Sesame oil and gochujang have been helping me enjoy eating rice, couscous and quinoa. For those who don't know gochujang is a Korean spicy paste made from chillies and glutinous rice and is bangers when combined with toasted sesame oil. You can get a container of gochujang for around $5 in most grocery stores and it will last you months.
You can use it to make many variants of bibimbap, for example:
Couscous cucumber bowl:
Fry up some protein of your choice in sesame oil: chicken, eggs, shrimp.
Add in shredded basil and a healthy dollop of gochujang.
Once the protein is cooked, add in sliced cucumbers or carrots and cook for a minute. Still want the crunch!
Stir in pre-cooked rice/couscous/quinoa and finish with a squeeze of lemon.

I'm not sure if I should post here, the sub eatcheapandhealthy, cooking sub or what.
I started sprouting about 2 weeks ago and am so in love, I am eating so many sprouts every single day. I love the texture, the fact that they add bulk to food, that they add fiber, and that they are healthy. My husband brought home a somewhat heavy chicken and rice dish and I was able to eat much less of it and make it more healthy by adding a ton of sprouts to it.
Sprouting is definitely something I wish I had known about earlier, and naturally now I wonder what else I'm missing. And I also want to eat more veggies *in addition to* sprouts. So I started thinkign - what else could I cut every meal with? I pictured bibimbap, which has cut up mushrooms, seaweed, alfafa sprouts, carrots, eggs etc.
Just fishing for ideas. I've heard of microgreens, I dont know what they are and i live in a NYC apart with not much space.

Hi all,
As a grad student, my pitiful stipend and high rent are powerful motivators to try to make my food budget as small as possible, while still enjoying food every day. I've always been very keen on recipes that tick all the boxes of healthy, cheap, and delicious, so I've compiled a list of 15 of my favorites dishes that check all of these boxes, and I decided to spreadsheet all of the ingredients for these meals to see how much they cost per serving. Interestingly, they all came down to under $2 per serving, and several were under $1 per serving.
Ingredient and per-serving breakdown: Here is the album of ingredient spreadsheets. They are also listed individually below. I didn't include the cost of salt and pepper. Note that the "Unit Conversion Factor" is the ratio of dish units to purchase units (e.g., if I need to convert a tablespoon to an oz). "Cost per recipe" is found by multiplying amount used by purchase price, multiplying that by the conversion factor, and dividing by the amount purchased. This assumes 100% efficiency of the ingredients, which is not completely possible. One thing that really helps is to make homemade veggie stock by saving all peelings, scraps, skins, etc., and saving them in the freezer. It cuts down on food waste and also provides a practically free ingredient. I just empty the bag of accumulated veggies into the instant pot and cook on high for 30 minutes along with a bay leaf and some peppercorns.
Healthy: Of course, "healthy" is difficult to define, but almost all of these recipes contain a lot of vegetables and a decent amount of protein.
Cheap: Eating dinner for under $2 or under $1 is pretty great. My partner and I usually choose 3-4 of these meals to eat per week, we try 1-2 new recipes, and do 1-2 "wing it" recipes. We budget approximately $65 per week on groceries, and are often under budget. Breakfast we have homemade bread, and we meal prep lunches (may elaborate in a future post.)
Delicious: Honestly, all of these recipes are very tasty in my books. We like to eat a variety of food, and tend to really like big flavors and a lot of spices, and these all check the boxes. Lentil soup is probably the blandest thing on here, but it still hits home for me every time.
Vegetarian: None of these dishes contain meat. Lots of these are vegan, but some of them contain eggs, dairy, or honey. I should also note that I make both the Phat Phrik Khing and Vegetarian Chili with fish sauce, which is not vegetarian, but that can be worked around.
Caveats: I am very fortunate in that I am less than 15 minutes away from an Aldi which has very cheap produce and staples, a Korean market that has good priced tofu, and a bulk Indian+Persian grocery store that has a large variety of produce, spices, and staples. I understand that the prices will vary depending on your own grocery store prices, and may be much more expensive if you are outside of the US or don't have a local Aldi.
The Dishes: I don't want to write out each recipe right now, but I will either link recipes or provide some guidance below. Most of the linked recipes are Serious Eats, I find them to be a very reliable recipe source.

• Aloo Gobi - link. The 10lb bag of potatoes at my local Aldi fluctuates between $0.99 and $1.99, making it one of the best calorie-per-dollar sources available to me.
  
• Bibimbap - this one doesn't need a "recipe." Make rice, stir fry veg individually (or all together if you don't need it to be as pretty), top with a fried egg. The soy, sesame, and gochujang are stirred into a sauce and drizzled on top.
  
• Black Bean Burger w/ Spinach Salad - Cook soaked beans, mush everything together, form patties, and fry. We go bunless and serve with a side salad, but that's just because hamburger buns are annoying to buy. This recipe is in the America's Test Kitchen "The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook."
  
• Chana Masala - link. One of my favorites on here. Instead of rice, flatbreads are great with this.
  
• Chickpea Feta Farro Bowls - cook chickpeas and sautee them to get a bit crisp. Add kale and toss with za'atar. Serve over farro, add raw tomatoes, and drizzle with tahini-honey mixture.
  
• Dan Dan Noodles w/ Egg - link. Sub mushrooms for meat. The egg on top really adds to the dish and makes it more of a meal.
  
• Gong Bao Tofu (Kung Pao Tofu) - link. Instead of chicken, I just stir fry the tofu in some oil to crisp it up and continue the rest of the recipe.
  
• Lentil Soup - link. I'm not a fan of parsley so I omit it, but rosemary is nice in its place.
  
• Mapo Tofu w/ Mushrooms - link. Sub mushrooms in for the meat. Seriously delicious.
  
• Mujaddara - link. I like the technique of frying the onions with flour to get them crisper. I didn't include every single spice here, but they'd only add a few more cents.
  
• Phat Phrik Khing - No recipe needed. Just stir fry tofu and beans, add curry paste and soy sauce but keep it pretty dry, and serve with rice. Dinner in 15 minutes. If you want this to be truly vegetarian (no fish sauce), make sure your curry paste is vegetarian.
  
• Shakshouka - link. Best served with bread.
  
• Tempeh Taco Bowl - Cook black beans after soaking. Stir fry up the onion, tempeh, jalapenos, corn, and garlic. Serve over rice, garnish with avocado and cilantro. Might need a dash of Mexican hot sauce.
  
• Vegetarian Bolognese w/ Spaghetti - link but instead of meat, we add mushrooms and more carrots. Even without the meat, the long slow roasting makes for a delicious sauce. We always freeze some in quart-size freezer bags for a quick and easy pasta dish.
  
• Vegetarian Chili - link but instead of meat and red kidney beans, we do a mixture of pinto beans, black beans, and lentils. I use a different blend of chiles each time I do this. This is a great batch recipe that freezes well.
  

Concluding thoughts: I learned these recipes by either browsing Serious Eats or watching videos from channels like Bon Appetit, Binging with Babish, Adam Ragusea, and others. I will note that lots of these recipes do take a bit of time or planning ahead (e.g., soaking beans overnight), and they are not all easy. I have found that organizing weekly meal plans and preparing ahead are huge factors in cutting down on a grocery budget. Please let me know if you notice any mistakes in my ingredient lists, and feel free to ask any questions. I hope that this post has convinced some of you to try some of these out! I have played around with the idea of making a YouTube guide for some of these recipes, but dunno if it's worth the time and effort.
Edit: Here is a public link for the spreadsheet on Google Drive. Feel free to copy it to your drive, make new recipes, adjust for your own prices, etc.

