Bachelor Food

[Patroclus]

I know this is home ec, and it usually applies to the family, but as Alden, Jin-Roh and I know, a family can be composed of smelly, single young men with high aspirations and low budgets.

So, this thread is dedicated to us and those like us.

Anyway, the most important lesson that I learned from the British people is that eggs go well with baked beans.

It cannot be more simple: heat some baked beans - DO IT NOW!

Cook some eggs however you like them - DO IT NOW!

Mix them together - DO IT NOW!

Eat them.

It is filling; it is cheap; it is bachelor food.

[elysian]

My son has it down to science. Not baked beans and eggs (do you smother both in BBQ sauce as well- or do the Brits do BBQ? These are people who find blood and kidneys to be delicacies you know!) but really easy stuff that doesn't even require the application of heat.

Cold cereal (any sugar-sweetened variety) + milk + broken up Pop Tarts (preferably a chocolate flavor but fruit's OK) + mash it up until everything is a soggy mashed up goo = snarf city. He reminds me of a farm animal at its trough when he's eating this glop. He doesn't care what time of day it is either- breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner. He will then wash it all down with a Pepsi, that is, unless I hide the Pepsi.

Another perennial favorite of his is ramen noodles with Texas Pete's Flaming Hot Sauce. This does require using the microwave so for him this is a "special occasion" food, i.e. when there's no more cold cereal because he's snarfed it all. He will also eat Chef Boyardee Spaghetti (not Spaghetti-o's) with NO meatballs, also drowned in Texas Pete's. I have tried with little success to get him to eat Lean Cuisine/Healthy Choice microwave meals but he claims "there are too many vegetables." I can't be home to fix his lunch and when he's left on his own to graze he generally doesn't pick too well. He's still cheesed at me for refusing to buy Twinkies and Hostess Cup Cakes but I don't need the temptation.

[Em7add11]

I've found there's nothing more satisfying than a good box of Kraft mac and cheese. The spiral noodle kind.

[Solly]

My batchelor diet used to consist mostly of:

Quiche Lorraine and Baked beans
Vegetable Roll and Baked Beans
Pre prepared Lasagne, and baked beans
Pre prepared fish pie, and...wait for it...Baked beans.
Mushy peas could be substituted for the beans to add variety.
A burger from town on Saturday, no baked beans.
Treats were a bowl of breakfast cereal, or Swiss Roll with a tin of custard [Creme Anglais].

[elysian]

My batchelor diet used to consist mostly of:

Quiche Lorraine and Baked beans
Vegetable Roll and Baked Beans
Pre prepared Lasagne, and baked beans
Pre prepared fish pie, and...wait for it...Baked beans.
Mushy peas could be substituted for the beans to add variety.
A burger from town on Saturday, no baked beans.
Treats were a bowl of breakfast cereal, or Swiss Roll with a tin of custard [Creme Anglais].

Beans, beans the magical fruit
The more you eat the more you toot
The more you toot the better you feel
So eat some beans at every meal!

The Central Ohio college student version:
White Castles (they're open 24/7)
Boiled Eggs
Beer

Beans are good for you though. Lots of fiber!

[Solly]

A million house wives every day
pick up a tin and always say
Beanz Meanz Heinz

Old Uk advert

[mossrose]

Would you all like my son-in-law's email address? (Former single guy, professional chef)

Even in his bachelor days, he was cooking stuff that I would never have thought to cook for my family.....

I am really enjoying him now, when we can nail him down long enough to cook for us......what a clever girl I raised!!

:thumb:

[Patroclus]

My son has it down to science. Not baked beans and eggs (do you smother both in BBQ sauce as well- or do the Brits do BBQ? These are people who find blood and kidneys to be delicacies you know!) but really easy stuff that doesn't even require the application of heat.

Cold cereal (any sugar-sweetened variety) + milk + broken up Pop Tarts (preferably a chocolate flavor but fruit's OK) + mash it up until everything is a soggy mashed up goo = snarf city. He reminds me of a farm animal at its trough when he's eating this glop. He doesn't care what time of day it is either- breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner. He will then wash it all down with a Pepsi, that is, unless I hide the Pepsi.

