# What is your standard, fallback, baseline food you can eat at anytime? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459 "2006-06-28T06:03:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/61 "2006-06-29T20:01:51Z")
My baseline foods must be cheap, filling, and utterly trivial to cook. Soft-boiled eggs w/ toast and butter and a dash of Cholula. PBJ (of course) Pasta with olive oil, chopped tomatos, and fresh herbs. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/62 "2006-06-30T03:57:52Z")
Cereal. I don’t even like it that much, but it’s fast. Really? Fries, too. Preferably with cheese and gravy. Nachos. Pulled pork. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/63 "2006-06-30T19:57:58Z")
Cereal. I have that fairly often for supper. I don’t eat breakfast that often. ---
**Author:** ![Tamryne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tamryne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamryne)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/64 "2006-06-30T20:58:42Z")
Scrambled eggs. If Im feeling fancy Il chop up veggies and add in some leftover meat, otherwise I just mix in whatever cheese I have laying around at the time. Otherwise, Il stop at the grocery store for some cheap beef and make a nice spicy curry. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/65 "2006-06-30T21:26:05Z")
Tomaters. You can throw just about anything you have in your cupboard in with some tomaters and have something good to eat. They’re yummy stir-fried too. Bagels. Preferably Noah’s (that’s Einstein Bros. for some of you folks) potato peppercorn bagels but Safeway’s plain bagels will do. With or without cream cheese. What a mouthful of goodness! Wendy’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich with fries and a Diet Coke. I was strictly a burger person until I tried the Spicy Chicken. Nummers! And of course, pizza. Especially if the sausage has lots of fennel seeds. I love biting into those. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459/66 "2006-06-30T21:29:46Z")
Not feeling like cooking, and not feeling inspired? A piece of cheese toast will always do me. Feeling only very slightly more inspired? Garlic noodles: boil the spaghetti, drain it, saute a bunch of garlic in a bunch of olive oil, add some salt and pepper (and maybe some tomato and herbs if I’m feeling very fancy), stir the noodles back in, and eat with a lot of parmesan. I can always eat that. Daniel [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-standard-fallback-baseline-food-you-can-eat-at-anytime/362459.md?page=3)