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What are yalls go to healthy broke college students meals for someone who doesn’t want to live off of instant noodles
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Anonymous 3w

1 lb ground beef - $6.50 1 bag frozen chopped onions+bell peppers - $1.50 1 cup uncooked brown rice - $0.50 $8.50 total for 4 healthy-ish meals at $2.13 per meal, only takes like 15 minutes to prepare

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Anonymous 3w

Pasta pasta pasta😭🙏🏼 it’s fast to cook and you can add any meat or veggies you want, sauce is also super cheap

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Anonymous 3w

A5 Wagyu paired with lobster tail and caviar

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Anonymous 3w

Hamburger helper

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Beer

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I’ve been told you can buy a warm rotisserie chicken at the store and split it among multiple meals. That probably would work alone, with rice, egg noodles (I’d have a broth with it, too, for egg noodles), Campbell’s soup is good, too.

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Anonymous 3w

sweet potato or regular potato, ground beef,turkey, or chicken, rice/cauliflower rice, frozen vegetables, 0 cal sauces, rotisserie chicken, low cal tortillas, low cal cheese etc, all of these are pretty cheap and you can mix them in a bunch of different ways, definitely shop at aldis you’re not gonna find a cheaper grocery store i swear, if you shop at other stores make sure you’re signed up with your number to get coupons and stuff

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Anonymous 3w

Burger Bowls: - Ground Beef - Chopped Romaine - Onion & Mushrooms - Cheese - Avocado And add any sauce you want

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Anonymous 3w

my top two are trader joe stir fry/rice and cucumber, canned soup + I add tofu and edamame

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Anonymous 3w

Protein bowls in the frozen section, decent protein, $2-4 per box depending on what you pick, pretty good variety and flavor isn’t half bad

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Anonymous 3w

seasoned tofu scramble of over rice with French’s fried onions. A fried egg on top if you have one

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Anonymous 3w

1lb Ground turkey, brown rice or quinoa, canned corn and beans, grated cheese. Easily makes 2-4 meals, is cheap, decent nutrition

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Anonymous 3w

Ground turkey, taco packs, spinach, sweet potatoes, cook it all and combine. Chicken breast, frozen veggies,teriyaki sauce. I normally get enough to meal prep for the week

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Anonymous 3w

wholefoods family meal prep comes out to 8 bucks a meal if you plan it right

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Anonymous 3w

Ground beef, half goes in spaghetti, the other half goes in Mac & Cheese. Get some jasmine rice, you can eat it steamed or make fried rice. Get chicken, you can bake it or cook it stove top, put curry sauce, Or teriyaki sauce. Hot dogs and sandwiches for the lazy days.

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Anonymous 3w

If u have a blender smoothies- I have like a tiny personal blender and I do a smoothie every day cuz you can get the big bags of frozen fruit for not that much and they last a while!

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Anonymous 3w

Bolillos, lil Mexican loaves of bread that are meant to be eaten the day they’re bought, because they become stale quickly

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Anonymous 3w

If you have a Costco membership get bagged rice with the 20 packs of chicken you can make 20 meals for like $35

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Anonymous 3w

I’m making spaghetti tn 🤷

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Anonymous 3w

Pasta is cheap, ground turkey and chicken is cheap, pork is cheap, ground beef isn’t bad, frozen fruits and veggies are pretty cheap, rice is really cheap. Theres a lot of options that you can make taste delicious using seasonings which you shouldn’t have to buy too often, lot of great recipes online

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Anonymous 3w

Frozen veggies

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Anonymous 3w

Pulled chicken lettuce wraps. $5 rotisserie chicken pick dry/shredded, lettuce (or healthy tortillas if u don’t want produce), and sauce of your choice. I like kimchi on mine too with a Korean bbq sauce

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Anonymous 3w

One pan meal/bakes. Only a few ingredients and gives you at least 4 meals

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Anonymous 3w

My go to cheap and pretty filling meals that have a lot of protein, fiber, and carbs (energy) White rice, lentils and ground turkey. Combine the lentils and turkey for more protein and that way, you can stretch the meal Shred pre made rotisserie chicken (where I’m at, it’s ~$5-6), do rice or potatoes with heated up frozen broccoli with some Sriracha and other seasonings

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Anonymous 3w

premade salad kits and a cooked rotisserie chicken from the store. Lasts like a week

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Anonymous 3w

chicken comes in lots of different forms and can be affordable if you buy a bag you can get multiple meals from, you can put it in pasta or a salad for cheap (the bags of salad with all the ingredients included)

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Anonymous 3w

Oven baked Veggies, potato, sweet potatoes, canned beans for proteins etc

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Also I buy the big bags of frozen salmon filets, they come out to like $2 per serving. I marinate it in soy sauce + honey + olive oil and bake it and eat it with Trader Joe’s frozen fried rice like #1 said, that’s like $4 per meal and it SLAPS

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w

😩

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Anonymous 3w

no it’s not bro it’s free cuz my dad pays for it

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 3w

I like to do this and add it to salads too

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 3w

Ok thanks

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Anonymous replying to -> #23 3w

Literally ate this a few hours ago, so gas. And if you have spare in&out sauce lying around 😩

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Anonymous replying to -> #32 3w

u know ball

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Anonymous replying to -> #25 3w

$8 a meal is quite steep for eating at home, I’m afraid

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