CHEAP recipes?

Question

Me and my boyfriend are puttin our pennies together until next payday! I need a cheap recipe for dinner!! Please!

Answer 1

Pinto beans and white rice. Delicious, healthy, and incredibly cheap. You can add tortillas/salsa/cheese/avocado/whatever as your taste and budget allow.

Also, pasta is super cheap and there are endless variations. Boil whatever noodle you like, and add cheese, meat, veggies, and/or sauce. Even just a little butter and parmessan cheese over spaghetti noodles is fabulous. I also like to saute sweet peppers, onions, and garlic in olive oil and then serve over penne.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Pasta with sauce is always fairly cheap. And it's great heated over the next day. Buy a box of shells and a jar of sauce (hunts is only a buck and some change). You can also brown a little chopped meat and throw it in the sauce. Maybe add a few packs of sweet & low to give the sauce a 'sweetness'

If you still have a little cash left over, spurge on a bag of salad fixins' and some cherry tomatoes. And maybe a loaf of italian bread. You could butter the bread and sprinkle with garlic power. Put under the broiler for a few minutes.

The whole meal shouldn't cost you more than 5 bucks, tops. Use store brand or hunts sauce and barilla pasta (they always have a deal on one of their pasta's at the supermarket). This was one of the meals that got me through college on $20 bucks a week food budget....and some weeks I even had enough left over for a pint of ice cream or two :-)

Answer 4

stir fry vegies & noodles
2tbsp oil
1 pack of noodles boiled; .89c
2 any kind of vagies you might have at home e.g:onions,green,red,yellow or orange bell papper,mashrooms,green beans,carrots,zochini(any combination of three vagitables listed above or all will work fine,depends on your convineance) less then 2-3$
sauce:
1/2tsp salt
2tbsp soya suace
2tbsp suger or honey
1/2 c ketchup
1tsp ginger paste or ginger powder
1/2tsp red chilli powder or hot sauce

instructions:
1.cut all the vaggies that you got in slices.
2.in two tbsp oil fry the vaggies for three minutes on very high heat.
3.add ll the sauce ingrediants togather and add it to the vaggies.
4.fry and keep stirring the sauce and vaggies for two more min.pour the vaggies our the noodles and put some sesame seeds on the top of the noodles( if you got some).
5.serve .
it is really yummy ,
easy and surprisingly cheap and very healthy too.

Answer 5

Italian bread ($2/loaf) and Ramon Noodle ($1)

KraftMac&Cheese ($2) and Homemade Salad ($3)

Tuna Noodle Casserole (can of tuna $2, noodles $2, cream of mushroom soup $1.50) and Homemade Salad ($3)

Spahetti (Ragu $2, Noodles $1, Hamburger $3), Italian Bread ($2), Homemade Salad ($3)

And if you want desserts... Jello Pudding ($2)

Answer 6

Flank steak, it's about 1.50 a pound. You can feed two people for about $2 with this meal:

Pound the steak until very thin, dust it with seasoned flour and fry it in a hot pan for about a minute on each side. Lots of food for very few pennies.

Do not over cook this meat, it will be tender and moist if cooked quickly, it will be tough as leather if cooked longer than a few minutes. If you do over cook it you may as well pour some water over it and simmer it for at least 40 minutes to get it back to tender.

Serve it with wide noodles. A cheap, fast, easy and delicious sauce for noodles is melted butter with whatever herbs you have in your fridge or spice cabinet.

Or, this recipe is an old spanish family recipe:

dice one potato for each person and one extra (3 potatoes for two people, 4 for 3 people, etc.), do not rinse them. Put them in a bowl and cover them with water, set aside.

Heat a medium to large fry pan on medium. Add a quarter inch of oil to the pan.

Chop up a flank steak, season it with salt and pepper, dust the chopped meat very very lightly with flour, shake all excess flour off and even brush the excess off if necessary. Quick fry the chopped meat in the oil, for about four or five minutes, until the meat starts to curl a little. It will bubble a little, that is good. Remove the meat from the pan and set aside.

Swish the potatoes around in the bowl of water to get as much of the starch out of them as possible and then remove the potatoes and put them in the frying pan. Toss them around in the pan until they have started to color evenly, then salt and pepper them generously, and add the meat back in. Stir around for a minute or two and then slowly add the starchy water, stirring gently, until all the water is in the pan. The water level should be even or over the meat and potatos. Simmer for at least 30 minutes on med low.

This is a simple and hearty dish that can serve a family on a tight budget.

While we are no longer young and broke, my husband still loves this dish, it brings back his childhood on a ranch in New Mexico.

Answer 7

Tacos, Manwich, chilli doggs, frozen pizza, frozen lasagna or spaghetti w/ salad or garlic toast or neither. These are all under 10 bucks some of them under 5 bucks.

Answer 8

Here is a website that is called Cheap Cooking. They have a lot of great recipes

http://www.cheapcooking.com/recipes.htm

Answer 9

Maybe you'll get a variety to match your pocketbook at...
http://www.cheapcooking.com