#cheap meals

[brattylikestoeat]

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[vidaamour]

Cajun pasta;

Spice mix; 1 teaspoon each of the following.

Smoked paprika

Onion powder

Garlic powder

White pepper

Black pepper

Sea salt

Oregano

This will be used to season any chicken, sausage, shrimp or tofu You’re adding to the dish as well as the sauce.

In a large skillet cook and season your choice of protein, cook fully and set aside. While your choice of pasta boils, finely dice a shallot.

Roughly Chop and de-seed whole yellow or red bell pepper along with a fresh tomato, I remove the core, seeds and skin from my tomato before chopping.

Drain your pasta and set aside to cool. In a LARGE heated skillet melt some butter about tea-tablespoons worth along with a teaspoon or a squeeze worth of tomato paste and the diced shallot. Let it cook down for five to ten minutes depends on how hot your pan is.

Add in a cup and a half of heavy cream, your protein, and your vegetables. Let the heavy cream come to a steady bubble stirring occasionally before adding 2/3 cup of Parmesan cheese and the rest of your spice mixture. Mix and let it come to a bubble again before adding in your pasta and mixing it very well together.

Boom baby it’s literally that easy! Pro tip I used pre cooked grilled chicken from the grocery store and just seasoned it up in a pan at home.

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[gilly-laughs]

One Pot / Three Ingredient Meal

This is meant to be a cheap, easy to make meal that doesn't require a lot of prep(basically none) and has an easy clean up(one pot and spoon). I typically get two meals (lunch and dinner) out of this recipe.

Tools:

2.5 quart pot

Spoon

Ingredients:

1/2 lb taco seasoned ground turkey

1 can (14.5 oz) Great Value fire roasted tomato salsa

2 cups elbow macaroni

Recipe:

Crumble and brown Turkey in pot. Add can of salsa and one can of water. Add macaroni. Bring to boil. Cover and reduce heat. Cook until macaroni is desired tenderness. Stir about halfway through cooking and add water if needed.

Notes:

Macaroni takes about 8 minutes to cook once boiling. Subtract time, one or two minutes, for firmer noodles, add time, one or two minutes for softer noodles.

I did not add any extra seasoning because the meat and the salsa already add a lot of flavor but there is no reason you can't. A previous version of this meal used a can of tomato sauce and a can of diced tomatoes and green chillies(knockoff rotel). With that recipe I did add additional seasonings.

I use taco seasoned ground turkey because it happens to be the cheapest brand of ground meat available. Substitute whatever is available to you.

This is the very basic form of this meal. You can easily add additional ingredients or toppings to personalize this meal for yourself.

#Food #cheap meals #easy meals #Adhd meal

[a-place-for-growth]

The local farmers just started selling the first kohlrabi of the year, and I am always surprised seeing people throwing away the leaves of this underrated vegetable. So I would like to share a recipe from my grandma - a wonderful cook, and also a very frugal person. 

For this budget-friendly kohlrabi soup, you focus on the leaves. My grandma often got them for free at the farmers market, even some supermarkets have "waste bins" for unwanted vegetable parts and will give you some because, as I said, most people use the bulbous stem only. 

This serves two (hungry!) people, and you can improvise a lot. You will need half of the kohlrabi stem. Put the rest aside for a snack, you can even eat it raw, cut in thin slices and salted, like healthy crisps, or in a salad. Make the most of it! You will also need all of the leaves, an onion, and three small or medium sized potatoes. You could also use instant mashed potatoes instead, or add other vegetables of your choice. Go with whatever you have. Peel the kohlrabi stem, onion, and potatoes, remove the hardest parts of the leaves as depicted, and chop the vegs. (Frugal option: Put the peels in the freezer and use them later to make your own broth.) 

Now add a tablespoon of vegetable oil (I used olive oil, but this is a "use what you have at hand" recipe.), and one teaspoon of sugar, and roast it gently until the onions start to brown. Add water until the vegs are just covered. Give this mixture some salt and pepper. Season to your taste. I highly recommend a pinch or two of ground nutmeg, rosemary and parsley for the fancy version of this. Bring it to a boil, reduce the heat, and let it simmer for about 15 minutes. Use a blender to make this smooth and creamy. 

For a fancy version, serve it topped with some almonds, nuts, or fresh herbs. 

