[quote]gregron wrote:
^^ $10 wouldn’t be considered cheap. The OP said that Chipotle wasn’t cheap and that’s less than $10.[/quote]
Ah okay. Yeah can’t get quality food on the dollar menu heh.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
All last week in Toronto, I found a Greek place that had a ‘greek chicken dinner’ which was 6-8oz chicken(souvlaki) and 2 sides, which for me was cucumber greek salad (cuckes, tomatoes, feta, etc) and rice. I got to extra skewers of chicken (souvlaki). I got some tzatziki with it. $15 canadian and I was full. Ate it every day. When I go back, I will eat it every day for lunch again.
Then, dinner at “Swiss Chalet” walking back from the gym. I stop in at take out, get 1/2 chicken, potato, and vegetable. Like $17 or something. Takes 10 mins from order to pickup.
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Hey if you’re in the Yonge/Dundas area again, I think you’d really like this place called Aji Sai @ 467 Queen St. W. About a 15min walk.
It’s an all you can eat sushi place and they don’t judge you by how much you eat LOL. Some places magically start screwing up your order if you order a ton I’ve noticed.
It’s $18.99 for dinner though.
I love Panera Bread because they have soup and bread. The sandwiches and shit are too small but damn soup and bread is awesome.
Many Mexican food places by me where for $4-6 I get get carne asada/grilled chicken burritos with guac, and a little pico and they are pretty beastly.
Steely mentioned it earlier, greek is a damn good option. Cheap and tasty.
$8 at Chipolte I get a burrito with rice, beans, steak,chicken and avacodo about twice the size of mcdonalds, wendies or bk grilled chicken. Which where I live Jersey is $5+ for just the sandwhich $7+ combo. What fastfood places are you talking about when you say cheap fast food?
This is putting a side the fact that the chipolte’s I go to they cook the meet right in front of you. McDonolds/BK/Wendy’s have rubber burgers precisely measured out to seemingly 1.5 oz.
All I know is…shit fits my macros. I have to be a broken record I guess.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
BK has a grilled chicken salad.
Wendy’s has grilled chicken salad and a Cobb Salad.
KFC has grilled chicken breasts and you can get some kind of vegetable side
Any of those places you can ask for extra chicken for a couple bucks.
Local supermarket most of the time will have rotisserie chicken (or half chicken) and premade salad or vegetables.
You can get any number of meals to go from regular chain restaurants (Crapplebees, etc). In a pinch, not bad, and quick if you call ahead.
All last week in Toronto, I found a Greek place that had a ‘greek chicken dinner’ which was 6-8oz chicken(souvlaki) and 2 sides, which for me was cucumber greek salad (cuckes, tomatoes, feta, etc) and rice. I got to extra skewers of chicken (souvlaki). I got some tzatziki with it. $15 canadian and I was full. Ate it every day. When I go back, I will eat it every day for lunch again.
Then, dinner at “Swiss Chalet” walking back from the gym. I stop in at take out, get 1/2 chicken, potato, and vegetable. Like $17 or something. Takes 10 mins from order to pickup.
If you like salt flavored salt with extra salt, go to Panera.[/quote]
^This guy is spot on. You can find bodybuilding-friendly foods anywhere, sometimes you just have to be a little creative when you look at menus.
Panera has some great salads but I am very suspicious of those 300-450 calories count salads. Maybe in the labs, but not the way they make them in the store. Total lack of portion-control on the part of their staff.
[quote]EveryLastingScar wrote:
[quote]JerryRicePwns wrote:
All of that is low quality shit. I’m trying to do something where everything is organic/grass fed/omega3 eggs…etc AND fast. The Chicken/Meat/Fish is all high quality here, along with the grains and vegetables you get with the meal. I feel like this could be a great idea, I just need to figure out the pricing. This is something I really want to do and know I can do it.[/quote]
The problem with that is you will never have a place that is CHEAP like a fast food place, and have it be organic and grass fed. The other problem is that things like real chicken, meat, and fish don’t hold up well for awhile under a heating lamp, it all needs to be made fresh because it will taste like dried out crap if it sits for awhile. This makes running a fast food place with this kind of food very hard to do.
As far as more healthy food in a hurry, if you order the right things boston market is pretty decent, and has a drive thru just like any other fast food places. Muscle maker grill is also good and fast, but isn’t quite so common around the country I believe. Chipotle is pretty good too, if you are cutting out wheat and don’t want the tortillas, you can order a bowl with beans and meat and veggies, not bad in my opinion.
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sure there are more favorable choices when you go to fast food restaurants but are they really healthy? Like how this poster mentioned grass fed beef, free range chicken/eggs, organic vegetables.
testosterone among men these days is lower than it has ever been. And I’m willing to bet it has a lot to do with the crap we ingest.
QUESTION:
Currently studying abroad in China. Making my own food is a huge pain in the ass, and we literally have 14 hours of work per day, so I’ve been eating out a TON even though I’m used to eating food I cook myself. Supplementing with protein because Beijing Chinese food lacks adequate meat/protein. However, almost all restaurants add unknown amounts (and quality) of cooking oils, and “no oil” actually doesn’t register with the waitresses. Also, often have to eat family style…
Any thoughts on whether this will have negative impacts on my health/weight? I am currently hoping to lose weight, and when I guesstimate calories, i should be running at least a 2000 calorie deficit per week. Still lifting heavy and doing deads, squats, and bench 3-4x per week.
