I’m trying to learn to buy groceries, cook for myself again.
Can’t afford to buy and keep produce. Limited cookware. So, any recipe telling me to crush garlic, dice onions, etc, can’t do.
Need budget, ghetto, for people on a fixed income, easy no frills way to make diy tomato paste pasta sauce.
Good suggestions so far. Tks. I have 1 bowl, 1 plate, 1 spoon, 1 fork, 1 butter knife ; 1 small sauce pan; Only stores nearby are corner stores. Hardly any produce. Having to make due with what you can find in a liquor store.
It’s, I have no Tupperware. Nothing to put an onion into after I cut a bit off, to keep it fresh. No foil, no ziploc bags. My $ sitch is that bad right now. I have $60 to last me til September 3. Hence, why I probably sound stupid and clueless right now.
You need to hit up the food bank. They give out food. No questions asked. Fresh veggies and fruits and plenty of ready to go meals. There’s no shame in it. I’ve been in your situation many times and churches very often are giving out free food to people who need it. Again no one will question your situation. You just go there and get your food and leave.
You can peel off a few layers at a time of onion and leave the smaller sphere in the fridge or even on the counter for a pretty good while (maybe two weeks or so). That won’t stink up anything.
As @KingJalopy@lemm.ee said, please try the food bank. You’ll wreck yourself if you try to survive only on pasta and tomato sauce even if it’s just for a month. Where do you live?
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Please don’t assume that you sound, or believe that you are, stupid or clueless. Whatever you’re going through won’t get any better if you beat yourself up, even sarcastically. Take care, you’ll pull through!
Ok so half cut onions might smell up your fridge, but otherwise they’re just most likely to dehydrate without being covered in the fridge for a week. Also onions can prematurely ripen other produce when stored in the same place. Whole onions store well outside the fridge for weeks, even a month. Potatoes are the same.
Sealed food storage is best though, so if you find some leftover plastic containers they sell takeaway food in, washing and reusing these can be a free option. Same with glass jars. Check goodwill for Tupperware too.
Lemons I leave cut in the fridge for well over a week and they just dehydrate a little on the outside, I’ve only ever seen one get a little mold, most things can’t live in that acidic an environment.
Most other things freeze really well, if that is an option for you. If you do buy fresh, you can increase their fridge lifespans by washing and then thoroughly drying them. The best veg are ones you can buy with the roots still attached, those can be planted or kept in the fridge a long while with the roots kept wet.