A Casual Fitz
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It's been a while but I used to get those cheap Totinos pizzas in college. No idea if they're still so cheap anymore...
It's been a while but I used to get those cheap Totinos pizzas in college. No idea if they're still so cheap anymore...
If you buy dried beans...you can soak them overnight and you end up with a lot more volume than you started with. The only downside is the amount of time/energy it takes to cook them if you don't have a crock pot.
Meat:
If you're not sick of turkey, now's the time to buy some frozen birds and stash them in the freezer. Turkey is cheap at $.60-.99/pound and can feed you for days. Once again, it takes hours to cook a bird....but the payoff is relatively high considering low work roasting one.
Ham is more expensive, but can be a decent buy if you can find it for less than $1.50 a lb...
I saw Boston Butts for cheap as well recently because it's not summer...so if you do bbq and like to smoke meat, I saw some pork roasts for $.99/lb last week. An 8lb roast will shrink down about 10-15% when you cook it for 6-8 hours in a smoker due to fat melting and dripping...but you can eat that bbq for a few days easy with a $10 investment.
When I was a poor student in college, I used to eat Veal Parmigiana many nights. No, really!
It was ~$1 for the whole thing! Alas, they don't seem to make that anymore. I wish they made it with chicken instead of veal - I think it would still be very good.
But when meat is finally banned, I guess we'll be eating gruel and tofu.
Depends on prep.
Depends on prep.
Nope. At best it tastes like foam rubber soaked in sauce at worst it tastes like foam rubber.
OP. Buy huge bags of dried pasta and lots of tins of tomatoes. Pasta ala puttanesca, arrabbiata, pasta with oil and garlic...
Come back later and I'll tell you how to cook it.
I don't know where you have been getting your tofu.
As few places as possible to be honest.
How would you describe the taste? Pretty much nothing with a spongy texture? I'll stick with my foam rubber soaked in sauce description until you can make a better one.