Another perennial favorite of his is ramen noodles with Texas Pete's Flaming Hot Sauce. This does require using the microwave so for him this is a "special occasion" food, i.e. when there's no more cold cereal because he's snarfed it all. He will also eat Chef Boyardee Spaghetti (not Spaghetti-o's) with NO meatballs, also drowned in Texas Pete's. I have tried with little success to get him to eat Lean Cuisine/Healthy Choice microwave meals but he claims "there are too many vegetables." I can't be home to fix his lunch and when he's left on his own to graze he generally doesn't pick too well. He's still cheesed at me for refusing to buy Twinkies and Hostess Cup Cakes but I don't need the temptation.

Your son is a bachelor god. Only a minor deity could eat food that disgusting and that inexpensive.

I never saw actual BBQ sauce in England, they had some other brown stuff that I never tried.

[mossrose]

I think El's son is only 12. He should probably not be told that he is a bachelor god......:lol:

[elysian]

Your son is a bachelor god. Only a minor deity could eat food that disgusting and that inexpensive.

I never saw actual BBQ sauce in England, they had some other brown stuff that I never tried.

And he's only 13. :lol: :lol: My Dad had a pretty gross favorite too, till he got diabetes and the Dr. said no more Hostess Cup Cakes. He would take a box of Hostess Cup Cakes (I think there's 8 in a box) and a half gallon of milk. Place cup cakes in large bowl, dump milk on them, mash them up and eat. Positively disgusting to observe. Mom is an abysmal cook, so Dad often has to fend for himself. I honestly think one of their dogs choked to death on her mashed potatoes, that's how bad a cook she is. These days he has learned to eat Healthy Choice or to go to the Mexican restaurant across town.

[NSMinistries]

The Charcoal grill was my only choice for heating food when I was single. Used to go down to the butcher and get about 50 pounds of meat to put in the frez. It would last all month. Mac & Chesse and mashed taters were always a side item... You could eat like a king for a month on less than $75.00.

[Patroclus]

The Charcoal grill was my only choice for heating food when I was single. Used to go down to the butcher and get about 50 pounds of meat to put in the frez. It would last all month. Mac & Chesse and mashed taters were always a side item... You could eat like a king for a month on less than $75.00.

Maybe it was the fact that this idea is brilliant. May it was the fact that I was listening to Ben Folds Five whilst reading this post, but if you were a woman...

El, your family needs help. That poor dog died of sneak-attack mashed potatoes - what a cruel way to go.

[Abigail]

Fish finger sandwich is great

Do fish fingers in oven (fried is unhealthy) and put them between bread with some good mayo ...yummy

[elysian]

Maybe it was the fact that this idea is brilliant. May it was the fact that I was listening to Ben Folds Five whilst reading this post, but if you were a woman...

El, your family needs help. That poor dog died of sneak-attack mashed potatoes - what a cruel way to go.


In all fairness that same dog also liked to eat underwear. She wasn't quite right upstairs. Any self-respecting dog would NOT eat my Mom's mashed potatoes either. I'd line a bomb shelter with them maybe, but Mom does something to mashed potatoes that makes them unfit for human (or canine) consumption.

Thankfully my grandmother taught me how to cook. Dad found the Mexican joint across town. Mom either goes there with him or eats one of the Healthy Choice dinners they have packed in the freezer. All is right with the world I guess, other than my sister, whose favorite comfort food is mac and cheese with refried beans mixed in with the cheese...

[bar Jonah]

My two top recommendations for bachelor food are cereal and Burger Helper.

Cereal is nutritious, diverse (as far as sweet/non-sweet), and you can eschew dairy in favor of soy milk. Soy Dream is the best, is most like regular milk and I honestly don't even notice the difference.

Burger Helper is great because it can serve as a fairly square meal all in one pot. But the important thing is to add things to it. Canned tomatoes, diced broccoli, extra cheese, mushrooms, lots of things, depending on what kind of Burger Helper you get.

The tomato-based ones are great, with shrooms and canned tomatoes (some brands are much more nutritious than others), etc. Give it a try! Add herbs and whatever else strikes your fancy. Very flexible, nutritious and yet extremely easy to make! You can even substitute ground turkey and other things instead of ground beef!

[Patroclus]

I have to try that, abigail.

Yeah, those mashed potatoes sound pretty bad.