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GrAviTy84 posted:Eating on the cheap is mostly planning. This a million times. For example, when you plan ahead you go from "I couldn't eat a whole roast chicken" to "I could eat roast chicken and potatoes one night and the next few night use left overs in various forms of chicken and rice". Planning ahead allows you to make effective use of leftovers which not only reduces the waste of cooking for one or two people but also seriously reduces the amount of cooking you have to do. Using left over bits, I put together the main part of my dinner together in the time it takes my rice cooker to make a serving of white rice (with time left over to do the dishes). And seriously, the more ways you find to save yourself effort/time the more likely it is you cook instead of ordering take out.
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Any recommendations on what to do about eating lunch cheap? Leftovers are obviously a cheap option but eating the same thing for lunch and dinner for a few days at a time makes splurging extremely tempting.
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May 31, 2012 16:50
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Canadian Bakin posted:... moose ...
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Jun 11, 2012 17:22
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Rurutia posted:I think my only problem with that recipe is that it's only a low effort recipe if you want to make bread often within a short period of time.
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Jul 10, 2012 16:01
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Speaking of making stock. Right now I just throw scraps of onions, chicken bones, skin I didn't use, etc into a bin in my freezer. It's not cover/sealed so it's freezer burnt and all. Should I be covering/sealing this bin? Will having not done so affect the taste of my stock?
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Jul 30, 2012 16:20
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Casu Marzu posted:Depends on how much you eat beans. Also how good you are at remembering to throw them in a bowl of water before heading to work/class in the morning.
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Mar 14, 2013 18:26
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I read this off the back of package of my quinoa and it was suprisingly tastey. 1 cup of cooked quinoa 1 15 oz can of black beans, rinsed and drained 1 15 oz can of sweet corn, drained 1 diced red bell pepper Mix that together, then mix together 3 Tbsp of lime juice 2 Tbsp of olive oil 2 tsp of cummin fold that into the quinoa/bean/corn/pepper mix. Cheap, not bad, prevents scurvy, what more could you want?
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Sep 3, 2013 04:54
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:Made a couple out of seasoned rice vinegar, tomatoes, cucumber, cilantro, and mixed greens. Stick your keys in the fridge with them?
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Sep 16, 2013 15:38
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Is there a similar thread along the lines of "help! I'm not poor, just lazy and eat out way too much"?
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Jun 15, 2015 17:57
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guppy posted:Well... there's this entire subforum. What, specifically, is your stumbling block? Is it that you don't know how to cook? Is it that you need new recipes? Is it that you want some simple-to-make options? Is it just that you don't feel like it? I think my biggest problem winds up being: I get serious about cooking instead of eating out again (like I used back when I broke), I get the ingredients and cook a week's worth of a dish (because that seems to be how all "eat cheap" sort of things work), I eat that for 3 days, get sick of it, go out to eat because I can, and having broken the chain I proceed to stuff my face with take out for the next two weeks.
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Jun 16, 2015 13:11
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I'm bad at spices. For the canonical cheap food (rice and beans), what are good combinations of spices to mix up the flavor?
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Jul 27, 2015 18:00
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The Midniter posted:
Boneless skinless chicken breasts often cost almost as much as beef. Other parts of the chicken are cheaper.
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Aug 4, 2015 21:23
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What's your spice situation?
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