Budget Cooking, Start Now!

Yes, I am going to be cooking my own and my mom's meals from now on.
Everyone has to grow up, isn't it?


So my recipes in my mind so far:

Cheap cuts Stew (cheapest meat in the supermarket, add onion, carrots, potatoes and stock, slow cook it, optional tomatoes paste/soup)

Vegetable Stew (just get whatever vegetables that look like a good combination and cook it in water. Maybe pumpkins are good, they are cheap too sometimes, also thinking I can add cream or tomatoes to make it different every time, add chicken if it's cheap)

Mashed Potatoes (you cannot go wrong on this, make it different with roast garlic, chives, cream of mushroom, or even frozen vegetables, need butter or milk/cream for sure)

Hummus Dip (cheapest and healthiest snack on the market, make your own out of $1 big can, you cannot go wrong! add garlic, different types of herbs, chilli sauce, roasted pepper, different types of beans, and then pour in oil/olive oil, blend. done!)

Fried noodles or Soup noodles (just stir fried it with some mince meat and vegetables, for soup noodles, I want to make my own chicken stock)

Chicken Stock (easy, get a chicken, some vegetables, boil, done, freeze it to store. the chicken meat can make sandwiches by adding mayo and herbs!)

Some other Chinese Dishes (Fried Tofu and vegetable with sauce, stir fried meat and vegetables, lemon chicken, Fried fish with vegetable and sauce, Mushroom ad vegetable stir fried)

Some kind of soup (Tofu and miso soup, sour and spicy soup, seaweed soup, chicken soup)

Korean appetizer (Yea, I can always just get some chili paste, or some vinegar and garlic to make appetizer out of vegetables)

Pickled vegetables (I always like sour things, so I will try pickled some different kinds of vegetables so I can eat it with congee or oatmeal)

Congee, Rice, Oatmeal, etc (and also bread, noodles, pastas and potatoes as my main source of carbohydrates)

Frozen Vegetables and fruits (believe it or not, I read an article that say frozen vegetables are more nutritious than non frozen one)

Anything with Herbs (I always love and love and love herbs, finally I get to do my own cooking, I got to do different things with them)