here's a recipe for the budgetary conscious
Tortillas
the beauty of this recipe, is that it's tasty (assuming you like beans, which I do), healthy (protein, carbs, fibre, low fat, and good vitamins depending on the veg), and can be varied, and is insanely cheap. Dry beans swell, doubling in weight. A 25 kg sack is enough for around 700 tortillas, if your're a 2 tortilla meal person, that is 350 meals (or enough for a year of dinners) at around 12p in beans and flour! I ate nothing but tortillas for six months, and always looked forward to them.

buy 25 kg sack of dry pinto beans for 38 pound
buy 1/2 kg of cumin for 5 quid
buy 10kg of plain flour as cheap as you can

Step 1. soak about 2 kg of the beans overnight, or about half the size of your biggest cooking pot. then simmer them for about 3 hours. chuck in some cumin, and garlic if you have some (also good are any type of pig fat, such as cheap pork bones from the butcher, or belly pork, which you take out at the end. but under no circumstances tell any vegans that you took this step. They'll just think your beans are tasty, and be none-the-wiser). get a bunch of free plastic bags from the veg section of the supermarket. put about a cup in each bag, double if you normally cook for two, and freeze.
Make some tortillas with a rolling pin, basically flour and water. put a later of clingfilm (or those bags you grabbed between each one, and freeze. I do about 10 at a time.

2) heat the tortilla in frypan without oil, or over the naked flame of the hob if you like a bit of a toasted finish.

3) heat a bag of the frozen beans in the microvave or a pan

4) put the beans in the tortilla.

5) throw in whatever veg you have eg. shredded lettuce, chopped tomato, brocolli. avocado is particularly nice for a treat.


you get better at making them, as you do with anything

www.goodness.co.uk/cgi-bin/products/W/BEAN.html
www.realfoods.co.uk/product/1079/real-foods-cumin-seeds-ground-bulk-wholesale
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 23:05, 3 replies)

I don't mean to be a dick about this
but heat is not normally free. If you simmer something for 3 hours, your electric /gas / nuclear reactor bill will go up. On the other hand if you can get a camp fire going, QUIDS IN!
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Tue 3 Jul 2012, 0:03, closed)

Eat nowt but beans & flour
And you'll have a readily available source of combustible gas for free.
(North Utsira South Utsira, Tue 3 Jul 2012, 13:30, closed)

you are slighlty being a dick
I haven't costed in the use of the kitchen lightbulb, or the wear on the kitchen door, or depreciated the capital value of the pan from use.
You get about 30 meals from one 3 hour simmer, more if you have a bigger pot. We are talking about 1p in gas per meal or les
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 3 Jul 2012, 17:18, closed)