Easy to make meals - Cheap - Young guy living on his own

[DomBruv]

I know nothing about cooking, literally.

I have mostly been buying takeaways and premade meals over the last 3 years,

now I live on my own I'd like to learn how to cook, more healthy cheaper and easy to make meals.


Does anyone have a good Youtube channel, website, or any easy to make meal guides that will come in handy for me?

I'm also clueless in the supermarket lol,


Thanks guys!

 

[DomBruv]

Thanks for all the help and info guys looks like I've got a lot of reading to do

I'm mainly looking for healthy cheap things that don't take long to make for tea. (evening meals)

I will be buying my lunch and breakfast on the go for now until i up my skills

 

[DomBruv]

Why? You started this thread because you wanted healthy and cheap. Buying food out is neither of those things and you'll just be undoing any hard work from your dinner-cooking escapades.

Look at overnight oats for breakfast. We make a tupperware of 4 portions every other night (two days between a couple), but that'd obviously last you 4 days on your own. It's a simple; equal parts/cups oat and milk, plus half as much greek yoghurt. There's tons of overly complicated recipes out there but we just have that as a base and add our own stuff in the morning. E.g. I put chia seeds, 7 almonds, 1/2 banan, a handful of blueberries and some honey. It takes as long as it does to boil the kettle and make my cuppa to go with it every morning. No stress. Infinitely better for you and probably costs a tenth of takeaway breakfast.

https://www.thekitchn.com/overnight-oats-268370
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/overnight-oats

I usually buy mirrors meal deal with is £3 for a big sandwich side and drink, if i could make it for less than this myself i would, but i just can't seem to get it any cheaper than that.

my breakfast is just a bar as i find it hard to eat on mornings.