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Well....uhmmmmm   Where do I start ?  What's in your cupborads, the fridge, the freezer ???

What types of things do you like to eat ? Low cholestrol, healthy, heart smart ?

On camp & dive weekends, I just tell everyone who is going, to bring 3 food items each. ( no matter what)

I'm always designated to be the chef. I can make a gourmet meal out of 3 ingredients. LMAO

I have driven by our local taco bell, & the fire truck was parked out front.  To be very honest with you, it wouldn't be the

1st time, I ate macaroni & cheese with ham chunks & topped with seasoned croutons, or a bag of cookies & milk,

or grilled cheese with a slice or 2 of lunchmeat in the center, a salad with everything in it but the kitchen sink.

Please tell me more.

somewhere else on here we talked about quick recipes.  i still like this one, if you have a skillet and a microwave.  brown some hamburger, add a can of mushroom soup, and nuke some instant mashed potatoes.  pour one on the other.  tasty and will fill you up.  add a little soy sauce, red wine, and freshly-cracked black pepper if ya wanna make it especially for me.  otherwise, umm, anyone ever heard of sandwiches?

I pity all the dyslexics who read Atkins and are on a "low-crab" diet...

I keep frozen meals in a bag (like Bertoli or Chicken Voila , just throw in a pan and heat it up!  Or I keep Healthy Choice for us and Kid Cuizine for the kids. Salads in a bag are good too, with some Oscar Meyer pre-cooked Chicken strips and your favorite dressing.(if you like salads) Other than that I really don't have any quick and easy recipies.

Here's my favorite one, & it is always the first dish gone no matter where I take it.      Cook your spaghetti noodles, put it into a large bowl, add 1 egg, & 1/4 cup of grated parmesean shaker cheese, & mix well. Brown your hamburg & drain well. add the hamburger to spaghetti sauce & whatever spices you want, I add extra garlic. put your spaghetti, egg, & cheese mixture into a pie plate. Pat down add a row of pepperoni ( I like using venison, or moose saussage) add the hamburg & sauce mix on top...... Top with tons of shredded cheese & a couple of bacon strips if you like. Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 - 25 minutes.   If you use 1lb. of hamburg it will make 2 pies. Freeze one for later, or use the leftover hambur for home made tacos...... Voila   SPAGHETTI  PIE

Ramen noodles are good, but becareful of the sodium content..... it contains twice as much as what you should intake. (sorry that's just the skater coming out of me)

gwyd.... I'm with you... What's wrong with smoked turkey breast, bacon, lettuce, tomatoes & onions on a kaiser or hoagy bun.  Reubens.... heat your griddle, put 2 slices of swiss cheese on each side, with 3 or 4 slices of corned beef.... i get mine shaved instead of sliced, add well drained saurkraut ,1000 island dressing, cook it..............

Welcome to fast easy cooking 101   gwyd   do I need to give these people some Canadian cooking lessons & recipes ?   Like the back bacon on a bun we talked about earlier???????

my cholesterol and BP have always been a bit low, and i can eat anything and not lose my girlish figure, so go figure.  sodium is not the bad actor we used to think it was in terms of blood pressure...12 years ago the boffins came out and said it wasn't but a minor contributor, and that the main culprit is lead, which we have in abundance here in the St. Louis area but also all over, not just in urban areas, either...that crumbling old farmhouse and barn are usually covered with paint that's up to 50% lead indoors and 80% outside.

my recipe, though not all that much faster than your Bullwinkle one, is tamale pie.  Ground beef, onions, green or red peppers, a can of corn, some taco seasoning, and green olives, all sauteed in a big skillet, then make up some cornbread dough, spread it on top about 2" thick, and bake it in the oven until the bread is done.  sort of a mexican version of shepherd's pie.  very tasty!  a little salsa and a pitcher of margaritas and you have the makings of a great afternoon!!!

Tamale Pie sounds good! When do we eat? Hate magarita's, need beer.

OK, margarita-hater, whiner, have some Dos Equis instead, since your a double-equivocator.  Green olives RULE, but the others will do in a pinch while i pinch headset's headset...wow, the signal from Altair 6 is coming in clearly again!  Dinner better be also fit for the Jack of Hearts (play Dylan song here for my entrance.)  Bring your own dice and ice.  I play craps well enough that you'll need the ice to cool the dice.  While i'm always heads-up for headset (both heads), you must give the green olives in this recipe a chance...it's an insult not to TRUST THE CHEF!!!  you'll thank me later, while we're sumptuously dining on flan for dessert and getting some elbow exercise tilting Gusano Rojo mescal or Remy Martin down our habañero-scorched throats.  And by this time, the not-recovered-from-Cinco guests are getting up to no good in the bushes, the tree-house, and, "Hey, what the hell do ya think yer doin' over there under the umbrella?!?  People can SEE you!"  but by this time, most of the people who can see them are in the pool, thinking that the water can obscure their own paltry attempts at basic human contact.  Chef & bartendress in the meantime have retired to the jacuzzi, knowing that the insurance policy will sort it all out.

Gwyd says ...

my cholesterol and BP have always been a bit low, and i can eat anything and not lose my girlish figure, so go figure.  sodium is not the bad actor we used to think it was in terms of blood pressure...12 years ago the boffins came out and said it wasn't but a minor contributor, and that the main culprit is lead, which we have in abundance here in the St. Louis area but also all over, not just in urban areas, either...that crumbling old farmhouse and barn are usually covered with paint that's up to 50% lead indoors and 80% outside.

my recipe, though not all that much faster than your Bullwinkle one, is tamale pie.  Ground beef, onions, green or red peppers, a can of corn, some taco seasoning, and green olives, all sauteed in a big skillet, then make up some cornbread dough, spread it on top about 2" thick, and bake it in the oven until the bread is done.  sort of a mexican version of shepherd's pie.  very tasty!  a little salsa and a pitcher of margaritas and you have the makings of a great afternoon!!

Just to let you know, I did try this. I used Black Olives & threw in some mushrooms.......  OMG It was really good.... You can cook this for me anytime.... I will even let you use the green olives. Next time I will try it with green olives.... I just happened to have black ones opened.  LOL