Box mac and cheese with jalapeno cream sauce, bacon and cilantro.

Cost per person: $1.30

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[–] 21 points 1 year ago

My GERD spontaneously combusted just looking at this picture.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That's almost what my dinner is going to be: boxed mac with sliced up smoky links, extra cheddar, and chopped up yu choy (chinese broccoli).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yu choy is such an underappreciated vegetable in the US. It's usually very inexpensive, available at asian groceries all over, and stands in well for other greens. We use it as a 1/2 price (or cheaper) alternative to broccoli rabe in Italian dishes.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    available at asian groceries all over

    I guess there's always something lost when moving from one place to another, but man... the scarcity of Asian groceries (from tiny shops to warehouse size places) around here is a serious, serious bummer.

    The typical SE Asian selection at the local supermarket is laughably WASP-y in variety, and the prices are typically 5x-10x what I was spoilt with, back East.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Why use boxed Mac and cheese as a base, though?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Because it's dirt cheap and I'm hungover.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Based and why-did-I-do-that-to-myself-oh-yeah-because-it’s-fun-pilled

    (I am so hung over)

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yesterday I grabbed a case of beer, a pack of cigarettes and some tinned fish and dedicated my day to cleaning and organizing my workshop. I fought until 5:30 in the morning and made tremendous progress.

    This was after I could see the surface of half of my work bench.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I like your chest of drawers. It’s very cute.

    My partner and I are almost recovered from being horribly sick. We drank maybe nine or ten claws, did six shots of vodka, and… I’m not even sure what we did last night, other than it was fun. Definitely watched Wild at Heart, at least mostly, and watched Brutalmoose for a while.

    Today I have felt like I was dying all day. Food was impossible. Ended up ordering soup. The soup was good.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    The chest on the left? I made it out of some spare plywood from a job. It holds so many odds as ends and it didn't cost me a dime.

    I have a mild headache today but also body pain from standing for so many hours.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cheaper and far faster than making Mac and cheese from scratch is my bet.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I dunno, I wouldn't think a cooking sub would consider making a mornay sauce and boiling some noodles to be a real heavy burden. As for the cost maybe? The cheese would be the most expensive component but I think it's probably worth the upgrade to go from powdered cheese to real cheese.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Me replying: Sometimes it's the preparation outside the box. You noticed the additional ingredients and processes, right? Cooking is cooking.

    Moderator replying: Don't like this post? Post the kind of content you want to see. You currently have zero posts in this group. Complainers without contributions will be weighed accordingly.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Pass the tums, please

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Save some cilantro for the rest of us.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    to add some variety i like to stir in some hot sauce or BBQ sauce or even some chili-p to give the mac a little zing!

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