12-17-2008, 05:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-17-2008, 05:18 AM by Lord_Leperman.)
This actually helps me out because my office does not have a microwave nor a conventional oven, discouraging the option of bringing pack lunch for I will not enjoy a warm meal in the office. At least there’s hot water for instant noodles and coffee 
. This all started when my friends back in highschool made a game called the “Urban Survivor” based on the reality show. The point is to survive with the least amount of cash without having to resort to pack lunch, and the best option was KFC’s rice and gravy.
Option 4
Mc Donald’s Mc Chicken filet meal – 42.50
7/11’s jumbo hotdog – 26 pesos + 4 peso chili sauce X2= 34.
Add 10 pesos for the drink with the hotdog combo.
Optional: Combo meal with 7-11’s hotdog with a small cup of soda for an extra 10 pesos and add a doughnut from wherever 7-11 has a Mister Dounut which is around 11 pesos.
I tend to order the Mc Chicken Filet as an alternative to Jollibee’s 39ers when I get tired of the latter. I order drinks from 7-11 when I go to 7-11 to buy a hotdog and a chili sauce whenever it’s available (I usually buy 2). The trick I do is to pour the chili sauce on the rice to for a little spicy rice topping to complement the chicken filet, while enjoying the hotdog with the complementary Manhattan dressing and ketchup. Instead of just plain rice, you get chili rice! I also use that in conjunction with Jollibee’s 39ers as well if I want more rice, as Jollibee seems to put more rice on their 39ers compared to Mc D’s though.
Option 5
Greenwich Spaghetti and 1 slice of Overload pizza (all meat or otherwise) and a small drink- 70 pesos.
Jollibee hamburger – 28
OR
Mc D’s 50 peso savers Mc Spaghetti combo with drink – 50 pesos
Pizzahut’s buy 1 take 1 pizza stalls – 49 pesos
A faux American-Italian pasta, pizza, and sandwich dish, passable when it comes to taste. Greenwich’s overload pizza is comparable to Pizzahut’s large slice with less mozzarella cheese, but more toppings. The beauty of this combo is you can virtually buy it in the same shop as Jollibee owns Greenwich, meaning their shops are almost always adjacent to each other. The other option is o forgo the burger and have 2 pizzas, the thing here is you can ask the guy in pizzahut to have either the bacon and Hawaian pizza combo for some variety,
Option 6
Komoro Soba’s Katsudon – 78 pesos
Bottle of soda or C2 500ml – under 20 pesos
Big bowl of Katsudon that’s more than worth the 78 peso price tag. Lots of meat and rice, and if you’re lucky to spot the Japanese owner, your food will taste better. I’ve noticed this often, when the Japanese owner is in the kitchen doing the cooking the food tastes better, the meat becomes more tender, and the whole taste of the dish just balances out. Drinks in the place are a rip, so I buy my drinks from a nearby store instead. Option only available in SM Megamall AFAIK sadly.
Other things:
If there’s a Krispy Kreme near you, if there’s a red light on the “hot and fresh doughnuts available” sign, it means they’re giving away free doughnuts for every purchase of anything in the store.
Just a few reminders though, prices of fastfood establishments very from location to location. Higher end locations such as in Makati’s business district and high end malls like Powerplant will have higher priced value meals compared to other branches. This goes for Mc Donalds, Jollibee, and KFC. For example, the regularly priced KFC wow sulit burger meal is 2 pesos more expensive in their Greenbelt 1 branch and 5 pesos more expensive in their Powerplant mall branch compared to the one in Harison Plaza. The worst offender of this is probably Reyes Barbeque, where the price of their Grilled Burger Steak meal in Gloreta 4 is at 75 pesos, while their Greenbelt 1 branch, which is just a few minutes walk, jacks it up to around 93 pesos for the very same food item.
Also, convenience stores have significantly higher prices than supermarkets or mini-marts, but offer prepared foods on the side. Chances are if you’re living in a densely populated area, you’ll come across those stores in the immediate vicinity. If you can get the same item, chances are they’ll be much cheaper in a supermarket. An E-aji potato chips bag cost 25.50 in Shopwise while in the nearby Mini-Stop it costs 33 pesos.
