What is a quick simple recipie with barely any food?!
What is a quick simple recipie with barely any food?
I'm hungry and want dinner but we don't have much food in the house...no meat or cheese. Any ideas?
Answers:
Brown rice (or white), soup (creamy, veggies (canned, fresh or frozen). Broccoli is great!
Bread (wheat is best), sauerkraut, little bit of butter, toast under broiler. Like a veggie Reuben. I like to put Swiss cheese on it but you said no cheese.
ANY kind of pasta, plain, out of the can tomato sauce on top! GREAT. Can add Parmesan, onions, mushroom, if you want.
Bread with peanut butter on it. Toast until brownish under broiler. Serve with sliced apples or peaches. MMMM.
Baked beans -- add some catsup, bbq sauce, onion, tiny bit steak sauce or soy, bake until nice and bubbly. Yum.
Happy eating!
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if you have vegies just make a salad or use dressing on what eva you want.
tomatos, lettice, olives, kidney beans, olive oil, salt
mix together and walah! delicious salad
simple- make an omelet. Scramble eggs, spray pan, add eggs and add your favorite things in-- mine are mushrooms, onions, peppers( any color) . Good Luck.
Meat is expensive, so when you do have it, put it in gravies, soups, sauces to make a little go a long way. The flavor is what counts. When you don't have meat, add scrambled egs, sliced or chopped boiled eggs, chopped mushrooms, chopped black olives, chopped onions, or some mixed veggies. Serve it over potatoes, pasta, rice, or even stale bread. (Gravy: 1 Tablespoon of any fat, 1 Tablespoon of flour. Heat until it begins to tan. Remove from heat and add milk--a cup or two depending on how thick you want it to be. Stir lots--use a whisk if you have one so it doesn't get lumpy. If it does, it is still okay to eat, just not pretty. Salt until it tastes right. Seasoning salt adds more flavor and a bit of color. Gravy thickens as it cools.)
The next time you go shopping, don' get ready-to-eat frozen meals and such as they cost a lot more. Instead, get dried white beans, lentils, split peas, brown rice to keep on hand. You might get tired of them, but they are cheap, filling, and nutritious. They take longer to cook, but you can cook enough at a time to last for a week. After you cook it up, you can divide it into meal-size portions and freeze them. Then you just heat up what you need for a meal.
Learn to make biscuits for when you run out of bread. Learn to use whole grains. Whole wheat spaghetti, for instance, is much more nutritious than plain white, and it takes a lot less to fill you up. Use lots of onions and garlic. They add flavor to otherwise plain fare. For protein, combine any two: nuts, legumes (beans, peas, etc), grain (wheat, corn, rice, etc), or dairy if you use dairy.
Everybody goes through bad times now and then, and learning to eat with bare cupboards is good to do even when you don't have to. The only compliment I remember my dad ever giving my mom was, "She can make something out of nothing better than anybody I know."
In the meantime, if you have pasta, cook up a couple cups and mix it with a can of chopped tomatoes. If you don't have tomatoes, you can use any canned creamed soup like tomato, mushroom, or celery. If you have eggs, hard boil a couple, slice them and mix in with the rest. If you have any onions, celery, nuts, or mushrooms (most of that would have been a luxury when I was on bad times), chop a total of no more than 1 1/2 cups and them and mix them in. Put in a baking dish--a pie dish, cake pan, or pyrex pan will all work--and bake at 305 degrees for a half-hour or so, just to heat it all up and cook any veggies you stuck in. Have a good dinner.
Do you have a can of tuna, a can of peas and a can of mushroom soup and bread? I f so combine the tuna,soup and peas and gently mix together, heat and enjoy over toast.
I always go back to the basics -- beans and rice. Nutritious, cheap, and filling! Plus, it's easy to dress up, if you have salsa, cilantro, olives, etc. You can eat beans and brown rice for an entire week on less than $5 (assuming you buy dry beans and cook them yourself, not the canned refried kind).