The taste of kohlrabi leaves reminds of a mixture of broccoli and turnip. You can just wash and chop them and put them in the freezer, ready to be made into soup later. Don't throw them away - and if others do, get them for free! 🙂

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[sam-daughterofposeidon]

The “I am hungover and have no money” Ramen

•First get these things

Plus an egg for every pack of ramen you are cooking, I forgot to get the eggs out

•boil your ramen and strain

•Using the Hatsune Miku chopsticks that you got your roommate for Christmas does make it cook faster!

•In the same pot you cooked your ramen it, lower the heat to like 3 or 4

•Add butter and let it melt, then put in however much brown sugar you want. Preferably less than the amount of butter you used but I do not care.

•it should look like this

•Add garlic obviously, stir and let it cook till it starts smelling really good

•Add the noodles back in and stir with the Hatsune Miku chopsticks

•I like to add about 3/4s of the seasoning packet

•Add the sweet soy sauce, the noodles should look nice and brown from the soy sauce.

• Move the noodles to the side so you can crack the eggs into the bottom of the pan and let them cook a bit like so

•once the eggs are sufficiently cooked, whip that shit into the noodles, almost like a carbonara texture?

Done! It should probably be a bit more brown than this pic but whatever

Is it healthy? no but it is yummy and cheap

#food #food mention #eggs #ramen recipe #instant ramen #college meals #cheap meals #yummy

[slowlycooking]

#slow cooker #crock pot recipes #slow cooker recipes #cheap eats #cheap meals

[lover-of-cartonz]

if ur ever looking for an easier, cheaper and more balanced meal ive got the "recepie" for you

it's just instant noodles with eggs and veggies but it fills me up, and while it is high in sodium, is helpful if cooking is a bit of a challenge for you/you'd eat something worse for you otherwise

basically all of this can be changed to taste/appetite, but i have a big stomach, so I'll be making a larger bowl. recepie can easily be cut in half.

ingredients:

- 2 eggs

i love eggs and they're good for you duh. i eat lots of eggs because they help meet daily nutritional needs and if you buy an 18 pack, they can be kinda cheap; as well as the fact they can be easily used up if they're about to go bad

- seasoning salt (optional)

can be found at dollar store, can be replaced with reg salt and spice of choice

- frozen variety vegetables

i buy frozen because they're already chopped, alot cheaper, won't go bad (unless you thaw and refreeze them), and obviously vegetables are good for you. pick any veggie you want, i usually go with carrots, broccoli, or parisian mix.

- 2 packs of mr.noodle

base of the meal, cheap as hell. especially if you buy a full palette of them.

- butter/oil/lard

to fry the eggs

- spices & herbs of choice

spices really make this bad boy. i usually use garlic, paprika, pepper, oregano and ginger but honestly, throw pretty much a little of anything in here. as i type this, im using a bit of curry powder and sage in addition to the other ones.

steps:

- begin with a frying pan or pot. ive even used a steel mixing bowl, get crazy with it. set the stovetop to low-medium heat, on my stove i use 3.5/9. add butter and once it's melted and spread out easily, wait a minute for it to heat up more.

-crack the eggs in, there should be a nice sizzle. i like my yolks runny, and it mixes better with the "broth" later, so take a fork and carefully try to grab the clear membrane around the egg yolk. attempt to pull it off slowly, but if it doesnt come off fully, no biggie. this is just so the egg cooks more evenly while leaving the yolk soft. i use the seasoning salt to sprinkle onto the eggs, the broth does not need it.

-continue to cook until the white is solid. the yolk should still be almost all soft by now, but even if it isn't, itll still go well with the rest of it.

-put them into a bowl from the pan. if there are egg bits stuck on the pan after, they'll come off.

-put water, ¼-½ the bag of frozen vegetables, spices, and flavour packets into the pan. crank that baby to max heat. once it's boiling, put the noodles in. could probably turn the heat down a bit now. cook until the veggies are soft enough to be poked by fork without much effort. if there's not enough water, just add a bit more.

we're done! put the noodles into the egg bowl, or if you're crazy like me, put the eggs into the pan of noodles.

now, this makes alot of noodles, so for some it should probably be halved, but it works for me, and it works if you haven't eaten all day and are ravenous.

enjoy! (i hope)

#this might be stupid but ive shared it with a couple friends and they said it helped them so why not post it #cooking #easy cooking #easyrecipes #adhd problems #adhd advice #easy #simple #simplerecipes #simple recipes #simple cooking #easy meals #easy meal #quick meals #cheap meals #cheap recipes #hope this helps someone and isnt just dumb lol

[goldenoyster]

I’m gonna share one of my “secret” struggle meals for when the money’s tight. Boxes of hamburger helper generally are pretty cheap (I buy them on sale for $1.50), and off brand’s usually even cheaper. “But hamburger is expensive!” you say, “and I have no milk!”

