single bachelor food
 

I will be on my own (sans Dagney) beginning Friday.

I will have a restricted food budget.

What are some good dishes to make for one? And I don't want my dog to eat better than I do.

Brian

Macaroni and cheese with a can of Hormel chili mixed in. :D

Tuna or cut-up hot dogs also go very well in mac n cheese.

Always the easy route - spaghetti and sauce. If you need your meat fix, you can either add ground beef or cook italian sausage to go along.

If you prefer to use only a microwave and a single bowl or plate, I have plenty of nuke 'em dishes that are easy to make.

The ultimate in cheap dining: ramen noodles (usually on sale for about 5 cents a pack, aka $1 for 20) and butter. Super-not-good for you, pretty damn tasty, easy to fix, cheap.

To spice it up a bit, remove butter and actually use the seasoning. Wee!

And for a bit more expensive meal (what, like 17 cents per meal here now), melt some butter and cheese together to make a nice cheese sauce, then mix the noodles into this.

Sliced up hot dogs go well with any noodle/cheese mixture and hot dogs are quite cheap, of course.

French dip sandwiches are easy and good. Hoagie buns, good roast beef and swiss cheese. Liptons french onion soup for the au jus.

Actually, just about any sandwich is good bachelor food. Now that I'm all grown up, I really don't know why I spent all that money on ramen noodles rather than cheap bread and deli stuff. Dollar for dollar, I bet I would have gotten the same amount of meals out of it, only with more variety.

Nevermind. Dave's post reminded me that ramen is like 10 cents a pack, not a dollar.

Place a dollar value on "taste" and "variety", and upgrade from ramen accordingly. Sandwiches are good. Eggs 'n' toast? Pasta? Chips 'n' beans?

bananas. apples. Peanut butter. popcorn. milk. cereal.

warch - shush! Some of that stuff is actually <b>good</b> for you!

Can't believe I forgot to mention this:

GEORGE FOREMAN GRILL

Best $19 you'll ever spend. You can cook ANYTHING on it - I do burgers, chicken, fish, steaks, vegetables, even hot dogs.

It really makes making decent, hot food a really easy thing. When I'm feeling lazy, I'll have a hot cheeseburger made from scratch and cooked in about 5 minutes.

warch's other post said something like "I'm sorry - that's single <b>girl</b> food." It's true. Why she deleted it, I'll never know. But I'm outing her now. Mwahahahaha!

Re: single bachelor food
 

Hrmpf, you say it in such a way to make people think I'm not going to be cooking for you anymore dear :)

(There's always the weekends!)

Quesadillas are pretty easy to make, but lack in nutritional value. Cold cereal is pretty damn easy, and you may find a vitamin or two snuck in there. Grilled ham-n-cheese, along with some Campbell's Chunky soup is based on a true meal.

You could construct a tuna fish sandwich, and as an anti-bland device use that new Wasabi mayo they're selling at the grocery store (I forget the brand, but it's a find-it-in-every-store brand).

Lots more ideas, but I gotta get a new build of the company software made, and get my ass home... later.

Here's a recipe courtesy of Jane Brody's Good Food book. Miraculously, both kids like it. It's cheap.

Chop 1 medium onion and 1 clove garlic. Saute in 2 TBSP olive oil until they just start to turn brown.

Add 1 14 oz. can of diced tomatoes, 1 14 or 15 oz can of chickpeas (both w/ liquid), and 1 14 or 15 oz can of chickpeas that you've run thru a blender or food processor.

Bring to a boil & simmer 15 mins.

Add 1 tsp. Rosemary and black pepper to taste. Serve over spaghetti with grated Parmesan cheese.

If you're by yourself it'll make 2 or 3 meals worth.

MREs dude. Even comes with it's own condiments, toilet paper and apres meal Chicklets. The ulitmate in Bachelor food.

Re: single bachelor food
 

Give the dog store brand and keep the Alpo for noodles and..... :D

Canned Salmon/ Kipper Snacks/ Sardines + good Salsa + wheat bread. Cooking time: 8.2 seconds.

Ramen noodles ($.19/pack at Shoppers, btw :) + roast beef from deli counter. Cooking time: 12 minutes. Watch the sodium, tho.

Brown Sugar & Cinnamon Total (2 for $5.00 at Giant w/ bonus card) + 2% milk.

Keep deli meat and bread handy and some good Knoor bullion or soup mix.

19 bean soup mix + good keilbasa in crock pot (if you have one). Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

General hints:
Don't buy meat unless you are going to cook it that night.
Nothing frozen is acceptable for a true bachelor lifestyle. :)

Beer. Lots of beer.

Beer, nachos, frozen pizza, pork rinds, ramen and sandwiches. YUM

How about roast duck in a raspberry reduction sauce?

Coupled with wild rice pilaf topped with fresh mango salsa?

Quiche lorraine in an "impossible" crust, lobster and crab bisque, a fresh spinach salad with seared scallops?

Can't forget a homemade sorbet or tiramisu for dessert.

I will go with WalMart soda there, but a ix pack for treats is fine there. And some wine too. And vodka. And Scotch (20+ year old)
Sheesh, I should just open a bar...

Brian

I like how this man thinks, but it's just too much work for one meal and leftovers lose so much flavor...

And I was thinking more along the lines of chicken breast stuffed with an apple stuffing and brie cheese myself.

Brian

You want a quick, easy chicken casseroleish dish?

Grease the bottom of a baking pan.

Four to six chicken breasts in the bottom.

Mix up one box of stove top stuffing with cold water. Helps if it's a little wet n soupy.

One can of cream of mushroom soup (or any kind of cream of soup) poured over the whole thing (use milk to extend, if needed).

Bake for 25 min, or until the chicken's cooked. Fabulous eating.

20+ year old scotch? I'll be right over.

You want BK or Taco Hell with that?

either. I do chicken sammiches at BK and soft tacos at TH.

Dagney and I will be there Saturday afternoon and evening (leave us alone at night pls. Ahem) I will be there most of the time after that but she goes home Sunday evening.

Brian

pita and hummus

mmmmmm Scotch

I used to go away for 5 days at a time and my Boyfriend used to act so proud at the way he took care o himself for 5 whole days he cooked, washed up the dishes.... until i took out some rubbish and spotted 5 empty dominos pizza boxes in the Otto Bin!

And then you have to sleep next to the result of this!! :rolleyes: