Good Cheap Meals?

[jmjtina]

corn tortillas (you should have cooking oil so you can get them hard and toasty)
beans (buy the bag, cook in crockpot, get more for your $$)
lettuce
chez

dry white rice (fry it in a pan with a little cooking oil until brown, add water, garlic, salt, and tomato sauce; cover it with a pan so the rice can cook; done in about 7 minutes)
tomato sauce
garlic

chalupas and rice

15 bucks and you could probably feed them for 3 days.

There are also icecream cakes for 2 bucks at Walmart that are really good. I keep it on the downlow though because I don't want prices to go up but what the heck. They are gooooood.

Edited January 12, 2009 by jmjtina

[CatherineM]

I also sometimes make pancakes for the horde. A jar of cheap preserves and box of pancake mix is pretty cheap, and raspberry or orange pancakes never leave leftovers. I made pancakes with a jar of orange marmalade, and some leftover cranberries from Thanksgiving, and the animals didn't even leave enough for the nun who came over an hour late. I had to make her a grilled coagulated milk sandwich.

[jckinsman]

tator-tot caserole

mac and coagulated milk

taco salad

pasta with anything

bake potatoes one night and add your own toppings

use the leftovers for a potato ham bake

egg dishes are cheap,frittatas,quiches just eggs. use scrambled eggs instead of meat for tacos, so very tasty and good for you,, so very tasty and good for you,, so very tasty and good for you,.

meatloaf is cheap,disgusting but cheap,guys also love it cold in sandwich form the next day.

Monfry: every leftover on the table that was used Monday through Friday,this replaces Saturdays dinner. Sunday is always a hunk of meat,slow-cooked with mashed potatoes.

Rice and beans

meatballs can be used with spagetti (tom sauce)or in sandwiches(manwich sauce)or with egg noodles and green pepper and pineapple in a sweet and sour sauce.




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Edited January 13, 2009 by jckinsman

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='MithLuin' post='1749601' date='Jan 12 2009, 08:47 PM']Omelettes are also cheap (well, the eggs are!) Depends what you want to add to them - tomatoes, coagulated milk, bacon, ham, onions, mushrooms, potatoes, green peppers, etc. You can also look into recipes for egg bakes.[/quote]
My dad often made omelettes on his night to cook.

[quote name='MithLuin' post='1749601' date='Jan 12 2009, 08:47 PM']Soup and spaghetti are both cheap and easy - and good in the winter time. Casseroles are generally easy. Shepherd's pie or pot pie shouldn't set you back too far.....[/quote]
Shepherd's pie or Cottage pie (Shepherd's pie if using lamb, cottage pie with beef) is a good way to use leftovers. Saute your veg (whatever veg is on hand) in some drippings until they have brown lines on them. Remove with a slotted spoon, and brown your beef. Drain the fat, then add the veg back in, along with Worcestershire, 1 bay leaf, black pepper, salt to taste, and water. Simmer for 45 min, adding more water if necessary. Meanwhile, boil the potatoes. Put the meat in a pie tin or casserole dish. Mash the potatoes & put over the meat. Cook at 350 for 35-45 minutes (meat liquid should be bubbling around edges). If you want, grate some cheddar & put it on top, and out back in oven until melted. Delicious.

[puellapaschalis]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' post='1750041' date='Jan 13 2009, 01:02 PM']Shepherd's pie or Cottage pie (Shepherd's pie if using lamb, cottage pie with beef) is a good way to use leftovers. Saute your veg (whatever veg is on hand) in some drippings until they have brown lines on them. Remove with a slotted spoon, and brown your beef. Drain the fat, then add the veg back in, along with Worcestershire, 1 bay leaf, black pepper, salt to taste, and water. Simmer for 45 min, adding more water if necessary. Meanwhile, boil the potatoes. Put the meat in a pie tin or casserole dish. Mash the potatoes & put over the meat. Cook at 350 for 35-45 minutes (meat liquid should be bubbling around edges). If you want, grate some cheddar & put it on top, and out back in oven until melted. Delicious. [/quote]

The only problem I ever have with making enough Shepherd's or Cottage pie to last a few days is not making enough, but not eating it all in one go. Soooooo yummy.

The other mistake I sometimes make is telling other people I'm cooking it.

[Ziggamafu]

cheap crackers + cheap cream coagulated milk + those cheap boxes of vacuum sealed pepperoni = delicious appetizer

otherwise, in the international foods section you'll find these little cylinder bags of dried vegetables and noodles. You throw them in a pot with water and forget about them for an hour or so. You then have enough healthy soup (of various kinds) to feed a small family (say two adults and two children). All for about $1.85.

oh, and there's Ramen noodles of course.

