Cheap decent meals that you personally recommend?!
Cheap decent meals that you personally recommend?
I don't have an oven I want personal recommendations not just website links as I have google and can do that.
Additional Details2 weeks ago
Take out isn't cheap
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2 weeks ago
Take out isn't cheap
1 Thai red/ green curry. Its lush and saucepanable. You can buy a tub of the paste which lasts`ages`as its v strong.
2 Spaghetti/ tagliatelle carbonara. Cook pasta 6 mins. 100g pp.
Drain and stick in a big bowl.
In same saucepan, fry half and sliced onion, a few slices mushrooms and sliced bacon ( fat left on for flavour). After 5 mins add, I level desert spoon of white flour, stir in, cook gently for 1 min. Add a 1/2 mug (175 ml) milk. Stit vigoursly and don't let the sauce catch on the bottom. Cook 20 mins, adding pasta back for last 5 mins.
OK so its not real italian cooking, I knows chefs will be chiding the vols and the combinbations, still if your skint and only have one saucepan, its quite tasty. You can lift the disgh by a few mixed herbs, a knob of butter and an egg cup of white wine just before serving.
3 IIf u have a gas hob toast is a possibility. Peanut butter on toast. Or curried baked beans, spinach and frankfurter on toast. Fish finger sandwich. Beware of goiing too cheap on the fish fingers, which will taste like saw dust if too cheap.
4 Passoule. This is a liitle complex, but marvellous value.
Fry 2 onions. The 3 sliced green peppers (plus a chill if heat desired) for 15 mins no lid, then add 400ml tin tomaotoes fopr another 15. Bring to boil and simmer for another 15 mins. Add 4 finley chopped garluc cloves and a rounded teaspoon of basil, plus one hepaed teaspoon of smoked paprika. Stir for one min. Put aside when done and refrigerate. Having soaked a 500g bag of dried butter bean overnight in loads of water, discard water. Add new to covber and boil hard for 10 mins. Discard this water (itr will make you fart like hell). Add new water and boil beans for 2 -3 hours ie until soft. I hour in, add a 500g piece of smoked bacon/ gammon. Cook with beans until beasn tender. After cooking, drain stock, (but keep water as it makes a love soup eg with sliced cabbgae). Add backj sauce prepared earlier. Bring to boil and cook for 10 mins. Slice bacon. And serve 1 or 2 slices per big bowl of passoule, with a slice of bread and butter and a beer. This is a gold almighty yummy dish. Please try it. Its soooooo nice. And for one person, it would probably give you a weeks worth of dinners.
Good luck.
chinese
romaine noodles, Ravioli, I eat all that a lot.
Thai take away ... u cant go wrong !!
Shepherds/cottage pie. This is only minced beef/lamb and mashed potato. Dead easy and no oven needed.
Order out.. Chinese, or pizza until you can get an oven.. Or Go to the store and buy some chicken breast & eat that with a nice freshly made supermarket pasta salad..
It all sounds good! good luck on what you decide to have
take care!
Bcn_mimosa from Barcelona, Spain
spagetti bolognese is a cheap and easy meal that can be cooked without an oven
if you have a microwave you can cook pretty much anything.
Beans and franks are always easy and ramen noodles, too.
Really good, really cheap
CHEAP BEEF STROGANOFF
2 tbsp. butter
1/2 c. diced onions
Garlic
2 tbsp. flour
2 tbsp. salt
1 can sliced mushrooms
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 lb. ground beef
1 can consomme
1 tbsp. vinegar
1 (6 oz.) can tomato paste
1 bag egg noodles
1 pt. sour cream
In a heavy skillet over medium heat, melt butter, saute onion and garlic until soft. Sprinkle mixed flour, salt and pepper over meat. Add meat and mushrooms to skillet and cool. Stir often for 6 minutes.
Stir in consomme, vinegar, tomato paste. Simmer, uncovered for 10 minutes. Stir often, cook until desired consistency. Cook noodles for 14 minutes, drain in hot water, return to cooking pan after melting 2 tablespoons butter. Blend in sour cream just before serving and simmer 2 minutes to heat. Serve over noodles.
just try looking for resturants that are cheap, and find what u see and like, i recommend McDonalds since u said cheap, lol.