I'm x-posting my /EatCheapAndHealthy post because it's receiving some positive feedback, and I thought y'all would be interested!
Hi all,
As a grad student, my pitiful stipend and high rent are powerful motivators to try to make my food budget as small as possible, while still enjoying food every day. I've always been very keen on recipes that tick all the boxes of healthy, cheap, and delicious, so I've compiled a list of 15 of my favorites dishes that check all of these boxes, and I decided to spreadsheet all of the ingredients for these meals to see how much they cost per serving. Interestingly, they all came down to under $2 per serving, and several were under $1 per serving.
Ingredient and per-serving breakdown: Here is the album of ingredient spreadsheets. They are also listed individually below. I didn't include the cost of salt and pepper. Note that the "Unit Conversion Factor" is the ratio of dish units to purchase units (e.g., if I need to convert a tablespoon to an oz). "Cost per recipe" is found by multiplying amount used by purchase price, multiplying that by the conversion factor, and dividing by the amount purchased. This assumes 100% efficiency of the ingredients, which is not completely possible. One thing that really helps is to make homemade veggie stock by saving all peelings, scraps, skins, etc., and saving them in the freezer. It cuts down on food waste and also provides a practically free ingredient. I just empty the bag of accumulated veggies into the instant pot and cook on high for 30 minutes along with a bay leaf and some peppercorns.
Healthy: Of course, "healthy" is difficult to define, but almost all of these recipes contain a lot of vegetables and a decent amount of protein.
Cheap: Eating dinner for under $2 or under $1 is pretty great. My partner and I usually choose 3-4 of these meals to eat per week, we try 1-2 new recipes, and do 1-2 "wing it" recipes. We budget approximately $65 per week on groceries, and are often under budget. Breakfast we have homemade bread, and we meal prep lunches (may elaborate in a future post.)
Delicious: Honestly, all of these recipes are very tasty in my books. We like to eat a variety of food, and tend to really like big flavors and a lot of spices, and these all check the boxes. Lentil soup is probably the blandest thing on here, but it still hits home for me every time.
Vegetarian: None of these dishes contain meat. Lots of these are vegan, but some of them contain eggs, dairy, or honey. I should also note that I make both the Phat Phrik Khing and Vegetarian Chili with fish sauce, which is not vegetarian, but that can be worked around.
Caveats: I am very fortunate in that I am less than 15 minutes away from an Aldi which has very cheap produce and staples, a Korean market that has good priced tofu, and a bulk Indian+Persian grocery store that has a large variety of produce, spices, and staples. I understand that the prices will vary depending on your own grocery store prices, and may be much more expensive if you are outside of the US or don't have a local Aldi.
The Dishes: I don't want to write out each recipe right now, but I will either link recipes or provide some guidance below. Most of the linked recipes are Serious Eats, I find them to be a very reliable recipe source.

• Aloo Gobi - link. The 10lb bag of potatoes at my local Aldi fluctuates between $0.99 and $1.99, making it one of the best calorie-per-dollar sources available to me.
  
• Bibimbap - this one doesn't need a "recipe." Make rice, stir fry veg individually (or all together if you don't need it to be as pretty), top with a fried egg. The soy, sesame, and gochujang are stirred into a sauce and drizzled on top.
  
• Black Bean Burger w/ Spinach Salad - mush everything together, form patties, and fry. We go bunless and serve with a side salad, but that's just because hamburger buns are annoying to buy. This recipe is in the America's Test Kitchen "The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook."
  
• Chana Masala - link. One of my favorites on here. Instead of rice, flatbreads are great with this.
  
• Chickpea Feta Farro Bowls - cook chickpeas and sautee them to get a bit crisp. Add kale and toss with za'atar. Serve over farro, add raw tomatoes, and drizzle with tahini-honey mixture.
  
• Dan Dan Noodles w/ Egg - link. Sub mushrooms for meat. The egg on top really adds to the dish and makes it more of a meal.
  
• Gong Bao Tofu (Kung Pao Tofu) - link. Instead of chicken, I just stir fry the tofu in some oil to crisp it up and continue the rest of the recipe.
  
• Lentil Soup - link. I'm not a fan of parsley so I omit it, but rosemary is nice in its place.
  
• Mapo Tofu w/ Mushrooms - link. Sub mushrooms in for the meat. Seriously delicious.
  
• Mujaddara - link. I like the technique of frying the onions with flour to get them crisper. I didn't include every single spice here, but they'd only add a few more cents.
  
• Phat Phrik Khing - No recipe needed. Just stir fry tofu and beans, add curry paste and soy sauce but keep it pretty dry, and serve with rice. Dinner in 15 minutes. If you want this to be truly vegetarian (no fish sauce), make sure your curry paste is vegetarian.
  
• Shakshouka - link. Best served with bread.
  
• Tempeh Taco Bowl - Cook black beans after soaking. Stir fry up the onion, tempeh, jalapenos, corn, and garlic. Serve over rice, garnish with avocado and cilantro. Might need a dash of Mexican hot sauce.
  
• Vegetarian Bolognese w/ Spaghetti - link but instead of meat, we add mushrooms and more carrots. Even without the meat, the long slow roasting makes for a delicious sauce. We always freeze some in quart-size freezer bags for a quick and easy pasta dish.
  
• Vegetarian Chili - link but instead of meat and red kidney beans, we do a mixture of pinto beans, black beans, and lentils. I use a different blend of chiles each time I do this. This is a great batch recipe that freezes well.
  

Concluding thoughts: I learned these recipes by either browsing Serious Eats or watching videos from channels like Bon Appetit, Binging with Babish, Adam Ragusea, and others. I will note that lots of these recipes do take a bit of time or planning ahead (e.g., soaking beans overnight), and they are not all easy. I have found that organizing weekly meal plans and preparing ahead are huge factors in cutting down on a grocery budget. Please let me know if you notice any mistakes in my ingredient lists, and feel free to ask any questions. I hope that this post has convinced some of you to try some of these out! I have played around with the idea of making a YouTube guide for some of these recipes, but dunno if it's worth the time and effort.
Edit: Here is a public link for the spreadsheet on Google Drive. Feel free to copy it to your drive, make new recipes, adjust for your own prices, etc.

