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- Sep 12, 2018
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Lets see them ideas that we can eat
Yes or quick snacksLike to cook?
Or ramen noodles with broccoliSpaghetti is always a cheap favorite.
Or ramen noodles w egg.
Never hadDoes anyone like real jalapenos wrapped in bacon and filled with cream cheese?
Homemade poppers are one of my favorite, sometimes I'll use a makeshift smoker and cook em under low tempNever had
I've done this, its pretty goodI've also made a sort of hamburger helper when I didn't have actual hamburger helper...out of Ramen. I called it my "cheese burger casserole." Make the ramen soup, then strain the broth off of it and set aside. Cook the hamburger with chopped onion till onions are tender, season to your liking, add the noodles to the hamburger. Cook a few slices of bacon, chop it up. Then add a small amount of the broth back into it to moisten the meat and noodles, add the bacon and some cheese...then top with cheese. Bake in a casserole dish at 350 for 20 mins.
I love jalapeño poppers. I can't have bacon, but I love them with cheddar or cream cheese and dipped in batter and fried.Homemade poppers are one of my favorite, sometimes I'll use a makeshift smoker and cook em under low temp
I've never used batter beforeI love jalapeño poppers. I can't have bacon, but I love them with cheddar or cream cheese and dipped in batter and fried.
What is tofu?I take tofu and just put some kind of sauce on it, like soy sauce or hot sauce. Quick simple filling meal that's cheap in some places
InterestingTuna, cottage cheese, capers, salt, pepper
Throw a can of tuna in a bowl, add cottage cheese until its a thick paste. Mix in the capers.
Put it on some crispbread or toast.
Season with salt&pepper to your liking.
Healthy, quick and tastes good.
I liked growing onoins, garlic, hot peppers and tomatoes. I'm farely good at itThis is one of my favorite topics! First, if someone has a stable enough environment, they can grow vegetables in containers on a deck or balcony. There are fantastic vertical gardening systems that can feed 6+ people off of the space of a tiny New York apartment faux balcony. And I developed a water recycling system to process (light) gray water for edible and decorative/protective plants even in the hellish heat of California's Central Valley, so you can save on your water bill even more easily if you live outside the desert.
But for people who don't want to garden, buying dried legumes and whole grains in bulk is still phenomenally cheap. At my local food coop, French lentils (a fancier legume) cost $1.09/pound bulk. And you can Google the soil to plant contamination dynamics for lentils; they're among the cleanest (fewest contaminants) plants. Fancy jasmine brown rice at my coop costs $1.04/pound bulk. There are even cheaper options--like phytonutrient dense kidney and black beans and long grain brown rice. Organic whole steel cut oats are ridiculously cheap at our coop--$0.39/pound. Together, the legumes and grains supply complementary amino acids (L-methionine for the legumes and lysine for the grains...).
For desserts, fresh fruit that's on deep discount freezes for pennies on the dollar and because it's so ripe makes a sweet treat that rivals the far more expensive and less nourishing stuff sold in groceries' frozen sections.
In the spring and summer, local farmer's markets offer seasonal produce at terrific prices relative to supermarket prices. I buy large quantities and share with neighbors. And you can pick berries that would otherwise rot at locally owned farms (sometimes even wild--careful, local contaminants...) during their high season so cheaply it makes supermarket prices seem criminal.
During the winter, equally nutrient dense (to fresh) frozen vegetables bought in bulk on sale can save over 80% off typical prices (frozen chard, kale, spinach). And if you grow your own in containers (tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, cabbage, broccoli...), you can pickle--preserves nutrients and even enhances profile of some vitamins while adding probiotics.
Finally, some produce you can get a nearly infinite return on--like sectioning garlic, turmeric, ginger... or collecting and propagating seeds of easy to grow non-sweet fruit like avocados (requires right temperature) and gobs of peppers.
There are tons more ideas... When I lived in Seattle, my neighbors and I started a local community garden. In exchange for just four hours of work a month, each of us had more than enough food to get by year round. Every community ought to have a collective garden to prevent food shortage. A tiny plot of land can produce so much food that even local homeless can have health-supporting, filling nutrition much of which doesn't even require cooking.
Good luck!
I don't really know exactly. I just know it's a large, thick white block made out of soybeans that's popular in East Asia, especially Japan, and that it's a lot cheaper than meat. But some countries subsidize meat so heavily that it ends up being "cheaper" than tofu, which is stupid because those subsidies pay for over 95% of the price of meat to get to that point. Glad tofu is the cheaper option where I live.What is tofu?
Yes, Tofu has always been the cheapest dish on the restaurant menu here...and that it's a lot cheaper than meat.