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Whole foods are typically best. Less processing is better. Obviously theres always concerns about like good regulation keeping them safe, but generally produce when washed is fine. non-processed meats are better than processed meats. etc
If you want a really easy cheap filling meal that actually tastes good i will cook rice, and make a peanut butter sauce(Vinegar+peanutbutter+soy sauce) and mix that with whatever vegetables i have on hand. preferably the vinegar should be rice vinegar but thats not as cheap so just like a big jug of white vinegar will get the job done. Brown like some onions, peppers, carrots, etc in a pan with canola oil, then add in the peanut butter sauce ingredients and mix them in once veggies are browned. Then you add the cooked rice to that and just mix it up. You can add means and stuff too. The best cheap cuts of meat are pork loins (Can find half loins very cheaply atleast where i am. Like 7$ for a big chunk of meat that lasts awhile.) or chicken quarters. Chicken quarters are the entire leg+thigh together and can be found for like 89 cents a pound. Cheapest cut of chicken available. Just have some of that cooked up and add it to your rice. As long as you add plenty of veggies and stuff its very nutritionally balanced. Lots of fat, and protein makes it filling, and its pretty cheap too.
To save money on vegetables look for ones that are on sale, and buy in bulk then dice them up, and freeze them for later. I like to get tons of jalepenos, and carrots and freeze those cuz they're pretty cheap. I just have a couple containers i refill in the freezer with them in it. Same with herbs a small can of dried cilantro can be expensive but you can find a fresh bundle for 99 cents cut it up and freeze it. Way more for your money that way. Doing that with greens in general is a good way to add nutrients to your food. Just make sure you wash them before freezing them so you can toss the frozen ones right in the pan.
I mean, I absolutely love chicken thighs but I’m not talking how cheap it is. My question is am I risking myself eating this over another cut of meat that’s just as cheap (or maybe even slightly more expensive) but is not as risky to eat?
not really. obviously we don't know what exactly is going on in the farms and no foods are 100% garunteed safe unless you grew it yourself but generally speaking you just want less processed stuff. Like the chicken quarters are whole meats, where as a burger, or hotdog, or something would be more processed. It's easy to put fillers in without people noticing once the meat is ground up, and reshaped into something else. So like chicken leg is better than chicken nugget. Can't garuntee its 100% natural or anything, but if you get the whole meat, and wash it off well you should be better off than most. Same goes for veggies. Get a whole vegetable, wash it off good, and your in about the best spot possible.
Any food that is like snackified, or made into something already is a lot more likely to have some horrible for you chemical in it.
Oh also something i just thought of to save money. If you make an account at some of the stores (like kroger is one i know does it) and then you dont go there for a long time and go to other stores instead they will mail you some really good coupons. You can also just have 2 accounts and not use one for awhile to trick them. But u usually need multiple phones and addresses. Easy to do if you share accounts with friends and family. I got coupons in the mail from kroger recently that were just 2 free cans of del monte vegetables any variety no pre-purchase or anything required. You get some pretty good ones that way.