I’m broke AF, and I’m good at making bread, which is cheap,
any recommendations about what to put in them that’s also cheap AF, I mean a tier lower than cold cuts/cheese slices? that won’t give me scurvy.
ideally something appetizing and not depression fuel. I’m open to vegan friendly options too.
This will sound insane, but it’s amazing. It’s a niche fast food in West Africa that I make myself a few times a year.
First, get some bean flour. Any kind will do. Black eyed pea flour is best, but it’s usually only something you find in an African food shop. Chic pea flour just as good, so is black bean flour.
Mix with salt, herbs, chicken bullion, and water into a dough and deep fry spoonfuls in a skillet into fritters.
Make up a batch of spicy tomato sauce. Lots of onions and oil and pepper.
Put those fritters in 6-10 inches (have someone else measure, guys) of the cheapest, thin baguette money can buy. Slather in sauce. Enjoy.
Entirely vegan if you want. Complete protein. Zesty, spicy deliciousness.
Online, look for kosai or chichena recipes for the fritters.
they look delicious,thanks
Peanut butter! Cheap, high calorie, with fats and proteins to balance the carbs. You can get jelly packets or even ketchup packets in a pinch (not quite as bad as it sounds) to keep it from getting repetitive.
Also consider rice and beans!
Sardines are great in a sandwich and are healthy. I love sardines and thin sliced onions with some mayo as a sandwich, yum. Homemade hummus also cheap and healthy, and if you bought mayonnaise make a little slaw for that too.
Lentils on toast are good & healthy, not a sandwich but would leverage your bread.
Peanut butter.
Honey is a nice addition and isn’t too expensive if used in moderation.
Buy boneless chicken in bulk, cook it in the oven, then slice it up and store in the fridge. Spread mayo on your bread then add sliced chicken and cheese. Toast the bread until the cheese is melted, add whatever greens you like (I use the same mixed greens or arugula that I purchase for my bunnies), slap the toasted slices together and eat one of the best damn homemade sandwiches ever.
It’s not the cheapest sandwich, but it’s really inexpensive to put together and delicious.
Buying whole chicken and cutting it and then freezing what you’re not using is 30 to 50% cheaper than buying pre-cut packaged
Sauerkraut with some mustard or honey.
Quick edit: or the mediterranean classic, bread with a dip of oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.
Toast sandwich
store bought bread too expensive nowadays.
just use your homemade bread?
Do the classic: Cream cheese and cucumber slices. Cucumber’s not that cheap, but you can make quite a lot of sandwiches with thin slices.
Edit Quark is also great. Just a bit of jam and a spoonful of Quark on a toasted bread is surprisingly refreshing.
Also not to put on a sandwich, but cabbage is pretty cheap. Also Potatoes. You can not only boil‘em mash’em & put’em in a stew but a lot more and they are pretty nutritious.
Just gonna say, get multivitamins.
I like to do hummus wraps with a bag of veggie slaw and hummus. You can add like roasted red peppers, pickled onions, or tomatoes if you have them. You could also do a salad dressing instead of hummus, but I’d suggest adding smashed chickpeas in that case.
It would probably be cheaper for you to pickle the onions yourself. I’d also recommend pickling carrots, if you never have. Absolutely delicious.
I used to make so much hummus for a mutual aid, good suggestion
Brown bread (bread made with rolled oats and mollasses) and baked beans has been one of my goto cheap bulk meals since I was little kid
Ill try to remember to post the recipes when I get home from work.
Milk whipped into mashed potatoes also makes a barebones meal that covers essential nutrition. And it is the season where you can buy a large bag of potatoes for cheap. (Taste and fibre content can be improved if you throw in a can of corn nibblets as well)
Slice your own cheese if you want to save money.
Also look for sales on tuna; tuna, mayo and spices makes a good sandwich, especially when fried in butter in a pan (and through in a slice of cheese if you’re feeling indulgent).
The idea of vegan sandwiches is kinda lame to me; think the bread would overwhelm whatever you put inside it, but I can think of incorporating bread into vegan meals–like vegetarian chili with a good hunk of buttered bread is delcioius.
Maybe our conceptions of what a sandwich is are different, but jam works well in a sandwich.
The idea of vegan sandwiches is kinda lame to me; think the bread would overwhelm whatever you put inside it,
Laughs in onion and garlic-mint chutney.
The trick to getting people to eat vegan stuff is to just omit that it happens to be a vegan dish until after they’ve eaten it and are wondering how its made.
Vegan chickpea salad sandwiches are great. You can also get something tasty using marinated tofu. I agree that vegan sandwiches can be tough, but there are some good ones out there.
I thought tofu was expensive? Where do you get it cheap?
In the US, it is incredibly cheap. It’s made out of one of our cheapest crops: soybeans. You can get a pound of tofu for less than $2 probably, even at my “health food” stores. I’d suggest looking for Chinese/Japanese/Korean markets and see what they sell.
sort of what I do, wondering if there was a lower tier in missing. my goal is bare survival.
Rice & dry beans. Find a friend with Prime or order in $35 increments to avoid shipping.
That’s what I’ve been waiting for the past week. need to vary it before I go crazy.
thanks
I try to mix 3-5 different beans together to keep it interesting. If you don’t add too much water into the boil, the broth is delicious to mop up with bread.
thanks for the soup idea, know a butcher that sells leftover bones for super cheap
Yup. Look for Latin/ethnic groceries too for cheap cuts of meat to throw in there. The Anglo stores price them higher if they stock them at all. I think the bargain basement meat is a tripa, which is just intestines; haven’t every bought cow stomach, but if you want to take the time, the dish is called mondongo.
Not a fan of eating chitlins, but can extract the nutrients in a soup
