I just found a great cheap meal that’s tasty, healthy, easy to cook, and ridiculously cheap. I thought I’d share it as so many people have shared theirs.

I bought a bag of dried peas, added to cups of cold water, bring to boil, then simmer for 10 minutes. You now have a pan full of peas to use any way you wish. I decided to make a pea soup. So I added a bunch of stuff I had in my kitchen already: garlic, sugar, ginger powder, a dollop of margarine to make it taste not so watery, and cornflour to thicken it a tiny bit. It cost almost nothing to make, and I’ll get 3 small meals out of it (all accompanied with bread). I might try a similar thing with lentils, to build my confidence cooking with them.

I don’t have a microwave. Sounds good, though.

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That sounds amazing! And really simple, and even affordable. Some chunks of cheese would make it even better, if there’s cheap cheese to be had. Will definitely try this, maybe try adding some lentils as a meat substitute. Thanks for the suggestion!

Subscribed. Cheers.

I’m growing potatoes, carrots, shallots, parsley and dill - and something called “mother of herbs” that I don’t really know how to cook with yet.

I’ll check those apps out, cheers.

Yeah I’ll have to get creative with pasta. I can’t just eat rice, dried beans and lentils forever haha. Cheers.

I had a similar (but much more primitive) dish:

I’d pour a can of tomatoes onto sausages as they cooked. It sort of braised them. Then I’d add basil for a European touch, or curry for something more exotic. Not sure how dried beans and lentils will go, but I’ll have to try it. Cheers.

Seems like I need to educate myself on lentils and dry beans. Any EASY recipes welcome!

There are always people like that in these threads. Lemmy, Reddit, same thing. “Dirt broke and need to eat? Buy some kitchenware! It’s quite cheap if you have the money for it!” Don’t let them get to you!

CONstructed LANGuages. Languages built/created by a person or team of people, as opposed to a language that evolves naturally. Some famous conlangs are Esperanto, Toki Pona and Klingon.

Music theory and conlangs. There are several conlang communities - but they’re all on life support (or worse).

I tried it at r*ddit briefly. Oh boy. Never again.

I find petty, superficial people intolerable.

Most of the time you don’t even have to do that. I choose stations with no banter at all. Just music and the occasional mention of the station’s name. It’s spoilt me - I can’t tolerate my local FM radio any more.

I used to have a lot of things that brought joy/happiness, but the only one I have now is nature. Birds, trees, soil, bugs, lizards, rocks, clouds… Endlessly fascinating.

Radio Garden has thousands of radio stations in one app, from around the world. I’ve found a lot of great music that way.

I get that POV, but ultimately, water finds its own level. There is always going to be so much out of your control. It’s like “play the hand you’re dealt”. In a poker game, you don’t get to decide your hand. You can only play it as well as you can.

Yeah there isn’t “sort type” in the settings on Connect. I realised just as I posted that I should’ve posted in the Connect community. Oh well. Thanks anyway.

Life is hard whether you’re ignorant or not, whether you’re kind or not. There’s no way to make life simple or always comfortable. So I think you’re better off choosing to be not ignorant, and to be kind.