. This all started when my friends back in highschool made a game called the “Urban Survivor” based on the reality show. The point is to survive with the least amount of cash without having to resort to pack lunch, and the best option was KFC’s rice and gravy.Option 4
Mc Donald’s Mc Chicken filet meal – 42.50
7/11’s jumbo hotdog – 26 pesos + 4 peso chili sauce X2= 34.
Add 10 pesos for the drink with the hotdog combo.
Optional: Combo meal with 7-11’s hotdog with a small cup of soda for an extra 10 pesos and add a doughnut from wherever 7-11 has a Mister Dounut which is around 11 pesos.
I tend to order the Mc Chicken Filet as an alternative to Jollibee’s 39ers when I get tired of the latter. I order drinks from 7-11 when I go to 7-11 to buy a hotdog and a chili sauce whenever it’s available (I usually buy 2). The trick I do is to pour the chili sauce on the rice to for a little spicy rice topping to complement the chicken filet, while enjoying the hotdog with the complementary Manhattan dressing and ketchup. Instead of just plain rice, you get chili rice! I also use that in conjunction with Jollibee’s 39ers as well if I want more rice, as Jollibee seems to put more rice on their 39ers compared to Mc D’s though.
Option 5
Greenwich Spaghetti and 1 slice of Overload pizza (all meat or otherwise) and a small drink- 70 pesos.
Jollibee hamburger – 28
OR
Mc D’s 50 peso savers Mc Spaghetti combo with drink – 50 pesos
Pizzahut’s buy 1 take 1 pizza stalls – 49 pesos
A faux American-Italian pasta, pizza, and sandwich dish, passable when it comes to taste. Greenwich’s overload pizza is comparable to Pizzahut’s large slice with less mozzarella cheese, but more toppings. The beauty of this combo is you can virtually buy it in the same shop as Jollibee owns Greenwich, meaning their shops are almost always adjacent to each other. The other option is o forgo the burger and have 2 pizzas, the thing here is you can ask the guy in pizzahut to have either the bacon and Hawaian pizza combo for some variety,
Option 6
Komoro Soba’s Katsudon – 78 pesos
Bottle of soda or C2 500ml – under 20 pesos
Big bowl of Katsudon that’s more than worth the 78 peso price tag. Lots of meat and rice, and if you’re lucky to spot the Japanese owner, your food will taste better. I’ve noticed this often, when the Japanese owner is in the kitchen doing the cooking the food tastes better, the meat becomes more tender, and the whole taste of the dish just balances out. Drinks in the place are a rip, so I buy my drinks from a nearby store instead. Option only available in SM Megamall AFAIK sadly.
Other things:
If there’s a Krispy Kreme near you, if there’s a red light on the “hot and fresh doughnuts available” sign, it means they’re giving away free doughnuts for every purchase of anything in the store.
Just a few reminders though, prices of fastfood establishments very from location to location. Higher end locations such as in Makati’s business district and high end malls like Powerplant will have higher priced value meals compared to other branches. This goes for Mc Donalds, Jollibee, and KFC. For example, the regularly priced KFC wow sulit burger meal is 2 pesos more expensive in their Greenbelt 1 branch and 5 pesos more expensive in their Powerplant mall branch compared to the one in Harison Plaza. The worst offender of this is probably Reyes Barbeque, where the price of their Grilled Burger Steak meal in Gloreta 4 is at 75 pesos, while their Greenbelt 1 branch, which is just a few minutes walk, jacks it up to around 93 pesos for the very same food item.
Also, convenience stores have significantly higher prices than supermarkets or mini-marts, but offer prepared foods on the side. Chances are if you’re living in a densely populated area, you’ll come across those stores in the immediate vicinity. If you can get the same item, chances are they’ll be much cheaper in a supermarket. An E-aji potato chips bag cost 25.50 in Shopwise while in the nearby Mini-Stop it costs 33 pesos.
