Thread: Cheap Foods / Recipes

Sounds great ck! You have a great diet going, keep it up. Thanks for sharing!

Bro for Whiting...if your referring to the fish...

Dip the thawed fish filets in skim or 1% milk then cover it with bread crumbs and throw it in the oven or a toaster oven until golden brown

I like to mix the bread crumbs with lemon pepper seasoning...

your ground beef is a little too fatty. try getting 85/15 or above. I buy 93/7 at target when they have it. its a little dry but if you fry it with olive oil and some fried onions, it tastes great.

cool thing about tilapia, I dont thaw it before cooking. put some fish seasoning/bread mix and fry it with olive oil on a skillet. I love everything fried


you need a better carb source than plain macaroni. check out barley, buckwheat, quinoa. buckwheat and quinoa are a little pricy, barley is fairly cheap. pretty easy to cook and really healthy.

^^I usually buy the ground turkey @ 93/7...but if you can find the ground beef @ 97/3..even better..good look bro

We have 97/3 at my wallmart but it is damn expensive. Like $1.50 more a pound than the 80/20. I don't know about turkey meet.

Bulldogs, I will try your whiting recipe.
I tend to buy a lot of fish because it is damn cheap. Wallmart always has bags of it for a good price.

I have a few other carb sources Vibrant...Brown Rice, Wheat bread, Oatmeal, and pastas. I will look into some buck wheat. Don't be hating on my macaroni!!!!

Diet is very much like mine il be sure to try the chunky soup and rice tho,.

Nice post one thing I disslike I's oatmeal I can't stomach it on it's own but ive gotten around it with throwing the oats in my shake and blending the living day light out of it can't even really notice there there.

Jimm, that is usually what i do

Bro for Whiting...if your referring to the fish.

hmmm yum yum yummm... that's cool.. i will try frozen stuff to save my money now...

thanks

cream of wheat splenda and scrambled eggs mixed together.. yum

Baked Eggs are amazing, i like to throw a few green chiles in mine for flavor.

Originally Posted by ckcrown84

hey everyone, figured I would share some of my foods and eating habits. Right now I am on cycle, gonna list some of the things in my freezer and encourage people to try some of it out.
Grocery Shop: Wallmart

Bag of 6 steaks. Cheap and frozen steaks. can't go wrong. Plenty of protein and tastes great (not really, be sure to marinate)

80/20 Hamburg meat: Hamburger helper baby, gotta love it

Tilapia: I hated this fish until I learned to cook it. Buy bags of it for cheap, avg peice is 100 cals and 20g protein
To cook the tilapia put some tinfoil on baking sheet. Dethaw the Tilapia. Put on some Zesty Salty Lemony type seasoning (yes that is a description lol). Cook the fish for like 5 or so mins. Then take it out. Pour some olive oil and Lemon juice over it and add some Parmesan cheese. Cook for a few additional minutes. Tastes great.


Salmon: Salmon is another great source of protein and it is pretty lean. I cook it with that Zesty lemony salty seasoning type mix and when it is almost done I squirt some lemon juice over it

Whiting: No idea how to cook this yet, any suggestions.

As you can see I buy a lot of frozen cheap stuff in bulk

Oatmeal (great value brand or Quaker, get the flavored stuff do yourself a favor--Strawberries and cream!)

Protein: ON protein + 2 cups milk + Random amount of unflavored oatmeal + Bananna = Awesome

Macaroni and Cheese: Carbs for days....

Brown rice + Chunkys soup
Cook the rice, cook the soup...pour the soup over the rice and add some hot sauce. Much much more filling.


P.s. feel free to check out my workout log, its in my signature!

look forward to hearing back some good feedback on cheap and EASY recipes ( I tend not to enjoy spending just as money for the ingrediants for a recipe that I spent buying the damn food)

Everything sounds good bro but IMO buy quality meats the best way butchers they ain't much at all.
Mine is £11 for 2kg worth of chicken

I am always searching the supermarkets for unfrozen meat thats on special because of a close expiry. Buy it, get it home, put it in bags, freeze it.

Also save one for dinner haha.

Yes I buy 2 weeks worth 6 kg worth and just freeze it, good meat is where it's at these days bro

Quaker oatmeal is delicious

that tilapia recipe sounds delicious

I do all my fish on the foreman grill.. Thaw it out, and season with lemon pepper and garlic seasoning. Usually grill some asparagus with it also.

Ive used the chunky "hamburger" (i think) soup over brown rice and its pretty good. I do not really like canned soups though.

Be careful of the Tilapia, most of it comes from SE Asia as does most of the seafood @ WM.

Originally Posted by bulldogz

Bro for Whiting...if your referring to the fish...

Dip the thawed fish filets in skim or 1% milk then cover it with bread crumbs and throw it in the oven or a toaster oven until golden brown

I like to mix the bread crumbs with lemon pepper seasoning...

Now I am very interested to see how this tastes! Do you have any pics?

Originally Posted by Shillelagh

Be careful of the Tilapia, most of it comes from SE Asia as does most of the seafood @ WM.

Have to agree. Could never find seafood from the USA in WalMart. I wouldn't touch that shit from china. Saw a pretty crazy documentary about seafood in SE asia. Finally found some Whiting last week that was wild caught and a product of the USA. Huge bag, pretty cheap and lots of protein. Taste pretty damn good too. Bake it in the oven with some olive oil and lemon.

any tips on how to marinate/season the steak? so far mine have been terrible

Originally Posted by menace

cream of wheat splenda and scrambled eggs mixed together.. yum

Really?

Do you mix it all together then cook? Or cook separately then mix together?

sounds great haha

Protein shake of the my week:

2 cups milk
half banana
2 scoops ON choc protein
a big old spoonful of Peter Pan sweet Honey peanut butter.

blend
drink
grow

Originally Posted by PappyMason

any tips on how to marinate/season the steak? so far mine have been terrible

I put some steak seasoning (store bought) and sazon on my shit sometimes.

Thanks for sharing! You have a great diet going but I like to throw a few green chiles in mine for flavor.

I think it's good way and so much nice to me,but too much difficult to follow this way to me,but maybe i will try.