Rice & ?

[Requia ☣]

I am currently on a tight food budget, on the grounds I have no job, and no prospect of a job.

I do however, have about 10 kilos of jasmine rice.  So what the hell can i mix with it thats not too pricey.

When I say tight, my budget for next week is 20 dollars.

[Requia ☣]

corn and peanuts?  at the same time?

[LMNO]

Beans. Black and/or kidney.  For your protein and fiber.  Goya brand often goes 3/$1 at supermarkets.

Heat beans in a pot, season with whatever you got (salt, pepper, shiraccha, oregano, whatever), spoon on top of rice.

You might clear a room after a couple of days, but you won't die of malnutrition.


Incidentally, vegetables are cheaper than meat, so become a vegetarian for a week.

[Richter]

Cook the rice, and mix in whatever vegetables you can get for the last 5 minutes of cooking or so.  The light steaming only cooks them a bit, and provides a differnt flavor than raw veggies, or totally cooked ones.  It also supposedly keeps more nutritional value, but I have no evidence on this.  Just make sure they're well washed first.

If there are any farmer's markets, stands, etc. about, check them for prices.  Worcester has 1 or two that are almost "Second hand vegetable" shops, but offer great prices if you can dodge the occasional bad bit. 

Any recipie that works with chicken WILL work with squirrel. 

Freecycle, careful dumpster diving, and scrounging are you FRIENDS. 
If you're worried about nutrition, invest in a big bottle of vitamins and oral care supplies ASAP.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

the above 2 are TCM

you could also use pink beans with onion and cilantro
if you have adobo and sazon, yeay, if not, use what you have
sometimes you can find em cheap though

if you can afford canned tomatoes and ask the butcher to break a lb of ground beef in half for you, you could mix tomato w/ beef and rice, maybe onion and either stuff bell peppers or cabbage leaves.

grilled cheese, tomato soup

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

corn & peanuts.

Also goes well with packet cheap assed lipton soup rip offs.

Corn, peanuts, milk, chili peppers. Excellent soup, high in protein, serve with rice.

For breakfast: rice with cinnamon, honey, milk.

If you can afford tofu and you have peanut butter and garlic and/or chili paste, make a peanut sauce and serve it over sauteed tofu and rice. Or skip the tofu and eat peanut sauce with rice. Yum.

Any and all veggies with rice.

Lentil curry soup with rice.

[Jenne]

Rice goes with anything, so lucky you, you have your carbs for any meal you want--breakfast (milky sweet sticky rice), lunch and dinner.  So go light on buying anything that's not needed and stick to essentials like the beans, veggies and whatever will make eating the rice for a long time palatable (any and all the above suggestions are awesome).

As for shopping tips, look for dented cans in the grocery store, shop at the 99c store, and consider a food bank if things get desperate in a few days.

[whatc]

butter.

[Quercus]

Couscous and lentils provide lots of protein and are also cheap. Sautee whatever veggies are on sale, throw some salt and pepper on it et voila! A quick meal that is cheap and produces quality left overs.