Lent project: Cooking up on a budget

One thing that's often said is a hindrance to cooking with little industry food is "It's expensive to buy good natural ingredients".

I doubt that this is true. For one thing, here in Germany we have the farmer's markets where you can buy local produce for very little money. So many people say "Yes, but I work all week and don't have the time to go there".

Good, so here is my project for this year's Lent (the 7 weeks before Easter): I will cook up only with things I can find in my discount supermarket, and write here how much I spent, how much time it took and the recipe.

I will not buy meat or meat products at the discounter, however. I am a conscious "nose to tail" animal eater, but I do not approve of the conditions animals are kept in to produce low-cost meat. So most of the meals will be vegetarian, as the old rules of Lent eating demanded. Actually, it was even vegan food that was mandated in centuries past, because milk products and eggs were forbidden as well.