I made dinner for 8 people with around $3. My lentils.

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I don´t live in a country where a dollar goes a long way. My country is an expensive one and groceries eat up a lot of out monthly income. When my husband, the main provider, died, I thought how could I live like before with less than half of the money I used to have. I cut the money I spent on beauty parlours and learned to dye my hair. And I do not go to Starsbuck or the like but rather drink coffee at home. Food was an important item. I like to eat well so I learned how to cook less expensive, yet gourmet, dishes. Today I cooked lentils. I don´t buyu cans of lentils and add other cans. I buy at a smaller price dry lentils and put them to soak overnight. Then I cooked them in milk, no salt, in my pressure cooker for around 10 minutes since the pressure began. Meanwhile I had diced and caramelized onions with cut up bacon, added crushed garlic, ground sweet pepper, smoked hot pepper (a bit), salt and pepper. When I opened the pressure cooker, I used the hand blender to mash part of the lentils and then added the other ingredients. I checked on the salt and it was ready. Sometimes I put some parmesan cheese over it or a cut up hard boiled egg. When my family arrived, I said I could understand Esau in the Bibble when he went for a dish of lentils after a long hunting day.