I am so fucking sick of eating sandwiches for dinner.

[Drunken Irishman]

I hate being a poor college student. x(

[dana_b]

1. I'm sorry

it does indeed suck to eat the same thing over and over. my ex used to eat peanut butter sandwiches and had chips with koolaid twice a day, every day during college. It will pass!

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Yeah, I've had a ton of peanut butter sandwiches this month.

I sometimes mix it up.

Tuna or egg salad, but it just gets dull.

[Odin2005]

38. HERETIC!!! Egg salad sandwiches are DA BOMB and never get old!

[mnhtnbb]

2. Hubby still tells the story of eating $.17/box mac & cheese while he was a poor med student.

[Turbineguy]

31. $0.17

What bargain store did he shop? I got ripped off to the tune of 19 cents!

Eating crap food is a staple of student life. And it makes that first job out of school seem so much better.

[Moondog]

3. We all do this.

I ate junk all the way through law school.

I can afford to eat anything I want now, except that my older body wants to horde the calories and pack on lard. So I still can't "afford" to eat what I want, or I'll turn into a blivet. Life's a bitch. And then we die.

[Drunken Irishman]

4. No...

Life's a bitch, then you marry one, then you have a few and then you die.

At least that's what my dad always said.

What an asshole.

[Moondog]

10. I managed to skip a couple of those steps. But nihilism is not terra incognita to me.

[janx]

21. He actually said that to you?

?

[Drunken Irishman]

28. Yes.

Though he was 'joking'.

[petronius]

16. A "blivet"?

:rofl:

That's my new word of the day...

"A blivet, also known as a poiuyt, is an undecipherable figure, an optical illusion and an impossible object..."

[mopinko]

6. transfer to chicago.

whatever it is you are studying can be studied here. there are tons and tons of small ethnic restaurants where you could splurge once a week and get a $5 meal.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. We have taco carts downtown...

And some cheap Mexican places. I do that sometimes when I have a few bucks to spend.

[Lars39]

7. Do you have a small crockpot?

Soups are pretty cheap to throw together...make a lot if you have the fridge space. If not, some V-8 juice,veggies and a few spices in a small crockpot might still break up the monotony.

[Drunken Irishman]

12. I have some Ramen and soup...

But it's just too hot for it, know what I mean?

[janx]

24. Make your own soup. It's not difficult, and it tastes good. n/t

[Lars39]

32. Oh, yeah....It's been in the high 90s for a while here.

Been wanting to live off ice cream.

[suninvited]

8. sandwiches?

richy !!!

Try eating Ramon noodles for 12 months.

[Drunken Irishman]

13. I did during the winter...

I had to give it up, though, because the burps were just too nasty. ha

[dana_b]

15. and there is NO nutritional value

at least with tuna, egg salad, peanut butter, etc. there is some protein and other goodies.

[Curtland1015]

17. I once spent a six month period where I ate ramen every day.

Ever since then, I can't smell the stuff cooking without feeling sick.

[suninvited]

30. the only ramen I cand stand now

is Hot N Spicy cooked the regular way, but with a piece of cheese in the middle.

Delicious ! Still.

[Deja Q]

9. . . .

:hug:

I'm in the same boat.

Things will turn around. Keep the grades up; that'll help you land a job sooner anyway - in theory; it shows you understand the principles being taught...

[Bunny]

14. Yeah but that's what college students do.

You're *supposed* to go through that PB sandwich/ramen noodle stage. It builds character, and let's you know that you really can live on $2/day. It won't last forever.

[suninvited]

18. I lived that way for a while

not while I was a college student, but while I was a young military wife.

I had so much ramon noodles, I could have choked, but fortunately I got to mix it up with peanut butter (in a good week) and kraft macoroni and cheese.

I learned a lot during those times. Most of all, I learned I could survive almost anything. Well..anything !!

[janx]

19. Pauvre bebe!

I was eating beans and rice at your age. :rofl:

:hug:

You'll make it.

[Drunken Irishman]

20. I love me some beans and rice.

[janx]

22. Yeah, I did too, until one bite of brown rice made me retch.

You'll be OK. As long as you're eating sandwiches, you're fine. Take the advice above, however, about soup. It's cheap to make, and it's very good for you. :hug:

[Drunken Irishman]

23. Thanks

I love soup, especially bean & bacon, but it's just too damn hot for it.

[Curtland1015]

25. Eat it cold and pretend you're being fancy.

Don't forget to stick out your pinkie.

[Drunken Irishman]

26. Chip Chip, Cheerio!

[janx]

27. Wait, we're not talking about Campbell's Bean and Bacon here--

Find soup recipes online, especially cold soups. You can make them yourself and accompany them with bread.

[Drunken Irishman]

29. I'll have to try that.

Thanks!

:hi:

[MrScorpio]

33. Try Coeds

They're both tasty and plentiful on most college campuses

[bridgit]

34. So, you're a 'poor college'student' and you haven't even discovered...

the tasty environs of Ramen!? You need help, here: http://www.mattfischer.com/ramen and AND!! -- you can eat it with booze er'beer if that's yer'gig :9 If you watch for sales you can pick this stuff up for like .14Cts a bag come-on already will'ya!! That's like a shit-load of bags for 50 bucks = like tons = a shit fucking load ---- sweetheart...

You're doing this all wrong :):(

[applegrove]

35. I'm eating alot of sandwiches for dinner too. Sometimes I feel like I cannot stomach another one.

[Odin2005]

36. In my first year living on my own I ate so much Ramen and Pasta-Roni I can't stand looking at them!

Fortunately I've gotten Section 8 rental assistance and food stamps at the end of that fist year (late summer 2005) so I've been able to afford better food since then!

[Generic Brad]

37. Wait until the student loan repayment begins

You will miss the days of sandwiches. Hope you enjoy pancakes and ramen for the next decade!

[madeline_con]

39. Make boxed mac n cheese, beans n weenies, there's stuff besides sammiches. n/t

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

40. From the headline

I thought it was the joke where the punchline is "I make my own lunch" :)
I remember eating lots of tomato soup with macaroni in it. Filling and cheap........

[csziggy]

41. Get some veggies and make soup or casseroles

I've been eating summer squash and zucchini every day for the last three weeks. Three summer squash cut up with cheese, bread crumbs, onions, eggs, and cheese made a huge casserole - probably 8-12 servings. Squash with onions, garlic, tomatoes and riccota cheese are simpler and make a lot of servings for not much - that can be cooked on the stove top, just sautee the onions and garlic, mix in the sliced squas, top with tomato slices, cook over low heat until the tomatoes are done as you like, and then melt the cheese on top. I added some crumbled bacon into the mix for extra flavor.

Since I was tired of greens by themselves, I tossed the last batch of wilted greens into one of the squash dishes and that worked good. For another dish with greens I have also sauteed onion and garlic, wilted chopped greens and then stirred that into cooked whole grains spaghetti. Served with a little cheese on top, that has been a meal for me several evenings.

Those are the veggies in season here right now. But another good veggie is potato. Potato salad is easy to make and nice on a hot day.

Buy what veggies are in season and cheap, then get a few more expensive ingredients like cheese, bacon or sausage to dress them up. The veggies will fill you up more than a sandwich and give you more vitamins!

[anneboleyn]

42. Taco Bell is the favorite stop of undergrads and poor graduate students 'round here.

[Benfea]

43. Sandwiches?

You'll remember sandwiches fondly once you're reduced to eating nothing but instant ramen.

[kentauros]

44. Try open-faced

with lots of gravy :D