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mercanucaribe
Banned
Get a $20 rice cooker and a 24lb bag of rice.
ponyo
Lifer
Pasta is about the cheapest food you can make. It's easy to make different pastas like marina, alfredo, or pesto and it will keep for long time in the fridge or freezer.
Don't buy can or bottle marina sauce. It's expensive and doesn't taste as good. Make your own and freeze the leftovers. Sauce will keep for usually around 3-6 months in the freezer. Just put it in big ziplock bag and freeze it.
112 oz can of whole peeled tomato from Sams or Costco. Usually around $2 or so.
1/2 cup of olive oil
2 medium onions chopped
4-5 cloves of chopped garlic
2 TBsp sugar
Salt and pepper to taste
Fresh Basil if you have some
1/2 cup Grated Paramsan cheese
Saute the onion and garlic in olive oil and then add the crushed tomato to the pot. Add sugar, salt, and pepper and cook on high heat until boil and then simmer for about 30 minutes. Take off heat and add basil and cheese if you prefer. Eat and let rest cool and store in fridge or freezer.
You can buy about 6lb cooked meatball for around $10 and microwave it to add to your pasta or make meatball sub using the above marina sauce as the base.
As for the pasta noodles, you can cook like a pound of noodle and eat what you can and simply plastic wrap the rest. It will keep for about 4-5 days in the fridge before going bad.
Don't buy can or bottle marina sauce. It's expensive and doesn't taste as good. Make your own and freeze the leftovers. Sauce will keep for usually around 3-6 months in the freezer. Just put it in big ziplock bag and freeze it.
112 oz can of whole peeled tomato from Sams or Costco. Usually around $2 or so.
1/2 cup of olive oil
2 medium onions chopped
4-5 cloves of chopped garlic
2 TBsp sugar
Salt and pepper to taste
Fresh Basil if you have some
1/2 cup Grated Paramsan cheese
Saute the onion and garlic in olive oil and then add the crushed tomato to the pot. Add sugar, salt, and pepper and cook on high heat until boil and then simmer for about 30 minutes. Take off heat and add basil and cheese if you prefer. Eat and let rest cool and store in fridge or freezer.
You can buy about 6lb cooked meatball for around $10 and microwave it to add to your pasta or make meatball sub using the above marina sauce as the base.
As for the pasta noodles, you can cook like a pound of noodle and eat what you can and simply plastic wrap the rest. It will keep for about 4-5 days in the fridge before going bad.
funboy6942
Lifer
Rice is great because you can mix so much with it. Get some peanut oil and make fried rice with some vegies and maybe a little chicken.
Rick cooked mix in some butter and add salt, garlic powder, onion powder, fresh vegies and your set.
Rice by itself
almost anything you add to rice will taste damn good and cheap too.
Rick cooked mix in some butter and add salt, garlic powder, onion powder, fresh vegies and your set.
Rice by itself
almost anything you add to rice will taste damn good and cheap too.
SurgicalShark
Golden Member
OP Ask any Indian (as in from India) we cook all the time at home since we can not eat ham, beef, pork! Lots of things that you can do to save money and eat healthy food! 😀
konakona
Diamond Member
lol this pretty much sums up my diet... rice, vegeterian with some meat, chili, curry, pasta and whatnot...
get some beans when you cook rice, they are one of cheapest and most nutritional food avaialble. cook them with rice, put them in soup... they say these make you fart but i never noticed it that much. only thing that really gives me some serious gas problem is lactose ridden milk. soy milk is way better for your health anyway.
get some beans when you cook rice, they are one of cheapest and most nutritional food avaialble. cook them with rice, put them in soup... they say these make you fart but i never noticed it that much. only thing that really gives me some serious gas problem is lactose ridden milk. soy milk is way better for your health anyway.
The albertsons flyer for 4/27/05 - 5/3/05 has:
the LARGE cans of Rosarita refried beans: $1
16oz jar of Herdez salsa, $1 -- good stuff!
mission white-corn or fajita style flour tortillas (11.5oz - 36oz), $1
Want a salad to go with it? "Fresh Express" packaged salads, $1
Prefer carrots over salad? 1lb bag of baby carrots, $1
Fancy it up with fresh Hot House tomatoes, $1/lb
cheap, and fairly healty too
shortylickens
No Lifer
Depending on where you get it, Mac and Cheese can go for 50-75 cents a box.
