This is a very simple, healthy recipe for those of us who would rather spend our money on booze and videogames than food.
Stuff You Will Need:
A local Souper Salad, or equivalent restaurant
A big soup pot
A bag of rice
Souper Salad is a chain of "all you care to eat" salad bars. The ingredients aren't always that fresh or abundant, the cooked food they offer is shit, but at $5.89 a pop, it's a fairly affordable way to eat yourself into unconsciousness without ingesting a bunch of greasy Chinese food.
What doesn't seem to be common knowledge, however, is that Souper Salad (and, hopefully, similar chains around you) offers a to-go option! Using this to-go option, and inspiration from my incredible brilliance, you'll soon think of Souper Salad NOT as a restaurant, but as an awesome (albeit limited) discount grocery store!
Here, we see our available containers spread out over my incredibly filthy kitchen counter. The red shit is spaghetti sauce, the yellow shit is dish soap. I had an ant problem, probably because of the spaghetti sauce, and used dish soap to kill them. So there you go.
As you can see, you're given: a big styrofoam container (for salad), two "soup" containers (for soup), a dressing cup (for dressing!), and a little baggie (for bread). You may be asking yourself where the crackers and mysterious tinfoil mounds came from. Well!
Souper Salad is nice enough to give each and every to-go customer a huge shopping bag to put their spoils in to. As you can see, there is a lot of room left in there, perfect for packing in lots of expensive Club crackers and pre-wrapped baked potatoes. These products don't go bad, like, ever, so stock up. Just try to make sure they don't see you, as they have some kind of "extras" charge if you want more. I've been taking advantage of Souper Salad for about a year now, and they have yet to wise up, so don't worry too much.
And save the bag. It's a good bag. Someday you may need to tote school supplies or maybe your lunch and you'll go, "boy, I sure wish I had a way of carrying my school supplies and/or lunch easily," and then you'll remember that you saved your Souper Salad bag, and the day will be saved.
On this specific trip, as with most, I filled my little bread baggie with corn bread. I really like corn bread. This might seem like a waste, because corn bread mix is so cheap and easy to make, but...there's really not much else you can do with that little baggie, so corn bread it is. Put that shit in tinfoil, it will last you a while.
The soup containers were filled with delicious pasta salads because, again, I couldn't think of a better way to utilize them. Perhaps this thread will come up with good ideas. Put that shit in some tupperware and save it for later, we're making soup god dammit.
I need no dressing. I am, however, out of butter. So, after a quick trip to the baked potato bar, I filled my dressing cup as much as possible with it. My toast will thank me.
And now, the styrofoam container:
Here is where the magic happens. A fresh, diverse, and pre-sliced selection of whatever damned soup ingredients you want. I also put three slices of their shitty pizza on top, because there was room. Now is a good time to eat those, they only get worse. That red mass on the bottom-left is another stroke of genius:
Pepperoni! Lots and lots of greasy, expensive pepperoni, and it's all mine! Save that shit too, sometimes you just wanna snack on some meat.
About now, maybe before, you want to start boiling some water. That takes a while, though, so do what I do. Play some videogames.
You should play Psychonauts, because it's really really good.
Once the water is bubbly with hellfire, pour in your rice. Rice is your filler, and is mostly responsible for this soup lasting you a while, so put in a lot. Put in some salt, too. I heard it helps pasta to not stick to the bottom of the pot, so maybe it works for rice also. I don't know. I must admit that I don't know that much about rice.
Then go back to Psychonauts, because it's still really really good.
Once the water has boiled, dump in the veggies. They're already sliced, man, they're already sliced. It's like they WANT you to make soup.
Cut up a couple baked potatoes, too, because potatoes add even more filler, and we're trying to feed ourselves for as long as possible here. Throw those in, and spice your shit up. I used whatever happened to be around, which included cumin, pepper, some unused top ramen packets, and more pepper. I probably could have used some kind of soup broth, but fuckit, I'm not going to the store.
And before you know it, you have soup! Hearty, healthy, and incredibly filling soup. Soup that will last you a very, very long time.
