It might taste better if you cook it from scratch yourself and add a ton of spices/flavors or something
Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wish I could but I can’t stand neither beans nor rice. Gotta have meat and green veggies in my meal.
That means that I only like chili without beans. At Asian restaurants I always ask for no rice and substitute noodles. The only beans I can tolerate are refried. So at Mexican restaurants I ask for no rice and double beans.
While we’re at it, I don’t like potatoes, either. I’ll eat them, but I won’t go out my way to order them, unless the alternative side dish selection is no better.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
kieron115@startrek.website 1 day ago
Is it a textural thing? I wish very much that I liked mushrooms, as they seem like such a good alternative to meat, but I cant stand the texture of them. Makes me gag.
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mostly I just dint like the taste, but I guess I don’t like the texture of beans and many potato preparations either, now that I think about it.
kieron115@startrek.website 1 day ago
Okay. I was going to suggest making louisiana style red beans and rice from scratch. you can throw in chicken, or sausage, or whatever meat you want really and it will still taste amazing but it is definitely gonna have the soft rice/bean texture. you could add more broth and make it into more of a soup too.
bss03@infosec.pub 1 day ago
My parents would say you just haven’t been hungry enough. Their parents lived through the great depression. I wouldn’t know, but I hear people are having to make food/medicine trade offs, which seems more dire that flavor/texture preference tradeoffs.
That said, I don’t know a protein source that’s as available and cheap as beans, but you might try insects if cheap is the priority or poultry if availability is your priority.
You can buy a large bag of frozen vegetable blend and steam it fairly simply. You can either steam single serving and keep the rest frozen OR steam the whole bag in bulk, and refrigerate for up to a week, reheating single servings as you need them.
Best of luck.