Here are some ideas that worked for me years ago:
(if you have time, prepare your own chapatis, to include with any of these)
* Fruits and nuts, seeds
* Raw salads with cooked beans, or soup
* Black eye peas cooked somewhat soft can be mashed to make a spread (you can include chopped bell peppers, spices, or home-made mayonnaise, or just use as is) other beans could be used, but I found black eye peas work well. The spread can be used to accompany raw vegetables and a salad; or with chopped tomato, whole olives, and finely cut lettuce, etc used as a spread on chapatis.
*Try different variations of rice, beans and tomato, depending on what seasonings are used, and whether you include chopped bell peppers and chilies, celery, you can make very easy one-pot meals to resemble in flavor italian spaghetti(basil, oregano, bell pepper, hing), mexican chili (cumin, bell pepper, chili, hing). You can also use thyme, celery seed, red and yellow peppers.

If you don't mind using a slow-cooker, you can think of the Lord while preparing the vegetables and beans and then let it cook. You might want to add the rice toward the end of the cooking time. It only takes up a small space on a table. It would be ready to offer to the Lord and take with you when you go to work in the morning. (if you are not able to do much cooking where you are)

When I had very limited funds, and worked two jobs while attending college (which meant very little time), these are some of the foods I prepared.

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