Random thread about food that doesn't really seem to have any cohesiveness

[East Coast Hustle]

SOMETIMES I LIKE TO GO TO TACO BELL AND ASK THEM IF I CAN GIVE THEM $5 AND JUST DO A 30-SECOND "KEGSTAND" OFF THE MEATHOSE.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

this is a great idea dude.
we've had to cut back on a lot of the fancy shmancy stuff we like cause who the hell can afford it now.
the problem we're facing is cheap meals that are good for you.
you can only eat so many grilled cheese and pots of red beans and rice before wanting to kill yourself.
i look forward to more recipes 

[LMNO]

That's great, ECH.  I especially like the roast onion trick.

One question:  The turkey breasts I've seen don't have a "cavity", they're just large hunks of white turkey meat.  Would this work without the skeleton attached?

[East Coast Hustle]

with the obvious adjustment in cooking time, yes. Though you wouldn't end up with much in the way of pan drippings. you could even butterfly the boneless breast and stuff it with a couple slices of lemon. Srsly though, if your store doesn't have whole bone-in turkey breasts, WATSIB? This would also work with a large whole chicken, again adjusting cooking time for weight variance.

[LMNO]

Incidentally, should I link to the cheap recipes I've posted?  I'm thinking about things like my stews, etc.

[East Coast Hustle]

feel free. keep in mind the cost of spices, sauces, etc. as well, though. my final cost posted is for every component of the meal (including the side veggies in that first one).

In other words, you and I might be the only people here with a regular arsenal of mirin, nuoc mam, and single-orchard olive oil.

[LMNO]

Then I shall recommend substitutes.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Can we all join in on this or would you rather we didn't? 

[Richter]

My recent Fav. suggestion from LMNO

Hell, get a 25-lb bag of rice, a few pounds of fresh spinach.  Throw the spinach in the freezer.

Make the rice (if you use brown long-grain, there's even some nutrition there), break off a handful or two of frozen fresh spinach and stir it in with the spices.  Freezing the spinach breaks down the cell structure, so it wilts into the rice that much easier.

Cheap (h)eats that won't give you scurvy!

I add other veggies as available to this.

I start with 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil, and stir in curry powders, adobo, and siracha over low heat.  I add the rice next, and toss it a bit to let the oil and spice coat it all.  Then I add the water, boild and reduc to low temp to steam.

I toss in the spinach an veggies when it's about 3-5 min. from being done. 
One hell of a spicy rice, it tastes great topped with cheddar cheese, or with other curry.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

feel free. keep in mind the cost of spices, sauces, etc. as well, though. my final cost posted is for every component of the meal (including the side veggies in that first one).

In other words, you and I might be the only people here with a regular arsenal of mirin, nuoc mam, and single-orchard olive oil.

  hey now. i has teh spice.

and good olive erl.

[East Coast Hustle]

I am still able to afford cheap meat, and can expect to eat well for at least one more season of Rob The Tourists, but I have been there before and likely will again and yeah, when you're REALLY broke, there is nothing better than rice and whatever canned beans and canned/frozen/fresh veggies are cheapest. It'll keep you alive and functioning reasonably well long after Burger King has left you diabetic and with extreme diverticulitis.

also, yeah, everyone should feel free to pile in on this thread. Poor people without proper nutrition are unlikely to be dangerous people, in the long run. We all need to stay as potentially dangerous as we can if we want to have any chance of grabbing a piece of the pie and taking the best bite before it all comes down in a flaming pile of charred rubble and CHUDs.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I has a good one.

Soak a pound of pinto beans, cook until tender with onions and chili spices $2

Stew a 6-lb pork shoulder until tender, chill, skim fat, remove bone, cube $6

Cook up a pound of polenta, add a 28-oz can of diced tomatoes $3

combine, bake 30 minutes

Cover with 1/2 lb shredded cheese $2

Serve with salsa, sour cream $4

About 24 servings at roughly 79 cents a meal.

[fomenter]

Seres fine roasted red peppers 3 in a jar 1$ at the dollar store, stuffed with cheese dipped in egg, flour, seasonings and fried, meal for 2 -total cost 2.50 to 3.00

and tasty wow, yum yum yum

[East Coast Hustle]

well, that certainly sounds nutritionally complete.

[Richter]

I am still able to afford cheap meat, and can expect to eat well for at least one more season of Rob The Tourists, but I have been there before and likely will again and yeah, when you're REALLY broke, there is nothing better than rice and whatever canned beans and canned/frozen/fresh veggies are cheapest. It'll keep you alive and functioning reasonably well long after Burger King has left you diabetic and with extreme diverticulitis.

also, yeah, everyone should feel free to pile in on this thread. Poor people without proper nutrition are unlikely to be dangerous people, in the long run. We all need to stay as potentially dangerous as we can if we want to have any chance of grabbing a piece of the pie and taking the best bite before it all comes down in a flaming pile of charred rubble and CHUDs.

Now THAT'S a statement of purpose.