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Healthy-ish, not too expensive meals downtown

By adamg on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 3:06pm

Tina St. Gelais Kelly asks:

What are your go to’s for healthy-ish meals downtown Boston? Sweet green is 13.86 for the bowl I have been getting and they have priced me out. Any advice?

Neighborhoods: 
Downtown
Topics: 
Dining


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Comments

By MisterMagooForYou on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 3:19pm.

On occasion Magoo will wheelbarrow down the streets of Boston wheelbarrowing “Magoo’s Wheelbarrow of Tasty Treats that are Nutritious and Delicious”. If one can happen to find Magoo’s Wheelbarrow of Tasty Treats that are Nutritious and Delicious” when Magoo is out and about, one will be rewarded with a scrumptious delicacy that is good for one’s tum tum tummy. Magoo.

By anon on Fri, 01/27/2023 - 8:15am.

Please stop the Magoo madness, you're not that funny Adam.

By G-Dub on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 3:23pm.

With current pricing of produce and proteins, $13 is cheap. Factor in that to get restaurants are beginning to pay employees a working wage, and $13 is very cheap. Factor in that electricity and gas is through the roof, and $13 is almost giving it away for free. Get used to paying more.

By Friartuck on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 3:42pm.

Roche Bros?

By Russ on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 3:53pm.

The chicken teriyaki with rice at the Sarku Japan inside the Corner Mall is still less than $10, and hard to finish.

By Waquiot on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 3:57pm.

Brown bag it. That's the cheapest option other than not eating.

By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 4:19pm.

When I was in the office 5 days a week pre-pandemic, I would pick up "lunch pieces" that I would supplement with items from home. These included salad fixings, crackers, cans of seltzer, cans of soup or their pre-made soups, fruit or berries, cheese, half loaf of bread or english muffins, etc.

Examples: rotisserie chicken from home + salad mix + toasted english muffin = lunch
Can of soup + lump of bread or crackers + fruit = lunch
Bread or english muffin + tomato slices + melted cheese = lunch

Its a good way to save a lot of money without extensive prep time.

By Lee on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 10:48pm.

Works for coffee and tea as well. I give myself a once a week cappuccino treat and use a thermos the other days.

By dan r on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 5:36pm.

The Grassroots Cafe on Arch Street if it is still open has an awesome bi bim bap if you can get over watching them microwave it in front of you.

Boloco.

Falafel King.

Al’s makes a good tom basil & mozz.

Otherwise, ain’t much. Not like the old days. Everything is a chain now. The future sucks. R.I.P. Country Life.

By Snoofy on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 8:58pm.

Lotus Test Kitchen is not a chain, and super yummy. No cheaper but no more expensive than Sweet Green and probably more food.

By anon on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 6:40pm.

Chicken and rice guys on Washington is my go-to. Very budget friendly. There’s a boloco taqueria type place on federal st that’s pretty reasonable too.

By Krs-one on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 11:28pm.

Chicken and rice guys is a good deal because you can eat over two days!

By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 9:33pm.

They used to be on Devonshire, now over at 92 Bedford St (between Kingston St & Bedford St). Great Indian takeout made in their Somerville store. Price can add up, but its really two meals worth - my old boss and I would get stuff there and then trade over the leftovers.

Gene's Flatbread Noodles is over there too.

By BostonRunsOnNoodles on Fri, 01/27/2023 - 11:03am.

Gene's is perfect, the vegetarian hand pulled noodle bowl is like $10 and you get almost two pounds of noodles and veggies.

By tape on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 10:47pm.

Frankly almost every reasonable lunch downtown is now at least $12, if not more.

By hydeparkish on Fri, 01/27/2023 - 5:55am.

Has a location in downtown crossing. I go to Bon Mei on Congress Street, and Trader Joes in the seaport that has well priced lunch options.

By redheadedjen on Fri, 01/27/2023 - 3:36pm.

Trader Joe's is not downtown. Roche Bros is.

By tape on Mon, 01/30/2023 - 11:02am.

There is a Trader Joe's in the Seaport, which was the initial assertion.

By anon on Fri, 01/27/2023 - 9:46am.

Clover on School St, or the one on Washington st are both great.

By MC Slim JB on Fri, 01/27/2023 - 11:17am.

Mei Sum Bakery, 163 Vietnamese Sandwich, and Banh Mi Huong Que. About eight bucks and more delicious and healthy feeling to my taste than most Western lunch options in the neighborhood.

By lbb on Fri, 01/27/2023 - 1:33pm.

Lunch box from the place now known as Banh Mi Huong Que on Washington was always my go-to. Not that long ago this was less than $5.

By Lee on Fri, 01/27/2023 - 7:51pm.

… was in? I haven’t paid attention to the new name. I remember when the shrimp rolls there were $2.50. Not all that long ago and very tasty.
For a time the jolly cashier was selling homemade caramel corn balls in Baggies for a dollar. Only two seats at the counter but always a pleasant place to sit, dip and eat your shrimp rolls and ignore the grime while people watching.

By lbb on Sat, 01/28/2023 - 10:18am.

That's it, and as far as I know the shrimp rolls are still there. You know how it is, though, the banh mi menu is constant but the sides and lunch boxes vary from day to day. Lemongrass chicken lunch box for less than $5. Amazing.

By Lee on Thu, 02/02/2023 - 10:55am.

On Harrison near Beach has closed till mid March?
I hope it is just to take a post New Year’s holiday after reaping profits.