Cheap meals from scratch
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Topic: Cheap meals from scratch
Posted By: AnaisSatin
Subject: Cheap meals from scratch
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 3:19am
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A lot of us are spending too much money on groceries. What are some meals you make that are easy and cheap in the long run?
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Posted By: trophywife
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 8:11am
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I eat tuna or mackerel with ground black pepper and any combination of olives, cucumber, French beans, calabrese or petit pois pretty much every time I decide to have a 'proper meal'. It's not too expensive, although I do insist on yellowfin tuna in springwater, which isn't available in those 4 tins for £2.50 (or whatever) bulk offers over here. Tonight for my boyfriend I am making a kind of rosti (sorry no umlaut?) thing with leftovers...some cold new potatoes that we made for a dinner party last night, some red onion (not needed for last night's salad) and a piece of bacon just chopped, covered with grated cheese and baked in the oven. With that he will share some broccoli with me that's about to go off! Cheap as chips! ------------- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. |
Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 7:34pm
Peanut butter and strawberry jam on whole wheat, with a banana.
(Optionally, slice the banana and place the slices on inside of the
sandwich.) Okay, it's not a meal, but is a satisfying snack, and
it's inexpensive.  ------------- |
Posted By: AnaisSatin
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 6:13pm
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Peanut butter and banana - that is an awesome treat. Some of my older friends used to live in the South and they'd tell me "Peanut butter does NOT go with jam! It goes with honey". And it really goes well, too.... wow. Anais ------------- http://anaissatin.livejournal.com"> my LJ , 40 inches long
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Posted By: cmesweet
Date Posted: May 02 2006 at 1:04pm
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a can of cream of potatoe soup ( if you have it) add canned or frozen veggies If you have left over chicken, debone and add to soup, ...cook for about 30 minutes and add biscuits on top of it. If you have left over chicken, debone and add to soup( Now you have made chickenless/chicken potpie) Ramen noodles ( drained) with various veggies ( cooked and raw) add cheese. soup and grilled cheese sandwhiches. Bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwhich with chips or baked french fries ------------- Natural BC May 9, 2004 |
Posted By: AnaisSatin
Date Posted: May 04 2006 at 5:08pm
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This is kind of silly, but last week I counted all the times I spent $1.25 on a bagel and cream cheese for lunch at work... and I could have saved a bunch of money on car insurance JUST KIDDING if I had bought a loaf of French bread ($1.19) and a chunk of cheese ($2.50). ------------- http://anaissatin.livejournal.com"> my LJ , 40 inches long
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Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: May 17 2006 at 5:06pm
Thought of some more ideas, to include with the above, for an inexpensive meal (breakfast, could do for lunch).
To the above delicious sandwich, add 1/2/3 chicken eggs (quantity depending on your level of hunger, and prepared your favorite way), and an individual container of yogurt (store brand is inexpensive and provides a lot of calories - non-fat, low-fat or "full"-fat, depending on your preference, too).
Yum. Bon appetit.  ------------- |
DaveDecker wrote:Posted By: AnaisSatin
Date Posted: May 24 2006 at 1:45am
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These days I've come up with a meat-free lunch: 6-8 ounces of vanilla and plain yogurt, sprinkled with walnuts
french bread with cheddar cheese, Spanish olives
1 pear, sliced ------------- http://anaissatin.livejournal.com"> my LJ , 40 inches long
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Posted By: SpecialKitty
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 8:13pm
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Tonight I'm having veggie ravioli with aparagus and salad. The raviolis are made locally, so the meal will be quick to make (less than 15 min), and relatively inexpensive (2 servings for $3.50). Other quick inexpensive meals:
roast a chicken (not quick, but the leftovers are
 )ramen noodles with veggies
Ryvita crackers topped with just about anything (hardboiled eggs, chicken, peanut butter, honey, jam)
salads ------------- 
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Posted By: trophywife
Date Posted: June 07 2006 at 5:58am
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Today for lunch I am having cucumber sticks and a few dried apricots, delicious! ------------- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. |
Posted By: Kuroneko
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 11:44pm
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I've been making a lot of homemade smoothies lately. I slice some fruit and freeze it for a few hours or overnight. Then I throw it in the blender with a cup of yogurt (a kind that matches or complements the fruit I'm using) and a couple of ounces of milk just so my blender won't freak when I ask it to liquefy frozen fruit (if your blender is less wimpy, you might not need the milk, though). I blend it at high speed, stopping to push down or rearrange the stuff if necessary, until it becomes a smoothie ^_^ . ------------- More awesome than a manatee! |
Posted By: ChloeDharma
Date Posted: September 21 2006 at 10:25am
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One of my favourite cheap meals is a can of mixed beans (soya, kidney, black eye etc) chop an onion and some garlic, fry them off a bit, then add a small tin of chopped tomatoes, lots of herbs and spices, mine ends up something in between a curry and a chilli, cook it all together, and serve with brown rice. Oh i also sometimes add some spinach.
My other favourite is 1 red and 1 green bell pepper, onion, garlic, tin of petit pois, some mushrooms, chopped carrots, and lots of spices, like turmeric, cayenne, cumin, black pepper, garam masala, soy sauce, vege stock cube, basil, basically whatever you fancy.
After frying off the onion and garlic in extra virgin olive oil, i shove everything into the saucepan, reduce heat and cover. I normally let it cook for about an hour, and in the meantime cook the brown rice. Just before serving i often stir in some coconut cream to the veg mix and maybe add a sachet of creamed coconut. Gorgious. ------------- The Heart Would Have No Rainbow, Had The Eyes No Tears |
Posted By: AnaisSatin
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 12:01pm
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Ohhh I have just discovered the joy of HUMMUS!
Ok, ok, I've tried hummus once in Los Angeles (the week of the film festival) at Falafel King, but it just wasn't the same. Here's the sandwich Wheat bread HUMMUS avocado chicken sausage cheese and you can add vegetables such as romaine lettuce, black olives, and tomato. So yesterday I went and bought a big thing of hummus with roasted garlic.... ------------- http://anaissatin.livejournal.com"> my LJ , 40 inches long
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Posted By: AnaisSatin
Date Posted: October 20 2006 at 12:24am
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A note about hummus, it does NOT go well with cucumber if you put them both in a sandwich. Maybe it's cucumbers in general.... the sandwich begins to fuse, mush, and leak.
but they're great when separate!
Anais ------------- http://anaissatin.livejournal.com"> my LJ , 40 inches long
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Posted By: babycheeks24
Date Posted: October 22 2006 at 12:58pm
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instant oats, raisons, dash of cin.
tuna wrap: lunch
whole wheat tortilla, tuna, and cheese
snack:
celery/carrot/apple and peanutbutter Vegetarian Pastry ($6 )
Chillies, garlic, fetta cheese, black olives, spinach, spanish onions, Filo/Puff pastry this was my meal plan for the day cheap and yummy!
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Posted By: Kuroneko
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 2:44am
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Quesadillas are simple and cheap enough. Just oil or otherwise nonstick your skillet, get a tortilla slightly browned on both sides, throw in a bit of shredded cheese. . . maybe add some peppers, mushrooms, leftover chicken, or whatever you have on hand. . . fold it over like an omelette, and it's lunch. I just randomly made one from the other night's leftovers, myself. ------------- More awesome than a manatee! |
Posted By: babycheeks24
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 3:20pm
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toinght my cheap meal will be green bean casserole everyone knows that one so i wont explain how to make it but that is a cheap meal and if you add some chicken to it even better.:) ------------- Babycheeks |