Black bean burgers or at least the patties have a nice consistency and strong flavor, curries in general are cheap, fast, and can be vegan or not vegan and are also strongly flavored.

Bananas are pretty cheap right? Idk but they’re delicious and can be made into bread, cookies, or chips if you have them too long.

Rice, lentils and tomato sauce does the job for me. It’s my go to lunch. Cheap, easy to make and very nutritious. Buy tomato sauce with spices already added or add the spices you like.

One of my go to recipes is this one, the easy way:

https://youtu.be/iKMI1xkU_oo

This can be really spiced up to intensify the flavor and it’s very filling and easy

Potatoes are incredibly nutritious, cheap, and can be cooked in a million different ways! From extreme simple fried slices, to more fancy double scooped baked potatoes, there are plenty of ways to incorporate it into a diet!

Egg fried rice is cheap, easy and vegetarian. If you cook your veggies with garlic, onion and chillies, and you top it off with soya sauce you’re gonna have an intense taste lol. It might be a ‘weird consistency’ though, since it’s quite soft, but you’ll have to be the judge of that.

I buy these trailmixes at the grocery store that are an assortment of nuts and dried fruit. They are a little over 5 USD a bag and contain about 1800 calories per bag.

Peanut sauce is easy to make and goes with everything. Just add some boiling water a bit of peanut butter, add some heat and soy sauce and its done.

Dice up a sweet potato into an oven safe pan and toss with olive oil, salt and pepper, and whatever spices you like (I like to use paprika, chipotle, cayenne). 400 degree oven. After 25 minutes take it out, create some space, and crack some eggs in the space (may have to add a little more oil). Bake for 5-7min, depending in how done you like your eggs.

Easy healthy breakfast that fits in one pan and doesn’t take too long. You can prep the sweet potatoes the night before and do other things while it cooks. I like to add an avocado too at the end.

Soylent or Huel?

What cooking equipment do you have access to?

This week I made enough chili for four large meals, and it took under half an hour and was very cheap. Just canned beans, lentils, tomatoes, chilis + dehydrated vegetable protein + spices.

I regularly eat rice, tofu, and a bunch of vegetables stir fried, relatively easy. You can also fry it to reheat it and add more stuff and seasoning, soy sauce, nuts, whatever. Pretty easy.

My suggestions would be:

• vegetarian chili

Can just use beans and no meat. Intensity of flavor is up to your taste I usually go with rather spicy but it can be mild too. Can take a bit of time but if you make one large pot it can last days and just needs to be reheated

• shakshuka

Relatively easy to make and is rather flavorful. Again here spice level is up to you

Both of these go well with bread, rice, or potatoes

Lots of beans and bean-like foods (chickpeas, lentils, peas, soy beans) can be made into a variety of shapes. If you have a pressure cooker you can even cook them relatively quickly in mass and freeze most of it for later. No idea how much that costs in your country, but it’s supposed to be cheap.

You can just make regular bean “soup”, or you can “fry” them in a pan (specially lentils). You can eat chickpeas like popcorn or you can mix them with flour and something sticky (overcooked rice if vegan, egg whites otherwise) and make burgers. Just remember to put something oily like olive oi or butter for taste.

You can also do some really low-nutrition despair foods by mixing wheat flour, salt, water and butter, and frying that in a pan. It’s not healthy, but it’s filling and easy to make, tastes like bread. But of course, if you add to this you can make other cool stuff like pancakes (less salt, lots of sugar, baking powder).

All of the fried stuff get a very homogeneous consistency so they might be fine for your sensory issues.

On the matter of taste, you just need a lot of seasoning.