cheapest meals you’ll ever find.
- beans
- rice
- seasonings
- ramen
also if you can, grow your own veggies. yellow summer squash dries really well and can be used in lots of dishes.
winter squash like butternut stay good for 6-10 months in the right conditions and can literally fill a meal.
carrots are easy to grow and high in nutrients, they can be stored for several months as well.
make sure you keep all your scraps and reintroduce them back into the soil as fertilizer. I would dry them and grind them in a blender along with egg shells, a bit of coffee grounds, dried fruit peels (like banana, orange, apple, etc). sprinkle over soil and mulch over that(could be dried leaves or hardwood mulch), and water.
if you grow eggplant, the leaves can be dried and boiled to create a weak insecticide since the plant is related to tobacco.
fight powdery mildew with vinegar and water. A 1/10 solution weak should be good enough.
if squash bugs or other pests are a problem, get a torch and burn them and the eggs off your plants. if you’re vigilant when they first show up, you won’t have to work so hard later. remember, the point is to “cook” them, not cremate your plant.
if space is a concern, grow things that crawl. greenbeans, peas, tomatoes, acorn squash, yellow squash, zucchini. all can be grown from pots on trellis. make sure they get plenty of light, water, and nutrients. careful with some squash though, they can crossbreed if they’re in the same family.
think of it this way. you spend $10-20 on heirloom seeds and take the seeds from your best harvest every year, you’ll never have to buy those vegetables again. $10-20 dollars, for a lifetime of food.
you’re so uneducated on the subject matter it hurts.
I am embarrassed for you. educate yourself.