This is my secret:

1. You don’t need the milk; just sub in more hot water. (You can do this for boxed mac and cheese too. I literally only make mine with water, no butter or milk, and I can’t tell the difference.)

2. A pound of lentils are way cheaper than beef, and they increase in size. I cook half a pound of lentils (put in pot with about 2x as much water as there are lentils, I eyeball it. Then add beef bouillon, I do about 7 teaspoons or 7 cubes. Bring to boil, reduce to simmer, cook for 25-30 min til it’s the texture you want.) This will make over a pound of cooked lentils. Now, you could reduce the amount so you have closer to what a pound of beef would be, but this way, the meal stretches more. The beef bouillon gets it close to that flavor that hamburger would have, but if you don’t have beef bouillon, you can omit, or add the seasonings you do have (salt, pepper, etc; coordinate your spices to the flavor Helper you have)

Then you just dump in the hamburger helper stuff and the water and cook according to the directions. Very easy, much cheaper, tastes just as good. The other nice thing is that this recipe doesn’t need monitoring, so you can set it and forget it (metaphorically). Make sure to serve with bread to make the meal stretch even further.

Hope this helps those of you who need it.

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#hamburger helper #cheap meals #money saving #struggle meals #financially unstable #poverty #welfare #survival #tips

[lildarkrecipebook]

Cheap Dinners

Poor Man's Burrito Bowl

Quick Beans and Rice

French Bread Pizza

Spinach Parmesan Pasta

Lazy Lasagna

English Muffin Pizzas

Slow Cooker Italian Chicken

Chili Cheese Hotdog Bake

Hamburger Casserole

Chili Dog Biscuit Casserole

#dinner #cheap meals #rice #beans #chicken #bread #pasta #pizza #hotdog #ground beef

[noitanorjassa]

17.12.2022

Ok so. The cheap recipes i have survived with (on student exchange on norway). Also general info for max cheapskateyness, like where to find sales etc.

1. Fried noodles with salted peanuts

Noodles 5 pack 1.7e (the cheapest ones)

Peanuts 200g 2.3e

Any spices you find! Most preferably: paprika, curry, chili, ginger (ground), garlic 2 -4 cloves or 1 teaspoon of ground garlic + soy sauce (forget kikkoman it's hella expensive? Go to an "ethnic" store to find a bigger bottle of soy sauce, i used "healthy boy brand" thin soy sauce, the 1l bottle will last all eternity)

Boil the noodles or let them sit in a cup with boiling water until soft (for the love of god and all holies do not touch the cheap noodles' own spice packet)

Pour out excessive water

Take a small pan and pour the noodles in (if u use fresh garlic crush them or cut em up and fry them a lil bit while the noodles "boil"

Add all the spices, a bit of any oil (or butter) and 1-4 teaspoon/s of soy sauce

Stir fry until the noodles look sticky and fried

Add salted/chili peanuts on top

2. 4 ingredient pasta

Tips! Cheapest pasta is usually spaghetti that you can buy in bulk, like in spar norway 1kg of cheapest spaghetti is 18 kr (1.7e). Use ripoff brands that the shops have, lile "x-tra" "first price" or "eldoraro" in here. Cheapest crushed tomatoes pack is 70 kr (0.65e) for 250g.

Start boiling the pasta of your choice and simultaneously start cutting the garlics. You can also use garlic crusher, it's faster. Add a little bit of salt to the pasta water.

Fry your garlics. Add in drained chickpeas (any beans work) 9 kr/0.9e per pack. Add in the crushed tomatoes.

