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pshawny
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: sui]
#3587667 - 01/06/05 03:45 AM (19 years, 25 days ago) |
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Yeah, usually for just a few bucks more you can get 2-3 times as much. This is where a vaccum sealer comes in handy:) Eggs make for a good meal any time of day. Chop up your favorite meat and make a little omelet.
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: pshawny]
#3588875 - 01/06/05 12:24 PM (19 years, 25 days ago) |
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Tuna Casserole: 1 noname can of tuna 1 noname can of mushroom soup some noodles Boil the noodles. Drain the noodles. Put tuna and mushroom soup in with the noodles. Stir it all up, then eat it all up. If you want you can replace noodles with rice, just as good. As was already mentioned: beans and rice. You could also use pine nuts instead of beans, or use both, its good stuff. Most of the cheap foods are bland and tastless, and thats why spice is important. Spice is to keep you from getting bored from your cheap diet.
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OJK
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Any kind of pasta, cook up a big pot and add some home-made tomato sauce;
2 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil 1 large onion, chopped 1 (15-ounce) can tomato sauce 1 (6-ounce) can tomato paste 1/2 cup dry red wine 1 teaspoon dry oregano leaves 1 teaspoon dry basil leaves Salt to taste
Heat oil in a wide frying pan over medium heat; add onion and cook, stirring often, until softened, about 5 minutes.
Stir in tomato sauce, tomato paste, wine, oregano and basil. Bring to a simmer; then simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Season to taste with salt.
^^^ great recip?, easy as anything and cheap too.
Also, a big bowl of pasta salad is great; just boil some penny pasta, let it cool, mix with tuna, mayonaisse, chopped spring onions, sweetcorn, salt and pepper. I just keep a big bowl in the fridge and dig in when I'm hungry.
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Nobodys mentioned liver. Some people don't like it but its dirt cheap and IMO delicious!
Here's what I do:
Lightly brown 1 pack of lambs liver in a pan with some vegetable oil and 2 onions thickly sliced. Add 1 1/2 beef stock cubes and add boiling water until it nearly covers the liver. Simmer for about 10 minutes or so and add a thickener such as corn starch/arrow root until the thickness of the sauce is to your liking. Serve with mashed potato and your choice of veg.
I made this just the other night. The liver cost just 99 pence and potatos are dirt cheap. It served two of us but could have easily been stretched to three.
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: Bi0TeK]
#3616092 - 01/12/05 01:11 AM (19 years, 19 days ago) |
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Eeeuuuughhhhhhhhhhhhh
Liver is nasty
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: OJK]
#3617324 - 01/12/05 10:02 AM (19 years, 19 days ago) |
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: Bi0TeK]
#3656334 - 01/20/05 10:39 PM (19 years, 11 days ago) |
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Very helpful thread. To expand in the raman department... you can eat it right out of the bag. A crunchy snack! or you can crunch it up and add it to a bag of nuts and raisins. Trail mix. if you break it alot the fold, you can add a slice of cheese and make a sandwhich. There are recipes to make raman into a desert, hundreds of recipes and less for less than 15 cents a meal of raman.
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where?
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: toasty1]
#3705248 - 01/30/05 11:42 PM (19 years, 1 day ago) |
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lentil soup is mental fruit
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: DarthVader]
#3747846 - 02/07/05 09:04 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Me being a mendicant means I constantly look for cheap&nutritious meals, so I consider myself advanced student of food for cheap. Some nice suggestions.. and some bad ones, too.
With nutrition, one must be careful to not to err on the side of malnutrition. There are certain elements that must be present in food, like B-12 vitamin. Remember to ensure you drink milk, eat meat or fish or eggs, or other source for b12 
I cant believe no one has mentioned sprouts yet! Delishious, and very high quality food. Takes very little effort. From one kilo of beans for instance, one can easily make 4-5 kilos of sprouts, full of vitamins and protein and enzymes!!
Vegetable stew - take a large pot and fill half full with cabbage, potatoes, turnip, rutabagas and whatever you like. Throw in some spices and after boiling some sprouts. Pack away in the freezer, next to the agar plates...
