What are you eating?

[Sapphire]

So I've been living in poverty for the past week or so, eating only rice and a special tomato sauce I make. On top of that, to save money, I walked home from 86th St to 14th St. It took a full 2 hours and I was running on a rice cake and an apple. I went to a delicious Japanese hole-in-the-wall called Otafuku and had a Yakisoba/Okonomiyaki combo with 6 pieces of Takoyaki, both covered in fish trimmings. I knew it wouldn't sustain me for long, but at that point I was exhausted and lying in bed and dreaded the thought of even going outside to a Halal cart (which there are 4 literally outside my door).

I let the hunger go to an unbearable max and decided to buy some Insomnia cookies. Insomnia cookies is a place around NYU that delivers cookies to all the dorms until late night. They're so good, they melt in your mouth and in your hand and just mmmmmm.

I look at the menu. The prices are almost too good to be true. The deals are too enticing. I end up going with the 18 cookies for $17 deal called Major Rager. I call up, 'cuz smores aren't on the online menu, and the guy says to pick "peanut butter" cookies and put that I want to switch it out with Smores in the comment section.

I get startled by a call that they're at my door like 4 minutes later. The guy sees me and hands me the box of cookies. It's.... MUCH heavier than I expected. I am too hungry to even wait until I'm upstairs and I open the box on the way to the elevator and HOLY SHIT WHAT HAVE I DONE



Above is a picture of OMG all the cookies I got in an irrational haze of hungry hungryness, minus the two cookies I immediately shoved down my throat on the way to my room. I looked on top of the box and there's a quickly written note, "Smores not included in Major Rager. Lucky you, this time." So I got all the cookies PLUS SIX EXTRA peanut butter cookies which I can't even eat because I'm allergic to them. @____@ which is basically a crapload of cookies.

[Animeniax]

You live in poverty but you spent almost $1 per cookie for 18 cookies? A pack of 20 Keebler cookies costs $2.

[Sapphire]

Yeah, I was going to get like, 2 cookies, to indulge myself. Then it all went awry.

And Keebler cookies aren't as huge as these cookies so you have the volumes ALL wrong. These cookies are like the span of my hand.

Edit: A cookie of that size in NYC is usually $1.75 - $2. Me buying these cookies was tots irrational and horrible, though. I think I just learned the hard way that I should always have a healthy snack closely available. Well at least I only blew $20 instead of $70 like some people I know. D: D: D:

[rockmanj]

Well, I have been eating tofurky the past few days, but I do have a funny thanksgiving story. I volunteered to cook the thanksgiving meal for my (omnivore) family and my dad wanted me to cook a beef roast from 2006. That's right, it had been in my parents' freezer since 2006! Of course I refused to cook that, since if people died and ate it, I would likely be charged for murder. So I compromised and cooked a pork roast from early 2009 to the best of my ability. Of course the comments around the taste and texture were "it's a little dry..."

[Dark Dragon]

You guys must all have incredibly strong stomach. Pork should generally not be kept that long even while deep freeze.

[Assertn]

Friend of mine invited me over to his place for thanksgiving and oh man... his girlfriend's pecan pie is the best pie i've ever eaten. Ridiculous.

I've been trying to make more stuff at home, and try some new healthy options, so I got greek yogurt and a bunch of various super-sweet fruits to mix with it. There was a sale on blackberries and whole-freakin pomegranates, so I've been using those. By the way, pomegranates are kind of annoying to eat right out of the fruit.

[Animeniax]

Friend of mine invited me over to his place for thanksgiving and oh man... his girlfriend's pecan pie is the best pie i've ever eaten. Ridiculous.

I've been trying to make more stuff at home, and try some new healthy options, so I got greek yogurt and a bunch of various super-sweet fruits to mix with it. There was a sale on blackberries and whole-freakin pomegranates, so I've been using those. By the way, pomegranates are kind of annoying to eat right out of the fruit.

Honestly was it the pie or the girlfriend that made it so delicious? Bow-chicka-wow-wow!

[gos27]

I've been trying to make more stuff at home, and try some new healthy options, so I got greek yogurt and a bunch of various super-sweet fruits to mix with it. There was a sale on blackberries and whole-freakin pomegranates, so I've been using those. By the way, pomegranates are kind of annoying to eat right out of the fruit.

They're a fecking pain to eat through them. Dragon fruit is very nice and so is star fruit (they're pretty hard to find though).

[rockmanj]

Friend of mine invited me over to his place for thanksgiving and oh man... his girlfriend's pie is the best pie i've ever eaten. Ridiculous.

Must be a hell of a friend

You guys must all have incredibly strong stomach. Pork should generally not be kept that long even while deep freeze.

You can actually consume frozen pork within 2 years, but the muscle tissue is so damaged it is tasteless and hard to eat. Add to that, I don't eat meat; other members of my family ate it.

Lately I have been eating a lot of noodles, specifically, "chewy noodles", a cold korean noodle dish that is oddly filling. I feel like I eat one serving and I am full for the day.

