Putting it in my mouth

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Mashed potato with green onions, butter, and heavy cream.

Boru

Can mashed potatoes be made without butter and cream?

I've heard that some people make it with margarine and milk. even plant-based 'milk'. These people should be whipped (metaphorically speaking).

Boru

[Angrboda]

Chicken ramen with gochujang.

[Angrboda]

Kung Pao tofu and rice.

[A. Secular Human]

3/4 cup of cashews and six dates.

[Angrboda]

Roast chicken, mashed potatoes, and gravy. This was McCormick's poultry gravy mix. Thew flavor lands in a no-man's land between chicken gravy and turkey gravy, which is a bit disappointing. But it was only $5, and it was fortuitous timing that Amazon delivered it today because they were out-of-stock on chicken gravy when they filled my Walmart grocery order earlier.

[Ahriman]

Grilled chicken strips wrapped up in a tortilla with sour cream and black beans.

[arewethereyet]

My morning handful of meds.

[Angrboda]

Walmart tuna, cold, straight from the can. I could say that I'm assessing it on its merits aside from in a dish of some sort, but the truth is that I'm hungry and I just like cold tuna straight from the can. I am indeed assessing different tunas, though I erred somewhat by buying both tuna in water and tuna in oil, so straight-up comparisons may be difficult. After reading various reviews, the brands I'm focusing on are Starkist, Target's Good & Gather brand, and Walmart's GV brand. The Walmart brand didn't come up in reviews, but given the price, it's worthy of inclusion. This is part of a larger project of developing lists of meal ideas that can be made inexpensively in order to lower the average cost of my meals. I realized that I had more or less dropped tuna from my diet for no specific reason or intent.

[Angrboda]

Picante chicken ramen. One of the two flavor packets was for beef, so the result was rather weak. I added some tomato-flavored chicken bouillon, which yielded very good flavor but no appreciable heat. So I added some Mexican hot sauce. The result had fine heat, even if it tasted a bit odd. I suspect plain chicken ramen + bouillon + hot sauce is likely the most satisfactory and economical option.

[Angrboda]

Thinking about trying curried vegetables and rice for an inexpensive meal. I'm still experimenting with tofu. Yesterday was my first use of my tofu press. I'm happy with it.