<p>Get some dry pasta, alfredo or tomato sauce, chicken or meatballs, some veggies, and voila! One microwave and you're ready to go.</p>
<p>I like to have pasta with alfredo sauce, chicken, and cauliflowers/broccoli mix.</p>
<p>I wish I could cook.</p>
<p>good article on eating healthy food for cheap</p>
<p>Mmm, salmon and vienna</p>
<p>Dude, I'm a fan of those frozen burritos. They're pretty cheap, and you just throw 'em in the microwave.</p>
<p>For ramen, you have to sprinkle on that packet stuff and wash spoons, forks, and bowls and stuff. I can just pick up and unwrap a burrito to eat. It's the ultimate in laziness.</p>
<p>fruit smoothies... taste good, are pretty darn cheap, and are probably one of the healthiest things you can make... for one 24-oz. smoothie (~800 cal.)</p>
<p>8 oz. juice (get in gallon or half gallon jugs... will cost around $5/gal = .31/cup)
6-8 oz. yogurt (~.50/cup)
8 oz. fresh and/or frozen fruit (~$3 for a 16 oz. bag or .99/lb for fresh bananas... I usually mix them... so about $1.50/drink)</p>
<p>total: $2.31 ... you could split the ingredients by 2 or 3 to get a smaller drink... but a 24 oz. provides the equivalent of a small meal -- about 800 calories...you could add a slim fast, protein or other dietary supplement powder into the mix to make it more complete.</p>
<p>I know those burritos. I don't like them. Quesedillas are good but I'm not sure about price.</p>
<p>Haha they're not exactly burritos, but it's like baked stuff with philly steak and cheese stuffed in it. There're also other flavors.</p>
<p>It tastes so good man.</p>
<p>Quaker Rice Cakes!!! 50-60 calories per cake. Great snack...</p>
<p>Pasta with tomato sauce is always a cheap, easy meal that isn't as bad for you as ramen, and you can add some frozen vegetables if that gets boring. Mac and cheese is always good; I like to add frozen broccoli or artichoke hearts to make it more interesting. Tofu isn't that expensive, and is easy to stir-fry with some vegetables, olive oil, and a little bit of teriyaki or soy sauce (make sure you buy extra-firm tofu if you're stir-frying it). To make the meal cheaper and more filling you can serve a bit of stir-fry over rice.</p>
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Well, it can't cost that much to buy a bag of tortillas and a block of cheese. If you want chicken or something, then it might cost more, but I still doubt it's very expensive</p>
<p>How do you make quesadillas out of tortillas?</p>
<p>I might be being stupid but...</p>
<p>1984, you're not stupid... but a quesadilla IS made using a tortilla!</p>
<p>a quesadilla is simply melted cheese on a folded (usually flour) tortilla. It can have additional ingredients like chicken or beef added in as well and can be made in a microwave, although grills and such tend to make better ones.</p>
<p>Take a tortilla. Put cheese on one half. Fold tortilla in half over the cheese. Place in a small, oiled (or buttered) pan. Cook on stovetop until cheese is melted and tortilla reaches desired crispness. That's how I do it.</p>
<p>If you have a blender an awesome and relatively cheap snack is.... HUMMUS. </p>
<p>Just buy some canned garbonzo beans and a big jug of the cheap olive oil. Blend the beans and the olive oil together and you get a very basic hummus. Of course it would be a lot tastier if you added:</p>
<p>Salt, pepper, maybe some onions, lemon juice (you can get lemon juice in a lemon-squeezy thing for cheap) and other things. Different people have different recipes. </p>
<p>Just a little pita bread, some chopped tomatoes and hummus is so, so good. It tastes awesome, is really healthy, and cheap and easy to make. </p>
<p>If you actually have a kitchen to make the stuff split pea soup made in bulk comes out to be really cheap (way, way less than a dollar a bowl) and you can just heat it up in the microwave whenever you want it.</p>
<p>Oh crap haha. I mixed up tortillas with tostitos nachos.</p>
<p>My bad my bad.</p>
<p>^That would be nachos. :)</p>
<p>An olive oil drink? o.o</p>
<p>Oooh, philly steak burrito. Yeah, I once got spicy walmart chicken/beef burritos, no good. But cheap enough. BTW, the yummy quesedillas are premade not me cook</p>
<p>Hummus isn't a drink. It's a dip/spread. Delicious stuff.</p>
<p>Yeah, I probably should have been more specific for the people who have never had hummus before. Hummus is a dip/spread just like Dorian_Mode said. You put it in a bowl and usually eat with little pieces of toasted pita bread. It's a fantastic cheap and simple snack/meal accompanient.</p>