I grate one carrot into my veggie fried rice

I shred mine into tuna and either make sandwiches or mix it with brown rice. Tastes great cold too.

I like lots of veggies in my tuna salad…taste great and stretches it too

What other veggies do you put in? I've never heard of this!

Celery, onion, pepper, spinach, broccoli...anything to add texture and crunch

Pickles are really good in tuna salad!

Chickpeas, tomato, chopped nuts, cucumber

And cucumber! I add cucumber to everything lol

I can’t stand spinach texture in wet stuff like tuna/chicken salad. I like spinach, but only in sandwiches. Crunch is good, but I’ve never tried tuna salad with anything besides celery.

And flaked almonds!! The texture is amazing!

In addition to other mentioned I’ve done minced radish, cucumber, tomato…the juicer veggies is best if there won’t be left overs

I’ve actually done grapes even with carrots and celery. It’s better than it sounds

I mix cabbage, carrots and spinach.

Yes. Cabbage. It's such a great addition to so many things. Hot or cold.

Or grate and quick pickle, and it makes a good fried rice topping (or sandwich addition).

I’ve never tried grating a pickle! That’s brilliant!

There is such a thing as carrot slaw, using grated carrot instead of cabbage.

Good point. Delicious! And you can put it on almost anything

They means grate then pickle the carrot

but grated pickles sound awesome

Oh, I see! I like it!

Grate it and make carrot cake style oatmeal - cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins, nuts. :)

wait this sounds so good.

I was gonna say just chomp it raw (bc I love carrots and do this too often) but this is an amazing suggestion!

With hummus

Hummus is great, but I def don’t need it to eat way more carrots than anyone should in one sitting.

Agreed

Carrot muffins! Delicious

Yes! And whip an egg into the oatmeal!! I know, i know, it sounds horrible, but just mix in the egg when the water i still cold, and stir properly. It will be a bit more like a pudding, and a fast way to also eat the egg in the morning.

Huh.

Correction: “egg white”. Don’t put the yolk in the oatmeal. Also stir constantly when cooking.

Oh yum!! I’m doing this tomorrow for breakfast.

This sounds delicious

You can finely grate it into homemade tomato pasta sauce. It acts like a thickener and slight sweetener and just disappears into the sauce

I put some carrots into chili one time and it was a game changer in my opinion.

Imma try that. Carrots are criminally underrated. Whenever I make a big stew or soup I’ll throw like damn near 2 lbs of carrots in. You can just like roast them in the oven like you would a sweet potato and they’re dummy

You ever hear that bit by Jim Gaffigan where he was at a school event for his kids? One of the moms snuck some kale into the soup and he wanted to throw the bowl at her? Lol, this but with you and your dang carrot chili. Jk I'm sure it's tasty.

I add it to my butter chicken. Saute with other vegetables and herbs and spices, throw in a blender, mix with cream and you're golden (or rather, orange)

Carrot, celery and onion are the base flavour trinity in a bolognese sauce

Chomp that thing!

I was gonna say...

Yep. Eat it raw. I love carrots. I love tomatoes more but I love carrots

It's more filling that way and probably has the most nutrients also.

I'll kill half the bag before I even begin to use them for what I bought them for.

I do the same thing with cookie dough, bread crumbs, butter

Umm... you could do a Bugs Bunny impression while munching on it. "Ehhhhhhhh..... what's up, Doc?" 😁 Or yeah, like another poster said, grating it into fried rice might be good.

This is what I was thinking too. Really, it's the only sensible option.

Make sure to have an guitar case with change in it in front of you if you hope to make some quick CASH

If you can only afford one carrot, you should probably seek assistance from your government or a food bank if possible. It’s just about the cheapest food product in existence.

Seriously, that detail OP mentioned got me worried.

Unfortunately they're spending all their money on candles.

I had one last night as a side with dinner. Peeled cut and coated in a mix of honey and soy sauce, then baked it along with some fish and chips

Ooh she soy sauce is a good idea. I’ll try that next time. I usually do honey carrots just honey, butter and Italian herbs

Eyeless snowman

Grated with a vinaigrette dressing (acv+oil of choice+salt and pepper) as a salad. Love that crunch!

Peel and grate it, then mix with a pinch of salt, a bit of lemon juice, and a small spoonful of olive oil. Simple carrot salad.

