A sort of non-meat-hi carb-active person diet (Read 976 times)

I am in college and my cooking skills are a bit limited. I rarely buy meat because it's too expensive, and have been surviving on cereal, salad, and lots and lots of rice. I also make barley and couscous. And to get my protein I have tuna and canned beans and chic peas. That's pretty much the extent of my diet. Just wondering if for a semi-active person (PT in the AM 4 days a week consisting of either running, sprints or a whole crapload of pushups and other grass drills) and then biking to school and home, and getting my 30 mpw, if this is a good enough diet. I seem to be suriving, just exhausted all the time, but I'm not really blaming that on my diet. I usually make for the week, a bowl of rice, add the beans and chic peas and tuna, and eat it in a wrap or pita. I haven't had anything much different than that (I'm not a picky eater by any means, all mixed up tastes fine to me.) I also have lunch meat once in a while on salads. Does anyone have any other suggestions for cheap food that is easy to cook and good for an active person? Something that will get protein without being meat? Thanks

Mmmm.. peanut butter While I can just eat it by the spoonful, I love me some pb sandwiches and also PB on a toasted bagel.

Oh, thanks for those recipes mainerunner. I'll have to make a list to take to geegle. Yeah, I used to have a jar of peanut butter, but I would binge and the jar would be gone way faster than it was supposed to. So I don't buy peanut butter anymore Chili sounds amazing, I was just going to buy the old canned stuff, but maybe I'll venture into the unknown and cook my own hehe.

zoom, meat is good lol. i always stock up on the meat when i go home lol. I think the crockpot is a great idea. Both those things you described taste delicious. I"ll look for the half price stuff next time I got to giant eagle! Liz, how would you make meatloaf in the crockpot? I love meatloaf, but cant imagine cooking it in that. Do you have a recipe or something?

http://familycrockpotrecipes.com/CrockPotMeatLoaf.html the woman who told me about it said that she criss crosses the aluminum foil on the bottom, sprays it with pam puts the meatloaf in and covers it with foil and the cover to the crockpot. She says 4 hours but this recipe calls for 8. I guess whatever works for you and your crockpot. I haven't had a chance to make it yet but its on my list if I ever get to the grocery store again. lol

Liz, I wish my DH and DS would eat meatloaf. I LOVE the stuff. My dad makes a good italian one that is ground beef, egg, Italian seasoned bread crumbs, shredded mozzarella, and spaghetti sauce. He mixes the meat, egg, and bread crumbs, layers half in the bottom of a loaf pan, dumps some about 2 C. of cheese on top of that, then the rest of the meat mixture, then the sauce...then bakes it for maybe an hour at 350º. Awesome and so simple and cheap.

Recipe filed and duly noted. Thank you. DH and DS are freaks.

Recipe filed and duly noted. Thank you. DH and DS are freaks.

I 2nd that. THat sounds amazing to me right now. I can't wait to bring home a crock pot, twill be better than my tuna-barley-pea-chili flavored concoction.