us try to save money on things like food (or in some cases, skip meals) in order to buy more stuff.

While I tend to keep a budget which I stick to rather well thus avoiding the need to skimp on meals (much less skip them), I'm sure I might be the minority in the group.

Discuss!

 

im in college, so right now near the end of the semester I'm eating damn ham and cheese sandwiches...better than ramen noodles I guess.

 

Heh, eating cheaply is part of the college experience...or a right of passage as we used to call it!

 

Fast food mostly. If my mom makes something for dinner I'll eat that. In the morning I'll have 2 Ego's or some cereal. During the school week I don't eat anything for lunch except on that rare occasion. I don't know how I stay skinny with all the crap I eat. It's probably because I'm still growing.

 

im at University, I mainly try and pick up as many deals as I can (such as tesco's 2 pizzas for £3)..... means all i really eat is either pizza, sausages, and jacket potatos

i usually miss lunchs ...... breakfast and dinner are very important to me though

 

At school I didn't eat lunch or breakfast :\

Seeing how I'm not in school or anything, I don't have to pay for food, but I am forced to make it, 5 days a week. I prefer to cook from from scratch so I find myself taking 2 hours a day to make dinner :\

My diet is prodominantly Mexican, Thai, Japanese and Chinese and well Pizza, but I also eat normal whitey food as well when I go out. Another reason why I have to cook here is because this state doesn't have Mexicans, Thai or Japanese people and east coast Chinese is almost always crap. Yeesh, if I had to pay to eat food, I'd probably rake up $40+ a day. Used to spend $25 every few days for lunch at Japanese restaurants last year

 

Pasta and other homemade stufff!

 

Interesting to see.
As for me, my diet is largely healthy. Cereal for breakfast, a healthy salad or sandwich for lunch, and dinner is usually something simple and homemade.

I love Japanese (and other ethnic foods) like sushi and so on and make it a point to try new things whenever possible, but I do have the occassional fast food craving for some reason.

 

Coffee and Cranberry Juice. I can't stand either.

I love Gatorade and Soft drinks though!

 

yeah no breakfast...

 

Damn man... get the Lipitor ready. :smt043 Not that I'm one to talk, I love pizza.

Anyway, what's a "jacket potato"?

 

I'm not as bad off as some of you college students are. I'm in college too but for the past 3 months I've been holding back in buying things I don't need, I've been selling. My diet has improved. I have been eating less fast food and have been losing some weight. Overall, I've been eating more "natural" foods than processed foods, lets just put it that way.

 

Sweet tea, sweet tea, and more sweet tea for breakfast. I'm not a redneck, but North/South Carolina grows on you in some ways . I was horrified when I went on a cruise for a week and discovered that they had no sweet tea.

I just had Burger King for dinner. If I'm in a hurry, bored, going somewhere, or just don't feel like making anything, I go to Burger King. It's almost as cheap as McDonald's, but closer in food quality to Hardees (which still isn't saying much) .

 

Umm cooked potato (oven/microwave) with a filling... like cheese, bacon and chicken salad, beans...

 

Food? Whats that, lol.

I pretty much live out of Farmfoods (A weeks worth of cheap food for £7!). 'tis all I can afford for now.

Average meal consists of Potatoe Waffles and some frozen meat product (fish fingers, burgers or whatever).

 

What he thinks its meat he means...

 

Yeah :smt043

As long as I cant taste the sawdust then its okay with me

 

hmmmm

morning: smokes a cig then goes normally over to my father and then we go to a mall called Hundige Storcenter where we eat at a place called Bilka(they have a bistro/cafeteria) and there, a normal meal for us is a BIG salad with lettace salad carrots onions (sp?)
tomatoes and other yummy stuff and then we order a meal like two chopped steaks with fries and bernaise sauce

or a tenderloin dish with sausages ,bacon with paprica sauce and fries (but we still eat that healthy salad)

or spareribs (with the salad) and fries and bbq sauce

then when it is dinner/supper time we eat something he cooks *yummy* at home in his apartment

(i live in my own but we live so close anyway)

and i pay him every week for food so i won´t go hungry to bed but the real reason i am not happy cooking myself has to do with something i have experienced(in my past). but i really love to cook, but i don´t feel like it at the time of being.

and i know the fries/chips is a bad idea (and the sauce offcourse) but really i try hard to eat properly and healthy since i am going to lose alot of weight, if not ? Then i am going to lose something that is more precius to me and that is my life and i love my life.

i am a big fat obese man and i need to drop the pounds/kilos (a kilo is 2.2 pounds) and right now i weigh 139 kilos and that is alot.

