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Angstmetzger
Jul 17, 2010

Captain Payne posted:

A lot of people in this thread have advocated slow cookers/crock pots, but I think you should also consider getting a rice cooker. I'm in a similar situation budget and time-wise as yourself, and I can put a couple cups of rice, some black beans, green beans, chopped onions etc in there and it's done cooking in 20 minutes with no work from me.

Seconding this opinion. My rice cooker has made my life a lot easier and cheaper on the food budget. Best advice I can give on this is look for one that can take 3 cups of uncooked rice as its capacity and look for one with a steaming tray. Cooking the rice and getting the veggies steamed saves a lot of time making dinner.

Also going to highly recommend ethnic/oriental/hispanic markets. Another thing that might help if you are comfortable with cutting your own meats look into finding a store that sells uncut primals and cut/freeze it yourself.

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