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Cheap meals
quiltingwolf Advanced MD USA Member since 12/15/02 Posts: 4986	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 12/6/11 12:27 PM Do you have a recipe or dinner plan that you go to for a cheap meal? One of mine is salmon cakes made with canned salmon about $3 a can mixed with the Mccormick salmon cake mix $1, noodles well we all now how cheap noodles are or rice and a veggie usually frozen. ------ quiltingwolf.blogspot.com
poorpigling Advanced TX USA Member since 12/28/07 Posts: 10056	Login to reply to this post In reply to quiltingwolf Like this post Date: 12/6/11 12:43 PM Any dinner leftovers topped with bisquick or biscuits and sometimes a bit of cheese. Rather like a mystery pot pie..
kittykate Intermediate ON CANADA Member since 12/18/02 Posts: 1049	Login to reply to this post 1 member likes this. Date: 12/6/11 1:13 PM Dropping in at relatives at dinnertime.
KathySews   Advanced Beginner MI USA Member since 10/1/06 Posts: 2892	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 12/6/11 1:17 PM Casseroles. There are tons of choices and they are real comfort food. Hillbilly Housewife is a fun web site and has great recipes among other things. Oh, and soups. You can make them a bit heartier by adding condensed milk to thicken it. That can be added to anything and comes in fat free if that is a concern. -- Edited on 12/6/11 1:29 PM --
tgm and Kittys   Advanced Beginner WI USA Member since 3/8/10 Posts: 6928	Login to reply to this post In reply to quiltingwolf Like this post Date: 12/6/11 1:29 PM I like macaroni & tomatoes & sometimes chop up hot dogs in it. ... grew up with it & seems to be satisfying & not too expensive. I also like milk toast... just toast with butter & warm milk on top...Mom used to fix that allot! DH does not like it but I do. This is a good topic! Thank you for thinking of it. recipethread ... added for searching -- Edited on 9/30/12 7:20 AM -- ------ I am a gal from Kalamazoo.... oh what a gal... smile.... It is in Michigan... la la la ...love that Glen Miller classic! Home of Abigail The Babykins & Lil Mittee kitty >^,,^ Be Still, & Know That I am, God + Please say a prayer for my poor feet. ... + ..one month down .. 6 weeks more to go.. They are healing. Thanks everyone for your prayers. 5/8/13 smile
ItzMePenny Intermediate CA USA Member since 12/31/05 Posts: 164	Login to reply to this post 1 member likes this. Date: 12/6/11 1:32 PM Really cheap and really, really good: pasta with lentils. A pound of lentils, a big can of tomatoes, an onion, something green and you've got 20 or more servings (it freezes very well). You do have to add about 1 to 1-1/2 ounce of pasta per serving. Even if you use fennel for your green vegetable, which is my favorite, the cost is around $8.00 for the whole thing, or less than 50 cents per serving. -- Edited on 12/6/11 1:35 PM -- ------ PennyZ
Member since 12/31/69	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 12/6/11 2:34 PM Depends on what I am making and what others want. My average meal costs $5.25 (I'm OCD about money) for 2 adults, one teen and a baby that thinks she has to snack on our food (so I make more gravies, potatoes and soft stuff). It's already fairly cheap, including vegetables and bread. Probably the cheapest is chicken and dumplings, when I get 10# of chicken for $3.90. That costs me about $3.50 for a huge pot, and I get two meals out of it ($1.85 per day), although it doesn't freeze well.
AminaHijabi Advanced Beginner Member since 10/22/10 Posts: 813	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 12/6/11 3:39 PM Favorite cheap things to make are various combinations of rice, beans/lentils, and chicken. One of my favorite really quick things to make involves 2 cups of rice, one can red beans (drained and washed) 2 tomatoes, one onion, a bell pepper, some garlic and ginger, 2 packets fajita spice mix, and 4 boneless skinless chicken thighs chopped very small. I don't know what that works out money wise, but it makes a LOT of food, and freezes well. How to make it: Prepare the ingredients: chop the onion, pepper and tomato (it works really well to chop the tomato in a food processor unless you like chunks of tomato), mince the garlic, drain and rinse the beans, chop up the chicken. In a large pot saute the onions, add everything else, when that looks close to cooked, add the rice, and enough water to cook the rice. Bring it to a boil, stir, then cover and turn off the heat, leaving the pan on the burner to steam with the residual heat until the rice is cooked through. -- Edited on 12/6/11 3:40 PM --
CJ Tinkle Intermediate AR USA Member since 2/5/06 Posts: 963	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 12/6/11 5:17 PM In the summer when tomatoes and green onions are abundant, my favorite cheap meal is cajun beans and rice, smothered in chopped tomatoes, green onions and cheddar cheese. ------ Bernina Artista 630 ✂ Bernina Aurora 430 ✂ Bernina 1300MDC ✂ Babylock BLCS ✂ APQS Millennium ✂ Juki TL2010Q ✂ Singer 201-2 ✂ Singer 301 ✂ Singer 401A ✂ Singer 15-91 ✂ Singer Featherweight 222K ✂ Singer Featherweight 221 www.tinkletimes.com
Coconuts   Intermediate MI USA Member since 12/2/09 Posts: 1099	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 12/6/11 6:24 PM I love braised white beans and chard. We usually use canned cannelli beans (white kidney beans) because we can't find them dried, but you can use other dried white beans. Swiss Chard from the farmer's market is only $1 per huge bunch here, but now that it's too cold for that, I'm using frozen spinach instead. The recipe is on chow.com.

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