Disclaimer: I wrote this last month as an experiment, as I’ve never really thought to keep track of my expenses (other than looking at my CC statement every month). It was interesting to see how I spent my money and how hard I tried to have no spend days haha.
Section One: Assets and Debt
Retirement Balance (and how you got there): 401K - $44,664.77 from my first job, which had a great match. $15,273.97 from my second job, which had a terrible match. $6,423.47 from my current job, which has an okay-ish match (I currently contribute 10%). Roth IRA - $20,264.71 (I’ve been maxing out my contributions for the last 3 years).
Savings/investment account balance: ~$120,000 - My dad manages my savings (he’s a finance guy) and guarantees me at least a 5% annual return. Basically anytime my checking account goes above some arbitrary amount, I throw some money into this “account.”
HSA: $508.37. I contribute $15.00 per paycheck (pre-tax) and my employer contributes $31 per paycheck.
Checking account balance: $17,447.01.
Credit card debt: $0. I pay off my CC balance in full every month.
Student loan debt (for what degree): $0. I graduated with about $18,000 debt, which I paid off 2 years after graduation. I went to an OOS school (5 year BS/MPH) and the rest of my tuition was covered by grants, scholarships, and my wonderful parents/grandparents. I also worked the entire time during school (at one point, three jobs at once!).
Section Two: Income
Main Job Monthly Take Home: $4691.17 after all deductions (taxes, 10% 401K contribution pre-tax, $30 HSA contribution pre-tax, $11 dental insurance, $8.28 vision insurance, $103.52 medical insurance) .
Side Gig Monthly Take Home: ~$2,000 on average, UNTAXED. I do some contract work for another company (not in the same industry as my full-time job). I realize as a 1099, I’ll need to owe a lot of taxes next year, so I routinely remind myself that the check I receive every month is not my actual take-home. I’m trying to end this contract though, as I don’t need the money (although it is nice!) and I feel guilt/pressure when I don’t put in hours and instead want to enjoy myself (AKA travel and do all the Colorado things). I’m open to any other side hustle ideas, though!
Section Three: Expenses
Rent: $780. I live in a 3bed/1bath townhome with two other girls.
Savings/investment contribution: Stated above that I just throw money into the savings/investment account that my Dad manages when my checking account goes above a certain limit. I can withdraw from this at any time if I need to. I try to save around 50% of my take-home salary.
Debt payments: $0.
Donations: Varies. I’ll contribute here and there to fundraisers and causes and I volunteer with my local Kiwanis club and college alumni club.
Electric: Varies, but July was $18.68 for my portion. This is much higher in the winter.
Wifi/Cable/Landline: $37 for my portion.
Cellphone: $0. I’m on my parents plan.
Subscriptions: HBO Now - $15.64. Spotify - $10.79. Apple iCloud storage: $0.99. I use my boyfriend’s Hulu with no commercials and my Dad’s Amazon Prime and Netflix.
Gym membership: $59.99 for ClassPass.
Car payment / insurance: $92.09 for insurance. My car is paid off in full (bought off my parents about 3 years ago). It’s not the newest car, but I don’t drive very much so it’s fine.
Day 1: Wednesday
5:45AMish: Wake up to my boyfriend, C, getting out of my bed to leave to go back to his apartment, since he leaves much earlier than me for work. It was my birthday yesterday and we ended up crashing at my place after dinner. I take some Advil and chug some water to hopefully feel better after really getting up (another year older, armirite?). Fall back into a half-sleep.
6:30AM: Alarm goes off. Alarm gets shut off.
6:45AM: Second alarm goes off. Snooze.
6:53AM: Third alarm gets shut off. I’m kind of up and scroll through social media.
7:00AM: Quick body shower (I don’t usually shower in the morning but I met up with C right after I got home from work yesterday and didn’t shower, oops) and go through my normal routine - Brush my teeth, wash my face, put in contacts, get dressed (olive green t shirt dress, pale pink tassel necklace, and slip on white quilted leather sneakers, my office is very casual), go through my super complex skincare routine of just Neutrogena moisturizer with sunscreen, swipe on some Maybelline eyeliner and Burts Bees chapstick, take my meds (I have epilepsy), pack my lunch, and I’m out the door by 7:35AM.
8:00AM: Sweaty from my 25 min walk commute (while listening to trashy Bachelor-related podcasts). My knee is aching, as I hiked a 14er last weekend and then stupidly decided to do a 5K the next morning and then did a HIIT workout the next day. Second oops. Take care of a few emails and get office coffee (very bad, but free), a giant glass of ice water, and heat up my egg cup muffin things (I meal prep these every Sunday for breakfast for the week).
8:30AM: Morning office routine of bouncing between The Skimm, reading some other news/Reddit, emails, work, etc.
10:30AM: My Director wants me to go watch a couple of intern project presentations. I haven’t had my morning snack and know I’ll be starving by the time it ends, so I shove a few almonds in my mouth. Watching the intern presentations makes me laugh a little bit and reminds me of when I was an intern (at another company) and how fabricated the “assigned projects” were. They were all overly enthusiastic, but the presentations were good to listen to, as I’m still new-ish to this company and learned a bit more about other departments/functions.
11:30AM: Heat up my lunch of leftover paella from dinner last night while continuing to work.
2:30PM: Grab grapes that I brought for an afternoon snack and continue working. I also decide to buy two pairs of North Face hiking shorts from REI for an upcoming trip to Moab - It’s going to be HOT and I don’t have any “hiking shorts.” Not sure if these will fit, but I’ll return them if they don’t. $67.00
4:45PM: Leave the office. Contemplate signing up for a gym class, but decide I should let my knee rest another day. Call my Mom on the way home to catch up and figure out what we’re doing when I see my parents for a day in a couple weeks when I’ll be back on the East Coast.
5:15PM: Get home, lay in bed scrolling through social media for a bit, then head to a new (for me) Asian grocery store because a coworker told me this one has a bakery and I need baos in my life. I wander each aisle of the empty store and am saddened that one bao is $2.09! I text my Mom about the days of $1 baos in Flushing and Chinatown (I grew up in New York and my parents and grandmas are still there). Also text C about this, but he doesn’t really care. I buy kimchi, chili bamboo, 4 bags of frozen dumplings (will give 2 bags to C), and 6 baos because I have no self-control. $41.28
6:45PM: Get home, unpack my goodies, eat a hot dog bao (if you know, you know), more leftover paella, then lock myself in my room to watch last night’s Bachelor in Paradise since I missed it (and my bedroom has AC, which the rest of the house doesn’t). Text my friends from back home about the episode (I recently moved from the East Coast and miss my friends dearly and love talking about this nonsense). Contemplate who’s the bigger asshole on this show.
8:45PM: Shower and wash my face with GlamGlow Thirstycleans, moisturize with St. Ive’s body lotion, Olay face moisturizer, then head downstairs to do some contract work. I also order a pair of hiking shorts from Outdoor Voices and will compare with the North Face ones and return whatever doesn’t fit. $56.32
10:15PM: Head back upstairs, take vitamins and meds, put on Kiehl’s lip mask, and watch an episode of Handmaid’s Tale (I’m late to this show, so I’m binging). Fall asleep around 11:30PM.
TOTAL: $164.60
Day 2: Thursday
6:30AM-7:02AM: All the alarms. Don’t know what I’m doing with my life.
7:15AM: Finally struggle out of bed because I know I’m already running 5 minutes late. Normal getting ready routine (black striped linen jumpsuit and Adidas sneakers and accept the fact that I will have to get naked to pee all day), pack my lunch, and I’m gone.
8:00AM: Bad coffee, water, egg muffins.
8:30AM: Morning routine and work work work work work.
10:45AM: Mid-morning snack of grapes.
12:00PM: Lunch with my boss and a couple other coworkers. One coworker is in from out of town, so lunch is expensed. I eat a falafel bowl with spicy hummus, roasted cauliflower, Israeli salad, and half a pita. My boss makes me take a few leftover falafel and sweet potato fries back to the office but I don’t know what he wants me to do with them. I hate food waste, so I’ll probably end up eating them later today.
3:15PM: I take a quick work break to look up some trails and activities for my girls trip to Moab!
4:45PM: Time to trek home. I hop on a free shuttle that would take me halfway home but I miss my stop as I’m scrolling through Instagram, ugh. I get off at the next stop and walk the rest of the way home, texting C about how I was annoyed that the shuttled didn’t stop at every stop like it’s supposed to (but I should have been paying attention). I chat with one of my roommates and meet her girlfriend and eat a little bit of leftover paella from dinner on Tuesday before the gym.
6:15PM: Arrive at the studio and find free street parking! I use ClassPass and today’s session is a strengthening class at a barre studio (I don’t love actual barre, but I like the weights-focus of this particular class). I kind of regret going since my knee is acting up again, but I feel sweaty and good afterwards.
7:15PM: Arrive home, sit for a second, then head out to my sand volleyball game (byob!).
8:30PM: We lose (we’re not very good), but a team that’s playing after us needs girls to fill in and me and my friend and two other people from our team stay. We end up winning! Winning is a lot more fun. I have two Coors Banquets (sorry not sorry) and we decide to meet up with the rest of our teammates at the bar.
9:30PM: Arrive at the bar but realize that our teammates went to another bar. I stay at this bar for a drink with a couple from my team and we end up bonding over common interests and past lives (shoutout to the Bay Area where I lived for a year and LOVED, but the struggles were real). We make plans to meet up for dinner and drinks at some point and I invite them to my weekly volleyball Sundays at the park. I get excited because making friends as an adult is hard. I have a Hazy IPA, which my teammate covers. I’ll get him next time.
11:15PM: Way later than I expected to get home tonight. I shove a hot dog bao into my mouth, shower, and put on reruns of How I Met Your Mother (one of my “background” shows in rotation, the others are The Office and Parks & Rec) and fall asleep way too late.
TOTAL: $0
Day 3: Friday
6:30AM-7:02AM: All the alarms again. Scroll through social media a bit.
7:15AM: Normal getting ready routine (black and white A-line skirt, coral T shirt, white Nike sneakers because it’s too hot to think about commuting in anything else), pack my lunch, and I’m out listening to an old episode of My Favorite Murder.
8:00AM: Bad coffee, water, and char sui bao (roast pork bun) this morning! It’s Friday and I need to change it up. Also PAYDAY.
8:30AM: Work. Thrilling.
10:15AM: Grapes again. I try to switch up my snacking fruit every week so I don’t get bored.
12:15PM: My last meeting went over and I am HUNGRY. Eat lunch of an Asian slaw with tuna (I meal prepped this earlier this week) and my breakfast egg muffins with all the Tapatio. Do a little bit of contract work on my lunch break.
2:45PM: Another quick break to look up more trails for my Labor Day trip! I successfully convince my friends we should do the longest hike in Arches NP.
3:15PM: Mid-afternoon snack of blackberry greek yogurt with chocolate chips from my desk drawer and another cup of bad office coffee. I drink bad office coffee pretty much all day long because I don’t like spending money on coffee during the week.
4:30PM: C picks me up from work because he’s the best (and has every other Friday off) and we discuss what we want to do for the weekend. I want to take it easy-ish since I’ll be out of town for the next 3 weekends and C’s cousin is coming to visit the weekend after that. We swing by my house so I can change (black crop tank top, girlfriend jeans, white slip on sneakers), grab some clothes C left at my place, the dumplings I got him, and head back to his place.
