Morning!

I'm glad to see that Kalshane got through the night OK. Indeed, this is a fucked up situation at his work, and HR should be backing him up, if only to keep the company in a legally protected position....

Also, SA, the sour cream you can get in the UK and Ireland from France is cheap and fucking awesome. Get a couple of potatoes to make baked potatoes with chili and sour cream with.

Oh, Erin, that's also a good idea! I got stuff for chili, so I'm going to make that in a few minutes, and a can of tuna, which I can make last for two meals. I have some penne and half a jar of carbonara, so that's one day, and while I don't have milk I think I'm just going to have to go without for the next couple of days. I got digistive biscuits too, and tea and sugar to make sweet tea, which is steeping on the stove as I type. And there's the old fallback of peanut butter tucked away in the cupboard. So I think I'll make it! I only spent 11 euro at the grocery store too. That's like a record for me.

When I was a student in London, I was broke as fuck. I made a LOT of fried potatoes with onions and sour cream. Delish! And supa-cheap.

Good cheap food: oatmeal, eggs (protein! filling and savory!), pasta.

For the price of one nice wedge of Parmesan you can make pasta with virgin olive oil and parmesan every night for a week and not feel deprived. It's fresh and delicious.

Also, if you have a spice rack, black bean soup is very easy to make and tasty. Though I don't know if you can readily get black beans in Ireland.

Well, I made chili tonight as per Cash's reccomendation, and it was perfect--hearty and filling and it cost about five euro to make, with enough to last me like three or four meals. But potatoes are so going in my future! And there's a cheese shop somewhere--I just discovered the sort of upscale local market (that isn't actually that local to me, but it's close enough) while I believe there is parmesan.

I was thinking on the tram home that black beans would be great for this chili too, but at the Tesco's there was seriously only kidney, butter, and baked. Very poor bean selection! I'll probably modify it with chickpeas in the future.

Though I love chickpeas, off hand chickpeas in chile does not sound good. Never tried it though - if you make the experiment let us know.

No black beans?? Good god. Crazy Ireland.

They're pretty tasty, TB. Hominy (the huge white corn kernals) is also good.

I put chickpeas in my chile for years. But I didn't eat meat so I used stuff that others might not. It was yummy.