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This is some of food bank meal saga off of 3 months where it was strictly food banks, only two a month, and limiting myself to 2 meals a day, coffee as a snack, with no excessively fatty foods. For health and definitely cost. Being broke and dieting works out 😭 thankfully doing a little better now, but thought I’d show these beauties that kept me alive.
Sweets are always given out like crazy here so it was a bit hard to refrain when I wasn’t really allowing snacks, but I think I did really good. Being health conscious and broke, I would just trade someone my fatty beef for a leaner chicken and give away the sweets.

1: bbq chicken, rice, peas
2: cfla donated tenders, canned green beans, 3 eggs with canned tomato
3:whole wheat toast and an omelette
4:canned chicken and canned veg fried rice
5:octopus hot dogs, tomato sauce, rice, egg
6: ramen with carrots, celery, egg, and chicken
7:meatballs with yellow rice, tomato sauce, canned green beans and canned chickpeas
8: pork loin, Mac n cheese with almost no milk or butter, canned veggies
9: bbq chicken, canned carrots and peas, Mac n cheese with a lil bit of butter only
10: penne, chicken, canned green beans, tomato, butter
11: mashed potatoes, rice, mixed greens and carrots, chicken, tomatoes
12: cabbage, rice, omelette
13: rice, canned green beans, chicken
14: rice, tomato, canned green beans, pork loin, fries, homemade gravy from beef broth and cornstarch
15: Last is least: vegetarian vegetable soup with added canned green beans and an uncooked hotdog. Hey, it’s food!

I hate this actually tastes pretty good because it’s fairly sad lol.
1.5 cup of canned green beans 45 cal
25 cal 5g protein diced ham
45 cal 1/4 cup Alfredo sauce
1/2 Roma tomato 6 cal
Onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper

121 calories

I hit my protein goals and was still hungry at the end of day, so, green bean slop

Delicious and filling.
I did 4 scrambled eggs, 5 cal of 1% milk, 1 roma tomato, and 1/2 cup bell pepper. Season with Goya sazón, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper.
Serving split between two people so mine was a little less than half of the egg batch.
Great value skim Mexican cheese shreds, Publix pepper queso chicken sausage, skim sour cream. If you omit the veggies and sausage, the two quesadillas are only 415 cals! Season generously with hot sauce if it’s up your alley.
Yes, it’s generous to call it a quesadilla considering the bare minimum of cheese, but it’s closer to that than anything else.

Under 500 cal over 40g protein comfort food ✨