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Originally Posted by econophile
i've already sung the praises of lamb shoulder as a great low cost ingredient. what other ingredients give a lot of bang for the buck?
This is a good question for a brief derail. If I were trying to really stretch my food dollar, and not go vegetarian, I would eat more gourds, beans, and oily fish.
Pumpkin is an underused side dish in my opinion, as are most of the firmer squashes.
Beans from scratch are really much better than canned, and not so time-consuming to prepare if you have a pressure cooker.
A lot of the oily fishes like bluefish and mackerel are quite delicious if cooked properly. (Cooked poorly, they taste fishy and metallic.)