Meals on a budget, recipes please?!
Answers: I know spaghetti & chili is cheap to make...what else?? Suggestions please.
Stews and soups are cheap and filling with bread or cornebread. Try making a variety of casseroles too- there are all kinds of casseroles out there including pasta, rice, veggies, seafood, meat and etc. Bon appetit!
Ramen noodles are very cheap and a great base for adding simple things like scrambled eggs, carrots, onions, even meat.
Soup, just fry an onion and any other mean/ hard vegetables you may have, add a couple of pints of boiling water with a stock cube added, and then leave. Leave for as long as you like, simmering. Season, and a few mins before serving, add any softer vegetables, for example green beans or kidney beans. It's easy to freeze, too, and can be refrigerated for up to three days.
1 lb of ground meat
1/2 sm onion (optional)
1/2 block of easy cheese (knock off brand of velveeta) or more to your likin
1 pkg of noodles
can of rotel (optional)
brown the meat and onion
add cheese and rotel (if you dont use rotel put abt a 1/3 of a cup of milk or water in it to thin the cheese some...
...meanwhile boil noodles on side...
mix together and you have
HOMEMADE beef STROGANOFF!!
Cheap cuts of meat like round steak can be simmered in cream of mushroom or tomato soup and the sauce can be used for gravy over mashed potatoes. If you simmer it low and slow it makes the meat tender and ohhhh so tastey. I use a little worshishire sauce and wine.
Also ground beef for tacos or chili can feed more people than just hamburgers alone.
Also cheap cuts of pork can be made into green chili but using a few pepers and canned tomatoes. Buy a bag of beans (I like the black beans) cook them in the crook pot with some bacon or smoked pork and you can make enough burritos to feed an army on a shoe string budget.
potatoe soup
a boiled chicken can be used for for 2 to 4 different meals depending on how many your cooking for.. save stock for soup, enchiladas, chicken salad, chicken w/ noodles & white sauce...
boneless country pork ribs are on sale all the time, put in crock pot then add bar b que sauce. chile verde, fried rice, stir fry.
BROCCOLI & CHEESE CASSEROLE
2 lbs. frozen broccoli, thawed
1 10 3/4 oz. can Cream of Mushroom Soup
1 medium onion, diced
1 lb. med. sharp Cheddar cheese, grated
2 eggs
salt and pepper, to taste
1 pkg. Ritz crackers crushed
Combine all ingredients except Ritz crackers in a large bowl. Mix well. Spoon into 13x9 inch pan. Cover with foil and bake at 350°F for 50 minutes.
Remove foil and sprinkle crushed Ritz crackers on top of casserole.
Bake, uncovered, for an additional 10 minutes or until crackers are golden brown. Let sit for 10 minutes before serving.
Hamburger meat cooked with garlic and seasoned with garlic salt and soy sauce served with some thai rice! Trust me its yummy and goes along way!
Potato Fries
Heat oil on a stove (vegitable or cooking oil)
Slice potatoes into pieces keeping the skin on
Put the sliced potatoes in the oil on the stove
wait a few minutes
You can also do this with sweet potatoes.
A rump roast is good, and it lasts! There are two different ways to make one, one with a crockpot and one in the oven.
If making in crockpot, put in roast with potatoes, carrots, celery whatever vegetables you happen to have on hand (not lettuce, though) Add water and seasoning - a little meat salt, basil, tyme or whatever else you like. Cook on low for 6-8 hours or until roast is tender and cooked all the way through (no pink middle).
If making in oven, follow above directions, but put it all in a 9X13 pan, and cover with foil. Cook at 350-400 for about 3 hours and check.
this one is all about your likes, dislikes
You could buy ramen noodles....get some alfredo sauce in a jar and add imitation crab meat (thats usually inexpensive) I have some other recipes that might be cheap to make...
you could get a long thing of french bread, pizza sauce, pepperoni, and cheese...and its cheap french bread pizza...