 

WARNING:

Mexican food is complex. My family is also complex.
You are in for a long read, but I find it interesting at least.


I consider myself quite a good cook. I still live at home (quite common in Mexico. My sister is like 38 and she lives with us too, though she's lived on her own several years. My brother is 35 and he just left).
However, my parents are constantly on vacation, so I cook a lot. Not everyday or even close to that, but still.

Take in consideration this is quite different from the typical diet in my country.

A typical day of meals for me, if it's a weekday

Breakfast:

2 quesadillas, or a sandwich.

Regular Milk or Chocolate Milk or very rarely "agua fresca" (generally Horchata or Jamaica which are respectively a rice based beberage, or iced hibiscus tea. Very common in Mexico)

(Xerdo's tricks for breakfast. 1.- If you have a VERY good teflon frying pan, you can make a "reverse" quesadilla, and toast the cheese inside. Don't let it toast too much, just have it brown a little bit to improve the taste. With the proper salsa, this really spices up your quesadillas. 2.- Add a little bit of Sherry to your chocolate milk. It improves the chocolate flavour and gives you a little extra kick to face the day ahead of you. )

Dinner/Lunch (don't know what to call it, since it's like 3 PM, though sometimes we have it like at 5)
Many combinations. Sometimes, on a very lazy day, we make "tortas", which would be similar to Sandwiches, but on mexican bread that's similar to baguettes.
Generally, though, we have soup (Lentil soup or cream, cream of carrot, mushrooms or any vegetable, or beans), pasta or salad, and Steak or another main course, like Meat Loaf or Pork Chops, or Chicken or Tostadas. Tacos are not that common, but if you eat with tortillas, you make a taco out of any meal.
We generally have this with many tortillas (when necessary) or bread. There's always tortillas, though.
Generally, in terms of beverages, it's soda or "agua fresca"
Ice cream is a very common dessert - though it's not that common to have dessert, because you have to leave space for supper.

Supper -
Something light and sweet (milk and bread, for example)
If we need something savory, we have a sandwich or quesadillas or whatever's left from dinner.

If it's saturday, Dinner is a bit more elaborated. The more fancy dishes, like Mole (pronounced "Moh-Lay" - a sauce based on chocolate and pepper added to turkey or chicken or even beef), Cochinita Pibil (Pork with a very zesty sauce), or more complex preparations of chicken or beef are several of the family's favourites. Saturday is "extended family day" in Mexico, and our family is mostly the same, so we all get together and eat as a big family.

Sunday morning, my sister or my mom make "Picadas", which is a variation of Gorditas originated in Veracruz (Gorditas are a thicker version of tortillas, with cheese and sauce, or sometimes mushrooms, huitlacoche, or flor de calabaza/pumpkin flower, or beef). Picadas are quite simple (just cheese, sauce, and onions).

That's also a family tradition.
If we go to the "Tianguis" (a flea market that spans several blocks, and where you can get several bootleg goods, used and stolen goods, and antiques, for example, and also breakfast), my dad and my sister have "Menudo" (Yes, like the band - but the soup is much older), a type of beef soup that's also great for hangovers, and I have a "torta ahogada" (which is the delicacy of my city), which is a pork sandwich with a little touch of beans, that is dipped in a zesty sauce, and optionally in a VERY spicy sauce. VERY spicy as in "my father, who used to BITE habanero peppers in Veracruz does not TOUCH the stuff".

Should anyone here ever come visit, I guarantee (if you survive Moctezuma's revenge), you'll have a GREAT gastronomic journey. And you'll put on a few pounds.
Everyone in my family is a bit overweight - but we love food.
Mexican food is VERY varied. There's a lot to experience.
I'm like... 82 kilos (180 pounds?), for example.