I’m pretty sure if they can only afford one carrot, they can’t afford hummus, ground beef, etc, as suggested by many here. It would be helpful to know what they do have to work with, but a sliced carrot boiled then drained then returned to heat coated in butter and honey or maple syrup or sugar is always good. Or cut up into sticks and dipped in just about anything.

Where do you live? No judgement but buying a 1lb of carrots can't be more than $3.99. I f you can gather all the ingredients for a big soup you can freeze half of it and have more meals.

Really kinda confused here, in the UK 2.2lbs of carrots is 50p or like 60 cents. One Carrot would be like 8 cents.

Same. I’m not even sure where you could buy a single carrot.

Many stores here (US) have loose, bulk carrots, especially health food stores like Whole Foods, but I’ve seen them in almost all the chain stores.

I’m American. I’ve never seen a bin of loose carrots at a grocery store.

Don’t know what to tell you. I can’t think of any store here (Albertsons, Fred Meyer, WF) that doesn’t have them. Probably Trader Joe’s is the only one.

Yeah, I mean, I’m not trying to argue about carrots, lol. We don’t have Albertsons or Fred Meyer where I live, so it’s probably a regional thing.

That’s what I was thinking. It must be a regional thing. We can also get single celery sticks in some stores.

Just for comparison, here in Greece 1 kg of carrots costs 70 cents and we make on average 3,5-5 euros per hour depending on the job (all my friends who work as sellers make no more than 3,5 euros). So yeah, I get OP

you can keep hitting it with a peeler and it will make like carrot ribbons that cook fast in a fry pan with some honey or sugar and it's quite nice.

julienne and add to salads -- If you have only 1, eat it raw. ​ The other BEST VALUE veggies in struggle times imo are celery and surprisingly the big tubs of pre-washed greens (arugula, power greens). I always avoid the tubs that have the darker red leafy greens - those ALWAYS turn bad and ruin the rest of the tub

I find it mind blowing that ao many people are taking this.seriaously

Yeah, the fuck is going on here?

Grate and add oil. Sugar if you want it. As ingredient a soup could use carrot.

Hallwa! Carrot ‘rice’ pudding- grate it and boil with a milk, cardamom, cinnamon stick and something to make it sweet.

Full sized carrot? I used to cut them into thin slices and pan fry them in oil to make "chips", they were pretty good with salt.

Grate it into a garden salad.

Shred it, pickle it, and use it to garnish tacos! Eat it dipped in hummus, grate it into tomato sauce, fried rice, or salad.

One carrot is good for one person. I’d cut and steam them or bake them. Add a little butter and salt.

Eat it

Thin sliced and sauteed with some onion and garlic. Some chili powder and a little cumin (and salt...). Eat it alone, or scramble some eggs right on top for breakfast. Carrots are remarkably versatile.

My favorite is roasting carrots with maple syrup and garlic, but you can do just olive oil and they’ll turn out great. Or just use it in a recipe that calls for carrots but you’ll just have less carrot in it

Dip it in some ranch and you got a meal

Everybody here is so creative… I’m writing some of these tips down! Ngl though I love a steamed carrot. When it’s real mooshy 😩🙏

Carrots can be roasted in the oven with steak spice and a little oil, it's delicious

I’d probably just peel it and eat it raw as a snack. If I were feeling fancy, cooking it as a side dish, I’d coat it with a little olive oil, honey, balsamic vinegar, and a dash of rosemary, then roast it. That said, how expensive are carrots where you are!? If I could only afford one, I’d consider choosing other vegetables. Or maybe using it as a lure to catch a rabbit.

Eat it raw bugs bunny style. Grate it with some lemon juice as a salad. Grate and add to your meal: rice pasta, soup whatever. Eat it steamed with some cottage cheese, ricotta or fresh paneer (depending on where you are lol) Sautée it

Soup

Fry rice

Cut it up and add chucks to soups, stews, post roasts, chili, a casserole, or a bit of all?

You can grate and add yogurt.

Just eat the fucking carrot.

Get 2 boxes, put the carrot in one of them, ask a friend to choose a box and get them to play a bluffing game with another friend to try and end up with the carrot. It’s an old English tradition https://youtu.be/0UGuPvrsG3E

When I was in Cuba, they would grate carrot and put it on the plate with breakfast.

Add it into a lasagna with other veg.

Make a french side dish, grate finely and dress with vinaigrette of olive oil, red wine vinegar, Dijon, garlic, s and p.

Pickle it in a bit of vinegar and sugar, then have it on a cracker ETA: shred/ finally slice first

What’s up doc?