Holy shit, look at all those leftovers! $5.89, me love you long time.
Stuff You Will Need:
A local Souper Salad, or equivalent restaurant
A big soup pot
A bag of rice
Souper Salad is a chain of "all you care to eat" salad bars. The ingredients aren't always that fresh or abundant, the cooked food they offer is shit, but at $5.89 a pop, it's a fairly affordable way to eat yourself into unconsciousness without ingesting a bunch of greasy Chinese food.
What doesn't seem to be common knowledge, however, is that Souper Salad (and, hopefully, similar chains around you) offers a to-go option! Using this to-go option, and inspiration from my incredible brilliance, you'll soon think of Souper Salad NOT as a restaurant, but as an awesome (albeit limited) discount grocery store!
Here, we see our available containers spread out over my incredibly filthy kitchen counter. The red shit is spaghetti sauce, the yellow shit is dish soap. I had an ant problem, probably because of the spaghetti sauce, and used dish soap to kill them. So there you go.
As you can see, you're given: a big styrofoam container (for salad), two "soup" containers (for soup), a dressing cup (for dressing!), and a little baggie (for bread). You may be asking yourself where the crackers and mysterious tinfoil mounds came from. Well!
Souper Salad is nice enough to give each and every to-go customer a huge shopping bag to put their spoils in to. As you can see, there is a lot of room left in there, perfect for packing in lots of expensive Club crackers and pre-wrapped baked potatoes. These products don't go bad, like, ever, so stock up. Just try to make sure they don't see you, as they have some kind of "extras" charge if you want more. I've been taking advantage of Souper Salad for about a year now, and they have yet to wise up, so don't worry too much.
And save the bag. It's a good bag. Someday you may need to tote school supplies or maybe your lunch and you'll go, "boy, I sure wish I had a way of carrying my school supplies and/or lunch easily," and then you'll remember that you saved your Souper Salad bag, and the day will be saved.
On this specific trip, as with most, I filled my little bread baggie with corn bread. I really like corn bread. This might seem like a waste, because corn bread mix is so cheap and easy to make, but...there's really not much else you can do with that little baggie, so corn bread it is. Put that shit in tinfoil, it will last you a while.
The soup containers were filled with delicious pasta salads because, again, I couldn't think of a better way to utilize them. Perhaps this thread will come up with good ideas. Put that shit in some tupperware and save it for later, we're making soup god dammit.
I need no dressing. I am, however, out of butter. So, after a quick trip to the baked potato bar, I filled my dressing cup as much as possible with it. My toast will thank me.
And now, the styrofoam container:
Here is where the magic happens. A fresh, diverse, and pre-sliced selection of whatever damned soup ingredients you want. I also put three slices of their shitty pizza on top, because there was room. Now is a good time to eat those, they only get worse. That red mass on the bottom-left is another stroke of genius:
Pepperoni! Lots and lots of greasy, expensive pepperoni, and it's all mine! Save that shit too, sometimes you just wanna snack on some meat.
About now, maybe before, you want to start boiling some water. That takes a while, though, so do what I do. Play some videogames.
You should play Psychonauts, because it's really really good.
Once the water is bubbly with hellfire, pour in your rice. Rice is your filler, and is mostly responsible for this soup lasting you a while, so put in a lot. Put in some salt, too. I heard it helps pasta to not stick to the bottom of the pot, so maybe it works for rice also. I don't know. I must admit that I don't know that much about rice.
Then go back to Psychonauts, because it's still really really good.
Once the water has boiled, dump in the veggies. They're already sliced, man, they're already sliced. It's like they WANT you to make soup.
Cut up a couple baked potatoes, too, because potatoes add even more filler, and we're trying to feed ourselves for as long as possible here. Throw those in, and spice your shit up. I used whatever happened to be around, which included cumin, pepper, some unused top ramen packets, and more pepper. I probably could have used some kind of soup broth, but fuckit, I'm not going to the store.
And before you know it, you have soup! Hearty, healthy, and incredibly filling soup. Soup that will last you a very, very long time.
Holy shit, look at all those leftovers! $5.89, me love you long time.