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dr. nervioso:
Midnight alfredo is the best alfredo. Even though I am a zombie from taking a nap too late.

I should probably elaborate more, but I am too goddamn tired

Lupercal:
The trouble I have is making my food look good. Being the last week of living in my house, I made food with what I had left. Three frozen pollock fillets, a box of chopped tomatoes, garlic, a reasonable amount of red lentils, some red onions, some red cooking wine. Weirdly, it tasted good, but it really was the closest looking thing to vomit that I think I've ever created. To eat, that is.

dr. nervioso:
Whenever I want food o look good, I add some vegetables to the plate

Papersatan:
Howdy reliable internet friends,

After a period during which my cooking was sharply limited by what foods I had on hand I suddenly have a food budget.  Food was pretty boring, particularly as I ran out of key ingredients (yeast!) which cut out whole categories of food which are usually made in this house (pizza!).  This new freedom to buy ingredients has filled me with an urge to cook.  Just everything! All the time! MAKE IT! 

So, what should I make?  We have a bit of aid built up, because it starts from the day you apply, not the day you are approved. This means I can afford to spend some money, but because we actually need this aid to eat, it has to give me a food outcome worth the investment.  What I mean is, I will not spend 25 dollars on caviar, but I could conceivably do so on a huge hunk of meat, because it would make enough meals to justify that much money.  I would rather have ideas that are pretty inexpensive though. 

I am a reasonably competent cook and baker, so I have no problem with ideas that are a bit of a challenge.  Also I am unemployed (hence this situation) so things that are time intensive are also ok.

So far I am going to make:
Bagels
Ice cream
I was going to can some pickles too maybe, but that depends how the cucumbers look at the market this Saturday

What else should I tackle?

Barmymoo:
As a broad general idea, I'd recommend if you have a larger sum of money now than you will have in future getting very large quantities of non-perishable things. Asian stores often sell huge bags of rice for tiny prices, for instance.

I'm a big fan of risottos, and you can put all manner of different vegetables and flavourings in them to ring the changes. It doesn't freeze once cooked but it's pretty easy and quick to cook. I always try to have two or three portions of risotto rice in, because it's a great dish when people drop in unexpectedly.

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