I'm hooked on Top Ramen!
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Top Ramen was a diet staple for me for years. I'm still burning off the extra carbs. :P
If you don't add the packet, and drain the noodles after boiling, it's just super-cheap spaghetti. Great budget extender, that. I also make a salad of the dry noodles, coleslaw mix, slivered almonds and vinaigrette with a teaspoon of the packet stuff.
If you don't add the packet, and drain the noodles after boiling, it's just super-cheap spaghetti. Great budget extender, that. I also make a salad of the dry noodles, coleslaw mix, slivered almonds and vinaigrette with a teaspoon of the packet stuff.
I've never liked Top Ramen, but I really enjoy Cup o' Noodles, chicken flavor. When I was in high school and had to babysit the younger ones at my sisters' swim meets they were a lifesaver. It would be freezing outside and those things would instantly warm you up.
I loved being creative with those packages of ramen noodles. Instead of those seasoning packets, I would make my own soup from chicken broth with a little soy sauce and sriracha sauce. I'd add vegetables and sometimes a little stir-fried tofu. Once, after arguing over the grocery budget, I served up ramen noodle soup with pan-friend spam. (Believe it or not, it tasted really good!)
But after visiting a real ramen soup stand at the food court at Mitsuwa Marketplace, I just can't go back to using those packages.
But after visiting a real ramen soup stand at the food court at Mitsuwa Marketplace, I just can't go back to using those packages.
. I've mostly stopped eating ramen all together though since it' like poison to your body.
And when I was a kid we'd call it "Camp Out" when mom couldn't afford to pay the utilities and fried baloney over the fireplace by candlelight for dinner. Top Ramen was ten for a buck then; there were times we'd eat that every night of the week.
Proper Ramen soup (ie. not the branded instant kind) is awesome. You should definitely try that, if you can.
The instant stuff is, I concur, more of a unique and acquired taste...
Your mother was a really shrewd cookie.
I've never heard of Top Ramen, but I used to eat Mr. Noodles-brand instant noodles fairly regularly, when I was a graduate student. I wasn't aware that they were "Canadian".
I also went for a month, once, eating nothing but microwaved potatoes with a bit of margarine. That was probably healthier and more nutritious than the noodles, but I don't recommend either.
Though, the potatoes-for-a-month episode makes a good story whenever I lecture on the Great Irish Famine, and have to explain Ireland's early 19th-century potato monoculture.
I also went for a month, once, eating nothing but microwaved potatoes with a bit of margarine. That was probably healthier and more nutritious than the noodles, but I don't recommend either.
Though, the potatoes-for-a-month episode makes a good story whenever I lecture on the Great Irish Famine, and have to explain Ireland's early 19th-century potato monoculture.
Ugh, that stuff can't be good for you. Zero nutrition and way too much salt.
;and yet, thet doesn't stop them from selling it. Go figure.
Ah' good ol' British Pot Noodle, does exaclty what it promises; noodles, in a pot.
It's highly nutritious if you add in lots of veggies and seafood/meat to the soup. With the right ingredients, you don't even have to use the soup base they provide. The sweetness and flavor would already be there. And you could even go a step further and buy healthier whole wheat noodles.
^ Then there's nothing left of the original! 
that was Witterquick's point, I daresay.
I usually make my own noodle soup from scratch. But I stock a few packs of ramen for emergencies, like when coming home from a day of outdoor work in winter, frozen to the marrow. Then I'll have a quick bowl of ramen to de-frost from within.
I usually make my own noodle soup from scratch. But I stock a few packs of ramen for emergencies, like when coming home from a day of outdoor work in winter, frozen to the marrow. Then I'll have a quick bowl of ramen to de-frost from within.
I was going for being filling (one med I take requires a full stomach) but fast-emptying from my stomach in a couple of hours (when the meds side effects won't occur anymore). And quick and easy.
I'm on very low-dose bystolic for hypertension, but even with having top ramen, my bp is staying around 120/80. The same as before bingeing. So I'm not worrying too hard about that aspect.
I'm on very low-dose bystolic for hypertension, but even with having top ramen, my bp is staying around 120/80. The same as before bingeing. So I'm not worrying too hard about that aspect.
We eat Oodles of Noodles sometimes (same thing as ramen really), and we actually call it "Oodles of Sodium".
But Propita, yeah, i love the stuff!
I was going to open a new thread but I figured it would kind of fit here.
I'm a bachelor who lives alone and doesn't cook, and doesn't like to spend a lot of money on food unless I'm with friends or on a date. Yet through it all, I just discovered Hot Pockets yesterday. The only ones I might have had previously were the breakfast ones. I was walking in the store and the Hot Pockets were on sale, and decided to try it.
All I can say is: YUM!
I'm a bachelor who lives alone and doesn't cook, and doesn't like to spend a lot of money on food unless I'm with friends or on a date. Yet through it all, I just discovered Hot Pockets yesterday. The only ones I might have had previously were the breakfast ones. I was walking in the store and the Hot Pockets were on sale, and decided to try it.
All I can say is: YUM!
Hot Pockets?? No offense, dude, but those things barely qualify as food. Did you even read the nutrition information? It's enough to give your doctor a heart attack. (Or you, for that matter.)
Even the "Lean" Pockets aren't much better for you.
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