I personally know some folks who spend all their money on fast food, and then online it seems pretty common folks not knowing how to cook causes massive financial problems.

My super duper cheap meal that takes no effort is “lazy rice veggie soup”: Can of peas and carrots cooked with a bouyon cube until cube is dissolved Add cooked rice to mix, and heat until rice is flavorful with absorbed broth

I do a cup of dried rice, and a can of peas and carrots which means the soup has 800ish calories and I think it’s pretty good as it’s either 2 small meals that you can have sides with, or one large one!

So what are your cheap meals you like to make? The less well known, the better!

  • Swedneck
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure about the exact price but it’s one of the cheapest dishes i can imagine where i live.

    (slightly modified) janssons frestelse, traditional swedish christmas gratin

    just chop some potatoes into sticks, slice some onions thinly, empty both into an oven-safe dish, season to taste with black pepper and mix it all up, mix up some fish sauce and milk and pour as much as you feel like into the gratin (i think normal is like, 2/3rds?), some breadcrumbs ontop, and into the oven at like 200°C until it gets some colour.

    use actual anchovies if that’s cheap and you like bits of fish, and chopped up sun-dried tomato works great too (but that’s expensive here).