5:00PM: We laze around the apt for a bit. I drink an orange La Croix (do not recommend) and have some Cheez-Its. At some point, C sneaks some vodka into my water and I’m not mad about it. C texts his friend that just moved here to see if him and his gf want to come up to the city (they’re in the ‘burbs) and they decline. We decide to walk to a bar for dinner.
7:00PM: Dinner at a meh bar. I get a Hazy IPA and a meatball sub (on an Amoroso roll!). C pays (we usually switch off paying when we go out to eat/drink and that works well for us).
8:30PM: Decide to go to another bar near C’s place. I order beers for us (grapefruit IPA for me) while C goes to the bathroom and I receive a panic text from C about there being no tp in the bathroom and to tell a bartender. I feel weird about this but I do it. We finally get to our beers and discuss checking public bathrooms for tp before using them (this somewhat turns into a funny argument and we poll all our friends about what they would do). $17.12.
9:30PM: Another bar down the street. It’s pretty empty but we stay for two drinks (I get two pineapple blonde beers). C and I discuss random things - our friends’ relationships, finances, the colleges we went to, diet and exercise, etc. C pays and we walk home.
11:00PM: I’m pretty beat but C grabs two Naturdays (these are actually amazing for a “shit” beer) for us from the fridge and makes bagel bites! Drunk food is the best. I don’t finish my beer, but eat all the bagel bites, swipe off my eyeliner, and head to bed.
TOTAL: $17.12
Day 4: Saturday
Sometime in the middle of the night: I wake up with really bad dry mouth and get a glass of water. I try to go back to bed but am tossing and turning and decide to sleep on the couch so I don’t wake C up.
10:00AMish: I am somewhat up and not feeling 100% (slightly hungover lol I need to remind myself I’m in my late 20s now). Scroll through social media a bit. C eventually joins me in the living room and we put on HIMYM and talk about what we’re each doing today.
12:00PM: I convince C to go to McDonald’s on the way to drive me home (he lives next to one and I’m weak). I get two breakfast burritos and a black iced coffee and C gets an egg mcmuffin and unsweetened iced tea. I pay ($10.55) and I’m finally home and collapse into bed eating my breakfast burritos with another HIMYM episode on in the background. Feel a lot better now.
2:30PM: Finally get up (lol), take a body shower, quickly wash the dishes (my house doesn’t have a dishwasher and we’re all usually pretty good about washing our stuff, but the sink was getting full), then I’m out the door. Head to REI to pick up my shorts (they fit! Will wait to receive the OV ones and compare, but will probably return those since the cost for one pair was almost as much as the cost for these two) and then head to the outlet mall near me. I don’t really need anything, but I rarely go shopping and figure if I see a dress I like for a wedding I have in two weeks, I’ll get it.
7:00PM: Finally home and exhausted and hungry. I end up purchasing two sweaters ($15.24), some baking pans and a food storage container ($17.41), and an iced coffee ($3.21). I also get groceries to meal prep this week and a few last minute travel toiletries - romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, a cucumber, a cantaloupe, eggs, frozen spinach, mushrooms, deli meat, olive oil, Dunkin’ coffee (thank god actual Dunkin’ just came to Colorado!), toothpaste, hair conditioner (to shave my legs lol I don’t use conditioner in my hair), and a toothbrush ($36.86). I eat another char sui bao and text C to see what he wants to do for dinner.
8:00PM: C comes over and I order an Uber to a food hall ($5.96). I order al pastor tacos ($8.64) and get drinks for C and I (watermelon sour for me) ($19.28). C gets a banh mi sandwich and pays for himself. We decide to go to a rooftop bar and C gets drinks this time (I get a mexican lager). We go to another bar and I get two rounds of drinks for us (I get two hazy IPAs) ($23.00).
TOTAL: $140.15
Day 5: Sunday
12:00AM: Open Uber and Lyft apps to compare prices. Ouch. I forget it’s Saturday night and quickly contemplate walking home since we’re not that far, but that thought quickly flies out the window. I order an Uber back to my house ($20.21) and I grab us a bed beer to share (Hemporer HPA) and we fall asleep to HIMYM.
10:30AM: C leaves and I go downstairs to scrounge around for food. I heat up the leftover falafel and sweet potato fries and a lonely egg muffin and douse everything with sriracha. I keep checking the weather to see if I should go to the park to play volleyball or stay home and catch up on some things (like folding the laundry that I did over a week ago… Adulting is hard).
2:00PM: Finally start the day? I’m glad I decided not to go to the park because it’s now raining. I meal prep egg muffins for breakfast for the week and take a cooking break with some contract work. Shower and finally clean my room (and fold that laundry!). I also make a list of things to pack for my trip(s) (I’ll be back on the East Coast for almost two weeks and then leaving for Moab a day after I get back to Denver).
5:00PM: I text C to see if he can quickly help put air in my tires. I drive over to pick him up and we go to the gas station. I don’t have any quarters so I have to make change with cash I already have. I drop C back home and he gives me a new Hydro Flask as a belated gift!
5:30PM: I make an “Indian” stir fry for dinner (chicken and all the vegetables left in my fridge + leftover TJ’s tikka masala sauce over rice) and do the dishes. I attempted to take out our garbage and recycling, but when I opened our back door, our landlord was right there fixing a fence and I’m super awkward and just quietly shut the door before he noticed I was there. What’s wrong with me? Head upstairs to veg out for a bit because I am not ready to tackle my salad meal prep.
9:45PM: Yikes, watched two episodes of Handmaid’s Tale and placed an Amazon Prime order for last minute travel things - A headlamp and mesh laundry bags ($13.91). I go downstairs to cut up my cantaloupe for my fruit this week (I’ll meal prep my salads tomorrow night, since I have a lunch to bring for tomorrow), brush my teeth, wash my face, moisturize, vitamins and meds, Kiehl’s lip mask, and another episode of Handmaid’s Tale and fall asleep around midnight.
TOTAL: $34.12
Day 6: Monday
6:30AM-7:02AM: Alarms. Scroll through emails and social media.
7:10AM: Morning routine (girlfriend jeans, geometric print blouse, white slip on sneakers). One of my contacts is being very stubborn this morning (this is where I wish I qualified for Lasik). Pack gym clothes, lunch, and I’m out the door a little later than normal . I listen to Chicks in the Office podcast because this is how I keep up with pop culture (ugh, Portnoy tho).
8:05AM: Bad coffee, water, egg muffins, emails.
10:00AM: I’m going on hour 2 of a 3 hour customer training WebEx and I have to pee. I take this time to refill my coffee, water, and get some cantaloupe from the fridge that I brought from home.
11:30AM: Training is over a little early, thank god. The hosts were struggling with audio issues real bad and I couldn’t take it anymore. I head to the break room to eat my lunch (double “portion” of the Asian slaw from last week but it’s basically just vegetables so kinda healthy (obligatory ‾\_(ツ)_/‾) and do more work.
12:40PM: My friend texts our group chat about the new Natty Seltzers. I immediately text C about this because we are both obsessed with Naturdays. Am I really 28?
1:00PM: Meetings. Lots of arguments about internal policies. I also have my biweekly 1:1 with my boss, which goes better than my past ones - I’ve been trying to figure out how to ask for more work or how to get more involved in my department since my small team is pretty siloed and he suggests I join a particular committee to give the current members a different perspective.
3:00PM: Meetings over. I eat a mango greek yogurt with chocolate chips and catch up with a coworker about a cool hike she did yesterday.
4:50PM: I leave the office to head to a HIIT class a few blocks away.
6:05PM: I walk home and make a lazy version of bibimbap (ground turkey with gochujang, brown sugar, and soy sauce, quick pickled julienned cucumber and carrots, kimchi, rice, runny egg, all topped with sriracha. I make two servings and an extra serving of rice for fried rice tomorrow. Start BIP!
9:00PM: Fuck, I like the OV shorts that came in the mail today. They seem like they would hold up on longer hikes more since they have a weightier fabric than the North Face ones. I decide to keep these and return one of the North Face ones. I am normally not a big spender on clothes, so this stings a little. I’ll go to REI on Wednesday when I have to run a bunch of other errands. I show one of my roommates all the shorts and she agrees with me (done talking about shorts now). Shower, body lotion, face moisturizer, and head downstairs to meal prep those salads (romaine lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, celery, cherry tomatoes, turkey deli meat). I also make hard boiled eggs for each salad and I have dressing at work.
10:15PM: Put on lip mask and another episode of Handmaid’s Tale. Goodnight.
TOTAL: $0
Day 7: Tuesday
6:15-6:30AM: Earlier alarms this morning, since I have a short standing call with the company I contract for. I scroll through social media and emails for 5 minutes and go downstairs to put on a small pot of coffee. Morning routine (Banana Republic black cotton pencil skirt, my favorite Oakland T shirt, black nike sneakers) and head downstairs for my call. Pack my lunch afterwards and out the door by 7:35.
8:00AM: Bad coffee, water, egg muffins, work. I also book a workout class on ClassPass for later today that I’ve never done before and I’m nervous, but the studio is right down the street from my house.
10:00AM: Grab cantaloupe from the fridge that I brought from home. Also receive an email from a coworker who’s organizing a work softball team that I signed up for and then IM another coworker and text some other friends about signing up for a volleyball league. Both will start in about a month.
11:35AM: I cannot put off lunch any longer. I go to the break room to have my sad desk salad topped with crispy red peppers for dat texture while going through emails. Also do a little bit of contract work.
12:30PM: Back to work. It is freezing in the office.
1:50PM: Sad desk salad is not cutting it. I snack on some almonds from my desk drawer.
3:30PM: Blood orange greek yogurt with chocolate chips. I am constantly eating.
4:45PM: Leave. Take off all my clothes when I get home because I’m sweaty af and laze in my bed for a bit before stuffing some turkey slices in my mouth and heading to the studio for my workout.
7:00PM: It was a good workout! Much more like the group fitness classes I used to take back home. I talk with the instructor for a bit and race home to start BIP and make a quick kimchi fried rice. I also receive my contracting work check from last month and deposit that.
9:00PM: Shower and try on my swimsuits for the beach next week. God damn hip dips. I google “best swimsuit bottoms for hip dips” and decide a) I don’t want to spend money on new swimsuits since I don’t wear the six that I have very often and b) I’m not trying to impress anyone, so fuck it. I head downstairs to do some contract work. No Handmaid’s Tale tonight, as I try to sleep earlier on Tuesdays since I have a 6:30AM call with my contracting company every Wednesday morning. I fall asleep browsing Reddit and playing solitaire on my phone.
TOTAL: $0
TOTAL: $355.99
Food + Drink: $159.94
Fun / Entertainment: $0
Home + Health: $31.32
Clothes + Beauty: $138.56
Transport: $26.17
Other: $0
Lastly, reflect on your diary! I think this is somewhat normal-ish, but since I rarely buy clothes, I think the spread over the categories is unusual (I would normally spend more on food lol). Writing out the beginning part made me realize I maybe need a more active role in my finances instead of letting my Dad completely handle everything, although I do check in with him about once a month to see how everything’s doing. When I first started working (at a lower salary with debt), I had a pretty strict budget (I tracked every single expense and broke it down by category), but I really haven’t had one in the last couple of years. Perhaps it’s time to start again, but I’m pretty comfortable in my spending/saving ratio. Anyone in Denver wanna grab a beer?

