In need of cheap healthy recipes!

geibe8

Hi I'm Sydney! I just recently started this app but I need some ideas on cheap and healthy recipes. I have looked stuff up online but I'm not sure what to look for. Feel free to add me as well I'm always interested is advice .

kommodevaran

First figure out what healthy means, then think about what you want to eat, then decide how simple/complicated you want to cook, then search for recipes. Then you can tweak those recipes to weed out or replace any unneccessary ingredients that are too expensive or unavailable or you don't like.

TheCupcakeCounter

Black bean tacos are one of my favorite cheap recipes
Mash a can of black beans with a couple dashed of cumin
Warm a corn tortilla on one side then flip and place a scoop of beans and some cheese and fold in half.
Cook until tortilla is crisped up a bit and cheese is melted.
I top with a slaw made of cabbage, onion, cilantro, some lime juice, salt and pepper, a slice of avocado and hot sauce.

deannalfisher

budgetbytes is a blog that has great cheap/healthy recipes

Sarah_Shapes_Up

What do you like to eat? Throw it in a crock pot.

lemurcat12

kommodevaran wrote: »

First figure out what healthy means, then think about what you want to eat, then decide how simple/complicated you want to cook, then search for recipes. Then you can tweak those recipes to weed out or replace any unneccessary ingredients that are too expensive or unavailable or you don't like.

Yes, this.

One question is whether you know how to cook (in which case just cook things you consider healthy) or if you are just learning. If just learning, a good basic starter cookbook is a good idea. Ones I recommend are the Bittman books: How to Cook Everything, the vegetarian version of that (if that's your understanding of healthy or if you have vegetarian leanings), and the Fish one if you want to learn all about cooking fish. I'd also recommend a vegetable specific book: Greene on Greens is an old classic (it's all vegetables, not just greens), Barbara Kafka's Vegetable Love is good, and any seasonal farm to table type book can be excellent.

I also like the website 101cookbooks as a source for ideas, and epicurious (you can tailor searches to your preferences).

For fun, Barbara Kafka's Roasting covers my favorite cooking method.