The problem is, you need to keep milk and butter on hand.
Also amounts to a lot of dishwashing.
The problem is, you need to keep milk and butter on hand.
Also amounts to a lot of dishwashing.
konakona
Diamond Member
i hear people say this time and again.. but why? how is this any unhealthier than fast food? fast food is bad since it has excess fat, cholestrol for most part. ramen may lack some essential nutrients, but thats something that can be addressed with added fruit and veggies to go with it. i dont think ramen is THAT unhealthy per se. heck, you are not even supposed to be eating more than 1 can of tuna in 3 days!
2cpuminimum
Senior member
ramen and fast food are both unhealthy. Ramen may be cheap per package but per oz it's no great bargain. Tuna is high in mercury and relatively expensive compared to beans or eggs. Potatoes are the cheapest source of carbohydrate, while beans and eggs are the cheapest source of protein. Use olive oil when making pizza, canola oil when making most anything else. Only use butter for baking. Get a variety of different inexpensive beans.
Chives are easy to grow and can often replace onions. Grow your own berries and tomatoes (I know, tomatoes are berries).
Though by me potatoes cost $3.5/ 10 pound bag, it's cheaper to buy frozen fries. 😕
Vegetarian chilli is really easy to make. bump
Chives are easy to grow and can often replace onions. Grow your own berries and tomatoes (I know, tomatoes are berries).
qft
Though by me potatoes cost $3.5/ 10 pound bag, it's cheaper to buy frozen fries. 😕
Vegetarian chilli is really easy to make. bump
Spaghetti.........
Chinese Food..........
Tour of Italy from Olive Garden.... (just load up on bread sticks and pasta fagiolio, take dinner home)
Taco Dip 🙂 1- package cream cheese smeared in bottom of 8x8 dish, salsa poured on top of cream cheese, shredded cheese sprinkled all over top, baked at 350 for 20 mins or so........... YUM!
Chinese Food..........
Tour of Italy from Olive Garden.... (just load up on bread sticks and pasta fagiolio, take dinner home)
Taco Dip 🙂 1- package cream cheese smeared in bottom of 8x8 dish, salsa poured on top of cream cheese, shredded cheese sprinkled all over top, baked at 350 for 20 mins or so........... YUM!
cavemanmoron
Lifer
Pb/j
rice,ugh,
Pasta!
konakona
Diamond Member
i pretty much do exactly as you wrote there... potatoes, beans, onions and eggs happen to be the primary ingridients in my cooking, with some salary, cabbage, cucumber, peppers or mushrooms depending on availability. canola oil is the only kind of oil we buy, and i never use butter, really.
i was just pointing out ramen isnt that harmful per se, it is more of what it lacks (vitamins, fiber and whatnot) than it what it has in excess (fat, cholestrol). it may have a good amount of sodium and preservatives in it, but so do most other things out there. living off of ramen exclusively would be a terribly unhealthy choice, but ramen is nowhere near as unheatly as fastfood imo.
SilentZero
Diamond Member
A plate lunch at L&L's or Zippys.
iluvtruenos
Banned
Are you gay?
iluvtruenos
Banned
Just eat a lot of foods that are eaten in third world countries.
When people emigrate from there, they take the culture with them, so you can find the food they eat there for a price close to what they charge there.
Oh, and find a non-franchise restaurant, something privately owned, and work out a deal with the manager. They buy stuff in bulk so cheap that even you'd wonder how.
Example:
potatoes $0.50/10lbs
tomatos $0.50/10lbs
chicken breast: $0.25/lb.
I asked my boss today, so those prices are up to date. I'm sure if someone came in and asked him for 10lbs of chicken for even 35 cents he'd agree since he usually buys 100lbs/week.
When people emigrate from there, they take the culture with them, so you can find the food they eat there for a price close to what they charge there.
Oh, and find a non-franchise restaurant, something privately owned, and work out a deal with the manager. They buy stuff in bulk so cheap that even you'd wonder how.
Example:
potatoes $0.50/10lbs
tomatos $0.50/10lbs
chicken breast: $0.25/lb.
I asked my boss today, so those prices are up to date. I'm sure if someone came in and asked him for 10lbs of chicken for even 35 cents he'd agree since he usually buys 100lbs/week.
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