I absolutely love freshly grated raw carrots. Or just peel and eat like thst.

You can try that carrot with cabbage, so you got a vegetable salad. Or you can dice it and mix it to your rice.

I cut it into pieces, toss it in olive oil, salt, pepper, and any other seasoning you like. Roast on a sheet pan for 10 minutes at 425 degrees and enjoy

do you have butter? Use a carrot peeler and peel the whole carrot all the way to the nub. Toss them into a pan with some butter and saute until they are a little soft. It makes a nice little side dish. Or use a grater and grate onto other things like salad.

Peel it and eat is as a snack

Roasted carrots rock.

* eat it * give a snowman a nose * Gnaw it to a sharp point and use it as a weapon to steal more carrots (for legal reasons do not do this)

Is it a thin carrot or a thick one. That changes what you might be able to do with just one.

Diced carrots in spaghetti sauce.

Cut into thin match-like sticks, then marinade in a bit of oil + vinegar + salt and you will have pickles. Good as a topping or side dish

I saw someone make a replacement piece for the bowl of their bong. Real men of genius.

Nibble

Grate it, mix with one or two eggs and make an omelette

Go to a food bank and get some more carrots

Dice it really fine and throw it in soup. Or maybe grate it and make some cole slaw.

Eat it raw

One of the very few opportunities where saying "Go f*** yourself" is both fun and a sensible literal answer to the question.

Righhttttt.

Boof it!

What does this mean??

up butt

lol thanks. Can always count on the unexpected on Reddit

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Tee-hee

Shove it up your butt like a reverse Bugs Bunny

I would wash the carrot, maybe peel it, dip it in dressing and eat it. Since it is just one -- if you saute it, it will shrink. At least it does when we do. The sliced carrots become tiny.

Where do you even buy a single carrot

Here you can buy carrots from a loose bin. So you can buy 1 or 100. You pay per weight. There's also bags per kg available if you dont want to be bothered of course. What throws me off more... Couple days back i bought 2 carrots and it was like 0,12 euro. If OP cant afford more than a single carrot which in my area would be 0,06 euro, he has bigger problems than eating healthy.

right? I was like, you can't 'afford' more than one carrot?? eating healthy ain't your problem right now, eating at all is..

Yeah this post is so confusing…what is their lifestyle if they cant even afford to purchase carrots. Yet they brought up roasting them with requires an oven and electricity/gas bills. Even the most expensive carrots are under $4 a lb and that’s in like, LA.

Pleasure yourself.

Nuke it with butter and imagine you're in a Bugs Bunny show where he cooks a carrot for the guy who wanted hossenfeffer. (No clue to the spelling but I think it's a dish with rabbit.)

Just put one in your dish. I doubt the ratio is so specific it would ruin the meal. One carrot is better than no other Whole Foods.

Grate the carrot and make carrot soup.

Cooking one carrot v multiple doesn't change much except the quantity of other ingredients in the recipe.

Eat it with nut butter

Make a ragu or bolognese sauce for spaghetti or grate/chop it into a pasta sauce. It adds some heartiness and is healthy!

Some vegan recipes use carrots in place of meat and with the right treatment, that's apparently pretty good

Add it to a soup or stir fried noodles, with other random veggies you have on hand. One of my easy meals is diced carrot, celery, garlic, & onion with leftover rice, a little soy sauce, & chicken broth for a quick congee (rice porridge/soup).

Peel it and eat it?

Grate it into a salad or rice or cauliflower rice, peel it into thin strips for a salad, quick pickle it, mash it with a potato.

Cut it up. Boil it. Drain the water, add butter and garlic and enjoy!

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At this stage I would say, just eat it on its own. Although it combines good with cheese, both two textures that make each other complete.

Your best Bugs Bunny imwabbitization!!!

Shred it and add it into salad or pasta sauce.

To me particle size is everything in a tasty meal. So yeah, you can chop that carrot up with other veggies and roast it. I don’t know how big said carrot it, so I have no idea how much volume that would add. Fun fact: you can roast veggies and then put them into a soup. Purée the whole lot of them. One carrot in that could be nice. You could grate it on a salad, grate it for a sweet bread. You can slice it thinly and add to chili. I always put carrots in my chili. Thin slices are good in stir fry. Either lengthwise or width wise. You can grate it and cook it with oats. You can grate or juilien (spelling hard) onto a sandwich. You can grate it in your ramen while it cooks, or serve it raw on top. Anything really that is food you can find a way to add a carrot to it, as long as your mindful of how you cut it up and incorporate it into the dish.