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I'm learning the HTML and CSS coding from udemy , and just can't figure it out where is the mistake.
I tried to delete almost everything to see where is the problem, but I just can't figure it out.
The horizontal orange line won't take the right margin size.
It should be like on the left side on the picture.
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Here is the whole files:
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Body Stats Height: 5'11''
Weight: 175 lbs
Age: 24
So here's the reason most of you are here, potato quality pictures of a half-naked guy in his bedroom!
Unfortunately, I don't really have a good "before" picture to give you. I was ashamed at how terrible I looked for the past few years that I avoided cameras and any situation where I'd be shirtless like the plague. At my worst I was about 200 lbs at around 25-28% bodyfat in the summer of 2011. After I finished school, my diet got a bit better, I stopped drinking soda and I dropped down to around 185 by the fall of 2012 when I finally joined a gym again.
Back when I was in high school, I'd spent some time being a cliche 17-year-old at the gym (terrible ROM, ego lifting, curls everyday) with awful consistency, but I at least had some vague idea of what the various muscle groups were and some exercises to work them. So I wasn't starting completely from scratch.
My first few months back in the gym were... unproductive to say the least. I was weaker than I'd been in my entire life, so every lift was an ego lift with too much weight, not enough reps, and a terrible ROM. I was doing a brosplit as it's all I'd ever known but I'd be lucky if my lazy-ass made it to the gym 2 days a week. Needless to say, legs day and back day were frequently neglected... The issue was that at the time I was commuting 4 hours a day and working 9 hours. Trying to drag myself to the gym after 2 hours on a train and an entire day of work with any consistency was just impossible for me (yeah I know, I was a little bitch).
Motivation: The turning point for me came at the beginning of last summer when two things happened: first, I found out that there was an extremely popular men's league hockey organization at a local rink. This gave me something to train for. Instead of ego lifting for 5 reps, I had a good reason to train for endurance in higher rep-ranges. The second, and honestly far more significant thing, was my discovery of pre-workout. I know this subreddit tends to be pretty negative towards PWO, but for me, it was a godsend. Trying to motivate myself to go to the gym after a full day of work/commuting was impossible, but once I'd downed my PWO, I was ready to commit armed robbery no matter how tired I was 20 minutes ago. Once I started taking it, I literally never missed a gym session to lethargy again.
Programming: I had always had issues with programming-ADD. I was constantly shifting my programming around and never really following anything any real consistency. I decided to just throw out all the fancy crap and just stick to the following plan: 3 day rotation, 2 muscle groups per day, 4 exercises per group, 4x8 set/reps for every exercise, and I'd hit the gym every other day. If I recall correctly, my split was something like: Chest/Bis, Back/Tris, Legs/Shoulders.
With the exception of the big lifts, I didn't have a fixed set of exercises for each of the muscle groups. I hate waiting for equipment so I would just go with whatever I could do without waiting. I still do this. Fuck waiting.
After a few months of this, I switched to a 4 day rotation of: Chest/Abs, Back/Tris, Biceps/Shoulders, Legs/Abs and I upped my frequency from every other day to Sun, Tues, Thurs, Saturday.
I followed this extremely simple program through January of this year when I started following a heavily modified version of Jim Stoppani's shortcut to size program. I stuck to the exercises that I liked doing but I changed my split to be Chest/Tris, Back/Bis, Shoulders/Abs/Forearms, and Legs/Abs/Forearms. Additionally, I also stopped having planned off-days. I'd hit the gym 7 days/week if nothing came up. I was a big fan of the microcycles in this program and it helped me smash a lot of plateaus that I'd been stuck on for a few months. This was also the first time that I'd put any thought at all into how long I was resting between sets. I was on this program for about 7 months until I switched to PHAT which I am currently on.
Some Favorite Exercises As I mentioned, I just do whatever is available but I do have some favorites that people may find interesting:
Shoulders: Lateral Raises, Standing DB Press, Arnold Press, Front Front DB raises (I like to keep the DB vertical)
Back: Wide Grip pull-ups!, T-bar Rows, L-Sit Chinups
Triceps: Tricep Dips
Legs: Hack Squats (with a barbell, not that weird sled thing that people call hack squats), Paused ATG Front Squats
Glutes: Weighted Hip Thrusts if you're not doing these, you should start. Even getting my squat over 3 plates didn't make my booty pop like it did when I added these to legs day.
Chest: Paused Incline Bench (pause for 3 seconds at the bottom), Pushups on dumbbells or kettlebells so you can go deeper
Abs: Dragon Flags, Leg Raises with a medicine ball between my feet
Training Intensity The last 7 months or so I've gone through some personal stuff that put me in a less-than-happy place emotionally. I've done my best to funnel this negativity into the gym. As a result, I've made more gains in the last few months than I did in the first year I was hitting it consistently. I've sort of incorporated a CT FletcheMike Rashid-style aspect of overtraining to the end of most of my workouts where I'll set up some sort of gauntlet for whatever muscles I'm hitting that day and run it until I'm completely spent. I think Elliot Hulse called it "Masochistic Training". Whether you run a gauntlet or not I don't think is what's important. I think the important thing is that when you're in the gym, that you're in the right head space to push your body and make it do things it doesn't want to (I COMMAND YOU TO GROW!) otherwise you'll wind up like those guys who just sort of wander around and never make any significant progress, despite consistently hitting the gym for years. When I leave the gym on chest/tris day, I don't want to be able to complete a single push up; when I'm done with legs, I should have to waddle like the penguin.
Diet: Heh... My diet has been "heuristical" at best. The real issue is that I get breakfast and lunch paid for at work and there's unfortunately no nutrition information available, what I eat there is fairly healthy (usually chicken bibimbap with brown rice) but it ruins any macro counting I could be doing. And until I changed jobs a few months ago, I simply did not have the time or the energy to get food from any source other than Seamless/GrubHub (delivery). In general I eat clean, tons of oats, greek yogurt, chicken, rice, all that good stuff but I haven't gotten to the point of counting my calories/macros yet.
Current 1RM PRs: Bench - 285 lbs (I actually cleared this months ago but I haven't made another 1RM bench attempt, I'm pretty confident I could clear at least 295 though)
Squat - 330
DeadLift - 385
OHP (3RM) - 175
Yes, yes, I'm aware that my squat and my deadlift in particular are abysmal compared to my bench and OHP. I was scared of deadlifting wrong for a long time so I've only been incorporating it into my training for the past 3 months or so.
Next Goals Now that I'm on PHAT, I'm doing regular powerlifting training for the first time ever really so I'm pretty excited to see what happens with my big lifts. I think a 4 plate deadlift will be the next major milestone I'll hit and I really hope to break a 300 lb bench press before the end of the year and 315 by next summer.
Conclusion You can do everything wrong and still make great progress so long as you hit it consistently and hit it hard. Let me know if you have any questions or want me to add any additional details!
Love,
Odword

