How can I eat as healthy as possible for as little money as possible...

How can I eat as healthy as possible for as little money as possible? On a pretty strict budget right now and I want to make sure I'm getting my nutritional needs met.

Asian.

The are masters of healthy cheap food.

Do like the irish did. Buy only potatoes

a wide and varied diet revolving around vegetables and rice

Eat the feces of a rich man. It's the only way to be sure.

buy rice in bulk
buy dried beans
Get whatever meat is on sale for cheapest. Chicken thighs are always dirt cheap and are both delicious and versatile.
Frozen vegetables tend to be cheaper than fresh.
Focus on the weekly sales at your grocery store.

You can live off of anything.

>Mix flour and water into a dough about the size of your fist put together
>Wrap in cheese cloth
>Boil for 3-4 hours
you can boil it with meat or just simply boil in a broth. you can add fruit into the dough to make it into a desert

its what i ate when i was homeless.

This, a bag of rice and a bag of beans or lentils will do you far.

Scout out local farmers markets for cheap produce, buy your bulk grains from an ethnic or better yet asian market. I'm talking the places where half the things are in chinese and the cashiers barely speak english. Prices will be cheap.

how were you boiling something for 4 hours when you were homeless? hobo fire?

indian/ chinese supermarkets

>hobo fire
yeah, and i carried a big pot in my back pack.

how to make asian sauces on the cheap? buying then in jars in expensive as fuck

buy a 50lb bag of oats for horses

Some combination of
>soy sauce
>corn starch
>garlic
>ginger
>scallion
>chili
>brown sugar

currently when I make "asian" food i just mix in some red pepper flakes, sugar, and soy sauce with whatever I'm making. how to improve upon this?

Asian store, buy some Ground Chili Garlic Paste.

I love this stuff and put it in alot of Asian food. Its good in soups, stir fry, or as a sauce for Chinese dumplings.

I make potstickers with sausage in them and make a sauce with Sugar, Shou Shing Wine, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, and toasted sesame oil.

Its super good on the potstickers.

Asians always make a fried chili oil paste, you can find many versions of it.

It rounds out the chili flavor to fry in the oil. Many times they add garlic.

I use that in honey or sugar and other stuff like the wine and vinegar I mentioned.

You just gotta balance the stuff in Asian food. The Spicy with the Sweet and the Salty and a touch of the Vinegar is amazing to bring harmony.

fry garlic/ ginger/ chilli/ onion in oil at the start of your dish
add cornstarch slurry at the end if you want a thick sauce
lao gan ma chilli oil is cheat mode
little bit of fish sauce is cheat mode
hoisen or oyster sauce are great (not that cheap though)
use light soy for flavour, and dark soy for colour
rice wine vinegar (or just white is cheaper)
mirin (not that cheap) instead of (or as well as) sugar
chinese cooking wine is really cheap (like 1-2$ for a litre) and great for deglazing pans/ cooking veges in

>lao gan ma chilli oil

Yea I have a jar of this also.

Its a good version of chili oil. I like how when I make soups with this the red oil floats on top and beads up.

I put this stuff on my scrambled eggs sometimes.

But whatever you do dont eat spicy asian eggs with coffee. It does NOT mix hahaha.

Add fish sauce.

thanks guys

They produce 1.3 million bottles of sauce daily.
It is like crack.
probably the msg in it

Asian soup:

Saute some Shitake mushrooms, red bell pepper with garlic. Deglaze with asian cooking wine.

Add chicken stock. Then soy sauce, sugar, spicy chili garlic oil, vinegar, toasted sesame oil.

Then add some bok choy and simmer it.

You can do many things with the soup. Add chicken breast meat maybe.

Or add sausage dumplings.

You can add noodles and shrimp ect.

do NOT do this guys it makes mustard gas.

toast some sesame seeds, and toast some peanuts
sprinkle one on at end
wa la

Potstickers are like one of my favorite appetizers.

I keep some ground pork in my freezer that has sauteed bell peppers mixed in it. I use that to fill up the dumpling wrappers.

I keep frozen dumpling wrappers from the asian store in the freezer too.

I just pull them out and use them to make the potstickers with some frozen chicken stock I made.

You fry the dumplings first in the pan to brown them then you add chicken stock to simmer them and fully cook the dumplings.

I always make them with the sweet spicy honey asian dipping sauce.

I really like general tso chicken.

So with these same ingredients you can make that.

You can also make mongolian beef with some sugar, soy sauce, water, cornstarch and green onion.

Just with rice its super easy and tasty.

rice n beans

I love potstickers too but I wouldnt call the cheap or healthy.

This. Rice beans onions cabbage, fry up in a hot pan or wok with soy sauce and some seasonings.