Add one meal of porridge into your diet. Oatmeal, rye, whatever you like. Very nice fiber, good for the heart, esp. if combined with cheapo frozen berries.
Grow some oysters and some shiitaki for mushroom delicacy.
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: aallonharja]
#3764902 - 02/11/05 12:29 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Well of course there are egg mcmuffins
Buy eggs, jumbo size is my favorite but just buy the 2 dozen or 18 packs.
Buy the american cheese in bulk, if you go to costco or sams club buy the big long thing of american cheese and freeze it.
6 muffins for 89cents, youll find these in the refridgerated section of the store. Near tortillas.
Cook the egg over medium to medium high heat basically overeasy eggs, leave the yolk runny and melt the cheese on it.
If you dont have a toaster use your oven broiler, it makes perfectly toasty toast thats much much better than toaster toast, just watch them carefully and only brown the inner side where the egg will be, tthis will leave the outside warm.
If you want to add meat any shaved ham or turkey will do, jimmy dean sausage works but If you use the ham and turkey buy them uncut in the meatsection and cut them yourselves, ive seen ham for 99 cents a pound there and the deli ham would be 5 bucks a pound.
Potados are nice you can do
Mashed potados potados augratin BBQ cheese mashed potados (or try throwing liptons onion soup mix in)
Anyone seen the frozen 1 pound tubes of Jeanie-O ground turkey for a buck? You can make some bomb ass sloppy joe ass bbq shit with that. Shit looks nasty but throw velvetta and BBQ sauce plus spices in there and mowww down.
One last recipe
Take some velvetta cheese cube it and put it scrambled eggs in the microwave, microwave a little then stir and repeat untill done, put on favortie toast or tortilla.
If you made your own pizza dough from scratch, bought the huge cans of pizza sauce unseasoned and season it yourself, Buy bulk mozzerrella and pizza toppings you could eat pizza for cheap.
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I realize this was written a few years ago, but the premise is still the same. Pick the good deals and make a menu plan (better to stock up on loss leaders and make the menu from those, but some don't have a pantry and need to start somewhere). I actually ran the numbers for the sale ads in my area this week, and I can still make this menu for the $9/week listed, but shopping the loss leaders, Aldi's,and Big Lots. Cpl. Denise- now on to the post.
$9 WEEK MENU PER PERSON
Recipe By : Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- INFORMATION
Here's a grocery list and menu for Tami's challenge to feed each person in the family for $9 during the week. It meets all the nutritional requirements that I can check using Mastercook software.
This is a list per person to make it easy to multiply for any size family. It's designed around the good deals from last week and this week at the grocery stores.
GROCERY ITEM AMOUNT COST ********************************************* Whole Wheat Flour 7 cups .35 (sourdough incl) Eggs 7 .28 Oil 1.5 cups .50 Sugar 1.5 cups .12 Beans 1.5 lbs .75 Cheese 6 oz 1.20 Milk 4 cups .44 Carrots 3 lbs 1.20 Potatoes 1.5 lbs .22 Apples 3 lbs 1.20 Mixed Greens 1 lb .39 Brown Rice 1 lb .32 Onions 2 lb .66 Tomatoes 28 oz .89 Margarine 8 T .15 Teabags 4 .12 Misc(Herb,Spices .21 Salt, Baking P/S) ***** TOTAL 9.00
This could be made healthier for an extra 1.70 by substituting olive oil for the regular oil and margarine. The sugar could be reduced in some of the baked goods by using apple juice to improve the nutrition as well.
