Steak & Shake

"Royale" - Basically a bacon cheese burger with a fried egg... delicious!

Super Homemade Breakfast Sandwich

Meal: breakfast (Fri 10/29)

From: my fridge

Cost: N/A

Location: my kitchen

I woke up in time to make breakfast.

Taste: pretty good.

Conclusion: it probably could have used some butter and frying and maybe an egg.

Drink: some coffee from the office.

Last bland lunch at least until Monday...

Meal: lunch (Fri 10/1)

From: my fridge

Cost: nearly free for me

Location: my kitchen

Oh, the things I do to save money... eat this:

Yet another turkey and cheese wholewheat bread sandwich with mustard (this time I used yellow mustard instead of spicy).

I had the remains of a bag of Terra Stix too...

Crunchy!

Taste: the Terra Stix made the bland sandwich bearable...

Conclusion: 3 days in a row of those sandwiches was enough...

Drink: a can of cold Diet Dr. Pepper.

Another Lame Lunch...

Meal: lunch (Thu 9/30)
From: my fridge
Cost: nearly free for me
Location: my kitchen

I need to save some money for the weekend so here is another turkey and cheese sandwich.

It has some spicy mustard too... on wholewheat bread...

Taste: the blandness continues

Conclusion: I guess I was not starving anymore, but I was not full either...

Drink: some water from the office water cooler (Poland Spring).

Back to lame lunches...

Meal: lunch (Wed 9/29)

From: my fridge

Cost: back to nearly free

Location: my kitchen

Without anymore leftovers and low on funds (therefore, unable to buy lunch), I have been relegated to eating the cheap stuff... turkey and cheese with mustard on wholewheat.

7 slices of turkey

2 slices of cheese

spicy mustard

2 slices of wholewheat bread

Taste: adequate

Conclusion: so bland...

Drink: a cold can of Diet Dr. Pepper...

I am sick of ham and cheese already!

Meal: lunch (Thu 9/10)
From: my fridge
Cost: less than $2
Location: my kitchen

Ham, Turkey and Cheese Sandwich with Mustard on Wholewheat Bread

Nothing special here. Same lightly toasted wholewheat bread (to get the fridge made moisture out), same Target house brand ham, same Kraft Singles American Cheese. I added some Met Food house brand turkey and used French's Yellow Mustard. Strangely, the taste of the turkey and mustard was different enough that the sandwich had a different taste.

Taste: bland, bland, bland...
Conclusion: I am sick of eating this crap, thank god for the weekend, when I can eat some good unhealthy stuff.

Drink: a can of Coke Zero.

Coke Zero

Remarks: wish I could afford an unhealthy lunch...

Ham and Cheese w/ Sriracha?

Meal: lunch (Thu 9/9)
From: my fridge
Cost: less than $2
Location: my kitchen

I am really trying to save money right now, at least until the end of the month. Therefore, today was yet another sandwich from home day. Yesterday I had a ham and cheese sandwich... today I was going to have another, but I wanted to change it up a bit. A friend suggested I try putting Sriracha (chili hot sauce) instead of mustard. To be on the safe side I put Sriracha on one side and good old light mayonnaise on the other. As usual I lightly toasted the bread to get out the moister accumulated from being stored in the fridge. I then added two slices of American cheese and put ample amounts of ham.

My Sandwich

Materials
-Boiled Ham (Target house brand)
-American Cheese (Kraft "Singles")
-Wholewheat Bread (Arnold's "Soft")
-Light Mayonnaise (Hellman's)
-Sriracha (Huy Fong)

Taste: not bad, not bad at all. The Sriracha gives it a nice kick to change the flavor and make it less bland, although the texture remains the same as my sandwich from yesterday.
Conclusion: Sriracha is an easy way to make my sandwiches not taste all the same.


Drink: a nice cold can of Coke Zero.

Cost Cutting Lunch

Meal: lunch (Wed 9/8)
From: my fridge
Cost: less than $2 (I actually paid for all these sandwich materials this time)
Location: my kitchen

Ham and Cheese Sandwich with Spicy Mustard on Wholewheat Bread

Ham:Target house brand
Cheese: Kraft American Cheese
Bread: Arnold's Soft Wheat (needed to be lightly toasted to get the fridge induced moisture out)
Condiment: generic spicy mustard

Taste: a little bland, but cheaper than going out to eat.
Conclusion: I need to save money one way or another.

Drink: a can of Coke Zero
From: Stop & Shop
Cost: less than 40 cents
Location: Queens

Coke Zero

Remarks: Coke Zero tastes better than Diet Coke and has 0 calories...

Cheap Lunch From Home

I needed to save some money for this weekend so I bought lunch to work today.

Ham and cheese sandwich with spicy mustard on wholewheat bread.

Meal: lunch (Fri 9/3)

From: my fridge

Cost: unable to be determine (I paid less than $3 for a loaf of bread and a bottle of mustard, but the cheese and ham were in my fridge already.)

Location: my kitchen

I bought the bread and spicy mustard from Target, the cheese was from Costco, and I think the ham came from A&P supermarket.

The cheese was pepper jack and the ham was your standard boiled ham cold cut. I had to lightly toast the bread, because it had been sitting in the fridge for a while and was getting a little moist. 2 slices of cheese and 4 slices of over-sized ham = just enough to get me through the end of the work day.

Taste: only acceptable because I think I spoiled myself with delicious food for lunch this week.

Conclusion: an adequate cheap meal so I can save money for using doing the long weekend.

Drink: a can of diet Pepsi, I was going to save it for later, but my office water cooler was out of water and the water cooler guy is not coming until later today...