Budget food/living

^ No.

vegetable soup. A carrot, stick of celery, and an onion, plus a budget chicken stock cube and you've got a base for adding any veg you like.

Also thick cut smokey bacon from a butcher goes a long way - use the fat to fry into soups and sauces for flavor, and you can get away with half a rash per dish.

Also porridge for breakfast... or maybe just skip it.

Grilled tomatoes topped with old breadcrumbs salt and pepper - assuming you have access to cheap ones (turkish shops in stokey do)

Big tubs of yogurt from turkish places, then add a little olive oil, salt and pepper to use as a dip for raw veg.

Also making ramen style soups. The outlay for fish sauce, soy sauce and ginger sucks, but if used sparingly it can last. Also if you add meat cut into uber thin slices then you can make one of those horrific minute steaks that you'd usually much in 2 bits, last 2 or 3 servings.

Also don't drink, smoke, or date.

Good idea for a thread.