squeeeb

for cheap and easy:

bake a chicken. you get three meals out of one whole chicken.

buy a chicken

put a cut up lemon in the cavity

rub butter ALL over the chicken

put in 350 oven for 2 to 2.5 hours

done. you got chicken, and after you eat all the meat, the next day, pick it and use the meat in a chicken salad or sandwich or omlette. when you are down to scraps and skin and bones, you throw the whole carcass in a pot of water with vegtables and rice make soup.

another cheap and tasty and easy meal is hot and sour cabbage and rice.

make rice (1 cup rice and 1.5 cups water in pot, bring to boil, at boil, lower heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.

heat vegtable oil and a few drops of sesame oil in pan with red pepper flakes. when hot, add brown sugar and salt and saute for 1 minute to caramalize. add cut up cabbage, saute, then add soy sauce and vinnegar and cook for a few minutes.

sounds like lots of steps but it's quite simple, and when you have all the stuff, the cabbage is pretty cheap. the meal comes out to about 45 cents a plate.

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