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super cheap/nutritious meals
    #3371905 - 11/16/04 10:44 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

this thread is for people to post recipes for cheap nutritous meals. Please make a contribution, as i am broke and starving.

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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #3372026 - 11/16/04 11:07 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

big bag of rice is good when you're broke.
if you use some chicken broth from a can while cooking, it really helps give the rice some good flavor.
cans of pork and beans are good.
even a can of green beans. you can start a couple strips of bacon in a small pan, once it's starting to brown, put in the can of drained green beans.
hot dogs are cheap to work with.


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #3372165 - 11/16/04 11:40 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

I am king at cooking good on a budget...

My biggest and best secret is to shop early and learn how to process food.

Mark down meat is still good and often times dirt cheep but get their early cus little old ladies live on this stuff and they show up EVERY morning to raid all the mark down stuff. Look for good sales too. Stores often sell chuck roasts for 99 cents per pound. Theirs always a store around selling whole chickens for .59 cents a pound.
These things can be cut up and used to make just about anything you want.

Second is them packs of powdered mixes.. Mixes for sauces and soups are key too good meals.. Stock up on these.

Then get yourself some pasta and rice to go with your meat and sauce.

Milk and Butter to make the sauces, salt and pepper to season and your set..

Typical poor gourmet grocery list..

3 whole chickens on sale for .59 = $6
20lbs .99lb roasts = $20 and you can have the butcher grind 10lbs of it for you for FREE.
assorted packets of sauce/soup mixes = $20
Milk/Seasoning/Butter = $10

Add fresh vegetables and your set.. Nuff said..

Ive lived well spending only $100 a month on food and ate well before doing this for a few years.

Sometimes I wonder why I just dont save the cash and live like this all the time..


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: GabbaDj]
    #3372389 - 11/17/04 12:32 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

great post.
bottom line, you got to learn how to cook.
whole chickens are -great-.  you can put those in a little caserole dish with some chopped onions, carrots and some celery (the 3 basic aromatics), a bunch of salt and spices.  brown it in the oven and once it's browned and some water and let it bake.  :thumbup:!

i love chuck beef too, it may not be the best meat, but i love it.  my girl's dad used to always have a big chunk in the freezer.  periodically, he would take it out, slice off some pieces real thin and put them back in the freezer.  whenever you got hungry, he would just take out some slices and fry the shit out of them and put it with a bowl of rice.  same with chicken thighs.  he always had thighs in the freezer and would just throw a bunch in a pan and fry the shit.  he fried everything....i guess he was just ghetto like that, but it was good, cheap and always filled my belly.


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: felix]
    #3372793 - 11/17/04 03:23 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

1. A pot of pinto or baby lima beans add bacon or ham and water and cook until tender...
2. Tomato gravy and steak (get the cheapest steak u can find, round steak or whatever) and 2 or 3 cans of stewed tomatoes(italian style) halves are better than diced, brown the steak add the cans of stewed tomato haves and simmer on med-low for 90m mins to 2hrs or until tender, serve your tomato gravy and steaks over rice and you got some cheap good eats... (you can use pork chops with this recipe too and it's just as good or better depending on which you prefer but i like both) Pork can be cheap.
3. Potato soup
4. Chicken is realativly cheap so is ground beef so you can do alot with those. Also pork chops can be found for fairly cheap as well.
5. Big sack of potato's for fry's, mashed potatoes exc...
6. Stew can be cheap if the stew meat doesn't cost.
7. Ghetto Spaghetti (sauce and noodles)
8. Top Ramen (not nutritious but heh)
9. Eggs can be used for many things especially with potatoes via breakfast :wink:


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #3377673 - 11/18/04 03:58 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Kraft Dinner+3 crushed Bee Polen Tablets=good nutritouse fast food.

another good one is potatoes, carrots, beans, apples, squash and pretty much any root veggy.  get them in the big bags at teh markets.  really cheap and it actually feels liek you ate something.  as for putting them together to make somethign good...i dunno.  if you live by the ocean you can get fish pretty cheap off teh boats, same with hunting areas.  and its WAY better than any stores will carry!

and if you live where mushrooms grow...or grow your own...they hella good for you.

im pumped about this thread, be awsome to learn some good cheap recipes :smile:


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #3377689 - 11/18/04 04:09 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

A cheap whole chicken - some butter - and some either garlic or herbs.

