My $4.50 lentil soup recipe from last Tuesday saved my week

I was dead broke last Tuesday after paying some surprise bills, and I had maybe $5 left for dinner. I grabbed a bag of dried red lentils for $1.50 at the corner market, plus a sad onion and a carrot for about a dollar total. I threw them in a pot with some garlic powder and a bouillon cube I had in the cupboard, and let it simmer for 30 minutes. Honestly, it made like 4 big bowls of soup, so I ate it for lunch and dinner for two days. I even added a splash of vinegar I found in the back of the fridge, and it gave it a weird tangy kick that worked. Has anyone else tried stretching dried lentils into multiple meals? I'm thinking about stocking up next payday, but I'm not sure if they go bad after a while.

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mary_martin221mo ago

Dried lentils basically last forever unless bugs get to em, and trust me my fridge is a horror show of condiments from 2019 so I feel you on that vinegar find. I went through a broke phase where I ate lentil soup so often my coworkers started calling me Lentil Lady.

cole9941mo agoTop Commenter

Why is it that half the stuff in my pantry still looks exactly the same after three years, like some kind of food museum? Lentil Lady is a legendary nickname though, way better than the one I got for my hot sauce obsession.

susan13022d ago

Lentil Lady" is funny, one time my roommate called me "Can of Beans" after I ate black beans for dinner five nights straight.