Add in any spices you can find, preferably: onion, rosemary, herb mix, chili, pepper

Drain the pasta and add in approx ¼ or ⅓ of the sauce

Leftover sauce goes to a box and to the fridge. I do not recommend storing pasta for further eating, it can go bad too fast

3. Seljanka soup

You will need:

Cheap crushed tomatoes, potatoes, (canned) mushrooms, cabbage, bay leaf, russian pickles (or fermented pickles w garlic and dill, do not add in those with sugar!) Or just 1 table spoon of cooking vinegar, cheap frozen vegetable mix (with carrots and celery etc), salt, pepper, clove spice, herb mix w rosemary, any beans, onion, garlic

Start with peeling and dicing the potatoes, cut onions and garlics. Start boiling them with ¼ of full kettle volume of water + add the bay leaves (2 will do for 3l of soup)

Add in cut cabbage, vinegar, pickles (cut) and the spices. Add the crushed tomatoes and water if it's too stewy.

Let boil for 10 min

Add in the canned mushrooms (rinsed) and the frozen veggies and beans

Let boil for 10-20 min or until the potatoes are soft

You can either freeze or store the leftovers in a fridge

Price info: 1kg cabbage 5-20kr /0.4-2e, 2kg of potatoes 20-40kr/2-4e, jar of russian pickles 20-30kr, spices all mentioned probs like 10e (only gotta buy these once!), 2/3 big onions 20-25 kr, 2 garlics 23kr

4. Marinated beans + mashed potatoes

Take a container or a bowl. Add in 1 packet of rinsed chickpeas. Add in 2-4 tablespoons of soy sauce.

Add a bit of oil so the beans wont dry when storaged in the fridge

Add spices, preferably garlic, herbs, ginger, chili, pepper (no salt needed since the soy sauce is very salty)

Let sit for 1-2h in the fridge

Boil peeled potatoes. Pour out water. Mash them with a masher or a fork with a bit of added water/milk/melted butter if u can afford it. Add salt.

Other valuable info!

Cheapest stores (in norway) for vegetables/canned things: kiwi, extra, obs

Cheapest store for sales: obs, eurospar

Best "kuppdisk" (-50% shelf for soon to expire products) Any big markets such as eurospar and obs. Here u can find cheap meat/dairy/veggies. They have kuppdisk for veggie section, dry section and meat/dairy/frozen goods section

Download the app "e tilbundsavis" to get info what is on sale where. It's in norwegian but very easy to understand (use google translator to search items in the app, like "coffee" or "chips")

Cheapest instant coffee is friele but it tastes like crap. Nescafe brasileiro is tiny bit more expensive but so much better.

Learn to make your own popcorn in a kettle, there's youtube tutorials for that. So much cheaper than micro popcorn.

For alcohol you are damned. I would suggest buying the cheapest big (0.75 litre for 30kr) vodka bottle and mixing it with different sodas/juices. Note! Only Vinmonopolet store sells other than beer like normal stores. Check opening times, they are strict. U gotta be over 20 to buy vodka in norway, wine u can get at 18. Or ask someone u know to buy vodka for u. Or when traveling to norway get your vodka as a "gift" from the airport in your home country. It's still cheaper.

There's snack sales from time to time like 5 bars of 200 choco for 100kr. It seems like much but normally one 200g bar is 44kr. Also chips can get -50% sales, check the "tilbundsavis" app every other day so u wont miss them.

Do NOT shop in Joker mini stores or gas stations. Hella expensive. Uh oh. And for the love of All do not doordash, u will bancrupt yourself (unless u are rich but then u don't need these tips anyways).

Make as much from scratch as u can. There's plenty of "cheap/simple cooking for idiots" type vids on youtube.

For snus/tobacco i don't know the prices bc i don't use them. Probably quite expensive. Check how much u can take with u from home without taxes if u use them.

People with ovaries! Period products are expensive too. Cheap brands work just as fine. Or take a couple extra packs with u.

The winter is long and it's recommended to take vitamin supplements (especially vitamin D). There's sales for those too, team up with people u know for things like "3 for 2" in vitamins. Usually the sales start when it begins to get darker, in september.

If you have an injury/need the hospital, u can use your insurance or european health insurance card (for eu citizens it costs like 10e but then u can use the eu/schengen area hospitals with the same pricing as locals). There's student health services for free but those are for not for "major injuries", more like for check ups and teeth care.

