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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Don't forget your lentils! Eat delicious meals for less than $5 a day, every day
Lentils turn my bowels into a war crime
Sure that isn't spice that often comes with them?
Otherwise, check your fiber my dude.
It's definitely not the spice. And nothing else gives me gas quite nearly as horrible.
...beans work too!
Rice, beans, tortillas, some shredded cheese, and a little bit of sauce of your choice and you've got a delicious burrito that costs a fraction of most other meal options!
Fuck prices, all of that food is wildly unhealthy and should be avoided even without looking at prices.
All you really need is a slow cooker, skillet, sheet pan, wooden cutting board, and chef's knife to make quick, delicious, and healthy meals. The money you save will pay for all of that in a month.
Listen, I'm all for cooking at home, It's what occupies most of my evenings, but I'm tired of pretending that fast food doesn't WILDLY add convenience to my life. A "30 minute meal" usually drags out to an hour plus if you include prep time of getting the ingredients together and scrubbing all your shit down afterward. I am of the class that does not have a dish washer, so that last step takes a while.
That's not even to mention the time it takes to plan out your meals, shop for ingredients, and at the end of the day, you might not even be eating healthy. You need to incorporate so many fruits and veggies into your diet that, if you're buying fresh and are one of the many unlucky people that live in a food desert, will break your bank right open. Even frozen food isn't cheap.
Eating healthy, cheap, and quickly are almost impossible to get all together without already having conveniences that speed things up. And sometimes, you just want to eat and not think about any of that shit.
That’s why I don’t cook, I just make sandwiches. If I am feeling extra fancy, I’ll add an egg or stir fry some pre-cut veggies from the market. I also just get cooked protein from market. Super easy and fast, and not that expensive.
I agree with you, but at least where I live, it doesn't add much convenience between wrong orders and time taken to serve me. The real bang for your convenience bucks is usually local restaurants at this rate.
slow cooker, skillet, sheet pan, wooden cutting board, and chef’s knife
Eh, you need a few more implements. Spatula? Ladle? Measuring spoons?
But yeah, it's not a ton of stuff to be able to cook lots of things.
Post some recipes broceratops
Rice:
rice
water.
Wet the drys until they are hot then allow the wets to dry until they are not too hot.
But at what step do I insert my iPhone?
Your phone goes into the water first, then into the rice to dry
This is exactly the reminder I had hoped would appear here. Thank you.
We finally got a rice cooker. It's a cheap-ass one not a Zojirushi but it does fine. I can make rice without it but man it is nice to fire and forget. And it does better than I can manually.
Rice cooker is a total game changer. Essential.
I never want to be without one again.
I don't get it. I make perfect rice every time in a cheap pot from Walmart. It's so easy.
My trick is simmering the rice the normal way on low heat for 15 minutes (after bringing it to a boil, of course) and then taking it off the heat and wrapping the pot in a towel for... ever. Seriously. It only needs 5 more minutes of steaming, but I can leave it sitting there for 20-25 minutes and still have perfect, hot rice when the rest of my food is done. Not a single grain will be stuck to the pan. I use an ordinary both towel.
Meanwhile, I used to have a rice cooker and the rice stuck to the bottom every time. It was cheap, but still. It failed at it's one job.
It's not that rice is difficult to do on a stovetop. It's that it takes more time and is an extra thing to think about. You need to be there to start the rice, you need to be there five minutes later when it boils to turn it down to simmer, then you need to be there again 15 minutes later to take it off the stove. If you're cooking other stuff in the meantime, that's multiple timers you have to keep track of. If you want to walk away and do something else, it can only be stuff that's fits into this 15 minutes window.
If you use a rice cooker, then it's one minute to set it up and you don't have to think about it again until you eat. Doesn't matter if it's half an hour later or five hours later, you still have perfect rice. All it costs is a minute of time commitment.
We’ve been lucky with our cheap rice cooker.
But I seriously have to be having an incredibly lucky astrology day to cook rice in a pot — like perfect biorhythms and after having rubbed the head of a leprechaun.
Other than volunteering to help your farmer neighbor butcher his animals, what's the next cheapest way to get meat?
Well… fast food meat, ounce for ounce, is much more expensive than cooking your own. But I can’t recommend “bargain” raw meat.
Cmon who doesn't love some tube beef.
Where I live there's a big package of chicken patties for 10 bucks at Nofrills. It costs 7 bucks or more for ONE chicken fillet at most fast food restaurants.
Rice is genuinely such an amazing filler
And gluten free.
Random tangent, it was about 3 years ago that I realized that 1kg wasn't exactly 2.2lb (1 lb = 0.4545kg) but actually 2.2046lb (1 lb is about 0.4536kg).
Why do you remember the day?
Idk, I'm not very good at remembering people and names but somehow way better with numbers and a mix of oddly specific things. In this instance I was at a bulk store with a close friend.
Idk, Panda Express is reasonably priced imo. I'm diabetic so I get super greens instead of rice tho.
Guess I was responding to … another recent meme … the one with the couple able to buy a home on top and the current guy just making memes…
I just get so tired of people making it all about the system— when I think it takes two to tango?
It absolutely does take two, but I'd say the hamster wheel has spun ever faster while we try to plan retirement etc. Medical costs for things like diabetes are out-fucking-rageous, there is no pension system, higher education used to be 1/32nd of a years salary (yes, accounting for inflation) etc etc.
I've taken to planning as though social security simply will not exist by the time I'm ready for it, never mind the possibility of environmentally driven war and displacement.
The future is always in flux, but reflecting on history, it seems things are tremendously more difficult than before.
You and I are in agreement.
Things are tough.
But smarts, creativity, and hard work never go out of style.