Delicious and Inexpensive Meals in 60 seconds with Minute® Rice!

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My seventeen year old son approached me and asked if I could help him add some mass to his slender frame.  Putting on some muscle would require him to do two things:

  1. Consistently go to the gym with me for strength training sessions
  2. Fuel his body with great food packed with the needed nutrients

Between his job, socializing with friends and the school year ramping up in a few weeks, he’s constantly on the go. As a guy with three jobs, software engineer, blogger, and dad, I don’t have a lot of extra time to put together the meals both he and I need to give us the energy we need to have a great workout.

 

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Walking through Walmart while grocery shopping, I kept my eye out for something that would be delicious, nutritious, quick to make, but not break my grocery budget.  I found exactly what I was looking for in the rice section.  Minute® Ready to Serve Rice has everything I was looking for:

  • Convenient and quick – Minute Ready to Serve rice is quick, fully cooked, and there’s nothing that needs to be added to have a great cup of rice. Simply pull back the film, heat the cup in the microwave for 60 seconds and serve. No clean-up is required as it can be eaten right out of the cup.
  • 2) Portable and offers portion control – Minute Ready to Serve Rice not only offers portability and portion control for active & busy lifestyles (it’s convenient, healthy and pre-portioned), but it also provides our body fuel to power through our workouts and the rest of the day!
  • 3) Versatile – Minute Ready to Serve Rice is versatile; there are several varieties that can be used for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. We can eat Minute Rice by itself, as a side dish as part of a meal (protein + veggies + carb), or we could mix in other ingredients.

Here are five fabulous recipes that we’ve put together so far, along with the cost per serving.  Costs are calculated using the amount of a product actually used.  For example, a package of Minute Ready To Serve Rice costs $1.84 and includes 2 containers, therefore one container costs $0.92.

Chicken Rice With Chicken

Paring Minute Ready to Serve Rice with natural chicken flavor with fully cooked chicken breast strips is an easy way to add protein.  By adding a serving of chicken, the rice is turned into a meal that will satisfy even the hunger of a growing teenager.

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Recipe:

  • 1 Container Chicken Minute Ready To Serve Rice
  • 3 Oz precooked chicken breast

Cost:

  • Rice :$0.92
  • Chicken: $1.49

Total cost: $2.41 per serving

 

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White Rice Vegetable Stir Fry

Sometimes it’s hard to find a way to get needed vegetables into one’s diet.  A guy can only eat so many salads.  Mix together White Minute Ready To Serve Rice with vegetables and stir fry sauce and you’ve created a tasty and nutrition packed meal to keep you going for hours.

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Recipe:

  • 1 Container white Minute Ready To Serve Rice
  • 1 Cup frozen stir fry vegetables
  • 4 Tablespoons of Stir Fry Sauce (or to taste)

Cost:

  • Rice:  $0.92
  • Vegetables: $0.49
  • Stir Fry Sauce: $0.52

Total Cost: $1.93 per serving

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Teriyaki Fried Rice With Shrimp

Both my son and I love seafood.  Adding precooked shrimp to the fried rice variety of Minute Ready to Serve Rice and a little teriyaki sauce might just have us making seconds instead of heading to the gym!

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Recipe:

  • 1 Container fried rice Minute Ready To Serve Rice
  • 1 serving (10) shrimp
  • 4 tablespoons teriyaki sauce (or to taste)

Cost:

  • Rice:  $0.92
  • Shrimp: $1.25
  • Teriyaki Sauce: $0.55

Total Cost: $2.72 per serving

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White Rice Curry Mahi Mahi

Ok, so I cheated just a little on this one as we had some leftover Mahi Mahi in the fridge. I seasoned it with curry, and plated it with Minute Ready to Serve Jasmine Rice.  I’m so looking forward to making this one again!

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Recipe:

  • 1 Container Minute Ready to Serve Jasmine Rice
  • 1 Fillet Mahi Mahi
  • Season fish lightly with curry powder

Cost:

  • Rice:  $0.92
  • Mahi Mahi: $2.62
  • Curry Seasoning:  Trivial

Total Cost: $3.54 per serving

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General Tso’s White Rice Chicken Stir Fry

After getting my confidence up with some simple dishes, it was time to kick it up a notch.  Using Minute Ready to Serve White Rice as the base, and adding in both vegetables and chicken I also spiced it up with General Tso’s stir fry sauce.  I really brought the heat!

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Recipe:

  • 1 Container Minute Ready To Serve White Rice
  • 3 Oz precooked chicken breast
  • 1 Cup Stir Fry Vegetables
  • 4 Tablespoons (or to taste) of General Tso’s Stir Fry Sauce

Cost:

  • Rice:  $0.92
  • Vegetables: $0.49
  • Chicken : $1.49
  • General Tso’s Sauce: $0.75

Total Cost: $3.65 per serving

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These five simple, but delicious recipes are just the beginning.   What we can do with the different varieties of  Minute Ready to Serve Rice is limited only by our imagination.  This gives my son and I the ability to keep ourselves fueled for our workouts with limitless variety of deliciousness, all without costing me a fortune.

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How about you, EOD Nation, are you looking for an inexpensive yet versatile method to quickly create meals for a family on the go?  Do you have your own recipe you could share?

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4 Responses to “Delicious and Inexpensive Meals in 60 seconds with Minute® Rice!”

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  1. Chris Jay says:

    I used prepackaged rice tubs for work most days. Add a can of tuna or salmon, some steamed veges and you have a complete meal that’s super cheap. My work mates are always poking fun of my ‘boring’ and ‘healthy’ lunches but I honestly love the simplicity, cost effectiveness and efficiency that comes with this type of food. It’s a no brainer and so cheap.

  2. Hey, Travis! I love that you showed 5 different meal options for you and your son! That’s awesome! Including the cost, of course. It makes paying to eat out seem absurd, doesn’t it? 🙂 Especially when you can make your own quick easy meals right at home! Love this! #client

    • Travis says:

      I love being able to make these great meals so easily and inexpensively! My son loves it when he comes home from school and there’s a couple sitting in the fridge ready for him to eat!

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