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The title is called "eating healthy without raping your budget in NYC". I'm seeing mostly where to find food for cheap--not so much where I can find inexpensive health foods or tips on how to eat healthy without going broke (I don't need the tips--just saying if someone else was looking for info, I don't see it)
Fried fish doesn't seem healthy to me. Where to find cheap wine and cheese doesn't seem healthy to me either.
I used to think that but honestly learning how to cook is 90% having the interest in it. If you truly want to learn you can pick up enough basic skills to cook so many different things. It's not that hard really if you care to dedicate a little time and have some patience.
well said, well, I guess is just not many people have the interest for it. but why would you be so good at it, you like to cook for your husband or family? Jk.
Do you guys have any good breakfast to recommend??
Have you tried swai? I find it has a similar taste to tilapia but it's a meatier (for relatively same price you get more meat) more filling cut IMO.
I HATE Swai, aka Vietnamese Catfish, aka Basa, aka Pangasius (sp??) It is truly the most repulsive fish I have ever eaten.
I cannot believe it can legally be sold.
Filling? Yep, one mouthful and that is the end of the meal for me.
For me, whiting, bluefish, and tilapia are as cheap as I go.
You know, typing this, I am going to hang the ever inflating cost of fish and start buying again what I like: Trout, Bass, Perch, fresh Flounder and Cod...and maybe Snapper.
I'm not going to live forever.
(For the Chinatown fans...will they gut and fillet a whole fish for you? I've never mastered the technique.)
Careful that the fish you buy hasn't been farmed in a disgusting Southeast Asian location where they pump the fish full of chemicals.
I presume that is very much the case, Born. I just have to assume the chemicals are slow killers. So far so good.
Believe me, home grown meat and fish are pumped with the same chemicals and we consumers have no clue what we are getting. What can we do...we are at the mercy of rapacious corporations who make all the rules.
Last edited by Kefir King; 09-24-2013 at 05:30 PM..
Careful that the fish you buy hasn't been farmed in a disgusting Southeast Asian location where they pump the fish full of chemicals.
Just do a search on Basa. Its indigenous to the Mekong River. Grows exceedingly fast by eating anything that is in the water. Its farm raised now along the river and its fed garbage food. The Mekong is among the most polluted rivers in the world.
The two times I ate the fish I detected the slight off taste of bottom mud, sewage, or garbage. Just awful. The reason I fell for it TWICE was the first time it was called SWAI and the second time BASA (which I foolishly thought was a misspelling of BASS...bet that naming wasn't and accident.)
The title is called "eating healthy without raping your budget in NYC". I'm seeing mostly where to find food for cheap--not so much where I can find inexpensive health foods or tips on how to eat healthy without going broke (I don't need the tips--just saying if someone else was looking for info, I don't see it)
Fried fish doesn't seem healthy to me. Where to find cheap wine and cheese doesn't seem healthy to me either.
I mentioned it because its seafood. I also mentioned that my family rarely eats fried food - once a month if that. I dont think a fried meal once in a blue will put you in the hospital. But re-reading OPs thread, they wanted to know of specific places to buy cheap quality and healthy food. So maybe I will retract my fried fish admission and say that personally the fish markets around my way have decent deals on seafood - how you prepare it is your business. :-)
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Just do a search on Basa. Its indigenous to the Mekong River. Grows exceedingly fast by eating anything that is in the water. Its farm raised now along the river and its fed garbage food. The Mekong is among the most polluted rivers in the world.
Its popularity is that it is cheap.
I know what Basa is and I don't eat it.
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