While I really love cooking, I'm also lazy and busy and sometimes it's just nice to have someone else make you dinner. That said, I am constantly astounded by how heavily restaurants rely on meat and grain as the basis for dishes. Veg is so cheap, it should be in every dish on the menu! Regardless, here are some hacks I've found over the years...

Do Your Research

If possible, before heading out do a little research about nutrition or dietary restrictions or popular dishes. Many restaurants, especially chain restaurants, now post nutrition information (I'm pretty sure there's a new law or something). Without looking, I'd never have known that the type of noodles in this pasta dish, for example, cut down on the calories significantly! But even for restaurants that don't share, you can do a little sleuthing. For example, after reading some online reviews I discovered this carne asada plate that comes with all the taco insides but tortillas on the side. This way I can mix and match or even avoid whole elements if I choose. Similarly, I'd never have realized that this vermicelli bowl is packed with a thick layer of salad beneath the noodles.

Side Dishes

Side dishes can be totally satisfying, especially if you find ones packed with vegetables and good protein! These fresh green rolls are from the same restaurant with the vermicelli bowl and are basically the exact same flavor profile for far less calories.

Salad

Honestly... I'm going to advocate somewhat against ordering salad. I've almost never come across a menu salad I couldn't make at home with even better ingredients for a quarter of the price. What is with the price gouging on these things?! I don't get it; it should be the cheapest thing for the restaurant to make! Regardless, if salad's still on your radar try to choose ones with complex carbohydrates (like beets, squash, or quinoa) or protein (like grilled chicken or fish). Things like nuts or hard cheeses will also help improve satiety but will also increase fat if that's something you're worried about.

Soup

Now this is where it's at! Almost always one of the cheapest things on the menu and usually swimming (literally) in vegetables and protein! Obviously it's best if you can find a nice, brothy soup, but even creamy soups are just downright satisfying for usually far fewer calories than a standard entrée. I'm fairly sure there was research done about how warm soups tend to keep people feeling full and happy longer than anything else. Also, don't forget about chilis!

Eggs

For some reason, menu designers seem convinced that people who like vegetables also like eggs (and mushrooms), so keep an eye out for eggs. Frittatas, omelettes, egg sandwiches, etc. You could also browse any vegetarian sections of the menu with a similar result (except that often those are also missing a good protein source).

Freebies

So let's say you're still struggling to get enough vegetable matter into your meal. Sometimes, if you ask nicely, they'll add low-cost veg to your meal for no charge! For example, ask for double lettuce on your sandwich or even for a super basic side salad. This works best if you're already ordering a good amount of food and if you request something very simple (like plain lettuce or steamed veg or whatever their most basic veg item is). Don't count on a yes, though!

Add-Ons

In the event that you can't get any free extras, be prepared to pay dearly for the addition of vegetables to any dish. I still don't understand the rationale as vegetables are some of the cheapest thing to buy in bulk for restaurants, but that's life for you. Adding grilled veg to this hotdog, for example, was like 2 extra dollars! Same with the extra veg and avocado on this burrito. Sometimes it's worth it, sometimes not; you can be the judge!

Pricey Stuff

If your wallet's looking for some fun, the really pricey parts of the menu usually have fairly healthy fare! This poached egg over turkey bacon, spinach, and roasted squash was amazing but also ridiculously priced. Same for the wheatberry, kale, grilled chicken with chutney from this other fancy spot. As a treat once in a while, though, something like this asparagus salmon risotto might be worth the expense, especially since it's so nutritious :P

Recommendations

I always feel super weird doing this, but it's often yielded some of the best results. When in serious doubt, ask the server or cashier for recommendations. Without asking, I never would have ordered the bibimbap mostly because I had no idea what the dish entailed (good veg and protein and complex carb)! Similarly, when I expressed an interest in good vegetables the people at this taqueria offered to swap out my flour tortilla shell with a spinach one as a secret menu option! You may even luck out and end up with something totally off-menu like this fish fajita plate if they're looking to show off ;)

Customize

Some restaurants let you build-your-own stuff, so go hog-wild! I piled the veg on this thanksgiving sandwich so high I almost couldn't bite through it! If you're slightly insane, like me, you could even shop around to different restaurants to mix and match your meal; I grabbed the torta from a food truck and nabbed the salad at a buffet around the corner.