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='puellapaschalis' post='1750042' date='Jan 13 2009, 11:18 AM']The only problem I ever have with making enough Shepherd's or Cottage pie to last a few days is not making enough, but not eating it all in one go. Soooooo yummy.[/quote]
I know what you mean! We often end up devouring it all that day, instead of saving some for lunch the next day.

[quote name='Ziggamafu' post='1750055' date='Jan 13 2009, 01:34 PM']oh, and there's Ramen noodles of course.[/quote]
I found a nice recipe using ramen noodles to make a tuna dish. Ah, found it: [url="http://www.tunarecipes.net/cheesy-tuna-and-noodles.html"]here[/url].

[Azriel]

Did any one else grow up eating fried bologna?

Browned Ground Beef or hamburger
Cooked Egg noodles
Brown Gravy (jar or powder mix)
Mix it all together. yummy sorta like stroganoff goodness without the sour cream

We have breakfast night a lot. Chocolate chip pancakes with bacon.

I personally love stuff that can be cooked in a slow cooker, and there are tons of recipes on the web for those.

[Old_Joe]

[quote name='StColette' post='1749577' date='Jan 12 2009, 02:53 PM']Yummie Treat:

1 box chocolate pudding. 1 block of cream coagulated milk. CoolWhip. Pie pan with premade crust.

Follow the directions on the pudding box, but mix in the cream coagulated milk with the pudding. Put mixture into pie pan and top with CoolWhip. Let it cool for 2 hrs. It's yummie and cheap [/quote]

I can see Micah and Aaron are eating very well.

Also what's coagulated milk?

Edited January 13, 2009 by Old_Joe

[Old_Joe]

Ramen noodles made with some kind of broth and mixed with diced meat.

[quote name='Azriel' post='1750129' date='Jan 13 2009, 10:40 AM']Did any one else grow up eating fried bologna?[/quote]

Not quite. I don't like bologna anymore, but I have a favorite Lebanonese steak house in Tulsa, OK that serves smoked bologna as an appetizer. It's really good.

Edited January 13, 2009 by Old_Joe

[dUSt]

You guys are expensive.

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[b]Br Iggy's (CFR) Top Ramen Soup:[/b]
4 packs of Ramen Noodles w/ seasoning
2 eggs
2 hot dogs

[i]Add water to pot, boil. Chop up hot dogs and add to pot. Add noodles. Lightly beat eggs and slowly add to pot. Done. Eat.[/i]

Cost: about $2

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[b]dUSt's Dumpling Soup[/b]

1 big ol can of chicken broth (it would be better to use leftover chicken stock made from all the leftover pieces of chicken bones and pieces--NEVER throw that stuff away. I always make stock with it and freeze it for future cooking)
2 cups of flour
2 tbsp oil
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp pepper
Milk
Whatever you can find of the following: onion, green onion, celery, bell pepper

[i]Boil the chicken broth/stock in a big pot. Chop up any of the vegetables you can find above and add to pot. Mix the remaining ingredients in a bowl, adding the milk last--you only want to add enough milk to get the dough into the same consistency as cookie dough--slightly sticky. Pull apart the dough in pieces a little smaller than golf balls and add to the boiling pot. Cook for about 15 minutes.

The dumplings will be hard and doughy--this is how good dumplings should be. Eat them.[/i]

Cost: about $4 (add meat to the dumpling soup for more expensive version)

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[b]dUSt's Bro's Bologna Bowls[/b]

4 round bologna
4 che[font="Arial"]ese[/font] slices

[i]Put piece of bologna directly in microwave. Put piece of che[font="Arial"]ese[/font] on top. Microwave on high until bologna forms a bowl around the che[font="Arial"]ese[/font]. Take out. Repeat for each.[/i]

Cost: About $1

[Giolla]

I eat hormell microwave meals. I fend for myself so I'm not sure they are good for family meals but they are for individual meals.

[T-Bone _]

[quote name='Giolla' post='1750140' date='Jan 13 2009, 09:02 AM']I eat hormell microwave meals. I fend for myself so I'm not sure they are good for family meals but they are for individual meals.[/quote]

Aren't those kinda expesive?

[Giolla]

[quote name='T-Bone _' post='1750205' date='Jan 13 2009, 02:02 PM']Aren't those kinda expesive?[/quote]

the individual ones aren't the large ones are though.

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='dUSt' post='1750139' date='Jan 13 2009, 12:00 PM']You guys are expensive.[/quote]

I don't deny it...