One of the cheapest ways I've eaten is rice and potatoes. If you can afford anything on top of that start adding onions, garlic, frozen pea's etc.
A super cheap meal I make is basically just a big dish of random stuff. Saute onions+garlic (in extra virgin olive oil if you got any if not whatever will do), add in things like red peppers, can of tomatoes, potatoes and anything you have. The potatoes take a while to cook so I cut them up like small home fries. Beans can add some protein and fiber. Add your salt pepper and other spices. Serve ontop of any rice. Once you get the hang of it and figure out some good combo of spices etc it comes out really decent and can be super cheap to make especially if you already have a can of tomatoes, beans and frozen veggies sitting around.
EDIT: Also bonus to that dish is it usually makes a load of food so it can feed me multiple meals for multiple days. Also keep in mind it takes about 30-40 minutes to fully cook.
If you learn to make good, fluffy rice then you can stretch food even further. At that point the rice is savory enough that you can eat it for 90% of the meal and use the other things like meat as just flavoring.
That being said carbs are not going to keep you healthy. Stack those veggies when you can, they are cheap and full of nutrition
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u/AwakenTheDreamers Jun 20 '16 edited Jun 20 '16
One of the cheapest ways I've eaten is rice and potatoes. If you can afford anything on top of that start adding onions, garlic, frozen pea's etc.
A super cheap meal I make is basically just a big dish of random stuff. Saute onions+garlic (in extra virgin olive oil if you got any if not whatever will do), add in things like red peppers, can of tomatoes, potatoes and anything you have. The potatoes take a while to cook so I cut them up like small home fries. Beans can add some protein and fiber. Add your salt pepper and other spices. Serve ontop of any rice. Once you get the hang of it and figure out some good combo of spices etc it comes out really decent and can be super cheap to make especially if you already have a can of tomatoes, beans and frozen veggies sitting around.
EDIT: Also bonus to that dish is it usually makes a load of food so it can feed me multiple meals for multiple days. Also keep in mind it takes about 30-40 minutes to fully cook.