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Originally Posted by 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.
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Yes! This also works with small hams as well. Bake it one night, make sandwiches, salads, soups, etc for the rest of the week.
Invest in a slow cooker. You can get wee little ones designed for 1-2 people and you can do marvelous things with them. Then invest in a few cookbooks and start trying stuff out. I'm hardly a gourmet chef by any means, but I graduated to 'real' food a couple years ago after getting tired of the bachelor staples (ramen, hamburger helper, etc). Last night I made myself a nice dinner of ham and potatoes and early last week I had stuffed peppers. Turns out this cooking stuff isn't as hard as we thought it was.