Takeout

Probably the easiest answer, however, and the one I use most often is to just get takeaway and add your supplemental nutrition at home. Roast up some cauliflower to add to your curry or throw together a bowl of light, raw goodies to balance out some pizza. Yeah, it's a little work but you still save insane amounts of time and effort so you can eat sooner!
What are your most-used restaurant hacks? I know you have some good ideas for me!

EDIT TO ADD...

Swaps

As l31ru and temp4adhd mention, you can almost always make swaps for vegetables! Especially since they're taking away an item to replace with vegetables, most people are super accommodating in this respect.

Dressings

I forgot entirely about salad dressings since I never use them, but getting them on the side can help you decide how much you want to eat rather than just guessing when it's already mixed in. Thanks again, l31ru and temp4adhd :)

Doggy Boxes

temp4adhd also reminded me that you should feel totally comfortable splitting meals or taking some of it to go home. I do this all the time and no one's ever given me any side-eye about it :D I've even brought my own containers! And, as a major bonus, now you have a whole meal ready for later.

I've lived in Korea for a few years now. I love living here but sometimes the way the culture is progressing makes me scratch my head. Remember, there was a war here only a couple generations ago (technically still "at war" but there's been a ceasefire since the 50's) and this country has existed for much longer than my native US, so it's interesting to see how quickly it has progressed in some ways while holding onto some stubborn traditional thought.
Like with any developed nation, obesity is on the rise in Korea. It's no where near countries like the US, Australia, or England, but it is on the rise all the same. Even from my perspective, having lived here a few years I've seen the subway hamplanets rise from one every 20 rides to one to three every two rides, with multiple additional mini-moons.
For this reason, the fatlogic seems really strange because the people here aren't what I would consider fat (hamplanets and mini-moons aside). I suppose a good example would be to compare clothing models:
Normal Korean Model Page w/Full Body
Korean Plus-Sized Model Page w/o Full Body
Example Full-Body from That Page
Victoria's Secret 2013 Runway
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen
Plus-Sized Models From Pulp Fashion Week 2013
While things like the Special K diet are sold here, the fatlogic that spurs these weird fad diets is really strange to me. It starts off with one fatlogic concept:
All Korean food is inherently healthy
I know that sounds a little strange to hear, but they believe it. This isn't just everyday fatlogic, either; a buddy of mine talked to his doctor about weight loss and asked for his help in choosing which foods to avoid (other than the obvious fried food).

Doctor: All Korean food is healthy.
Friend: Uh...no, it isn't.
Doctor: Yes, it is.
Friend: So you're telling me things like twi-gim (fried food), sam-gyeop-sal (a thickly-cut slab of pork belly, similar to bacon but much thicker and not smoked), and bibimbap (it looks healthy but it's literally just a big bowl of rice with some veggies that clocks in at 600 calories or more...the one pictured is 607 calories and something like this is closer to 800 calories...it's just that much rice) are all foods I should eat if I'm trying to lose weight?
Doctor: Yes.

My friend, a med student himself, was not only unimpressed but utterly confused at this "advice". Koreans have this idea that it's only western food that's fattening. Here's some stuff I've seen from friends-of-friends and co-workers.
Not All Fried Food is Created Equal The office ordered some fast food from Lotteria. I had nothing else to eat and didn't want to be rude, so I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich, no fries or drink.

Male Co-Worker (MCW): It's good you didn't order the fries.
Me: Yeah, I'm good with the chicken burger.
MCW: They're so unhealthy. Western food is really fattening.
Me: Well, fried food in general is not good for you. Even twi-gim is unhealthy.
MCW: No, it isn't.
Me: Yes, it is.
MCW: It isn't unhealthy. Korean food is healthy.
Me: So you're telling me that a fried potato in the USA is less healthy than a fried potato in Korea?
MCW: ...uh...yes...?
Me: Look it up.

No Eating After X Time... I'm sure some of you have at least heard of, if not tried, the "No eating after X time" diet "trick". If not, you basically stop eating after a certain time to avoid over-eating. Simple enough. People typically set the time for after dinner, around 7:00pm. My female co-worker, on the other hand, set this time for 4:00pm. She immediately dropped weight (no shit) and complained of feeling weak (no shit), but she stuck with it. It's been a few months now, actually. This isn't the "fatlogic", though. The fatlogic here is she'll allow herself to eat unhealthy Korean food if she's feeling hungry. I get it, sometimes you feel hungry and sometimes you don't, that happens. But when she feels too hungry (missed lunch, for example, or she just wants to eat), she'll choose some unhealthy Korean food. The worst times this has happened:

1. We receive "office meals" at work, which is a standard Korean meal of a broth-based soup, some side dishes, and a bowl of rice. This is delivered to us. She stopped eating this because she doesn't eat after 4:00pm and the meal is served close to 7:00pm. One week, we didn't receive these meals because it was a special off week for the food company, so that's when our bosses ordered us Lotteria I mentioned above, as a replacement for our undelivered meal. She decided to partake in this and ordered the same sandwich I did, but as a set (fries + full-sugar cola). Again: she skips the normal work meal because of her diet, but when they were ordering us fast food she got herself a meal set.
   
2. She missed lunch one day so she grabbed a bowl of instant ramen (they call it "rameyon" here but you would likely know it as ramen, it's the same thing). Please keep in mind that low-calorie cup ramen exists here (it's about 120 calories per cup). Please keep in mind that there's a difference between cup ramen and bowl ramen in terms of size. Please keep in mind that there are other convenience foods available. Please keep in mind that most ramen is fried, but there are non-fried versions that also come in the cup-ramen variety. Korean food can't possibly be unhealthy so it's all the same...apparently.
   

Please keep in mind I have offered that she try some of my foods that I bring in from home, like a really tasty "hummus" I made using soaked walnuts that I offered a cucumber slice to consume together, but she refused because "I'm on a diet, I don't eat after 4:00pm, sorry." That is to say, a bite of raw veggies is off-limits, but a full meal from a fast food restaurant is not.
The One-Food Diet While this is a stupid diet seen in multiple countries, I'm surprised at what Koreans will use. Sure, you get the "only apples" or "only lemon water" people, but others will just consume any of the following:

1. Sugary coffee drinks
   
2. Any of the various cafe "toast" snack creations
   
3. Baskin Robbins ice cream
   
4. Donuts from Dunkin Donuts
   
5. Ramen
   
6. Cola (full-sugar, not diet)
   

Then they wonder why they're not losing weight. I'm sure there are others, but these are ones I've personally witnessed.
Starvation Just...fuckin' straight up no eating. Not a "starvation diet" of eating something like 500 calories. Just straight up not eating anything at all.
Save It Up About two weeks before a holiday, some people will go on a diet so they can pig out on said holiday. I've always seen it the other way around: do the damage, assess damage, fix damage, but here some people "save up" the calories. Because you can totally do that.
Rice Doesn't Count This is a more specific version of "All Korean food is healthy", but simply allows the person to just eat rice all the time. Small amount of meat, any amount of rice. Small amount of vegetables, any amount of rice. On top of this, Rice Doesn't Count dieters apply this to any incarnation of rice, such as: 1. Ddeok, which is a chewy rice snack, usually with a tasty filling such as red bean or honey. 2. Cake made with rice flour, which comes in any size (cupcake to full-sized cake). 3. Ddeok-bokk-i, a spicy-sweet food that is famous among Koreans. It can be found as a street food or in quick meal restaurant. The sauce is made with spicy pepper paste, water, and sugar. The ingredients include plain ddeok, and usually include fish cake, eggs, and can also include instant noodles (called ra-bokk-i). 100g of this is about 217 calories, but that's only with the ddeok and I've never seen a Korean eat this on its own (it's always with other items). Also, 217 calories isn't terrible for a meal, but to pretend it has zero calories is ridiculous.
That's all I can think of for now.