Pull the skin on the breast away from the flesh and put a hunk of butter up there which has been mushed up with the herbs or garlic.

Roast it - BEAUTIFUL!!


Also - chop up and fry a heap of vegetables and bacon
Cook some pasta
Mix it all together adding some cream and tomato paste
Top with cheese and bake it

Another good one on a budget

Any old crap meat
Any vegetables ie)onion, carrots, potato, celery - all diced and sliced

Throw it all in a casserole dish covered with water and a handfull of gravy powder

Put it in the oven for about 3 hours!


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: Grizz]
    #3377716 - 11/18/04 04:31 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Eggs! Theres so many things you can do with them, and they cost around a dollar a dozen.

I just discovered bread crumbs in eggs this has opened up a WHOLE new world to me.


Edited by kronnyQ (11/18/04 04:32 AM)


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #3382312 - 11/18/04 11:30 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Shake and Bake Pork Chops

Pork chops are relatively cheap, shake and bake is about 2 bucks a box and there is enough for 12 pork chops ( 6 chops per bag). A can of corn or a potato (made however you prefer) are cheap and good side dishes.


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: Irijes]
    #3400840 - 11/23/04 09:46 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

the best meals on a budget are vegetarian meals. BEANS AND RICE!


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: Penguin]
    #3411904 - 11/26/04 10:53 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Lentil Chili
Boil bag of lentils, add 1 pound browned ground beef, add tomato sauce, chili powder and cumin powder. Cook for a couple hours. It's better the next day re-heated.


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: andjor]
    #3422201 - 11/29/04 04:19 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

black beans & yellow rice

saute onions & garlic, throw in a can of black beans cover with water & simmer & reduce, add celentro in the last 15 mins of simmer, salt & pepper to taste


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: A3eyedfish]
    #3426218 - 11/30/04 12:42 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

that sounds ok~


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #3427140 - 11/30/04 09:18 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

eat any of the following:

rice
corn
oatmeal
pasta
potatos

and any of the following:

beans
peas
lentils

there's all your carbohydrates and protein for ridiculously cheap. this is the sort of staple diet that people around the world have lived on since agriculture became a way of life. if you are looking to feed yourself cheap, stuff like beans and rice can't be beat.


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: Penguin]
    #3428168 - 11/30/04 02:42 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

Penguin said:
the best meals on a budget are vegetarian meals. BEANS AND RICE!



For real!


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: FlameBait9000]
    #3576903 - 01/03/05 09:23 PM (19 years, 28 days ago)

Try using your PC for something else then sterilizing, make some soup!


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: RRhoads]
    #3583951 - 01/05/05 12:26 PM (19 years, 26 days ago)

The key is watching ads for really good sales or specials.

Meat mark-downs has been mentioned.

At the supermarket, you can often find lunchmeat or packaged side dishes but one get 2 free.

Potatoes, rice, beans, veggies.


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #3584415 - 01/05/05 02:23 PM (19 years, 26 days ago)

What I suggest is:
Rice with curry powder. Add about 1/8-1/4 tsp. of curry powder to the water your rice is cooking in, taste great..Even my kids like it!

Mix cooked white rice with spaghetti sauce or tomato sauce, add black pepper or tobasco sauce to taste maybe some pork if you have the money.. maybe mozzarela chesse.

Lots of recipes for fried rice on the internet too. Rice is both cheap and nutritious! If you don't mind the texture of brown rice, even better yet!

Find out what time the deli counter in your local store shuts down and hit them up for cheap pre-cut meat that they display in the case. The local 24hr Meijers has a deli that shuts down here at 11:30, they sell off the display meat for like $1.00 a pound because they can't set it out the next day.


