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.
So it’s the fiber
Yes, it could be too much fiber.
The fiber.
It could be that
…beans work too!
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.
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.
Rice is genuinely such an amazing filler
And gluten free.
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.
