I need your help comrades!

I am moving on Saturday. And I need some ways to make meals. I don’t care which culture, the more diverse the better.

Here are some factors I kinda need:

  • not too expensive to make (money and time)
  • not a weird consistency like salad (sensory issues of autism) bread or steak has the perfect consistency
  • I don’t taste that well, so the taste should be rather intense (like steak)
  • vegetarian (because I think vegan will be too hard with my requirements) if it isn’t vegetarian I also take recepies but it would be better if it would be (so not stake after all)

Here are examples kind of like this:

  • pizza
  • pasta with tomato sauce
  • garlic bread

pls pls reccomend 🥺

EDIT: Please also drop non vegitarian options, if you cant think of vegitarian stuff. My requirements are so many, it will be difficult to find something that will meet all requirements.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Are you able to do an initial semi pricey investment to set yourself up for future meals? Cause there’s some recipes I have that cost like a dollar per meal but you gotta pay like $30-40 in groceries to have all the stuff. You’ll stretch that money to its max but there’s an initial investment. If you’re looking for cheap and easy but you can’t spend ahead that’s a different category. Also how good are you at food? Cause if say you have solid knife skills a lot of veggie stuff is quick and easy where if you don’t it isn’t as much. I’ve got a few but need to narrow things down a bit

    • HazelOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      I can make those initial investment without to much issues. But I have like no kitchen skills. Also no knife skills.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Okay, nothing wrong with that. I’m about to go to bed but can throw some recipes at you and just some general guidelines to work with like being efficient with your food and having a few meals that share ingredients. Pastas are an easy start, pizzas are easy af aside from dough but you can make a solid pizza out of grocery store naan or even pita bread. Any Flatbread thicker than a tortilla really. Burritos are also a huge one. If you have some jars and fridge space pickling is fun as hell and easy. Bowl of stuff with rice or potatoes depending on the stuff is also a good fridge cleaner.

        My main overall advice is don’t be intimidated cooking wise. Unless you’re baking recipes are guidelines and even though it probably won’t be just right the first time, it’s pretty hard to make food you like with ingredients you like that you won’t find at least okay and by tasting you’ll have a general idea of what to fix the next time you make that dish and you repeat that over a bunch of meals and you’ll be fine. I’ll give some easy options that have shared ingredients and some ways to make em a bit nicer. Spices are your friend big time.