As the bird flu rages all alcross the globe and recent news confirm new human victims of this plague in Asia, chicken still stays one of the healthiest choices of meat for non-vegetarian people. Chicken meat provides a high supply on proteins and has a relatively small ammounts of fat/calories. Apart from that some studies claim that chicken meat:

• Protects against cancer, as it has high levels of B-vitamins (niacin) and selenium, which is an essential substance needed for some of your body’s strongest antioxidants.
• That same niacin helps to protect yourself against Alzheimer and similar cognitive declines. Stay mentally fit with chicken!
• B6-vitamins protect your blood vessels against damage.

Chicken is the most important (and the cheapest) source of protein in any fitness diet. And the beauty of it is that there are so many recipes out there that are tasty and wallet-conscious

One of my favourite dishes is fried chicken with mushrooms. I am a pretty bad cook, but this one is so easy to make it’s simply hilarious. Basically all you need is (kg-alert!):

• 1kg of chicken breast (5.98$)
• 1/3 kg of mushrooms (0.49$)
• 1 onion (0.11$)
• soy sauce (0.07$)
• pulvorized curry (0.01$)
• black & red pepper (pulverized) (0.01$)
• 5 table spoons of olive oil (0.05$)

The most difficult part of the whole story is to clean and to cut it all into pieces. If you’re good at it you shouldn’t last more than 15 minutes. Note: you don’t have to cut it all into the smallest pieces ever. Rough medium-sized pieces are just fine.

When you’re done, you put some olive oil into the frying pan and start frying the chicken first. Add pepper, curry and soy and mix it all good. Personally I like chicken when it’s spicy, but this one is all up to you.

As chicken starts to get brown and you get a feeling in your gut that it might be ready, add the mushrooms and a few minutes later the onions and “shuffle” it all. At this point your experiment may be looking like this:

Damn, this thing smells so good I can’t even look at it Nobody can stand the aroma of fried chicken with curry and soja.

Anyway, you leave it like that for another few minutes and as you see the onions getting slightly brown, you’re done. Voila! In the grand total it shouldn’t take you more than 40 minutes. You can do a workout while you cook this dish (that’s what I do).
Usually I make in addition some pasta or rice (0.30$), add a vegetable (like a carrot) to the plate and eat it all together.

This should be enough for 8 plates. So, if you’re a hungry dude and you live alone, you could be eating this for 2-3 days. No unhealthy fast food, no excess of fats, no unnecessary salt. Quick, cheap and healthy. Enjoy! (I know I will )

Note: A real bodytweaker loves chicken meat anyway!
Cost: Depends on where you buy. Could be as much as 0.88$ / plate (without the carrot )