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[housemousecooking]

Meatless Chili - 6 Servings

*** I use the prices from the WalMart in my sister's college city. Your prices may vary based on your location***

With Meat Prices rising Let's look at a Meatless Chili Dinner with a side of corn bread. The Chili Comes out to $7 for the entire recipe, Corn Bread Comes to $5.11 - this price includes leftover eggs and milk. Total for the meal 6 servings each is $12.11 with leftover eggs and milk to make scrambled eggs for Breakfast the next day.

Chili Recipe 1 pound sweet Potato $.98 1/2 yellow onion -$.90 2 cans Black beans - $.72 1 can pinto beans - $.72 1 28oz can Diced Tomatoes - $.98 1 can Rotel - $1.24 1 packet Chili Seasoning - $.74 1 1/2 cup Water(Optional and not included in price: use broth/stock instead)

Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium high heat. Once shimmering, add in the onion. Sauté for 2-3 minutes or until almost translucent. Stir in the 1/2-inch sweet potato chunks. Stir until quite tender, around 9-10 minutes.

Add the undrained pinto beans, drained and rinsed black beans, and undrained tomatoes. Add in your Chili Seasoning

Stir everything to combine and bring to a boil. Once it is boiling, reduce the heat to medium low and cover the pot. Allow to simmer for 8-15 minutes or until a good amount of the liquid is absorbed and the sweet potatoes are tender. The time will vary, depending on your stove. For best results, check the chili every 3-5 minutes and give it a good stir at each check to avoid burning or sticking to the bottom.

Corn Bread 1 Jiffy Cornbread mix 1 Egg (We bought 6) 1/3 cup Milk (We bought a quart)

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. grease a muffin tin or use paper baking cups.

Blend ingredients. Batter will be slightly lumpy. Let batter rest 3-4 minutes and give another light mix before filling cups.

Fill muffin tin 2/3 of the way full.

Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown.

#cheap meals #budget cooking #cooking #learn to cook #budget meals #no meat

[vidaamour]

VEGAN TACO BELL/ CHIPOTLE BOWL:

Starting off with the potatoes first;

Peel and cube however many white potatoes you want, toss them on a baking tray with olive oil, cumin, onion powder, garlic powder, chili powder, smoked paprika.

Bake at 350 for 20 minutes

Rice;

Your choice of washed white or brown rice, season the rice water with the same seasonings you used for the potatoes. Olive oil, cumin, onion powder, garlic powder, chili powder, and smoked paprika. Cook the rice for as long as your rice says too.

Protein;

I used tofu, but you can use your favorite vegan or non vegan meat or replacement. In a frying pan brown up some green bell pepper, your GROUND protein of choice, and once again the same seasonings for the rice and potatoes sans olive oil. Onion powder, garlic powder, cumin, black pepper, smoked paprika, and chili powder. Cook until done.

Taco Bell sauce;

Plain vegan or non vegan yogurt - use however much you’re gonna need. Vegan or non vegan Mayo - Sour cream would work too. Couple spoon fulls of salsa. Chili powder, onion powder, garlic powder, smoked paprika and cumin. Mix together and put it in the refrigerator.

Toppings;

Anything you want! I used tomato, lettuce, onion, and vegan Mexican cheese, and hot sauce.

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[roses-red-and-pink]

Ramen hack I discovered today: (for the super cheap mr noodles type ramen)

Add a dash of hot sauce, a tiny drizzle of sesame oil, and a tiny bit of soy sauce and your broth will taste 500x better and you will actually want to eat it, not just the noodles.

#my life #I’m sick and for some reason really wanted ramen #also plain white rice with butter #my cooking #ramen #cheap meals

[roguishrecipekitchen]

Super easy and delicious recipe Korean braised short rib stew. It is a great winter dish.

#foodphotography #food #recipe #delicious #yummy #comfort food #korean #cooking #winter #meal ideas #cheap meals #dinner #easyrecipes #bon appetit #guten appetit #buenprovecho #pressure cooker

[spoonietimelordy]

Extremely cheap recipe:

Pasta

Caned tuna

Orange

Salt

Pepper

Origano (or really any dry herbs that you have!)

No it's not gonna be dry because caned tuna already has oil!

Edit: it's a cold pasta salad!

#got free oranges today at the cafeteria #so I jumped on the opportunity #like it make 2 meal for 2€ #poor people meal #cheap meals

[slowlycooking]

#crock pot recipes #slow cooker recipes #crockpot recipes #crock pot #cheap eats #cheap meals