Lets write up a guide on the best eateries on and off campus!
If you want to agree/disagree on places or contribute advice on your own gastronomic adventures around UNSW I can put your advice in this post so we have an awesome guide.(I'll credit you)
It's widely considered that most places on campus are shit and expensive, but you don't need to have taken microeconomics to know why but salvation for many lies on Anzac parade and Randwick areas which are abound in the chain fast food franchises and hole-in-the-wall Asian eateries servicing the resident international student bodies seeking value packed mementos of home.
Also the Fourquare app for iPhone and Android can give a wealth of information submitted by users on eateries and other services around UNSW and locales. I recommend it as I use it a fair bit for advice.
On Campus
I'll structure these in terms of distance from the main gate.

• Roundhouse/UnibaTheBistro - Seems to offer cheap, greasy pub style food. Have not eaten there yet but the menu seems to mostly be under $10, not sure on Unibars drink prices (all my beers have been free so far) but if someone wants to clue me in I'll edit it in.
  
• Coffee Republic - No Idea. Anyone?
  
• UNSW Village Coffee Shop - No idea on this one either.
  
• The Quad - Boring, bland food. Upstairs and downstairs. The best thing according to popular opinion is the wedges w/sweet chilli and sour cream from the burger stall thingo. Burgers themselves are terrible and bland. Pasta bar feels like your eating raw flour. Rumor has it that all the eateries are owned by the same person. Pretty unimpressive overall.
  
• The Chemist at the Quad - Not really an eatery but cheapest snacks and drinks on campus. Bottled water @ $1.50
  
• Mechanical Engineering Cafe - Not sure on this one either but the pre-made chicken and something filo pastry's were pretty good last year.
  
• Restaurant at the top of the Basser steps - Need Info
  
• Matthews Food Court - Main grazing area for the upper campus scensters. Kebab places kebabs taste the same as anywhere else, maybe a bit stingier than suburban ones but hey. Sushi place has got mixed reviews. Indian place seems to have the butter chicken going for it which didnt really wow me when I tried it. Stock market is meant to be pretty healthy. GraduEat is a bit pointless I think. Noodle place seems very popular.
  
• That place next to the Eora exchange
  

Off Campus
Yay! Decent food!
Ill start with Anzac Parade as I have never been around Randwick that much apart from Subway.

• McDonalds - Pretty much every student who attends UNSW will pass through here at some point. Not going to judge it as it's Maccas but you can get a free upsize when you show your student card.
  
• Pinnochio Sushi - Opposite Maccas on Anzac Parade and serves Japanese style fare at reasonable prices. Its run by a korean family (I think) so there are a few Korean dishes on the menu (Bibimbap, Kimchi soup). $10 gets you a 3 course meal and free kettle of tea so its pretty good on the value front. Gets pretty busy during the lunch rush but they keep undercharging me for my food so pretty awesome.
  
• 85 Degrees - Interesting to try once or twice. Good if you like cute asian bread snacks and eat like a bird.
  
• Oporto's - Good chicken burgers. Can get a bit unhealthy but so much delicious. Dubble fillet Bondi burger meal = $10 flat. Every 5th check in on 4square nets you a free meal upsize.
  
• Kensington Chinese Restaurant - Has multiple food health violations from the NSW Food authority but seems wildly popular with the students and rightly so. Its fucking cheap. $5 for a whopping big plate of delicious fried rice. Awesome if you can deal with the grimy plates.
  
• Papa Roti - They only really sell one product. A bun ($2.50). And it will blow your balls off its that tasty. Try it or live a less enlightened life.
  
• Ayam Goreng 99 - An excellent and popular restuarant famous for their BBQ chicken, go for the thigh fillet over the breast and get the coconut rice. Bliss.
  
• Gourmet Tofu - Good clean Korean food, more relaxed than the streetside eateries and a bit more expensive but worth a try. The Tofu soup that comes with the meal is delicious. There's a few more restaurants I've sampled along that way but I'll need to find their names before I write about them.
  

EDIT 1: Cleaned up formatting and added a few more entries, keep the comments coming guys!

Lets write up a guide on the best eateries on and off campus!
If you want to agree/disagree on places or contribute advice on your own gastronomic adventures around UNSW I can put your advice in this post so we have an awesome guide.(I'll credit you)
It's widely considered that most places on campus are shit and expensive, but you don't need to have taken microeconomics to know why but salvation for many lies on Anzac parade and Randwick areas which are abound in the chain fast food franchises and hole-in-the-wall Asian eateries servicing the resident international student bodies seeking value packed mementos of home.
Also the Fourquare app for iPhone and Android can give a wealth of information submitted by users on eateries and other services around UNSW and locales. I recommend it as I use it a fair bit for advice.
On Campus
I'll structure these in terms of distance from the main gate.

Roundhouse/UnibaTheBistro - Seems to offer cheap, greasy pub style food. Have not eaten there yet but the menu seems to mostly be under $10, not sure on Unibars drink prices (all my beers have been free so far) but if someone wants to clue me in I'll edit it in. Coffee Republic - No Idea. Anyone? UNSW Village Coffee Shop - No idea on this one either. The Quad - Boring, bland food. Upstairs and downstairs. The best thing according to popular opinion is the wedges w/sweet chilli and sour cream from the burger stall thingo. Burgers themselves are terrible and bland. Pasta bar feels like your eating raw flour. Rumor has it that all the eateries are owned by the same person. Pretty unimpressive overall. The Chemist at the Quad - Not really an eatery but cheapest snacks and drinks on campus. Bottled water @ $1.50 Mechanical Engineering Cafe - Not sure on this one either but the pre-made chicken and something filo pastry's were pretty good last year. Restaurant at the top of the Basser steps - Need Info Matthews Food Court - Main grazing area for the upper campus scensters. Kebab places kebabs taste the same as anywhere else, maybe a bit stingier than suburban ones but hey. Sushi place has got mixed reviews. Indian place seems to have the butter chicken going for it which didnt really wow me when I tried it. Stock market is meant to be pretty healthy. GraduEat is a bit pointless I think. Noodle place seems very popular. That place next to the Eora exchange 

Off Campus
Yay! Decent food!
Ill start with Anzac Parade as I have never been around Randwick that much apart from Subway.

McDonalds - Pretty much every student who attends UNSW will pass through here at some point. Not going to judge it as it's Maccas but you can get a free upsize when you show your student card. Pinnochio Sushi - Opposite Maccas on Anzac Parade and serves Japanese style fare at reasonable prices. Its run by a korean family (I think) so there are a few Korean dishes on the menu (Bibimbap, Kimchi soup). $10 gets you a 3 course meal and free kettle of tea so its pretty good on the value front. Gets pretty busy during the lunch rush but they keep undercharging me for my food so pretty awesome. 85 Degrees - Interesting to try once or twice. Good if you like cute asian bread snacks and eat like a bird. Oporto's - Good chicken burgers. Can get a bit unhealthy but so much delicious. Dubble fillet Bondi burger meal = $10 flat. Every 5th check in on 4square nets you a free meal upsize. Kensington Chinese Restaurant - Has multiple food health violations from the NSW Food authority but seems wildly popular with the students and rightly so. Its fucking cheap. $5 for a whopping big plate of delicious fried rice. Awesome if you can deal with the grimy plates. Papa Roti - They only really sell one product. A bun ($2.50). And it will blow your balls off its that tasty. Try it or live a less enlightened life. 

There's a few more restaurants I've sampled along that way but I'll need to find their names before I write about them.