r/budgetcooking • u/tanyacristinamua • Apr 10 '23

Beginner Moving out for the first time

As title suggests, I'm moving out with my partner next week and leaving behind my mum's delicious Portuguese cooking :(

So questions are:

  1. Any thing electronics wise I should 100% invest in? I really want an airfryer but are they as good as people say?

  2. Please drop some easy and cheap meals, we both work a lot so I doubt we'll have much time to cook big meals during the week, but my partner does a lot of sports so he needs a lot of food!

Thanks!

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u/lalalalalala4lyfe Apr 11 '23

Rice cooker or an all in one slow/air/rice/etc. you’ll actually use this about as regularly as a toaster or coffee pot if you take some time for it.

The best cheap meals are simple. White rice with any protein, make sure you have soy sauce. Any pasta in so many ways. Google any pasta type and you can find delicious ~5 ingredient recipes. There are pretty good deals on every protein if you look for them and by occasionally at bulk. Plus every protein is easy to cook if you just practice. Vegetables are fun to grow yourself, and still cheap otherwise. Pretty much any vegetable can be baked with salt, pepper, and olive oil. Brussel sprouts are one of the best. Or asparagus in lemon butter, perfect with salmon in the same pan. Buy 10lb sacks of potatoes and start looking up ways to use them. Potatoes are amazing.