It makes me sad- I love to cook. I love to cook good food.
Good food costs a lot of money.
I told you guys straight up at the beginning- recipes you find here will be cheap. Not particularly healthy. Not particularly nutritious. Cheap.
Tim and I had Totino's Pizza for dinner tonight. $1.25 a pizza. 700 calories per pizza- actually, his was 720. Almost 1/2 your daily allowance of calories, on a little thin crust cardboard pizza. No veggies, unless you count the "tomato" sauce.
What do the recipes I post here tend to have in common? Filler foods. Starches that fill you up- Ramen noodles that studies have shown if you eat 3 meals of in a row, it tends to decrease brain function. White bread. Potatoes.
And why is that? You can take Spaghetti and cut out the meat to make it cheaper. That leaves you tomato sauce, which is pretty sugary and white noodles- a little cheese if you have left over or are really feeling special. Try to get wheat noodles or whole grain, you're gonna up the cost of the meal. If you want to blend in some broccoli or spinach for some veggie boosts, you're gonna up, up, up the costs of that meal, depending on the growing season.
It's a shame that it's hard to reconcile eating cheap and eating well. I'm hoping to find some nice recipes that don't break the bank but provide some kind of GOOD healthy benefits, rather than a carb boost and 1/2 your daily calorie allowance in one bite. Wish me luck! No worries though, el cheapo meat/carb recipes will still be appearing.
-Kristen
