Money is getting really tight. Does anyone have any recipes that are cheap and make large quantities?

Answer 1

Most anything with rice. Throw some canned/frozen veggies in the water before adding the rice & cook as usual. Dump a can of cream of chicken/mushroom/broccoli/celery soup over the top and mix it all together. Or Spanish rice, where you brown some meat (ground beef is best, chicken is OK too) and onions, add an 8 oz can of tomato sauce in place of one cup of your rice water, add pitted olives or capers and cook rice in the same pot.

Meatloaf is usually pretty cheap too, and you can extend it with bread crumbs or oatmeal.

For protein, eggs are probably cheapest and most digestible. Add cheese & veggies for a low cost omelet. Can make mass quantities.

Ramen noodles are wicked cheap but really high in fat content. Okay in a pinch, but not a good habit to develop. For a while in college, I survived on ramen noodles 17 meals out of 21 some weeks. But not healthy, no no no.

Answer 2

This sounds like my everyday saga. A fairly cheap meal is salmon patties ( a can will feed 5 or 6 and can usually be bought for around a $1 a can), Mac and cheese and a veggie.

Recpie for Salmon patties--

Take 1 can salmon, about 15 to 20 single saltine crackers and 2 eggs and mix them all together. Then fry them.

Answer 3

A large amount of a tasteful mincemeat sauce (sort of Bolognese ragu) usually paired with spaghetti, but it is also good as a pie-filling, in a soup, chilli con carne...........
This recipe makes 3 ½ l. You will have to freeze portions. Add or withdraw some ingredients as you like

INGREDIENTS:
2 kg ground meat (any meat)
butter, oil or margarine
1 tablespoon salt
1 ½ teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon thyme or 2 teaspoons oregano
1 bay leaf
100 g celeriac
2 carrots
4 yellow onions
2 cloves garlic
2 stock cubes
2-3 tablespoons flour
3 dl water
200 g tomato purée
4 pkg crushed tomatoes à 500 g
1 teaspoon sugar
parsley

DIRECTIONS:
* In a pan heat the butter/oil or margarine.
* Add the minced meat, brown a little at a time, breaking it up with a fork.
* Put the browned meat crumbs into the biggest pan or casserole you have got.
* Add salt, pepper, thyme or oregano and bay leaf.
* Peel and finely chop celeriac and carrots.
* Chop the onions or cut them into cloves.
* Sauté the onion, carrot and celery over low heat.
* Sweat the vegetables until they colour slightly.
* Add chopped garlic without browning.
* Add the stock cubes, sprinkle flour and stir.
* Add water and bring to boil.
* Stir down tomato purée, crushed tomatoes and sugar.
* Add chopped parsley.
* Cover the pot or casserole and allow the sauce to slowly simmer, stirring from time to time.
* After about one hour, check and adjust seasonings.

Answer 4

isn't it ridiculous that healthful foodstuff IS a lot more beneficial priced than processed foodstuff and all we listen in the media is how risky our united states is!! Ugh! So for some options: Soup is a superb thanks to devour healthful and value effectively. Bake an finished fowl and use that as meal #a million then practice dinner the bones all the way down to make a soup base and upload a lot of chopped veg and meat that you'll be able to %. away. selfmade biscuits are undemanding and "low-cost filler". usual meal in my homestead turning out to be up! you may attempt this once you're keen to finish a touch cooking. Breakfast for dinner is continually yet another tremendous idea. attempt doing selfmade bread and turning it into french toast with scrambled eggs and canned fruit and all they are going to know is how tremendous that's. sturdy success to you and congrats on the recent addition.

Answer 5

When money gets tight I always go to casseroles...I have a mac and cheese with ham...I devised this when I was first married and my son was young....It's not a culinary journey but it's tasty and cheap.

Mac and cheese with ham

1 lb medium shells (my son likes shells better than elbows)
1 can cheddar cheese soup
1 1/2 can of milk
10 oz block of cheddar...I use white cheddar...you can also use a sweeter cheese , say swiss, if you don't want it so sharp..or a combination
1 ham steak...cook's is best...but you can use whatever is cheapest...trim fat

get pasta going, in a saucepan combine soup and milk, whisk over med low heat until it start to heat up. slice cheddar..about 1/4 inch thick..reserve about 1/3 slice thinly. Drop the thicker cut cheese into soup mixture to melt...add whatever seasonings you like...pepper, cayenne....dice ham...saute until carmelized...add to soup mix....in casserole pan add drained pasta...add soup mixture....top with thin sliced cheese...into preheated 375 oven...about 15...20 minutes...until bubbly...

enjoy

Answer 6

navy beans, spaghetti products, corn meal bread, rolled oats to eat or use a stretcher for meat loaf? take a trip to the bread outlet day old store!!yu can save a bundle there!! Instant potatoes, any kind of bargains on sale? been living like this since Bush/Clinton got all of the town layed off with Nafta agreements! Its called "poor folks" food here in Appalachia!

Answer 7

"Southern goulash"

1 lb ground beef
1/2 medium yellow onion
1 large can of diced tomatoes
1 package of elbow macaroni.

Brown beef with onions. Drain. Add tomatoes. Add elbows. Done.

Answer 8

Rice gives you about the biggest quantity for the buck.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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