Does anyone have any favorite recipes for cheap, nutritional meals? (programming.dev)

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Hello there! I was wondering if anyone has some low budget meal recipes that they want to share. I wanna save money but I also don't want to get malnourished on my low budget!

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[-] neptune@dmv.social 23 points 1 year ago

Here's how I ate for years.

Buy lots of dry grains. Brown rice. Quinoa. Wild rice. Barley.

Buy lots of cheap proteins. Canned beans. Whatever chicken is on sale. Tofu.

Always keep potatoes and onions on hand they last a while in the pantry.

Cook the dry grain, with diced onion. Pour beans on top. Hot sauce or whatever spices. Bake potatoes and any bonus protein you want to have.

Get tired of eating this with Sriracha? Use Frank. Or curry powder.

[-] Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Dry beans are a lot cheaper than canned (less waste also). If you get a big pressure cooker, you can just soak a bunch of dried beans overnight and it only takes ~30min to cook up a massive pot of beans. Add more water and some stuff like carrots, onions and you'll have same tasty bean soup. Split peas are great for thickening soup and making it really hearty.

Of course, it's possible to cook beans/soup in a slow cooker or whatever but personally I love my pressure cooker and I've had less issues with burning stuff or uneven cooking as well. Great for steaming vegetables, potatoes (you can have mashed potatoes in ~15min). Can even use a pressure cooker to make rice and it's very fast.

[-] engityra@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I often just cook the beans in a slow cooker on low overnight. No soaking necessary.

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