honestly if eating a bunch of fibre all of a sudden only causes gas, consider yourself lucky…
I recently started adding chia seeds to my food (turns out it can be a perfectly affordable all-natural fibre supplement, lots of protein too actually) and it basically delayed my bowel movements by a day or two…
Not so fun during, but very… cleansing…
i’m a lot more okay with the blanket recommendation of beans, because it’s almost certainly the cheapest meat “substitute” and makes very good stew.
Home-made seitan is presumably the cheapest option basically no matter where you are, but that also takes a lot of work…
freedos, obviously
I just want to note that you should make sure to verify that rice is actually cheap where you live, before going with it.
This post seems aimed quite specifically at american audiences (without actually stating such), but up here in the frozen wasteland of scandinavia rice is actually not that cheap at all, quite expensive even unless you go with literally the absolute cheapest brands available.
If you live in europe i’d wager potatoes are the actual ideal cheap carb, especially during harvest time when the market is flooded with such an absurd amount of potatoes that the price tanks and might even literally reach 0. Another option to look at is as you say, barley or other whole grains.
Frozen peas are also a nice alternative to beans (though obviously less appealing as the main protein), which can simply be tossed into the food while warm or a bowl of them can be put in a microwave oven at full blast for a minute to get fully thawed.
it should also be noted that you need fibre for healthy digestion, so you really should just power through the flatulence as much as you can. Avoiding fibre because it makes you gassy is like avoiding water because you don’t like getting wet lips.
Taco seasoning goes great in most things, just maybe a bit less of it so you don’t immediately associate it with tacos.
As someone who isn’t into chili spice, i can also recommend using extra stock and drizzling on some sort of acid (lemon juice is my fave) when you serve it
it entirely depends where you live, here in sweden freshly harvested potatoes are almost literally free in the summer (i think they were sold for 1 SEK per kg last year) whereas the cheapest rice costs as much as normal pasta.
I read on the news recently that some eastern european country had such an absurd potato harvest just now that the potatoes were literally worthless, to the point that farmers were basically weeping at the prospect of finding someone to take the potatoes from them.
depending on where you live you might even be able to find cold-pressed canola (or other kinds i suppose) oil for a remarkably low cost (you just have to buy like 2l at a time), which is very flavourful and healthy.
The brand i buy is ~4€ per l, which isn’t even that much more expensive than the cheapest oil available
i keep seeing this online but i have not once heard anyone complain about this IRL, all i’ve seen happen is that people went from “uhhh i need an apple charger, that’s a samsung charger” to “hey can i use your charger? sweet thanks”.
I’m sorry but it seems like a completely fucking made up problem
this is slander, everyone knows dogs have ADHD.
It’s cats that are autistic
except wages and welfare, of course
“hey why are people not buying as many things these days?”
what kind of fish is it and where is it caught? Because these days overfishing is an enormous issue and you really really really want to make sure to only buy sustainable fish, lest we completely destroy the populations.