How to get my calories without going broke? (price, medical, natural)
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If you like the flavor / texture of Campbell's condensed soups, you'll love your own pressure cooked versions.
You can innumerable accessories to "stack" cook different items.
Ex: An egg rack for hard boiled eggs, topped off with a steamer tray for diced potatoes = one pot potato salad. (add chopped celery, etc)
Sous-vide is a new feature not found on older models. Basically, it maintains a water bath at a set temperature so your food cooks to perfection - never overcooked.
Sous-vide appliances run $99 and up. If it comes built-in, great.
Sous-vide is great for delicate fish fillets, thick cuts of meat -cheaper the better, and so on.
The use of temperatures much lower than those used for conventional cooking is an essential feature of sous vide, resulting in much higher succulence at these lower temperatures, as cell walls in plant-based food do not burst. In the case of meat cooking, tough collagen in connective tissue can be hydrolysed into gelatin, without heating the meat's proteins high enough that they denature to a degree that the texture toughens and moisture is wrung out of the meat.
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In plain inglitch: tender, juicy, and perfectly cooked.
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Community/Open Kitchens.
@Blondebaerde, when this CoVid is over, I extend an invite to Redmond's Kitchen.
I am generally the last to get a meal. In my town (https://openkitchenredmond.com/), the Kitchen, generally, wants me to take away more than my 1+1 meal...because they get reimbursed by the number of meals they serve. Any excess, prepared food, will go into the garbage or to the tent city. ...Redmond's Kitchen is also another distribution point for the FoodBank.
I can attest that Kirkland's community kitchen was/is pretty good. I attended their 2019 Thanksgiving Meal.
Better than Redmond's. Redmond has a meal every Wed. Kirkland's just once/month.
It's a community kitchen for people to gather.
It's also a way to distribute to the needy and surplus foods.
I donate $$ and this is a way for me to monitor how the funds are used.
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@ Simpleton 1989;
The local Mexican grocer also has a butcher.
Depending on your digestion, chicharron de puerco, (fried pork belly) is really inexpensive where I live.
A couple -4 inches will jump your calories.
Doesn't affect me.
If you can have a slow cooker, toaster oven, microwave, and or an electric skillet you can make plenty of meals. Of course that also depends on if you have access to a refrigerator to store certain foods. Old fashion oats can be prepared in the microwave in a large bowl. It’s cheap and doesn’t require refrigeration. Dry beans can be cooked in a slow cooker along with sausage and seasoning. There is a pot made for cooking rice in the microwave. Beans and rice with sausage is a great meal. The slow cooker could also be used to make a hearty chili. An electric skillet and toaster oven may not be allowed by landlord. If it is allowed they can be used for many small meal options. A toaster oven can cook a small frozen pizza, chicken breast, and other foods. An electric skillet usually comes with an owners manual that has recipes you can try. It has a thermostat that indicates when it’s reached the desired temperature. I’ve done ground beef in an electric skillet to make a chili-Mac meal. I’ve even done fish, chicken, and beef liver in an electric skillet. An Instant Pot may be out your price range but it does cook faster and safer than an electric skillet.
Not to mention walking home from the feed store with a 50 lb. bag of chicken feed. Lol.
Some of these recommendations don’t seem to take into account that the claimant has no car and lives in a room. I don’t think it is a matter of getting the food, but preparing it and storing it. A mini fridge and instant pot will give him the most bank for his buck. You can also do a lot with a rice cooker.
Egg and butter do not need to be refrigerated. Neither does cooking oil, and fats are a great source of calories. If you can get a microwave, nuke a couple medium potatoes, add butter and salt and pepper, and enjoy. Ramen noodles are cheap, and if you add a handful of chopped vegetables, not even that unhealthy.
You can cook meats and even bake in a crock pot. Pork is the cheapest meat at the market, and very high calorie. You can make a great crock pot pot roast with a small cut of pork, a package of frozen mixed vegetables, a couple cubed potatoes and an onion. Make your own burritos. Tortillas keep well without refrigeration.
Get yourself a microwave or at least a coffee pot. There are some things you can cook just using the hot water of the coffee pot like ramen. But microwave gives you a ton of options. In the mean time - sandwiches.
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