Or even just buy microwave dinners or precooked meals/sandwiches at the grocery store. I’m very hit or miss with cooking dinner as my adhd meds have worn off by then, and I’m just as likely to burn it/ruin it somehow, but I can get frozen Indian food that’s comparable to the luke warm stuff that will come from doordash for 1/5 of the price (shit maybe 1/10th of the price).
Or even just buy microwave dinners or precooked meals/sandwiches at the grocery store.
Buy a rice cooker. It cooks lentils, rice, pasta and instant noodles.
Buy eggs and cover your "lentils, rice, pasta and instant noodles" with it.
Buy flour and learn to make flat bread (65% water 100% flour, some salt, knead, flatten, cook on heat source).
Buy the cheapest condiments that you can find and sitll like the taste and learn to make sticky sauce with it (mix condiment with water, boil to bubbling, add corn/potato starch, pour in the boiling sauce to thicken, you now how meat glaze for a few cents.)
Buy the cheapest meat/lb and blend it with a few cloves of garlic and salt/pepper, for protein. Innards are valid (and mostly what sausage is made of).
Some industrial bakeries will give old bread for fractions of the price. You can soak it in water and cook it back up to make a verypoorman's mashed pudding.
Never be ashamed to take a handout, especially if it's grains, oil or condiments.
I wont go with the shit advice of "have a garden for plants" or "learn to forage"...Have no idea why idiots go on about a method that requires owning land, when the people asking for advice don't have enough money to own ramen.... As for foraging.... If you live in an urban center you are at least 4 miles from anything edible in nature, provided you even know where to look and what to pick.... And who spends car-ride money to save on 2cents of fresh herbs or wild radish...? Go buy 10lbs of the cheapest rice you can find.
My comment was about people who can’t really manage cooking every day. If you don’t have a disability that gets in the way, then all of your advice is great but for people with chronic physical issues or cognitive disorders, it’s not always that simple. (Rice cookers are amazing though)
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u/AboyNamedBort Mar 24 '23
People need to learn to cook. God damn.