Whew! The first time I read it, I thought it said you had "a lack of Possum". Lol.

I have a bad habit of just eating the same thing all the time. And then I guess I get some kind of vitamin deficiency and get grouchy.

But, I am not a very fancy cook, either.... My usual cooking procedure is to mix it all into a stew and boil until everything is an even gray color. :3

So I made up a mixture of inexpensive dried goods (basmati rice, beans, lentils, chickpeas, barley, etc) from a recipe I found and since lost somewhere on the internet, which if I have calculated the nutritional content correctly should provide all of the nutrients that a person needs other than B12 (which is pretty much only available from meat).

I call it "Polecat's Slop Bucket".

So I started eating on that as a cheap soup for lunch each day, and started feeling a lot better. Still eating whatever for dinner, but I think the soup kind of balances things out. I get a little tired of it after while, but it's super cheap so I keep eating it. :P

My mixture is:
8 parts basmati rice
2 parts yellow lentils
2 parts hulled barley
2 parts red kidney beans
1 part split peas
1 part chickpeas
(to taste) some garlic powder
(to taste) some beef bullion powder
a dash of olive oil

Unless you use canned kidney beans (more expensive), you have to soak the beans a while before mixing in the rest and cooking it. Otherwise they don't get quite done. And supposedly can be slightly toxic if not soaked. But I am lazy so I usually just make a big pot of it and eat on it for several days, adding more water now and then when I reheat it.

Edit: Forgot about the olive oil. :O