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This thread has helped me so much. Now if only I could convince my boyfriend to eat beans.  I made cuban-style black beans and rice last week and they were delicious, if not as tasty as my favorite hole-in-the-wall restaurant's were. I found a bunch of ethnic stores in my area. Turns out we have a pretty awesome (if kinda sketchy) asian market a few miles from my work. It's a little on the pricey side for some things, but I found a big packet of five-spice powder for $1.50. My biggest expense is currently meat. My boyfriend's food groups consist of chicken nuggets and other meats, pizza, ketchup, fried potatoes and beer. He'll eat onions if I hide them in hamburger, but will use all sorts of tricks to get out of eating/trying vegetables. Mostly he'll cover his plate in meat and bread and then claim he's full when I point out he hasn't eaten his corn (which he claims to like and I can get in abundance because my grandfather has no sense of scale when planting corn). Essentially I need to hide vegetables in his meat to make the meat last longer and make him eat something that might keep him alive past 30 and keep my food budget below bank-breaking.
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CzarChasm posted:That sucks about the picky eater boyfriend. We're in our early twenties, and more or less live together. I'm on horrible roommate via student housing roulette number 5, and spend most of my time at his place. He will go hungry before he'll eat something he doesn't want to. He was spoiled as a kid, unfortunately. And he'd rather eat the cold happy meal than vegetables.
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Mar 17, 2012 05:10
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I have eight cheap little steaks that were on final markdown at the shop. What can I do with them that's a little tastier than "pan fry on large hunk of iron"?
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Jun 5, 2012 01:08
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Pic please so we know what you have! They're half-inch thick eye of round steaks. My phone hates me, so I can't get a picture to the internet with the thing. I'm marinating the first four in beer and montreal steak seasoning (a gift from my boyfriend's recently vegetarian roommate). They will be fried in my tiny cast iron skillet tomorrow afternoon. The others are in the freezer for later this week or next.
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Jun 5, 2012 05:11
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I'm living by myself for the month and am terrible about eating leftovers unless it's leftover soup. Is there any hope for me to eat without breaking the bank on small portions?
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Jul 4, 2012 08:07
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The Tinfoil Price posted:So it seems that butter is actually pretty simple, but I'd have to wait until at least September for it to be viable. I'd just pack it in a small plastic container with an ice-pack, freeze the whole thing, shove it into a flat rate envelope and mail it over. I'd like some whenever it becomes possible, but even in the fall, I think it'd just melt in the truck in my city. Last winter we wore shorts and ran the a/c for all but the two coldest weeks, and even then it never got really cold.
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Aug 15, 2012 23:12
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How can I go about planning cheap meals for six while keeping dietary restrictions in mind? We have one diabetic and an onion allergy/intolerance, so it gets pretty tricky to make things everyone can eat.
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Nov 12, 2013 21:02
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I'm terrible at dry beans. I soak them overnight, drain and rinse, boil for hours, and sometimes they're still hard. Why is this so difficult?
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Jan 6, 2014 01:27
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Bummey posted:What types of beans are you having trouble with? You also don't need to cook them at a full boil; a bare simmer will be sufficient. Black beans, mostly. I've also got some very old dried split peas I'm gonna try working with soonish.
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Jan 6, 2014 04:11
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Can I make hummus without tahini?
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Jan 17, 2014 23:22
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Dogdoo 8 posted:Tahini is just sesame seeds and olive oil. I got a huge thing of sesame seeds for like $3 awhile back. Use your food processor (or whatever you're using since this is the poor people thread) on the sesame seeds and olive oil and then make the rest of the hummus. Well that certainly solves a lot of problems. Thanks!
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Jan 19, 2014 00:45
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