What's your go-to cheap and healthy eating recipe?

I'm partial to meatless chili and/or goulash myself. Share yours :D

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neptune@dmv.social · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Cook your choice of something like rice, Quinoa or barely. Maybe dice half an onion and toss it in as well. Bonus points for switching 1/4 of the water for veg stock. When it's done cooking, through in some canned beans and hot sauce. Mix. Serve in tortillas as a taco. Bonus points for grated cheese, salsa, and/or avocado in the taco as well.

One pan. Lots of protein and fiber. $4 for multiple meals.

pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 2y

Ooh, you know what's great with that? Homebrew salsa.

Just throw a jalapeno pepper, two small tomatoes, and a small onion into a food processor. Then, put in salt, pepper and garlic powder, and you have salsa that is better than the $5 garbage in the jar. And a lot of it.

Illecors@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 2y

This is a little dependant on the definition of healthy, but I see carbs as a little bit of poison, so my go to meal is always omlette au fromage. I roll it into a sort of wrap while it's on the pan, but other than that I do nothing special.

TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y (5 replies)
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pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I need to get a pressure cooker one of these days. I am BAD at cooking dry beans.

TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 2y

Someone needs to make a thread on how to cook dry beans. I'd do it but I don't have the knowhow.

pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

How much does it cost you a batch, give or take?

TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
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rmuk@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y

Not a direct answer to your question, but soup makers are a fun and very, very easy way to eat healthily and cheaply. I got mine from a charity store for £5 but they're available new for under £50. You literally just throw in your ingredients, a bit of water and press go. Thirty minutes later: thick, tasty, piping hot soup. It's a really good way of using veg that's reduced at the supermarket.

Mechaguana@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y

Brocoli pasta or rice salads really hit the spot Anything pasta really

pyrflie@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
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Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y

If you spread it out over several meals, ramen is totally doable and affordable from scratch.

Look up the PDF by ramen lord, I also have a comic like ramen book that's great

Edit: I tend to make a batch of broths and freeze them. Lasts several meals that way. (For a family).

Second edit: the other book is "Let's make ramen" and it's great.