No money? Potatoes and onions will never fail.

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OGBRedditThrowaway@reddit

Beans (especially black) and brown rice will keep you alive longer.

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My go to recently (calorie counting and losing weight) has been calrose rice frozen veggies and beans, sometimes a meat but not usually. I put a little soy sauce, mirin, gochugaru, sesame oil, garlic powder, onion powder, bachan's dipping sauce, and kewpie mayo. It has been my main meal for weeks now haha it's super good and so easy.

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Polymorphic-X@reddit

Refried bean and brown rice burritoes are killer for this. Make it yourself, make tomato rice or salsa rice, mix and burrito. Add cheese if you can justify it.

Advice is to toss a can of salsa verde in when you blend the beans and over season them a bit, since the rice isn't going to have much going on outside of the lime-tomato flavor.

~300 cal, 14-16g protein, 12g fiber. All for around $1-1.5 each (without cheese).

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Baron-Von-Mothman@reddit

My personal issue is the sodium. Every time I've gone into the doctor my blood pressure has been right on the line of very high and then they take it again and it's just below the line so they haven't said anything for some reason but I've just accepted that as me having high blood pressure. So I'm trying to reduce my sodium and make sure that I do a little more physical exercise so I don't have a stroke lol

That quick little meal that I posted about is like pretty low sodium, Even with the soy sauce it's only like two teaspoons

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Polymorphic-X@reddit

You can get reduced sodium salt (50/50 NACL and KCL, and you can often substitute salt for a little acidity if you have to watch the salt. Make the beans yourself and you control the sodium levels entirely.

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brownmouthwash@reddit

What does brown rice do

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OGBRedditThrowaway@reddit

Brown rice and black beans just have a wider nutrient profile than potatoes and onions. They're also both generally cheaper (assuming you buy both dry) nationally, but there are probably specific areas where this isn't the case. The big thing with brown rice and black beans is that they have complete protein, so you're getting all the important amino acids.

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StephJean17@reddit

Less harmful starches and fats I presume. Don’t need oil for rice

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Buckabuckaw@reddit

This reminds me of a story my mother told me. When she and my dad first got married, it was the middle of the Great Depression, and they and all their friends were just scraping by. They decided to go on a "picnic" with another young couple, but the only food they had was a bag of potatoes. And they had a bag of coal - not charcoal, just plain coal.

So they took the potatoes and an old iron skillet to a nearby park. They built a fire with a few twigs from fallen branches, and got the coal burning. Then they put the skillet on, with the cut-up potatoes.

The coal burned with an oily smoke and coated the potatoes with soot, but they ate them "and liked them" because there was nothing else to eat. So the poor people's meal was good enough.

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Nightbird88@reddit

There is a YouTube channel where this lady's grandson used to have her on and now runs repeats, her name was Clara. She made this during the depression as well.

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DragonRaptor@reddit

Are onions considered cheap?

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mofomeat@reddit

And beans, don't forget those.

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Cigarrauuul@reddit

The titel is true. But if you do it like in the picture, you are doing it wrong.

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