I agree.
But not only Malaysia, it's all over the world! As more and more people get conscious about eating healthy, prices of those food go up. Frustrating, somehow.

I'm a student too, been trying so hard to save money yet hoping to get enough food for working out. Here's what I'm spending on for my diet:

Breakfast - Half-Boiled Eggs x4, Tuna with Bread, Coffee = RM3-4
11am Lunch - Economy Rice at my College Cafeteria. I take two people's worth of portion. Skip drinks, bring water. RM5-ish.
Preworkout Meal - 500ml of Full Cream Milk + Instant Oats. I use Powder form for the milk because I think its cheaper. RM3-ish
Postworkout Meal - Same as above but without Oats. RM3-ish
Dinner - This is a tough one. I have to follow majority votes of my friends on where to go for dinner. Once, I ended up in Pizza Hut where I pay RM12 but only get 3 slices of pizza. If can, I'll eat Economy Rice again. Average about RM8 when include chances of expensive meals.

All in All I guess I spend about RM25 per day for meals. I really love Economy Rice because can have higher protein intake compared to, lets say, Chicken Rice or Fried Noodles. I find those meals really not worth the money. Fried Rice is just rice and a bit of meat for RM4. Chicken Rice give you half the amount of a quarter chicken with rice, RM4. But for Economy Rice, can get two huge scoops of chicken, two huge scoops of vegetables, two eggs, and add rice for RM5.

This post has been edited by Xalvin: Jun 13 2009, 04:44 PM

Oh, forgot to include in previous post.
I just moved out, I've never cooked anything in my life, and I'm currently interested. I was hoping anyone here can recommend me a nice method of fixing up a good meal with high protein. Basically, I've only known how to boil eggs, fry meatballs, cook Maggie Mee and such. Anything that needs a recipe to do, I'm completely clueless.

So, is there any cheap and relatively easy methods for me, a beginner cook, to fix up a meal? I currently don't have rice cooker, so how much more of chicken meat should I eat? Half Chicken good enough? If not enough maybe add a few eggs or Meatballs. I'm guessing I would just boil the chicken and then eat with Tomato or BBQ sauce. Or you guys got any other easy-to-do recipes for chicken? Vegetables I guess I'll go with Salad-type: Lettuce, Cucumber, Fruits etc. Frying Chinese Vegetables feels kinda hard.

This post has been edited by Xalvin: Jun 13 2009, 05:03 PM