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: Pinhead]
    #3585699 - 01/05/05 07:02 PM (19 years, 26 days ago)

If you want to make cheap frozen beef good try making a stew.. ( Im making oneright now)

I use whatever cut of beef is dirt cheap.. Brown it in the PC with onions and garlic. Add some carrots, potatoes, green pepper... Sweet potato is also good, same with kiddney beans, mushrooms, stewed tomatoes all of which are canned and cheap. Top it off with some french onion soup mix(bulk area, again cheap) I can eat this for a good week, including lunch.. Taste great and itll turn ya into a lumberjack. Mix and match anything you want iv never made a bad batch.

Oh and bay leaves are key.


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: Legoulash]
    #3587611 - 01/06/05 03:20 AM (19 years, 25 days ago)

Costco, Sams Club, any of those wholsale stores. Buy in bulk and save money, i have a friend that buys food there for like 2-3 months at a time.


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: sui]
    #3587667 - 01/06/05 03:45 AM (19 years, 25 days ago)

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)

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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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #3602552 - 01/09/05 08:10 AM (19 years, 22 days ago)

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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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #3614102 - 01/11/05 06:19 PM (19 years, 20 days ago)

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)

Eeeuuuughhhhhhhhhhhhh


Liver is nasty :noway:


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    #3617324 - 01/12/05 10:02 AM (19 years, 19 days ago)

:crazy2:


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: Bi0TeK]
    #3656334 - 01/20/05 10:39 PM (19 years, 11 days ago)

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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    #3671610 - 01/24/05 08:41 AM (19 years, 7 days ago)

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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: toasty1]
    #3705248 - 01/30/05 11:42 PM (19 years, 1 day ago)

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)

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 :laugh:

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)

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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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #3793322 - 02/17/05 12:37 PM (18 years, 11 months ago)

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
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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
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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)
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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
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Pancakes with Baked Apple Topping
Cream of Carrot soup, Onion Foccacia
Bean Burrito, Spicy Rice, Greens, Carrot Cake

MONDAY
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Apple bread
Vegetable Bean Soup, Nacho Chips
Cheese Noodle Casserole, Greens, Baked Cinnamon Apple

TUESDAY
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Scrambled Egg sandwich, Hashbrowns
Cream of Tomato Soup, Apple, Herb Rolls
Chili Bean Soup, Onion Foccacia

WEDNESDAY
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Apple Rice Pudding
Egg Sandwich, Apple, Carrot Sticks
Italian Beans over Rice, Marinated Carrots, Garlic Bread

THURSDAY
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Apple Kuchen
Spicy Beans, Nacho Chips, Baked carrots
Stirfried Vegetables over Rice, Sugar Cookies

FRIDAY
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Gingerbread Waffles
Vegetable Rice Egg Drop Soup, Apple, Sugar Cookies
Pizza with Caramelized Onions

SATURDAY
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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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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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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. :smile:


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: wishcouldeletethis]
    #3866849 - 03/04/05 07:42 AM (18 years, 10 months ago)

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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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #3889191 - 03/08/05 07:10 PM (18 years, 10 months ago)

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)

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)

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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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: T85]
    #3984076 - 03/29/05 03:16 AM (18 years, 9 months ago)

Somewhere on the internet I saw a post from a college student that made Ramen Noodles in a coffee pot because hot plates weren't allowed in the dorm rooms, but coffee makers were.


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Re: super cheap/nutritious meals [Re: T85]
    #3999817 - 04/01/05 11:08 AM (18 years, 9 months ago)

I just made something that turned out pretty good.


Fry some country ham.

Slice some carrots and steam them, then fry them in butter untill golden brown in the same pan you cooked the country ham then toss in some maple syrup and the fried ham, and a little water.


Cook until the liquid cooks down back to a syrrupy consistency.


Get the cheap country ham that's like $3 a pound. It's usually a bunch of little scrappy pieces, but it's just as good as the $5-$6 a pound stuff.


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