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Tonight, COVID - 19 has brought the Belizean economy to its knees, thousands of tourism workers across the country have lost their jobs, and tonight thousands more are in limbo, because the state of emergency has forced their place of employment to close, possibly for a month.

So, a whole cross section of the society is facing very hard times. And so we’ve been prospecting out there for recipes on how to help folks prepare meals on a tight budget.

But, only one chef came through for us, and that was Sean Kulylen earlier this week. So today, Jules Vasquez went out on his own to see how he could create a meal for many on a tight budget.

Of course, he’s no kind of cook, but he has a friend who’s favourite room is the kitchen. Here’s today’s adventure in cooking for hard times:

He promises to cook something a little more on the healthy side - but equally budget conscious for us next time.

And while Finnegan cooked for us today, he’s well known in political circles to cook for his political colleagues of both political stripes. In fact he told us he recently whipped dup a conch fritters batter for the leader of the opposition.