[Kraco]

By the way, pomegranates are kind of annoying to eat right out of the fruit.

Which is why I've only bought them once in my life. The taste wasn't honestly worth the effort.

[Kagemane_no_Jutsu]

I feel like we live in an RPG.... the coolest sounding fruits are harder to find/prolly cost more.

just had some italian bread, popped it in the toaster oven, butter, yum.

[Animeniax]

Nah, just go to an Asian market or other ethnic market and you'll find all kinds of weirdly named food. Most of it doesn't taste very good, just different and therefore special to your average eater.

[Buffalobiian]

Starfruit's pretty alright. I'm not really fond of dragonfruit. It's rather bland, and the texture isn't that great. For something of comparable but superior characteristics I'd go for a nashi.

[Animeniax]

I just had Vietnamese banh mi with nem nuong spring rolls:

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Gonna go sleep off this food coma.

[Buffalobiian]

Started going on a tuna and mixed vegetable diet in an attempt to lower body fat %.

Current daily consumption is between 4000KJ to 6000KJ. It changes depending on what variety of tuna/veges I have on hand, as well as which one I decide to eat due to taste. (Tuna in oil tastes better than tuna in springwater - especially if mixed with the veges - but I try to balance it out by only eating one can of those vs two cans of the non-oily variety a day to make up for it.)

Udon, ramen and curry are sooo distant right now...

[David75]

Starting a month ago, I decided it was time to eat something easy, fast, good to eat everynight.
Cheap rice cooker with steam basket is my cooker.
Buy lots of frozen fish from a good frozen food chain.
Have a 50lbs sticky rice bag
Buy some vegetables/mushrooms/other once a week.

In the morning, remember to choose the fish you wish to eat at night, put it in the fridge to slowly defrost.
In the evening, prepare one of the vegetables, cut it in long and thin. If these are mushroom, just cut them no bigger than dices
Clean rice
Dry fish a little as it should be quite wet from defrost.
Put rice in the cooking bowl
Put the veggies and fish in the steam basket.
Turn the rice cooker on
When it stops, stir the rice, wait another 10 minutes on keep warm mode.
Serve.
The evening part of the preparation is around 35 minutes all included.
The results are stunning considering the $US25 rice cooker and the overall simplicity. Juices from fish and veggies mix very well with the sticky rice. Truth be told, sticky rice goes with almost anything, I had stunning results with traditional french cuisine.

The idea is that with a fairly low food cost, low cost cooker, fast preparation time, I can have light good and nice dinners every-night.

[Animeniax]

Starting a month ago, I decided it was time to eat something easy, fast, good to eat everynight.
Cheap rice cooker with steam basket is my cooker.
Buy lots of frozen fish from a good frozen food chain.
Have a 50lbs sticky rice bag
Buy some vegetables/mushrooms/other once a week.

In the morning, remember to choose the fish you wish to eat at night, put it in the fridge to slowly defrost.
In the evening, prepare one of the vegetables, cut it in long and thin. If these are mushroom, just cut them no bigger than dices
Clean rice
Dry fish a little as it should be quite wet from defrost.
Put rice in the cooking bowl
Put the veggies and fish in the steam basket.
Turn the rice cooker on
When it stops, stir the rice, wait another 10 minutes on keep warm mode.
Serve.
The evening part of the preparation is around 35 minutes all included.
The results are stunning considering the $US25 rice cooker and the overall simplicity. Juices from fish and veggies mix very well with the sticky rice. Truth be told, sticky rice goes with almost anything, I had stunning results with traditional french cuisine.

The idea is that with a fairly low food cost, low cost cooker, fast preparation time, I can have light good and nice dinners every-night.

This is basically how Asian families have lived for the past thousand years or so. I'd gotten away from it and started eating too many frozen American foods. I think I'll give this simple method a try though...

[Animeniax]

Starting a month ago, I decided it was time to eat something easy, fast, good to eat everynight.
Cheap rice cooker with steam basket is my cooker.

The results are stunning considering the $US25 rice cooker and the overall simplicity. Juices from fish and veggies mix very well with the sticky rice. Truth be told, sticky rice goes with almost anything, I had stunning results with traditional french cuisine.

The idea is that with a fairly low food cost, low cost cooker, fast preparation time, I can have light good and nice dinners every-night.

Of course, I have an expensive rice cooker that does not include a steamer. I have a standalone steamer but then that's more cleaning and you lose the flavor from the steamed fish and vegetables dripping on the rice as they cook. I could spend $50 on a new rice cooker/steamer but not sure it's worth it. Progress isn't always as progressive as we'd like it to be.

[shinta|hikari]

Curry and udon are fine even when dieting, as long as they aren't loaded with fatty ingredients. It is all about portion sizes and eating smart.

[shinta|hikari]

Dinuguan.

It is a Filipino dish made of pork liver, intestine, fat, all cooked in blood.



It has a bit of vinegar in it, so it is a mildly sour but deeply flavoured dish. It is a must try if you ever visit the Philippines. It is perfect with rice, or puto, a steamed sweet bread made with rice flour.