Broke Budget Cooking
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Many of you are either low-income, compulsive gamblers, students, record collectors who spend rent and food money on records which you can neither eat or live in, or just closet-case Costanza-Shylocks.Either way, I'm sure ya'll have some good, healthy budget recipes. I'll start with 3 of my favorite:Ichibana ala healthy-----------------Boil a broth of vegtables (usually something simple like Broccoli and Carrots) and Ichiban sauce.Make Ichiban using broth.Add egg just before Ichiban is done.This way you get the quickness of ichiban, but the healthyness of eating vegtables and having a pseudo-"broth based" soup.Beansticles---------1 can of regular beans (the kind you take camping, with the pork in it).1 can of liver beans1 can of mushrooms2 veggie dogs (st. ives)Throw them all together and cook on low heat! MMM tastey!Caution: Not to be eaten around special lady friends or man friends.Kraft Supper----------Cook Kraft Dinner noodles the same as always.Instead of milk, use Half a can of Mushroom soup per box of KD.Add fried vegtables (onions, broccoli, mushrooms, or whatever else you please)Use real cheese and the fake stuff.
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Cook some god damn spaghetti fool.
Cup of Noodles with tapatio.
Sometimes for a gourmet flair ill add a dash of tequila to my maruchan.
Tinas frozen burritos are the best thing going in the budget eats arena. They cost around 29 cents a peice, i believe, and are pretty delicious ( very delicious if you nail the food/liqour ratio).
Im pretty snobby when it comes to eats though. I pair avacado with everything i put in my mouth (ayo).
My most recent sandwhich, for example.
Toasted ciabatta, split down the middle. Sliced brie goes on first. Followed by several "hallowed out" peperonicnis.... I split the peppers in half and spread them flat on the sandwhich. Next comes the tuna salad w/taragon. On top of that, ripe avacados and assorted lettuce. I coated the top peiece of bread with high quality olive oil and black pepper.
I would have busted out the tomato too, but i often find myself too lazy to go through with that.
can of chilli and rice. make the rice (i have a rice cooker i dont know how to cook it otherwise). mix up the chilli and rice and toast some bread. put chilli on toast and eat. makes 2 meals
tacos. get some ground beef, can of refried beans, cheese, lettuce and tortillas. put ground beef in a pan with some hot sauce and mexican chilli spice (find it in spices isle). cook beef and beans and put it in tortilla with rest of shizznit. makes like 5 meals.
Word life son! Ya'll need a good bowl of pho in your life..
pho sho.
Forget the chemical part, how did you know it tasted like dick?
Middle-school james says: I recognized the taste from swapping gum with your mother.
Current-day james says: Don't risk it, J. Lo.
toxic avengers ???
HAAAAAAAA, can't say I wasn't expecting something like that.
That's my problem, I can't stop my middle-school J.Lo
Fill a small pot with water, on a high flame. Once it starts to boil, slowly drop an egg white in and let it get all stringy. Beat it around with a fork (ayo) if you have to. Next drop in a full maruchan instant luch. Resist the temptation to remove the vegetables, you fuckin second graders. The water will be boiling less feircly now that you have dropped in the maurchan. Wait for it to begin boiling over harder, then drop in a second, full egg (yolk included). This egg will poach itself in the water. Add tapatio. You must add enough so that the color of the soup darkens considerably.Remove from flame, pour into a bowl.
Crumble crackers into the soup at this point, if you wish.
This shit looks and tastes like soem homecook ish. You could probabaly fool your girlfriend into thinking you love her with this jernt. Use it wisely.
What is that, like 3.50 USD??? That's expensive??
+ 5 minutes after water boils
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should cost you no more than $2 a pack. It's a fresh noodle based soup which means its a lot healthier and tastier than all that ramen/cup o noodles dehydrated garbage. You can also add any veggies or meat/fish to it...I like mine plain with a dash of lemon and basil
Considering that Ichiban + carrots and brocoli + 1 egg = probably $1US.
Pho is cheap for restaurant food, no doubt.
on the TOSSED SALAD tip... one head of romaine lettuce can make a shitload of salad. tomatoes, onions, vinegar and oil to spice it up... all cheap. if you're feeling like splurging a bit, buy some olives and a block of feta. or an avocado and (cheap) hard boiled egg.
i've done the ramen thing before. i can barely even stand to look at the packages anymore without losing my appetite...
things to add to noodles to boost nutritious/flavour content:
fresh ginger
fresh garlic
spinach
chard
(baby) bok choy
mushrooms
snap peas
tofu
green onions
cilantro
eggs
lemon
toasted sesame oil
tamari
(with the garlic, ginger and greens - don't boil them with the water, pour the soup over them in the bowl at the very end. boiling kills most of their nutritious value)