"Breakfast" at Subway (sorry no pictures)

Meal: breakfast (Sat 10/2)
From: Subway
Cost: just over $8 (for a meal for 2)
Location: Queens


I went to see Resident Evil: Afterlife in 3D with my girlfriend on Saturday. Anyone that knows me, knows that I like to save money and get good deals. My girlfriend is pretty much the same way. So of course we went to see the matinée showing of the movie, because it is about $3 less. Also I purchased the tickets via Fandango because I can get $25 Fandango gift cards for only $20 using one my credit cards. In other words, we paid $23 to see a movie that normally would cost $34 (yes NYC is EXPENSIVE). However, seeing the movie so early meant we had to eat fast. So we went to a Subway near the theater and got a meal to split.

Unfortunately I was so hungry and we were in such a rush I completely forgot to take pictures, but this is what we got:

Foot long chicken breast on Italian herbs and cheese bread with provolone cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, banana peppers, cucumbers and lite mayo (all toasted).

We also got a bag of white cheddar popcorn.

Taste: I was starving, so this was delicious
Conclusion: this technically was my breakfast, but probably should have been considered lunch.


Drink: a medium cup (I do not understand how a 32oz cup is considered medium, but it is) of Diet Coke with ice.

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...

Lunch...

Meal: lunch (Fri 9/17)

From: 

Ham and Cheese Sandwich

Ingredients (Ham and Cheese Sandwich)

-6 slices of ham

-2 slices of cheddar cheese

-2 large pieces of lettuce (chopped up)

-olive oil mayonnaise

-Chinese bakery bread (sweet)

I had some leftover Korean pancakes from dinner so I brought them along to supplement my lunch.

Taste: the sandwich had a sweet taste because of the bread, but it was pretty good. Although, I was pretty hungry because I was in a meeting all morning and ended up eating lunch about 30 minutes later than usual. The Korean pancakes were just as delicious as the night before.

Conclusion: I am not hungry anymore and I have no complaints other than I wish I had had a soda.

Drink: I forgot to bring a can of soda today, so instead I had some water from the office water cooler.

Tuna Salad Sandwich

Meal: lunch (Thu 9/16)

From: my fridge

Cost: free

Location: my kitchen

I thought the olive oil mayonnaise I had yesterday was pretty good, so I decide to make some tuna salad with it. I also thoroughly enjoyed the sour dough bread I had yesterday, so went with it again today. I still had some lettuce so I put a healthy portion of it in my sandwich as well.

The large bread requires that I cut it in half in order to fit it in my lunch container.

Cross Section View

Taste: GREAT! The lightly toasted sour dough bread had a good taste and texture; the iceberg lettuce had the right about of crispness to it; the olive oil mayonnaise was just mild enough with the tuna fish.

Conclusion: All in all a great sandwich, and definitely a nice change of pace from turkey or ham cold cuts.

Drink: a cold can of Diet Dr. Pepper.

Tony Stark is Iron Man!

Same lunch with a twist.

Meal: lunch (Mon 9/13)
From: my fridge
Cost: cost to me less than $1
Location: my kitchen

After a relatively expensive weekend (notwithstanding the 20 pairs of Hanes brand socks I purchased for $0.50), I needed to go back to my money saving roots. Another cheese and cold cut sandwich was in my future. I found some lettuce in my fridge, to make the sandwich a little "healthier" and I poured on sriracha sauce to give it some kick/favor, and maybe even burn off some taste buds so I could not taste the usual blandness. Thanks to a Costco run on Thursday I had some more cheese options than normal. I decided to go with swiss cheese, I was sick of yellow American cheese, the the exact opposite (white cheese with holes created by a neutral nation vs. yellow cheese without holes created by a "not so neutral" nation) would hopefully be a nice change.

Ample amounts of sriracha (chili) sauce.

(As I usually do, I lightly toasted the bread to eliminate all fridge induced moisture.)

Swiss Cheese Please!

The Finished Product

Taste: it was pretty good, the lettuce some how made it a different sandwich that I have been eating in the last few weeks.

Conclusion: next time I need to put less sriracha sauce, or cut it with something, as my mouth was burning for several minutes afterwards. But the sandwich taste good, we will see if I get heart burn later.

Drink: a nice cold can of Coke Zero.

Yes, I do have a snap on top to keep in the fizzy...

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...

Midnight Snack Made of Throw Aways

So my "frozen" dinner was not filling enough, so I needed a little extra. I found a bag of bread in my fridge with only the ends left (the throw aways). I was not sure how old the bread was, but it did not look moldy, but for good measure I toasted it with the hope that the heat would kill anything bad. Also bread from the fridge is usually soggy, so the toasting dried it right up.

 

 I found some forest berry preserve in the fridge, not sure what the difference between jelly, jam, and preserve is, but it all tastes good.

I found some Skippy creamy peanut butter to complete my snack.

My Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

Meal: midnight snack

From: my fridge

Cost: throw aways are always free!

Location: my kitchen

Taste: hit the spot.

Conclusion: not starving anymore.

Drink: a glass of Pellegrino with ice.