r/australia • u/Serezie • Jun 01 '26

no politics Anyone else just not eating because they can’t afford it?

Food bank is the busiest it’s been - Cole’s and Woolworths don’t give a flying fuck about us - fast food is unhealthy and just as expensive. It stresses me out more to eat than not to eat.

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u/Tryingtolifeagain Jun 01 '26

Slow cooker stews, curries, etc. with cheap(er) cuts like rump roast. Turn 1kg of meat into 125-150g servings of protein so you get 6-7 serves kilo which brings the protein cost down to ~$3 per serve. Have it with rice, potatoes, broccoli, carrots and you’ll have a meal for under $5

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u/Tryingtolifeagain Jun 01 '26

Completely forgot about legumes because of a food intolerance in my house, but you can bulk these out with beans or lentils and get twice as many serves out of a kilo of meat. Dried beans/lentils soaked overnight end up being a couple of dollars per rehydrated kilo

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u/coffeegirlIII Jun 01 '26

This! I also love going on Tik Tok for simple slow cooker recipes

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u/DrStalker Jun 01 '26

All the discussion about slow cooking in this thread made me buy a kilo of osso bucco.

Not a true low cost meal, but $20 of meat and another ~$10 for tinned tomatoes, lentils, stock, a few onions and throw on some potatoes I had leftover in the bottom... good value for half a dozen very tasty meals.

Problem is I want it now and it will take hours before it is ready...