Pastries!

The Spelt Kitchen

If simple is what you are after, buy some fairly cheap ready made puff pastry, roll it out, cut it in half, spread it with whatever you fancy (jam, curd, Nutella, Biscoff spread) or even just chunks of chocolate on one half, and place the other half on top. Cut into two or four, crimp the edges of each one so the filling doesn't leak, make a few fork holes and bake on 200C (400F) for about 10 minutes (watch it carefully).

Karri Barlow

So more along the line of pastries. WARNING pastries are high fat, usually high butter, which is one of the most expensive foods. Also, the filling is usually a jam, another high-cost food. However, 50 to 100% of the butter in a pastry recipe can be replaced by coconut oil, which is lower cost if purchased from Costco. Otherwise, forget trying to replace the butter. Check out my list of recipes I've tried for an excellent crescent dough that also doubles as a puff pastry base, though it doesn't say so in the recipe. After that, go ahead and make it yours. Bear claws, fruit tarts, fruit doughnuts, almond cream, whatever. You can cut it into squares, sprinkle with cinnamon, and air fry them. Then dip them in fruit sauce or yogurt or even icing if you want! GO YOU! Oh, yeah, dainish desert is awesome, stuffed or dipped.

Karri Barlow

If you really need something sweet, a piece of fresh fruit is your least expensive option.

Karri Barlow

So called "French cooking" are always delicious with few ingredients. For example, a French -style soup is a tiny amount of butter, an onion, a carrot, and a potato. But the technique of cooking is what makes it delicious. Heat the butter in a pan until melted. While it is melting dice the onion, then stir in the onion into the butter so that each piece has butter on it. The heat should be adjusted so that you hear it sizzle, but it doesn't turn brown. While the onion sizzles into liquid, slice the carrot and potato into a large dice, but not so large as for a stew. Add to the onion and stir together. Add 2 cups of broth if you have it, if not, use water. Cover and simmer for 20 min. It is very easy and simple and good. For desert, the simplest most delicious is simply a cup of fruit or bread and jam. Goodness! If you have a piece of dirt, even a bucket of dirt, you can grow enough to feed yourself for free. 2 people would need 2 buckets. You seem to have a phone or computer, look up "easy meals for a week only using $10 for the whole week". Check it out. It's pretty easy.

Brudda Fig

We have more to work with than that, thankfully, but struggling to save up money for any kind of vehicle so im trying to cheap out wherever I can. We do big bulk dinners for example that stretch several nights - ill make some cornbread from scratch and chili. 4 nights of dinner, done. Ive currently got a tuna salad filled tupperware for sandwiches. Canned tuna, canned black olives, mayo, lemon juice, boiled eggs, diced onion, seasonings, done. I more so mean things like meringue cookies, except pastry wise instead. Like ive made hand held lemon pies! Hot pocket style like fast food places. But I wanna make something fluffy instead and struggle 😭