I need your help comrades!
I am moving on Saturday. And I need some ways to make meals. I don’t care which culture, the more diverse the better.
Here are some factors I kinda need:
- not too expensive to make (money and time)
- not a weird consistency like salad (sensory issues of autism) bread or steak has the perfect consistency
- I don’t taste that well, so the taste should be rather intense (like steak)
- vegetarian (because I think vegan will be too hard with my requirements) if it isn’t vegetarian I also take recepies but it would be better if it would be (so not stake after all)
Here are examples kind of like this:
- pizza
- pasta with tomato sauce
- garlic bread
pls pls reccomend 🥺
EDIT: Please also drop non vegitarian options, if you cant think of vegitarian stuff. My requirements are so many, it will be difficult to find something that will meet all requirements.
Beans are about the cheapest and best vegetable you can eat. High protein, high fiber, and versatile. Cook up a bunch of beans, mash some of them, mix in a bunch of taco seasoning and stuff in a wrap with some cheese and rice. Super filling and delicious. Add some seasoned taco meat if you want.
Tamar Adler taught me how to love beans: https://ciaosamin.blogspot.com/2015/01/tamar-adler-on-beans.html?m=1
I lactoferment them. Reduced carbs and increases soluble fibers and protein availability. Pretty neat stuff.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8882373/
It really depends on where you live. Certain commodities are cheaper depending on their availability and ease of access in relation to the world market or national market.
For instance, in Europe, the price of rice tends to vary between 2€ and 4€, while in Brazil, a large producer of rice tends to vary between R$4 (0.72€) to R$10 (1.79€) at most, because we are a massive producer of it.
Potatoes are incredibly nutritious, cheap, and can be cooked in a million different ways! From extreme simple fried slices, to more fancy double scooped baked potatoes, there are plenty of ways to incorporate it into a diet!
Rice, lentils and tomato sauce does the job for me. It’s my go to lunch. Cheap, easy to make and very nutritious. Buy tomato sauce with spices already added or add the spices you like.
I buy these trailmixes at the grocery store that are an assortment of nuts and dried fruit. They are a little over 5 USD a bag and contain about 1800 calories per bag.