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GEORGIA ON
I'm a Fedex Express Courier who wants/needs to lose weight/eat healthy instead of hitting the local fast food joints.
Just want ideas that are quick and semi easy but are simple to make.
I hate waking the family up when I try to prepare lunch and try to keep dinner leftovers out of my tote because the heavy meals make me sluggish while working.
Thanks and thumbs up to all who answer ... just give me time to get back and read the answers.
Answer
Stuff a pita pocket with some meat (ground beef, grilled chicken, deli meat, you name it), veggies, hummus and/or mayonaise (any sauce you want, really), and kalamata olives. It takes five minutes to make and tastes delicious!
Mix a can of tuna with two tablespoons of mayonaise, two tablespoons of chopped onions, two tablespoons of chopped dill pickles, and one tablespoon of dill pickle juice. Eat the mixture on a piece of sandwich bread, on a bagel, inside a pita, with some crackers, or just by itself.
Spread some cream cheese on a tortilla, put down some lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, avocado, and turkey breast, and roll it up into a wrap sandwich.
Take two halves of a ciabatta roll, spread pesto on one half and mayonaise on the other, and fill the sandwich with grilled chicken, smoked gouda cheese, and romaine lettuce.
Take two halves of toasted white Italian bread, spread some soft goat cheese on both sides, and fill the sandwich with caramelized onions, raisins (sounds weird, but it's delicious), and arugula.
(For the caramelized onions: Take any onion (red, white, or yellow), slice it up, and being sautéing it in a pan over medium/high heat with a tablespoon of butter and a tablespoon of olive oil. After 10 minutes, sprinkle a teaspoon of salt and two teaspoons of sugar on the onions, and continue cooking them until they develop a deep golden brown color.)
Hope this gives you some ideas!
Stuff a pita pocket with some meat (ground beef, grilled chicken, deli meat, you name it), veggies, hummus and/or mayonaise (any sauce you want, really), and kalamata olives. It takes five minutes to make and tastes delicious!
Mix a can of tuna with two tablespoons of mayonaise, two tablespoons of chopped onions, two tablespoons of chopped dill pickles, and one tablespoon of dill pickle juice. Eat the mixture on a piece of sandwich bread, on a bagel, inside a pita, with some crackers, or just by itself.
Spread some cream cheese on a tortilla, put down some lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, avocado, and turkey breast, and roll it up into a wrap sandwich.
Take two halves of a ciabatta roll, spread pesto on one half and mayonaise on the other, and fill the sandwich with grilled chicken, smoked gouda cheese, and romaine lettuce.
Take two halves of toasted white Italian bread, spread some soft goat cheese on both sides, and fill the sandwich with caramelized onions, raisins (sounds weird, but it's delicious), and arugula.
(For the caramelized onions: Take any onion (red, white, or yellow), slice it up, and being sautéing it in a pan over medium/high heat with a tablespoon of butter and a tablespoon of olive oil. After 10 minutes, sprinkle a teaspoon of salt and two teaspoons of sugar on the onions, and continue cooking them until they develop a deep golden brown color.)
Hope this gives you some ideas!
Fellow college students, what are your favorite meals and snacks that you can prepare in your dorm room?
Skylark
I have four papers that are each going to be in excess of forty pages to finish writing in addition to final exams to prepare for, so I'm planning to become a part-time hermit the next few weeks and have all weekday lunches and snacks in my room while working. I am fortunate to live in a sorority house that has a wonderful chef who makes dinner for us, so I'll continue to dine with my friends at night, but am going to skip eating out for lunch and snacks as much as possible until the end of the quarter. I'm planning a trip to Trader Joe's on Thursday to stock up on groceries, and am hoping to get suggestions for simple, healthy meals to make during my upcoming self-imposed solitary confinement sentence. I've been making either a fruit smoothie or corn on the cob and a salad whenever I stay in for lunch, but I think I need to diversify my diet a little.
What snacks and foods do you keep in your dorm room? What meals do you make most often? If you have a meal plan, how frequently do you eat in your room instead of in a dining hall or elsewhere?
I'd also welcome answers from non-students who might be able to provide recipes or ideas for relatively healthy vegetarian meals and snacks that I could make in my little room. I have a mini-fridge, blender, microwave, coffee maker, and a nifty toaster oven with a four-slice toaster built in, so I could set my culinary goals a bit higher than animal cracker and yogurt parfaits or smoothies.
