Any low budget recipes out there?!
Any low budget recipes out there?
I need some low cost food recipes that are healthy and can be afforded everyday with a college student budget.
Answers:
If you like tuna: 1 can tuna, 1 stick margarine, 1/3 cup flour, salt and pepper, milk, canned or frozen peas, bread for toasting.
Melt margerine, mix in flour until thick, add milk until you get a soupy mixture. Add drained tuna and drained peas-heat until warm, season to taste, serve over toast-this might be nice over rice or noodles, too. Vary the flavor by using canned chicken or ham.
Make your own creamy tomato soup: use 1 15 oz. can of tomatoes, a pinch of sugar, salt, and baking soda, water and dried powdered milk or canned evaporated milk. Mash the tomatoes, add spices, cook until boiling. Mix the water and milk until you have about a cup of thick liquid. Add, stirring, to the tomato mix. Carefully stir (milk will burn quick) until creamy.
A good snack that's healthy, peanut butter on wheat crackers, with skim milk. This is a good study time or bedtime snack, protein for your body, and the milk is relaxing.
Eggs are good and inexpensive. Add veggies and cheese and you've got an omelet, with toast it's a complete meal.
Fresh fruit that is in bags. Look for the best bag, buying individual fruit is usually more expensive than bagged fruit.
Check for specials on beef cuts that are about to expire. Beef is a good buy, use the amount you need, make up portions to freeze for later meals.
Buy whole potatoes instead of instant. They're much, much cheaper, and it's hard to bake instant mashed potatoes! It's just not the same. A good meal could be made of a baked potato, a margarine substitue like smart balance, lo-fat sour cream, bacon bits, dried onion flakes, salt and pepper, chedder cheese shreds.
Clip coupons for any convenience items. And, if you have a roommate, consider sharing meals to lessen your costs. Buy fresh when you can, but only as much as you need at the time, or freeze the extra.
Hope these tips help, I fed myself on $20.00 a week while in college, using fresh foods mostly and cooking meals from scratch. You could probably do that on $40.00 to $50.00 a week, if you shop wisely, at today's prices.