One of the things we eat pretty much every week (sometimes multiple times in a week) is pasta with chickpeas--cook pasta, heat up sauce with drained and washed chickpeas thrown in (and any cut up vegetables you might have on hand), combine, eat. It's incredibly easy, cheap, and delicious (as far as the roommate and I figure).
Sweet potatoes, we also eat every week at least once, because a good-sized one baked can make a meal in itself if necessary. They're really good for you, too, and I think they taste just wonderful.
Oh, and an onion's also good to try and keep in the house, because you can put it in basically everything, and if you don't unpeel them the whole way, they last for a long while. Chop it up and put it in your spaghetti sauce! Chop it up and put it in an omelet! Chop it up and make this awesome soup with your sweet potatoes! It took me a long time to learn to like onions, but man, they can be handy.
edit: And boxes of Jiffy cornbread mix! All their box mixes are good--would definitely also recommend their biscuits and muffin mixes--but Jiffy cornbread is a good staple to keep around. You can put it on top of casseroles, make it into pancakes--or, you know, make it into regular cornbread, too. It's pretty delicious, and I do try to keep a box on hand.
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One of the things we eat pretty much every week (sometimes multiple times in a week) is pasta with chickpeas--cook pasta, heat up sauce with drained and washed chickpeas thrown in (and any cut up vegetables you might have on hand), combine, eat. It's incredibly easy, cheap, and delicious (as far as the roommate and I figure).
Sweet potatoes, we also eat every week at least once, because a good-sized one baked can make a meal in itself if necessary. They're really good for you, too, and I think they taste just wonderful.
Oh, and an onion's also good to try and keep in the house, because you can put it in basically everything, and if you don't unpeel them the whole way, they last for a long while. Chop it up and put it in your spaghetti sauce! Chop it up and put it in an omelet! Chop it up and make this awesome soup with your sweet potatoes! It took me a long time to learn to like onions, but man, they can be handy.
edit: And boxes of Jiffy cornbread mix! All their box mixes are good--would definitely also recommend their biscuits and muffin mixes--but Jiffy cornbread is a good staple to keep around. You can put it on top of casseroles, make it into pancakes--or, you know, make it into regular cornbread, too. It's pretty delicious, and I do try to keep a box on hand.