Bonus Question ~ How much longer do you have until winter break? : )
Answer
hey- ouch! 4 papers! >.<
btw, 'a smoothie or corn on the cob' is NOT lunch!! does your mother know????? :D
when i first left home i survived for ages on a sophisticated diet of crisps, cheddar cheese on digestive biscuts (heaven) and milkshakes, and had ice cream and pizza for breakfast simply because i could (oh, youthful rebellion -_-). food groups- covered.
anyway, on my foundation course(pre uni) and first year i was in a house share, where my lovely house mate harriet introduced me to her sandwich toaster. i then graduated to living off bread with ANYTHING made molten and delish inbetween said bread. its actually a classic student staple- warm/hotter than the sun if you add chutney/tomatoes, so good in winter, and easy and quick. you can make a bunch then stack them sideways (otherwise the bottoms tend to get soft if left on a plate)- cheese, even avocado is fine, pesto mmmmm all becomes perfection. if you like toast, you will LOVE toasted sandwiches!! it seals the filling inside and is just *magical*.
~now i live alone and im more adult (ha!) i still dont really cook much unless i have someone round. busy food- soft wraps- im not sure what youd call them in the US- tortilla wraps? the soft wrap thingies- grill lightly then add hummous, baby spinich, watercress, rocket etc. chop some peppers, or add grilled from a jar.
~a good salad is grated carrot (some blenders can manage this), with sultanas, and a dressing of lemon and olive oil (not extra virgine)- its very sweet. roast chopped carrots in a pan covered w foil; makes a nice mash. stir in normal mash stuff- butter, cream, cheese, tofu etc, and sprinkle some chopped watercress or spinich.
~hummous is pretty cool cos you can add almost anything to it, and change its flavour beautifully, but its a good, filling, healthy carb. try pomegranete seeds (honestly!!), pesto, blitz with some sundried toms, or paste, avos too are good- good oils, but also filling. if you buy too many you can blitz one up w soy etc milk and grated nutmeg (sounds vile, tastes incredible), for a smoothie.
~scatter some assorted nuts on a tray and roast them- shake the pan to get them even; about 3 mins. drizzle some oil over then, and season. there are really nice tubs of nuts and seeds done this way from wholefoods etc, but its easy to make your own.
~once in a while i treat myself to a ciabatta sarnie~ lightly toast a split loaf, then top with blue cheese- return to the grill til it starts to bubble. spread pesto over it and slices of tomato. SOOOOO good i want to marry it. bruschetta is also good, and you can eat the filling as a salad- chopped toms, garlic, basil and torn mozarella, w a splash of olive oil.
end of term is now as im off sick. catching up w Neighbours. i know, right- you're impressed w my stella levels of sophisticaton!
good luck with your work! X
hey- ouch! 4 papers! >.<
btw, 'a smoothie or corn on the cob' is NOT lunch!! does your mother know????? :D
when i first left home i survived for ages on a sophisticated diet of crisps, cheddar cheese on digestive biscuts (heaven) and milkshakes, and had ice cream and pizza for breakfast simply because i could (oh, youthful rebellion -_-). food groups- covered.
anyway, on my foundation course(pre uni) and first year i was in a house share, where my lovely house mate harriet introduced me to her sandwich toaster. i then graduated to living off bread with ANYTHING made molten and delish inbetween said bread. its actually a classic student staple- warm/hotter than the sun if you add chutney/tomatoes, so good in winter, and easy and quick. you can make a bunch then stack them sideways (otherwise the bottoms tend to get soft if left on a plate)- cheese, even avocado is fine, pesto mmmmm all becomes perfection. if you like toast, you will LOVE toasted sandwiches!! it seals the filling inside and is just *magical*.
~now i live alone and im more adult (ha!) i still dont really cook much unless i have someone round. busy food- soft wraps- im not sure what youd call them in the US- tortilla wraps? the soft wrap thingies- grill lightly then add hummous, baby spinich, watercress, rocket etc. chop some peppers, or add grilled from a jar.
~a good salad is grated carrot (some blenders can manage this), with sultanas, and a dressing of lemon and olive oil (not extra virgine)- its very sweet. roast chopped carrots in a pan covered w foil; makes a nice mash. stir in normal mash stuff- butter, cream, cheese, tofu etc, and sprinkle some chopped watercress or spinich.
~hummous is pretty cool cos you can add almost anything to it, and change its flavour beautifully, but its a good, filling, healthy carb. try pomegranete seeds (honestly!!), pesto, blitz with some sundried toms, or paste, avos too are good- good oils, but also filling. if you buy too many you can blitz one up w soy etc milk and grated nutmeg (sounds vile, tastes incredible), for a smoothie.
~scatter some assorted nuts on a tray and roast them- shake the pan to get them even; about 3 mins. drizzle some oil over then, and season. there are really nice tubs of nuts and seeds done this way from wholefoods etc, but its easy to make your own.
~once in a while i treat myself to a ciabatta sarnie~ lightly toast a split loaf, then top with blue cheese- return to the grill til it starts to bubble. spread pesto over it and slices of tomato. SOOOOO good i want to marry it. bruschetta is also good, and you can eat the filling as a salad- chopped toms, garlic, basil and torn mozarella, w a splash of olive oil.
end of term is now as im off sick. catching up w Neighbours. i know, right- you're impressed w my stella levels of sophisticaton!
good luck with your work! X
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