A quick cheap and nutritious dish. (North Africa meets India meets Harlow)

One largish onion
A cup of cous-cous or bulgar wheat (or half a cup of each)
A fair-sized saucepan full of some random collection of beans, chick peas, cauliflower, carrots spinach, what have you. (Frozen, tinned or fresh - if canned keep what you don't use in fridge for next time and the time after that.)
Various spices - notably turmeric and paprika, coriander.(Maybe ginger, coriander, madras curry...)
A spoon or so of cumin seeds.
Clove of garlic.
Half a tin of chopped tomatoes.
Generous splash of olive oil (quarter of a cup maybe?).
Tomato ketchup.

1)Boil kettle of water.
2)Put cous-cous and or bulgar wheat in a bowl, cover with boiling water, and set aside for till you will need them in a few minutes.
3)Fill up saucepan with your beans and such like, add enough water to boil, and put on to boil.
4) Chop up the onion
5)Heat up the olive oil in a wok or large frying pan, and stir in the cumin seeds.
6)Add the onion, and stir about till soft.
7)Stir in the various spices and chopped garlic. (Generous teapoons of most of these.)
8)Add the cous cous /bulgar wheat.
9)Drain the vegetables and stir in to the wok mixture.
10)Stir in big dollop of tomato ketchup. (And salt to taste, as they say.)

Eat, hot right now, or cold over the next couple of days (or reheat); a spoon of yogurt goes well with it; so does naan bread or mashed potato, or colcannon. Always tastes different, since the vegetable combination varies according to what you have, and so do the spices, if you like. I haven't worked out how much it costs, but it's very cheap as well, especially if you have enough of the ingredients to make it a couple of times a week, so you don't need to use full tins of anything.

What with ten stages, and all those ingredients it sounds complicated, but it isn't. The most difficult part is chopping the onion, in fact.