What do you eat when there's nothing to eat?
#91
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Honolulu, HI
Posts: 105
I have a tall glass of milk, maybe with a cookie or piece of chocolate.
If I need something more - a bowl of cereal.
Not just when there's nothing to eat, but also when I'm too lazy/busy to cook or go out. It's great to be single.
Due to all the great delivery options in Dubai, however, I'm a little more inclined to call for delivery.
If I need something more - a bowl of cereal.
Not just when there's nothing to eat, but also when I'm too lazy/busy to cook or go out. It's great to be single.
Due to all the great delivery options in Dubai, however, I'm a little more inclined to call for delivery.
#92
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: SJC, SFO
Programs: UA, AA, SPG
Posts: 439
I notice a lot of people mention meals involving bread, eggs, milk, etc. In my mind, if you have perishable ingredients around, you very much do have something to eat. 
When I say I have "nothing to eat," it usually means I'm looking at 3 year old cans of soup and such, questioning how I let my food stores get to this point... and yet I suppose that's still not truly "nothing to eat."

When I say I have "nothing to eat," it usually means I'm looking at 3 year old cans of soup and such, questioning how I let my food stores get to this point... and yet I suppose that's still not truly "nothing to eat."
#94
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 46
I always have some frozen food and pantry stuff that's microwaveable. In addition, I keep frozen vegetables and bouillon cubes on hand, so I can make soup. There is also cereal and I keep frozen fruit and almond milk for smoothies.
I just recently tried a dehydrated peanut butter, pb2, where most of the oil is extracted, making it lower in fat and calories. Since it's in powder form, it'd be easy to reconstitute some if I didn't have the aforementioned other foods in the house.
It seems to me that when you claim you have nothing, you're not being creative enough.
I just recently tried a dehydrated peanut butter, pb2, where most of the oil is extracted, making it lower in fat and calories. Since it's in powder form, it'd be easy to reconstitute some if I didn't have the aforementioned other foods in the house.
It seems to me that when you claim you have nothing, you're not being creative enough.
#95
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Either at the shooting range or anywhere good beer can be found...
Posts: 52,796
Mr. Kipper reminded me that we had no food in our food this weekend.
Everything we had was either frozen, and would take too long to defrost, or was old enough to be donated to a science lab. 
He finally opted for a large bowl of cereal.
Everything we had was either frozen, and would take too long to defrost, or was old enough to be donated to a science lab. 
He finally opted for a large bowl of cereal.
#96
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Austin, Texas
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My usual stand-bys are chicken with white & wild rice soup with lime, hot sauce, and a couple of tostada shells broken up into it or a package of Yakisoba soy flavored noodles.
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#97


Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: In a hotel somewhere trying to repack everything I brought (and bought) in to a carry-on smaller than my last one.
Programs: UA, Asia Miles, Southwest, IHG
Posts: 1,108
It was drilled into my head by my grandma to always have emergency supplies in the kitchen. The kit was always a few bottles (gallon jugs) of drinking water, tins of spam, corned beef or other luncheon meat, ramen, tins of campbell's soup, parmalat milk, jello mix, matches in a waterproof box and a bunch of beeswax emergency candles and a small steel mug to cook something in. If I take something out of the kit, my priority was to get the item replaced asap.
My modified version of grandma's list includes microwavable campbell soups, individual packets of spam instead of tins of spam and multiple juice box sizes of parmalat instead of the huge carton and of course chocolate puddings
Some of the ramen has been substituted with cup noodles where you just add hot water.
Most of this stuff I wouldn't touch usually but it's there mostly to prevent acid stomach from irregular meal hours and to help with jetlag. I do an inventory every new years to I make sure it's all within date.
Depending on my flight schedule, sometimes I bring cup-noodles on trips where I know that I'll be arriving after room service has closed for the night and there is nothing nearby. A granola bar, is good for breakfast but somehow I burn it too quickly for dinner.
My modified version of grandma's list includes microwavable campbell soups, individual packets of spam instead of tins of spam and multiple juice box sizes of parmalat instead of the huge carton and of course chocolate puddings
Some of the ramen has been substituted with cup noodles where you just add hot water.Most of this stuff I wouldn't touch usually but it's there mostly to prevent acid stomach from irregular meal hours and to help with jetlag. I do an inventory every new years to I make sure it's all within date.
Depending on my flight schedule, sometimes I bring cup-noodles on trips where I know that I'll be arriving after room service has closed for the night and there is nothing nearby. A granola bar, is good for breakfast but somehow I burn it too quickly for dinner.
#98
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Lately I've been buying chicken breast and ramen noodles and making a ramen/chicken soup. It's pretty decent actually and cheap as free.
#99




Join Date: May 2008
Location: Puget Sound
Programs: Delta Diamond, Marriott Plat Premier, SPG Plat
Posts: 230
I run out of real food a lot and turn to the "exercise" food that isn't in the kitchen (gels, bars, etc.) that make up what I grab when I head out for long runs/rides. It barely counts but calories and protein get me through.





