Eating cheap
Low cost, nutritional eating, with less fuss
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There are a million pizza recipes online. The best pizzas are (in my opinion) cold-proofed sourdough on a hot woodfired oven. Typically high hydration, and unforgiving if you don’t develop enough gluten. Not to mention you need the oven! Here’s one of mine that’s much more forgiving and, if you close your eyes, basically pizza!…
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A break from looking at numbers – here’s a recipe I love making when I’m hosting at home Vegan seaweed and nut snacks A healthy, easy, fast, flexible and mostly vegan table-top snack of roasted nuts baked in seaweed sheets Prep Time15 minutes Cook time15 mins Serves2-4 MealSnacks and games Ingredients Directions The life story…
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Tl;dr What follows is a poorly formatted write up of the process of trying to get product information out of New World. I succeeded! A lot of it is trying to simplify the process. You don’t need to understand it. The end goal, is to scrape grocery store sites to list products by a custom…
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I was wandering through a Sunday market here in Cromwell – you probably know the type. Incredibly expensive cheeses. A coffee cart that’s inexplicably about 50% more than the coffee shop a stone’s throw away. Someone selling hand-knitted tea-cosies and polished gemstones. The odd stall proudly owning a “witchy” label selling incenses, stones, and herbal…
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Humble pie. That which we are forced to eat when humiliatingly wrong. But also one of my favourite foodstuffs! The secret to a great pie lays in the secret ingredient of… pie. It’s hard to get a pie wrong (although if you serve it with mashed potatoes and/or peas on top – congratulations, you’ve managed).…
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I was doing some shopping today and stopped to check my choice of sour cream, which I use to add an energy boost to my salads. Astounded at leaving with 6 items having spent nearly $90 (although I do have 3 weeks worth of chicken lunches in the freezer now) I went back over my…
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Hello, and welcome to Eating Cheap. I’m Mike Young and this is my attempt to feed myself for as little as possible, and stay healthy while I do it. I hope this may be of use to you, too! I’m a mechanical engineer-cum-software engineer on hiatus and traveling. I’m privileged enough to say I’ve never…
Eating cheap 