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C2 · The cheap shelf is the good shelf

Save this for the first cold week. Eating well is not supposed to need a second paycheck. Four pots, what is actually in them, and one thing we are not going to pretend about. Split pea. About 16 g of fiber in a cooked cup, which is most of a day in one bowl, plus around 16 g of protein. Dried split peas are among the cheapest protein in the store. Black bean. A cup carries about 256 mcg of folate and 15 g of fiber. Cheap, freezes well, and better on day two. Butternut squash. One cooked cup runs to roughly 1,144 mcg of vitamin A, from the orange pigment your body converts as it needs it. Add a little fat so you actually absorb it. Chicken and white bean. Three ounces of chicken is about 26 g of protein, and the beans carry the fiber the chicken does not have. And the honest one. Chicken soup does not fight a cold. The famous test was fifteen healthy people, none of them ill, and plain hot water did very nearly the same thing. Most of what you feel is hot and liquid, not chicken. Make it anyway. It is still one of the kindest things you can hand someone. Keep it safe: into shallow containers and in the fridge within two hours, eat it within three to four days, and bring it back to a full rolling boil when you reheat.