Whole food, plant based with no fridge, freezer, oven, hob or microwave is in a whole new world of frugal. I have a £15 ($20) slow cooker, a second hand bread making machine and a £30 ($50) air fryer. The electricity that others would use on the morgue that is a fridge, I use for my slow cooking. I spend about twenty minutes loading up my slow cooker with the cheapest vegetables out there, plus beans, tinned tomatoes and lots of herbs. I turn the thing on, go about my day, get back to hot and delicious food that ticks all of the nutrition boxes. My food is a recreation of a peasant diet from the days before the industrial revolution and not some calorie restricted misery diet of gluttony, which so many people restrict themselves to. I do a lot of cycling so I need the calories, so it is mountains of food for me. I always keep my receipts and most people spend more on a take out coffee than I do for all my home cooked, fresh food for the day. I shop at the cheapest supermarket and live in a city centre which is a bit of a food desert. The trick is to have enough energy to be able to get to the shop and not settle for convenience store garbage. When you know how, there is no such thing as impossible.
Whole food, plant based with no fridge, freezer, oven, hob or microwave is in a whole new world of frugal.
I have a £15 ($20) slow cooker, a second hand bread making machine and a £30 ($50) air fryer. The electricity that others would use on the morgue that is a fridge, I use for my slow cooking.
I spend about twenty minutes loading up my slow cooker with the cheapest vegetables out there, plus beans, tinned tomatoes and lots of herbs. I turn the thing on, go about my day, get back to hot and delicious food that ticks all of the nutrition boxes.
My food is a recreation of a peasant diet from the days before the industrial revolution and not some calorie restricted misery diet of gluttony, which so many people restrict themselves to. I do a lot of cycling so I need the calories, so it is mountains of food for me. I always keep my receipts and most people spend more on a take out coffee than I do for all my home cooked, fresh food for the day.
I shop at the cheapest supermarket and live in a city centre which is a bit of a food desert. The trick is to have enough energy to be able to get to the shop and not settle for convenience store garbage. When you know how, there is no such thing as impossible.