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Update: I fed 3 people for a week on $23 and the rice cooker did all the heavy lifting
My hours got cut at the warehouse two weeks ago so I sat down with a pen and worked out a food plan on a Sunday night. I had $23 left for groceries until payday, so I grabbed a 10 lb bag of rice for $6, dried beans for $3, a dozen eggs for $2.50, frozen mixed veggies, and a big thing of chicken thighs that were marked down to $5 because the date was close. The move was cooking one big pot of beans on Monday and one tray of thighs, then building every meal off those two things with rice. I ate beans and rice with a fried egg for breakfast, rice bowls with shredded thigh and veggies for lunch, and soup made from the bean liquid and whatever veg was left for dinner. By Friday I still had half the rice bag and I wasn't even sick of it because I kept changing the sauce, hot sauce one day, soy and garlic the next. Curious if anyone else plans a week around one cheap protein like this, and what you add to keep it from getting boring?
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quinna8914d ago
Did you just make a game plan out of pure desperation like I did the first time I tried this? My attempt was a five pound bag of potatoes and a pack of cheap hot dogs and by day three I was calling it "deconstructed stew" to feel better about myself. The sauce swap is the real trick though, I do the same thing with a bottle of curry paste and a bottle of bbq sauce and suddenly it's two different meals. One thing that saved me was pickling whatever onion or carrot was left in the fridge, it adds a crunch and a tang that makes rice feel less like rice. Also save those chicken bones next time and boil them down, free broth means your soup night stops tasting like bean water.
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