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How do you 'fancy up' plain stuff to eat? My dinner is chicken nuggets over sushi style rice drizzled with teriyaki.

Add something to the rice when you cook it. Scallions or minced ginger or garlic. A spice mix you like. Dried fruit. Toss in frozen vegetables in the last few minutes. Add chopped nuts or seeds when you fluff it. Buy parsley on the cheap, store it in your fridge like you would flowers in a vase, and add it to everything. Drizzle it with lime juice.

Tl;dr: add plants.

Oooh I'll remember that one! esp since i just got a job at a grocery store. Thanks!

Honestly your “plain” dinner sounds pretty good. :) Eating on the cheap can get monotonous, though, if you’re eating the same things all the time. Or anyway that’s my current situation.

I swear by Aldi. Dirt cheap produce and spices, good quality. If you work in a grocery store, get friendly with the produce folks because edible stuff gets tossed. If you can procure and cook a large amount of chicken at once, you can shred it and freeze it in portions and use as needed in place of the nuggets and get way more protein for your buck. Of course there’s a labor tradeoff.

It’s crazy how all the things we’ve been told to do for health and sustainability… are often more economical.

Ah okay thanks.

My current job is a kroger place and it has some damn good stuff but there's also a Natural Grocer's nearby. Also I've been really loving being close to a Great Wall Supermarket (international/asian supermarket) because I love Japanese and Hawaiian cuisine . And GW often has the stuff cheaper than I tend to find it at a lot of regular places, and stuff you wouldn't find at regular stores. It's honestly so cool.

I do wanna eat on a budget but tbh if I can start cooking I'm already saving a LOT of money from what I was doing- and I can probably speed up my weight loss.

I had a brick of ramen with fancy pumpkin marinara sauce tonight-- though that was largely because I had the pasta sauce to use up. But we never use the packets of powder that comes with the ramen. If we've got the energy, broth and the contents of the spice cupboard, green onions, maybe an egg. If we haven't got that much energy, a little bachan's Japanese bbq sauce (we do usually have green onions, though, and those are real easy to add). Once or twice, we've stirred a spoonful of spreadable herb cheese into it for a totally different experience.

Omg ramen & spreadable herb cheese. Would never have crossed my mind. Thank you, anon!

Gosh that sounds incredible!

Those seasoning packets are best thrown out anyway. They might as well be full of sodium poisoning.

Switch up one's sauces: chili crisp, sriracha or some other hot sauce, stir-fry sauces, bottled salsas. Maybe add furikake.

Since you're already sort of eating an Asian bowl style, maybe adding cucumbers, avocado, pickles of some kind, grated carrots, edamame, baby spinach, etc.

Oooh thanks! I'll remember those.

Though I struggle with tolerating really spicy stuff, it's just one of the things along with sour/bitter tastes that my tastes are especially sensitive to.

No worries. I enjoy spicy food, but I'm not really into using hot sauces. There are lots of milder sauces or non-spicy ones to try. Thai sweet chili sauce is very mild and more sweet/garlicky, for example. Sauces meant for chicken wings or bottled stir fry sauces like sweet and sour might be good, too!

And honestly, if you don't mind them, frozen veggie mixes can be damned convenient and a good way to round out one's diet. A bag of frozen broccoli is around a dollar and takes 5-6 minutes in the microwave. I melt a bit of butter and add salt and pepper and call it a day.

If I have a packet of noodles with prepackaged sauces (Indomie or Ramyun for example) I like to add a good melty cheese, some garlic or onion powder and chilli flakes. Not only does it give it an extra oomph of flavor but it makes an otherwise familiar taste exiting

(I got the cheese idea from mukbangs)

Oooh that sounds cool.

Personally I kinda avoid using the instant ramen seasonings because I started looking at the sodium content. I'm hoping soon I can start making my own homemade ramen.

Though if you ever need to find Mirin for that I'd recommend a Kroger company store (which is the only place i've been able to find it aside a specialty store) or an Asian supermarket. Or if all else fails.. amazon.

Edited 2024-11-15 03:35 (UTC)

If you like spinach and/or frozen peas, those are both really easy to just stir into hot rice to wilt the spinach and heat up the peas.

I don't always have the energy to do this, but sometimes I can do it for a month or two and it's better than not doing it ever:

I dice a whole bunch of veggies— tomato, red bell pepper, carrots, red onion, purple sweet potato, green beans, celery, snap peas, zucchini, and baby broccoli, until I have a big bowl full and stick that in the fridge. And I keep at least a few of garlic and ginger and tamari and honey and hot peppers and maybe fresh herbs around, usually, and a bag of baby spinach, and frozen peas in the freezer. And the bowlful lasts me for a week of meals, especially if breakfast is toast and fruit and yogurt or whatever.

So I'd make a pot of brown rice and stir fry some firm tofu with about the same amount of veggies and whatever seasoning or sauce one day, and eat that for a couple meals, and then I'd make instant ramen but cook the veggies a bit before adding the noodles and then add fresh spinach to wilt a bit and frozen peas to cool it down, and then I'd roast the rest of the veggies in the oven with a can of drained rinsed chickpeas and eat them over the last of the rice with some grated cheddar sprinkled on top, or make a frittata with them, or whatever. A big mixing bowl full was one or two peppers and tomatoes, half an onion, a sweet potato, a couple carrots, a bunch of broccolini... not a ton of any one thing.

Prepping veggies (washing and peeling and chopping) feels like most of the work of cooking, to me. I know there are lots of prepared raw veggie options for cooking, not to mention fully cooked ones, out there, but a) they're more expensive and b) there's usually at least one vegetable I don't like in the prepped fresh veggie mixes. Mushrooms, yuck.

If you have an Asian market near you, try some furikake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furikake

(It can be made, too, but it might be easier to grab premade.)

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