Hmm...
Beans and Hot Dogs
Mac and Cheese
Pasta is the cheapest in my opinion. The easiest and tastiest is to make a simple light sauce. In a bowl add chopped tomato, avocado, cheese (your choice, depends on your budget), green onion, chopped fresh dill, drizzle of olive oil, balsamic vinegar. You can vary these a bit too, you could try capers, olives, steamed asparagus, chicken, shrimp (though I was aiming towards nonmeat since it's cheaper) or you could go towards Mmexican and try tomato, onion, black beans, cheese, cilantro, peppers, plus olive oil and salt and fresh ground pepper. You can toss this up with either hot or cold pasta.
Pork Chops
2-4 servings 1? hours 10 min prep
2-4 pork chops, 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch thick
1/4 cup chicken broth
1/8 cup honey
1/8 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon ketchup
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/8 teaspoon garlic salt
Brown chops on both sides.
Place in greased casserole dish.
Mix all remaining ingredients and pour over pork chops.
Bake, uncovered, at 350 for one hour.
what about steak mince and lots of veg in it make your own meatballs with a sauce or better still buy a slow cooker you can do everything in that took ours in our caravan had roast beef it was yummy
black beans and rice (cup of brown rice boiled, can of black beans strained and pan fried with onion, peppers, salt, and chili powder, and a few drops of oil) costs about 1.50/person.
pasta boiled with butter, a little garlic, some italian seasoning, and a little tomato (optional) is less than $1/person.
baked potato with american cheese, butter, salt, pepper, served with veggies, less than $1/person, served with backed chicken, $2/person
hummus (can of chick peas, little garlic, salt, pepper parsley) served with pita chips, maybe $3/3 people
two fried eggs, two pieces of toast, orange juice $1/person, add bacon, $2/person
There's lots of stuff you can make if you just want to be creative.
I used to do a lot of pasta dishes, are filling and can be made with or without meat...
I used to make a stew, soup, chili or chowder...to take for lunches at work...freezing what I didn't use for other days...good, inexpensive, lowfat, filling
One pot meals are the best and they are inexpensive, filling, and low maintenance...
Get a grill... You can spend $20-50 on a gas or charcoal grill at wal-mart... There are countless Cheap and Delicious things you can throw on there... Anything from buying the premarinated Terryaki Chicken Breast or Pork Loins and grilling them with some canned pineapple and uncle bens microwave rice to grilled peaches and sara lee pound cake for dessert... A grill is a cheap, quick, and effective way to serve decent food... Not Ramen noodles and Crapy dried pasta... I bought a 20 Dollar Hibachi in College and it got me through school...
shepherds/cottage pie. tuna mixed with mash and sprinkled with grated cheese (my nan used to make it me) corned beef mixed with scrambled egg (tastes better than it sounds and its filling)
make a hotpot, any meat, any vegetable, stock cube, add everything and simmer for 45, mins. pasta dishes dont need to be done in the oven, pot of soup with crusty bread, scrambled eggs on toast, poached eggs etc
Homemade chili is always good as if you make a big pot it will last you a few days. I always put loads of veg like beans, mushrooms, zucchini, egg plant, carrots..... to make it go further.
Pasta is also cheap and very filling, you can either buy cheap sauces or make your own, adding veg again will make it go further.
You could make soups - sweet potato and carrot, minestrone, leek and potato.
Beans on toast?
Hope that helps. I agree take out isn't cheap especially if you have it all the time.
Make omlettes. Spend some money on a good pan because the cheap ones are rubbish. Get your oil good and hot whilst you crack 2 or 3 eggs into a bowl, beat in some seasoning and dried herbs. Into the pan, flip it with a palette knife after a couple of minutes. Fold and remove from pan and serve with a tomato salad or baked beans. Easy as that.
Spaghetti bolognese- cheap and easy- assuming you have a hob!
pancakes can make them sweet or savoury
mashed potatoes with butter and cheese melting on top. Green salad on the side with a vinagary vinaigrette