Is it easy to cook cheaply? Yes.
Is it easy to cook tasty food? Yes
Is it easy to cook that is filling? Yes
Is it easy to cook food that gives you enough calories? Yes.
3 or 4 all once on a daily basis. Not easy at all.
It makes it harder if you live by yourself and/or if you have to take food to work.
Unless you are a really really really really good cook I don’t think it is possible to do all 4 for under $300/month for 1 person.
I am talking as an American.
I spend about 2.5 hours cooking everyday.
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2.5 hours every day?
Tuna bake takes like 40 mins, and that’s WITH it being in the oven, cooking the tuna, making the pasta take like 15 mins all up..
Mash potato, pre-cooked sausages, and frozen veges take like 15 mins.
Lasagne takes me like an hour.
Curry takes me 1.5 hours
Like the stuff that takes 2+ hours are like soups and crockpot food
2.5 hours cooking everyday?? I spend 2 hours every week to mealprep and it ticks every single one of those boxes.
I am sorry but I don’t believe you are cooking 2.5 hours a day .
It takes about 30-60 mins on average to cook dinner and should take you even less time to prepare lunch or breakfast.
If you really are cooking 2.5 hours a day then your food is burnt and dry. Unless you are literally cooking slow cook meals that take hours to cook which if you do then you should have plenty left overs.
I think you are lying to us OP.
Bro. Every morning, pile of goat meat on the griddle. Top with cheez whiz and Hershey’s syrup. Graze on that shit all day. Bacteria be dammed. Look into the whites of my eyes while I say it son, BACTERIA BE DAMNED. Been living like this my whole life. I’m a 3 month old infant and it hasn’t failed yet my dude
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Rice, beans, onions, tomotoes, add some ground spice of your choice.
4/4
Lentils also work.
Minimimal amount of meat, 100 grams chopped finally, for example, won’t break the bank.
I cooked 8 pieces of chicken and rice, portioned for the week and cleaned up in 2 hours. But I try to avoid cooking every day. Not because it’s hard, but I like doing all my mundane tasks at once instead of spacing them out.
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on the contrary, cooking cheap filling tasty food that helps you stay in calorie deficit is difficult. cooking healthy and tasty food that’s also filling and calorie dense is the easiest thing in the world. pasta and rice are calorie dense and filling. you can cook those two things a million different tasty ways very cheaply. Potatoes can also help stack on calories and are cheap af and can be very tasty. also beans. and i don’t mean canned in potato sauce i mean get beans and make a bean soup with meat and noodles.
soups in general are your friend. mix up one egg, some flour and a bit of oil, add spices to your taste and you can make great dumplings for any soup to up the calories.
or you can get chicken livers, mince them and do the same thing for liver dumplings which are amazing and filling.
forget beef. beef is expensive. get pork. get minced pork, make it into meatballs, make some nice buttered boiled potatoes with it. shit ton of calories, healthy and delicious. not terribly expensive.
cooking tasty, calorie dense foods is easy af.
Totally possible for one person and possible on a smaller budget and in less time than what you’re spending. And I live in an expensive city in the United States.
One thing that helps is to prep your ingredients and freeze them. Things like onions, celery, mushrooms, bell peppers, tomatoes, etc. can be clean and diced in advance. When you are ready to cook, you just grab them and use as much as you need. It also helps keep food from going bad if you deal with it right after you buy it. I process meat similarly, buying chicken in bulk and cutting up chicken into smaller chunks so I don’t have to thaw it in advance and to be able to grab only what I need.
Making soup in large batches is another way to get lots of meals with less effort. Freeze most of it.
The biggest problem I have is having enough containers for all of the things I freeze. Oh, and sometimes the grocery stores don’t carry waxed paper which helps keep things from sticking together when freezing.
Meal prep at least 3-5 days in advance. It’s not that hard. It does take effort and time. Time is the hard part sometimes. But it’s all about scheduling your time if you’re a busy person. We know we have to eat at least once or twice a day. So schedule it like your bathroom routine or any other daily routine. It takes some minor planning but nothing we can’t do