Inexpensive dinners?!
Answers: I'm looking for some inexpensive, easy dinner ideas. Thanks!
My absolute favorite is cubed steak, gravy, mashed potatoes, peas/green beans/broccoli.
still a sucker for meatloaf, baked potatoes, and peas
and who could ever forget grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup
oh, and there's spaghetti
and western omelets with hash browns
grilled salmon with lemon glaze, rice, and broccoli
my favorite place to browse is epicurious.com
McDonalds
Buy flavored rice in box (Rice-a-roni and such), buiscuits (to bake in the oven), wings from Pizza Hut, and you can make salad with lettuce and tomatoes and have a nice dinner. Also crunchy noodles from FoodNetwork.com
Chicken breasts and fresh veggies, You can put yummy stuff on top of your chicken, green chillies, cheese, avacados. Of course there is always spagehtti, oh and chili beans, those are good left over dinners.
can i buy you a drink? :P
whenever we are having it hard, i get some dinner rolls, a tri-tip roast, and a jar of mr. bell's salsa (whatever kind of salsa you like works).
take the tri-tip roast, and place it in a slow cooker or crockpot. add 1/2 cup of water, then the jar of salsa. slow cook the tri-tip roast on low ALL NIGHT LONG or for at least 8 hrs. when ready to serve, throw the rolls in the oven with some butter slapped between the folds of the rolls. the roast will MELT in your mouth its sooooooooooooooooooo good! and times are tough a LOT. especially now because the weather is bad and i had to pay $900 to my electric company or they turn me off then i have no heat!!!!!!!
meatloaf, hotdogs, mac and cheese, spaghetti,casseroles, breakfast for dinner(pancakes, eggs&toast)
if you buy a bag of chicken boneless breast you can usually get 2 to 3 dinners out of it.
Hopefully this helps you some.
If you can learn to cook the least bit--- make a pot of rice. Then just fry some veggies and maybe some chicken. Add a little sauce like Yoshiko's to the veggies, put the chicken/veggie/terriaki sauce on the rice. You are good to go.
Or, hot tuna sandwiches. Toast the bread then spread a mixture of tuna and mayonnaise on it, onions maybe. I like to put thin sliced cheese on it and carefully broil it until the cheese melts. Put the rack about 2-3" from the top coil and watch it. When the cheese melts and bubbles, it's done.
Beans and rice. Buying dried beans is cheaper because they make a lot once they are cooked. Plus it's pretty healthy when prepare with a vegetable or two!
i find that the easiest and least expensive meal that i make at home is either rice or pasta?
there is also so much you can do with these. you can add ham and salad to the pasta and add a touch of salad cream or mayo and with the rice you could add some scrambles egg with fried peppers and onions, easy?
another inexpensive food is potatoes? you could have something using potatoes everyday of the week and they are a good energy food and very healthy!
day 1 - grate potatoe and mould onto a circle, add salt and pepper and dust with flour and ry in a hot frying pan. ther you have your potatoe rosti.
day2 - boil some mixed veg and potatoes and once cooked mash potatoes and add veg. eat with gravy and bangers if you have any? also season the veg.
day 3 - boil and mash potatoes and add corned beef and fried onions add to a pastry case and bake in the oven, there you have acorned beef pie. if you hav some mixture left over from the pie moul into circles and dust with flour, fry in the frying pan and you have corned beef and potatoe flap jacks.
day4 - boil potatoes and add mayo sewrve with a salad, there you have a potatoe salad
day 5 - make a ham and potato stew, just add ham peas and potaoes to a slow cooker and cook gently until ready, there you have ham and potatoe stew, just remember to add salt pepper and bouquet ganni herb bag
day6 - eat left oer stew it will last for the next day, it will als taste nice with blobs of cheese.
day7 - treat yourself to thick cut chips (fries) eat with sea salt and cracked black pepper?
hope iv'e managed to give you some interesting ideas?
rice and beans with tomatoes and peppers
eggs, toast with juice
mac n chz with hot dogs
spagetti with margerine, garlic powder and a bit of parm
spagettios w/calcium... high in protein
grilled ham n cz with soup
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instead of coffee drink tea
fried rice with eggs, some diced frozen veggies
yogurt and toast
oat meal
cereal
chilli with meat and beans
serve everything afterbreakfast with a side salad, oil and vinigar is a good cheap way to avoid the packaged ones and a bit of parm never hurt and always keep an onion around, it will go a long way and give a zing to anything
sloppy joes .. can make sauce with just bbq sauce and ketch.
green been casserole
chicken, cheeze, eggnoodle and mushroom soup casserole
can buy frozen beef n bean burritos in store for about fifty cents each
well that should give you a start
Get yorself a slow cooker it is like a casserole that cooks all day then you can put cheaper cuts of meat like beef briskett or mutton with veg like carrots swede leeks celery and a good stock then leave it in all day so it gets really tender its great !!!!!!
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