Jieun thinks I'm odd because I'm a cheapskate, not with everything, but with certain things. Food is one of them, in particular lunch time food. About every time I go out for lunch, I bring water from work with me and get something cheap. Don't get me wrong - I like good food, and when I eat with Jieun, I take her to nice places. But when it's just me, the emphasis is on cheap. Fortunately, there are a number of super cheap food deals so it's not completely monotonous. Here are some of my favorite cheap deals.

• Wendy's $0.99 Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger - It's surprisingly large for a junior burger, and it includes lettuce and tomato. A great deal! I eat these at least once a week.
• Wendy's $0.99 Chicken Nuggets - Pretty good nuggets, better than McDonald's, and only a dollar!
• McDonald's $1 McChicken Sandwich - I like this better than Jack In The Box's chicken sandwich. Pretty good. But I hate the McDouble.
• McDonald's $1 Snack Size Fruit and Yogurt Parfait - This is my newest thing I get a lot. I dunno, it makes me feel ever so slightly healthier. But yeah, it's reasonably tasty, even if the fruit is frozen and not particularly fresh. This and a chicken sandwich and I'm good to go.
• McDonald's 2 pies for $1 - To counteract the "healthiness" of the fruit and yogurt above, sometimes I get this. So much for nutrition. Anyway, yeah, usually they have apple pies, but recently they've been spicing it up with different ones, like a pineapple pie, caramel cream pie, and lemon pie. The last two you can actually feel your arteries hardening as you eat.
• Jack In The Box's $0.99 Breakfast Jack - It's especially better with sausage instead of ham, but some places charge you for the substitution now.
• Jack In The Box's $0.99 Jumbo Jack - the best burger now that the Whopper is so expensive.
• Carl's Jr's $1.29 Spicy Chicken Sandwich - It's a pretty good spicy chicken, for pretty cheap. McDonald's sometimes has this Cajun McChicken. Terrible. Stick with this one - a great deal.
• Wienerschnitzel's $2 Chili Cheese Dog and Chili Cheeseburger - An incredible deal, a great volume/cost ratio. The Chili Cheese Dog alone is $1.49. This is a deal you definitely need to get just once in a while, for the sake of your intestines, but it's one of my favorite deals.
• Wasabi's $5.29 Teriyaki Chicken Bowl - ok, so $5.29 isn't that cheap. Here's the thing. They serve so much that I can't finish it ever - it lasts for two meals. And two meals of a relatively tasty teriyaki bowl for $5.29 is a great deal. They have other bowls also, a "Korean" bowl, a curry bowl, Thai bowl, Hawaiian bowl. Favorites are the Korean and the curry. But yeah, two meals for around 5 bucks. Good stuff.

• Una Mas's $0.99 Fish Tacos - Una Mas used to have $0.99 Fish Tacos on Friday. This was an incredible deal for pretty good fish tacos. But it's no more.
• Burger King's rotating $0.99 deal - They just ended this. Used to have a different regular menu item for $0.99 every day. Some of them were awesome, like the chicken sandwich. This was my favorite chicken sandwich growing up - it's big and good, and only a dollar! Two cheeseburgers and two hamburgers for a buck are also a good deal. I don't like the Big Fish sandwich very much though. But yeah, on the right day, a very good, tasty deal. Too bad it's gone.
• Burger King's $0.99 Whopper - Another good deal for a decent burger. Often on Fridays in high school we'd go get 2 Whoppers and water and then play basketball. Burger King sucks now. Their value menu went up from $0.99 to $1.29. It's an outrage, I tell you. All you can get for $0.99 now is this dinky cheeseburger. Go to Wendy's.
• McDonald's $0.99 Filet O' Fish - Why O' instead of "Of"? Does it really save that much time and space? Anyway, yeah, when this was a deal, I got it at least once a week, sometimes up to three. Fish is good for you, and less than a buck! If they went a little lighter on the tartar sauce, it'd be perfect. I used to hate this sandwich growing up; no clue why I like it so much now.