Edit: For relevance, I would guess that Chinese restaurant food (in Beijing) is somewhat equivalent to American fast food, although I haven’t had any in the last 10 years or so.
[quote]mbv8 wrote:
QUESTION:
Currently studying abroad in China. Making my own food is a huge pain in the ass, and we literally have 14 hours of work per day, so I’ve been eating out a TON even though I’m used to eating food I cook myself. Supplementing with protein because Beijing Chinese food lacks adequate meat/protein. However, almost all restaurants add unknown amounts (and quality) of cooking oils, and “no oil” actually doesn’t register with the waitresses. Also, often have to eat family style…
Any thoughts on whether this will have negative impacts on my health/weight? I am currently hoping to lose weight, and when I guesstimate calories, i should be running at least a 2000 calorie deficit per week. Still lifting heavy and doing deads, squats, and bench 3-4x per week.
Edit: For relevance, I would guess that Chinese restaurant food (in Beijing) is somewhat equivalent to American fast food, although I haven’t had any in the last 10 years or so.[/quote]
none of us could answer your question haha. unless we were from china. sounds like crap though. and a 2000 cal deficit? that’s insane
Breakfast / Brunch
Step 1 Have bananas
Step 2 Go to McDonald’s/Tim Horton’s/Starbucks, order 2 breakfast sandwiches
Step 3 Throw away buns
Carbs: Banana
Proteins : Eggs / Sausage
Fats: Eggs / SAUSAGE
Cost: $.50 for Banana, $6.50 for sandwiches.
Lunch:
Steak with Grilled Veggies
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Supper:
Shawarma shop, delete the sesame sauce, delete the Hummus, delete the Pita.
2nd Supper:
Portguese Chicken
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/428530_10150849375666989_6910282_n.jpg
Spent 7 years around a guy who was a competitive bodybuilder who never once cooked for himself. I’m serious, he ate out 4x/day. It can be done.
[quote]Samir wrote:
Breakfast / Brunch
Step 1 Have bananas
Step 2 Go to McDonald’s/Tim Horton’s/Starbucks, order 2 breakfast sandwiches
Step 3 Throw away buns
Carbs: Banana
Proteins : Eggs / Sausage
Fats: Eggs / SAUSAGE
Cost: $.50 for Banana, $6.50 for sandwiches.
Lunch:
Steak with Grilled Veggies
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/41087_423299526988_4309312_n.jpg
Supper:
Shawarma shop, delete the sesame sauce, delete the Hummus, delete the Pita.
2nd Supper:
Portguese Chicken
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/428530_10150849375666989_6910282_n.jpg
Spent 7 years around a guy who was a competitive bodybuilder who never once cooked for himself. I’m serious, he ate out 4x/day. It can be done.
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it can be done if you want to spend 60 bucks a day in food
It sort of defeats the object of fast food. Anyways the situations I and most people buy fast food are situations where the cals don’t matter e.g. before a night out or after an exceptionally busy infrequent day.
- there is very little market for it because it is a service that so few people need.
Am I the only one who honestly has no idea wtf OP is talking about?
Either make your own shit or settle for less for convenience. There’s no much more to it than that.
Jeepers.
I don’t really get the question either.
“if there was some magical place that made bodybuilder food cheaply and quickly, would you eat there?”
Fucking obviously I would. There’d be no reason not to eat at this perfect restaurant.
[quote]rds63799 wrote:
I don’t really get the question either.
“if there was some magical place that made bodybuilder food cheaply and quickly, would you eat there?”
Fucking obviously I would. There’d be no reason not to eat at this perfect restaurant. [/quote]
Obviously, I’m sure we all would. I was just hoping I could get some ideas from you guys and hear what others had to say.
[quote]Trocchi wrote:
It sort of defeats the object of fast food. Anyways the situations I and most people buy fast food are situations where the cals don’t matter e.g. before a night out or after an exceptionally busy infrequent day.
- there is very little market for it because it is a service that so few people need. [/quote]
I personally believe that with the obesity epidemic on the rise, this could benefit MANY people that need / want to lose weight.
[quote]JerryRicePwns wrote:
[quote]Trocchi wrote:
It sort of defeats the object of fast food. Anyways the situations I and most people buy fast food are situations where the cals don’t matter e.g. before a night out or after an exceptionally busy infrequent day.
- there is very little market for it because it is a service that so few people need. [/quote]
I personally believe that with the obesity epidemic on the rise, this could benefit MANY people that need / want to lose weight. [/quote]
Those same people don’t want to change anything about the way they eat or live though. That is why they are obese. I hope no one believes people are fat simply because they can’t find a place that serves dry oats near them for breakfast and unseasoned chicken breasts.
[quote]phishfood1128 wrote:
franchise one of these: http://www.musclemakergrill.com/
Problem solved.[/quote]
Awesome!
[quote]rds63799 wrote:
I don’t really get the question either.
“if there was some magical place that made bodybuilder food cheaply and quickly, would you eat there?”
Fucking obviously I would. There’d be no reason not to eat at this perfect restaurant. [/quote]
We have a place here in Egypt called spectra.
Basically its all home food but cooked outside with endless options. Obv there are burgers, and shitty sandwiches etc. Fried chicken etc.
But they also do awesome salads and u can add as many chicken breasts as u want. less than $2 a piece.
They they do plates with 2 chicken breasts with sides, boiled rice, steam veggies, mash etc.
Or the same options with 2 big pieces of grilled steak/veal and so on. Cheap as hell, huge portions and pretty much as customisable as u like.