Easy, high fiber, high protein, low calorie meal discovery

As many of you know, I'm a college student always looking for healthy and EASY to prepare meals. I made a random discovery the other day and I now have my new favorite dinner!! I've eaten it for something like 10 meals in the last week.

Casbah
Casbah Natural Foods
Lentil Pilaf

150 calories
.5g fat (0 saturated and 0 trans)
440 sodium
32g carb
6g fiber
2g sugar
9g protein

40% vitamin A
4% vitamin C
2% calcium
15% Iron
100% yum factor

Basically its a "mix" of rice, lentils, and spices that comes dry. You would heat it on a saucepan and cook it like normal rice except what I do is put it in a bowl with water and throw it in the microwave. Then the water is almost all boiled down, I add another mug full of water and let that all absorb in too (on HIGH). Then it's done! There is a seasoning packet that you can mix in while its cooking; they give you way too much of it though so don't just dump it in (I save them to use on my plain rice later, hehe.)

Each box comes with 4 servings but 2 fills up a pretty good sized bowl as well as my stomach. So that's a 300 calorie dinner/lunch with 1g fat, 18g protein and 12 fiber. YAY!

Oh my goodness! lol, that almost sounds too good to be true. How much does it cost? (I'm a college student too and on a very limited budget)

*rocks the cashbah*

Original Post by cdruslow:

Oh my goodness! lol, that almost sounds too good to be true. How much does it cost? (I'm a college student too and on a very limited budget)

 http://www.amazon.com/Casbah-Lentil-Pilaf-7-O unce-Boxes/dp/B000F0BX9W

$20.00 for a pack of 12 seems like a deal.

My school store sells it for 2.59 per box. They're more expensive than the regular supermarket though so I'm not sure what it is at other places!

What I'm experimenting with next is mixing regular kidney beans into it to maybe make each box last even longer. I'm mentioning that to you because I bought a bag of beans 3 months ago for like 2 dollars and it has a bazillion servings in it--they're REALLY filling so you don't even want more than 1 serving at a time. It's the dry natural kidney beans, not canned ones. I soak them in water for a couple hours or overnight before cooking in the microwave to make them tender. ^^ I never realized that it was possible to eat so cheap, having been brought up on canned beans and such.

are you sure thi is filling enough? im hungry like a horse all the time, lol.