/ck/ - Food & Cooking

The best way to eat healthy and cheaply is to try to eat as "clean" as possible. Google local food banks and go there to get basics before you go out to spend money on groceries. This will help signifigantly. Once you have your free shit, try to find low cost grocery stores (In seattle, we have a chain called "Grocery Outlet" where it's basically leftovers from other grocery stores sold cheap.) Aldi is another great place to save on food.

Try to eat less meat and instead get friendly with eggs and tofu and fish. (My local asian market sells fresh whole mackerels for around $3.)

Go to the thrift store and get yourself a crockpot. This thing is a bachelor's best friend. You can buy a whole chicken for $4, a can of cream of mushroom for $.50 and a cup or two of rice with water. Set it on low and slow and leave for work. By the time you get off work, you'll come home to a delicious HUGE hot meal that you can feast on and then put the leftovers into containers for lunch the next day.

You can make a vat of crockpot chili and cornbread. Also cheap and filling.