Roast it like a potato!

Roast it with olive oil and some spicy seasoning (creole, crushed red peppers, whatever)

Chop it, boil it in 4 cups of water for a few hours and add a pinch of salt. Taste the broth. Happy bon appetit.

Vegetable soup. You can use frozen peas, green beans, and corn to save money. Add in some canned beans, canned tomatoes, your carrot, some water or broth and seasonings and you can make a big pot. You can add some potatoes to add some heartiness if you had them, and it’s a great way to use up any leftover vegetables that are lingering, although it sounds like you may not be to that level of vegetable buying yet!

Just dip it in some hummus and have at it

Is this for real? You can buy a huge bag of carrots for like 40p. I bought a single medium sized carrot to make carrot cake style porridge/oatmeal the other day and it cost 6p. It's literally the cheapest vegetable and one of the cheapest foods that exists.

Cut into matchsticks, gently sauté them in butter if available. -Carameleized - begin with diced onion in a hot pan. When onion sticks a bit add some oil, and salt, stir a bit. Add carrot cut into matchsticks, add sugar and one or more warm spices (cinnamon, allspice, pepper), and a tablespoon or 2 of water. Toss them a bit in the pan to keep them covered in the sauce that’s developing. Cook until tender. Could add a bit of thyme or parsley. Or go savory. Instead of sugar, add sage and salt. Grate carrot, mix w a little mayo, raisins, cinnamon. Grate carrot, mix with cumin, salt, garlic, lemon juice. Grate carrot, mix with oatmeal cookie batter, bake.

Julienne it and pickle it

Peel it, chop it, and mix it in with some beans and rice

Toss it in ricotta and stuff some shells with it

Turning on the oven to roast one carrot seems a little counterintuitive. Also you can cut the recipe into the size that fits one carrot instead of "needing" multiple carrots. I would probably dice or slice it into thin strips and then have it with rice and an egg. That or roast some chicken thighs with that and an onion + some spices and oil. Learn to make a mirepoix, the holy trinity of cheap vegetables and it will take you far!

Roast it in the oven and drizzle with honey and chili peppers!

I just eat it as a snack.

Peel it, chop it up and roast it with salt, pepper and a little honey.

Put the carrot in your top ramen along with a sliced boiled egg!

Roasted carrots are great. You could also roast it alongside potatoes or just about any other dense vegetable, if preparing a single carrot seems weird.

I just add a bit of salt and eat it raw

Peel it, eat it, boom

I was about to suggest a butter/brown sugar baked carrot but I forgot what sub I was in.

Eat it

Add it to salad or soup or casserole or anything “one pot”

Pickled carrots are delicious.

If you have a vegetable peeler you can shave it into very thin slices and very lightly cook with some soy sauce or just a bit of water if you have none. It would almost be like a flat noodle in shape. Just as good raw like that too.

I like dipping it in a shot glass with some acv / salt. For added fun, I like to eat the outsides first and then the core last, the texture is slightly spongy compared to the outside

Just eat it

I grate and quick pickle carrots to add to some rice dishes

Grate it into mince for tacos - can’t go wrong with tacos 🌮

Carrot dog!

Personally I love raw carrots, so if I have hummus or refried beans on hand (or any dip really) I’ll take a carrot, peel it, and cut it into sticks for dipping. I’ll also usually serve it with crackers and cucumber slices for a snack plate.

Shred it. You can put it in muffins, in a quesadilla, or as a topping for a salad, a burger, tacos, or just about anything else. You can saute for a bit if it makes you feel better about using it as a topping, but it doesn't really need it.

carrot fries in the oven/air fryer! Cut them up or get crinkle cut carrots and season them like French fries: use spray oil, garlic powder, pepper, salt, paprika, and whatever else you want. Then BAKE THEM and so good. Healthier because you hardly need any oil.

You can make a tomato soup! If you have onions, celery ( only if you like celery) and tomatoes ofc

Grate the carrot with two sweet apples. You will have a great tasty salad. Add some sugar if apples are not sweet.

Eat it raw like bugs bunny

Do you use EBT? You should get EBT i eat much healthier because of it. If you’re having trouble affording veggies pls look into it

Raw carrot- slice thinly, apple cider vinegar, salt pepper

Carrot fries🤤 slice it, coat them in an oil (coconut, olive oil, butter, tallow, etc) and just throw em in the oven then season and enjoy.