What's your financial situation? Can you afford a freezer and Tupperware style containers? Do you have transport that means you can bulk buy shelf stable items?
If you put some time and effort in, and find a good quality recipe, then you can make seriously delicious food that is healthy and cheap. Make a huge pot of it and freeze portions in Tupperware and it will feed you for ages.
Example - make a huge vegetable or a chickpea curry. If you make your curry paste from scratch and take the time to do it properly with an authentic recipe then it will be fucking delicious and very healthy and cheap. And it will be worth spending half a day doing it because you'll make a huge pot of it and it will feed you for about 20 meals.
Learn how to cook rice properly (personally for a curry I use basmati rice and cook using the absorption method plus I chuck in a few whole cardamom pods for flavour). Buy a big sack of rice at an Indian or Pakistani market, or if those aren't available het the biggest that you can from a supermarket or wholesale place.
The nice thing about cooking rice with aromatics is that it tastes really good on it's own, so you can fill up on that and just dollop a small portion of your curry on top. Makes the curry stretch further, if money is an issue.
Do this with a few different meals e.g. curry, chilli, chunky pasta sauce etc and then you can bulk buy your staples of rice, pasta, dried noodles etc and then you're all set to eat a variety of delicious, healthy meals that are extremely cheap.
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What's your financial situation? Can you afford a freezer and Tupperware style containers? Do you have transport that means you can bulk buy shelf stable items?
If you put some time and effort in, and find a good quality recipe, then you can make seriously delicious food that is healthy and cheap. Make a huge pot of it and freeze portions in Tupperware and it will feed you for ages.
Example - make a huge vegetable or a chickpea curry. If you make your curry paste from scratch and take the time to do it properly with an authentic recipe then it will be fucking delicious and very healthy and cheap. And it will be worth spending half a day doing it because you'll make a huge pot of it and it will feed you for about 20 meals.
Learn how to cook rice properly (personally for a curry I use basmati rice and cook using the absorption method plus I chuck in a few whole cardamom pods for flavour). Buy a big sack of rice at an Indian or Pakistani market, or if those aren't available het the biggest that you can from a supermarket or wholesale place.
The nice thing about cooking rice with aromatics is that it tastes really good on it's own, so you can fill up on that and just dollop a small portion of your curry on top. Makes the curry stretch further, if money is an issue.
Do this with a few different meals e.g. curry, chilli, chunky pasta sauce etc and then you can bulk buy your staples of rice, pasta, dried noodles etc and then you're all set to eat a variety of delicious, healthy meals that are extremely cheap.