Question for foodies + injokes + awesomness

[trinityofone]

The only cheap place to eat near my new job is McDonald's, and having eaten there today, I can now say with certainty that I NEVER WANT TO DO SO AGAIN. So I turn to you, wise flist: can you give me suggestions for cheap, easy lunches I can make and/or bring? The office has a small fridge and a microwave, and nothing else, and I lack both time and culinary skill. But there has to be something besides bad turkey sandwiches (minus the "bad," my dad's suggestion) or yogurt (my mom's). Help?

And now, for a random PSA/in joke:


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Comments

[fic-kitty.livejournal.com]

Spaghetti has always been my leftover of choice. Boil some pasta, get the cheap-ass premade sauce, and you're good for a week of lunches. Another good one is cooking up a whole bunch of chicken breasts, just buy 'em wholesale at sam's club or something, and then you can use them for all *sorts* of shit. Put 'em in the pasta, salads, on a sandwich, with rice pilaf... the possibilities are endless :P Buy in bulk and cook in advance, that's about the whole of my advice, I suppose ^_^

[abbylee]

I'm just dittoing the cook in advance advice. It takes about the same amount of time to make a week's worth of lunch as it does to make a day's, especially if it's all the same main course.

I used to cut up the whole bag of carrots and celery when I got home, because then it was easy to grab and assemble into a lunch. I'd just put all the cut veggies into a container with cold water and grab from there.

If you spend one day a week, especially if you can double it up with dinner prep, you can easily throw together a yummy and filling lunch in about 1 minute from foods you already have in the fridge/freezer.