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How can you eat/shop healthy on a VERY tight budget, and no/little time to prepare foods?

I am not poor, but I have a VERY tight budget for everyting ( especially now considering gas prices ). I am 20lbs overweight……thanks to the cheap, convenient fast food options (ugh!). I work a full time job, and have classes every night. How can I possibly eat healthy cheaply, and not spend hous prepping? [...]

Looking for easy/realistic recipes for beginners?

At the age of 28 I’ve finally started to gain weight from all the fast food and not so good stuff I’ve eaten my entire life simply because I don’t know how to cook. I’ve tried several times and every time I cook I set the alarm off because I burn it. I’ve tried looking [...]

Do you know of some recipes that reheat in microwave well?

I always put leftovers from the day’s dinner in my boyfriends lunch for work (to keep him from hopping over to fast food), but not everything tastes good reheated in a microwave, such as pork chops usually. so far on his work days this is all i know of spaghetti chicken spaghetti chicken salad hamburgers [...]

Can someone plan my weekly menu/grocery list? Or offer suggestions?

Here’s the deal, my husband has a very inconsistent work schedule (Army), some days he is home by 3, other days he’s home at 3 am. Also, he never really knows when he’ll be off . . . until a few hours prior to being off. We’ve gotten into a pretty unhealthy routine. I don’t [...]

Is there some way to avoid cooking (cleaning) for the next month?

Here is the situation: My boyfriend and I are going to be spending a lot of time working for the next month, maybe 2 months. We’re talking like like 80-90 hours a week. But the main thing is that this is also going to involve lots of weird hours, pulling all nighters, working through standard [...]

nervous about cooking?

My mom is getting foot surgery on tuesday and she will not be cooking much now. I have always been her assistant when it come to cooking like chopping meat, shredding meat or chicken, chopping vegatbles and making basic side dishes like anything with potatoes and making sure food doesnt stick or burn. saturday i [...]