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SUNDAY ****************** Pancakes with Baked Apple Topping Cream of Carrot soup, Onion Foccacia Bean Burrito, Spicy Rice, Greens, Carrot Cake
MONDAY ******************* Apple bread Vegetable Bean Soup, Nacho Chips Cheese Noodle Casserole, Greens, Baked Cinnamon Apple
TUESDAY ******************* Scrambled Egg sandwich, Hashbrowns Cream of Tomato Soup, Apple, Herb Rolls Chili Bean Soup, Onion Foccacia
WEDNESDAY ********************* Apple Rice Pudding Egg Sandwich, Apple, Carrot Sticks Italian Beans over Rice, Marinated Carrots, Garlic Bread
THURSDAY ********************* Apple Kuchen Spicy Beans, Nacho Chips, Baked carrots Stirfried Vegetables over Rice, Sugar Cookies
FRIDAY ********************** Gingerbread Waffles Vegetable Rice Egg Drop Soup, Apple, Sugar Cookies Pizza with Caramelized Onions
SATURDAY ********************* Cinnamon Rolls Cream of Potato Soup, Apple Turnover Chili Beans over Baked Potato, Apples with Caramel Dip
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: Darcho]
#3800657 - 02/18/05 08:35 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Darcho said: Tuna Casserole:
1 noname can of tuna 1 noname can of mushroom soup some noodles
Boil the noodles. Drain the noodles. Put tuna and mushroom soup in with the noodles. Stir it all up, then eat it all up. If you want you can replace noodles with rice, just as good.
As was already mentioned: beans and rice. You could also use pine nuts instead of beans, or use both, its good stuff.
Most of the cheap foods are bland and tastless, and thats why spice is important. Spice is to keep you from getting bored from your cheap diet.
Mmmmmmm... I havnt made Tuna Caserole in a LONG time... I used to eat it as a kid and made it like every other week years ago.
I use flat egg noodles and I add peas. Sometimes Ill put crunched up potatoe chips on top when I bake it.
A spin on it is to use them little ring noodles, celery, onion and white pepper. When the noodles are done, cool them and add the tuna and veggies with Mayonase (the salad dressing kind).
Chill and serve.. Cold tuna salad....
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: DarthVader]
#3814535 - 02/21/05 11:11 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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DarthVader said: lentil soup is mental fruit
Ha! I love that song, it's been in my head for a week, so I decided to make some lentil soup the other day. Put on some water to boil. Add a couple bay leaves. Add lentils, let boil for 15 minutes. Add diced potatoes, let boil for 10 minutes. Add carrots, or peppers, or mushrooms, or zuchinni or broccoli. Add salt, pepper, soy sauce, whatever. Soup is done when all veggies are done. If enough lentils are used, this gets real thick and is very hearty. Oh, and all cooking times are approximate. I abhor a recipe.
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Beef Stew:
Cheap stew meat...stew meat is always cheap cause it's the toughest cut.
Brown this in a pan and put in slow cooker in the morning. Add canned tomatoes, onions, celery, carrots, all cut up.
just let this sit all day in the slow cooker (croc pot) and when you get back you will have a wonderful simple stew. Eat it with toast. A little garlic might be nice in this.
See also for dessert, Snow pudding (google it or look it up in here.)
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i am partial to whole wheat pasta.
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: Lallafa]
#3891731 - 03/09/05 08:00 AM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: sucklesworth]
#3899129 - 03/10/05 05:38 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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Oh Ya, Living on the cheap!
First I'll list my favorites. Cheap, fast, and good!
Pigs in a blanket.
1 package of hot dogs ($0.98) 1 can of bisects ($0.25) 1 bag of chips ($1.25 BIG Bag of corn chips)
Feeds 3 with a Total Cost $2.40 or $0.82 per person!
Wrap hot dogs in bisects and bake tell done.
We all know the Mac-N-Cheese thing. spiced up with tuna and peas, chunks of sausage, etc. Good meal for cheap!
You can get multi-bean soup mixes at the store for $1.00 a package. They tend to make enough to feed 3 or 4 people.
I personally feed 3 (Me, Wife, and kid) on $150 a month and we eat steaks! I buy the equivalent of a side of beef at a time from the local meat market. It is not a full side but is the less desirable areas that most people do not want plus a couple of choice areas that the butcher tosses in. Lots of stew meats, soup bones, ground chuck, roasts, steaks, etc. The rest is bought at the local Sam's club in bulk.
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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: Cyber]
#3903425 - 03/11/05 02:27 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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This has been a huge help! THANK YOU! I've been working on eating very cheap since I moved out a few months ago. All these ideas are great. Now I have a question. Does anyone know if a slow cooker/ croc pot takes up a lot of energy? I've heard leaving a coffee pot on can use up a lot and was wondering if a crock pot would be the same way (although croc pots are designed to stay on for extended periods of time). Thanks!
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