Mushrooms, lentils, chickpeas (dried) rice and spices are great staples.
Frozen vegetables in bulk are good value. Use your several hundred takeaway containers you have lying around to store leftovers for another day. Aldi and Lidl aren't actually that much cheaper if you're only buying cheap food so just go to the closest supermarket.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 2 Mar 2015, 19:05, 3 replies, latest was 10 years ago)

finally the voice of reason
BTW - TV show, Rectify
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Mon 2 Mar 2015, 19:14, Reply)

Except that mushrooms don't keep.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 2 Mar 2015, 19:17, Reply)

They last nearly a week.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 2 Mar 2015, 19:18, Reply)

Where from?

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 2 Mar 2015, 19:20, Reply)

From the day you buy them.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 2 Mar 2015, 19:21, Reply)

I must be using the wrong shops.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 2 Mar 2015, 19:22, Reply)

Cos whenever I buy them the loose ones look battered to shit and those in boxes have 5mm of water in the bottom
and even if you take them out of the box soon as you're home they still go off
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 2 Mar 2015, 19:25, Reply)

hope this helps
www.eatbydate.com/vegetables/fresh-vegetables/mushrooms/
(PsychoChomp, Mon 2 Mar 2015, 19:28, Reply)

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 2 Mar 2015, 19:30, Reply)

Frozen veg sounds about right, all sorts of stuff I can knock up with it. I've always got peas and sweetcorn frozin, but I could get some squash or something.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 2 Mar 2015, 20:38, Reply)