Occasionally you gotta eat a failed experiment, but it’s still worth it to change it up.
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- Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish1 month
I often go for something that works and can be adjusted for variety.
Roast vegetables with rosemary/sage salt. One day might be roast potatoes, another mixed root veg, add a bunch of onions another day. I grow the herbs myself.
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Same here, I’ve branched out to grow lovage, hissop, sorrel, all these ancient herbs that have fallen out of fashion for non-commercialization. I think humans ate well back when it was mostly fire roasted veg and herbs!
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Spices are pretty cheap in the US if you don’t mind them being not-very-good, most grocery stores will have a small selection. Still, it’s doable and worth it to keep a small collection of spices even if you’re on a beans and rice budget.
If I try to eat exactly the same recipe for an extended period of time, I find I am much more vulnerable to a fast food craving just for a change of pace. So it works out to be cheaper to get the spices if I account for how my animal brain needs variety.
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That one container of single flavour spice costs 10x a bag of ramen or kraft dinner as well, it’s just out of reach for a large portion.
Spice is a luxury, people would be giving up a weeks of meals for a variety of ONE, now add in a second flavor, now you’re not eating for another week.
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I guess there are some spices that cost the same as a week of food, but I don’t think there’s anywhere on the globe where that’s true for everything that falls under the “spice” umbrella. A box of craft dinner is about $1.10 where I live, a 1oz. container of dried thyme is about $3.50, which is fairly typical for grocery store spices around me. There are spices that are very expensive and those are out of reach for a lot of people, but I think most almost everyone has access to some cheap spices.
A lot of them are easy to grow / are invasive species that are hard to stop growing: I have mint in my yard and I’m not sure I could kill it if I tried. Every year I cut it back and every year it grows back strong.
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You’ll never get rid of mint, it’s tenacious. Cutting it back is probably helping it thrive tbh. Herbs are really easy to grow, and a plant is usually cheaper than a packet of fresh cut herb anyway.
