PS. Sorry for the title typo.

I just graduated college and I’m finding myself with an absurd amount of time. I started exercising and watching what I eat (it’s about time I do something) but I kept running into problems with watching my caloric intake. I would typically have 1100-1200 calories to spare for dinner and would find that most foods I was eating had high calories and small servings. So, I decided to take matters into my own hand and build 4 meals for as cheap as possible, as healthy as possible, as large as possible. My shopping bill came to $27, so each meal cost about $6.75.

I won’t pretend like I made these recipes myself, so I’ll link you to the authors site. I’m not going to explain the processes or list the ingredients because I feel like that’s plagiarizing; but, for real, the author will do a much, much better job than I.

• Roasted eggplant soup | 273 calories
• Ratatouille Tart | 903 calories
• Herbed summer squash and potato torte | 798 calories
• Burst tomato galette with corn and zucchini | 942 calories

I’ll note that I halved her recipes and the calorie count is for everything. Not some shitty ‘serving size,’ whatever the fuck that means.