Let's start a list of your cheapest to make meals:

Tacos
Sloppy Joes
Breakfast for supper
Homemade Pizza
Hamburgers/Cheeseburgers

ground beef mixed w/mac and cheese and can of diced tomatoes. Good idea for a thread!

spaghetti
creamed chip beef
goulash
pancakes

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for lunch when I'm out of everything, I mix refried beans w/ salsa add to a flour tortilla shell (great w/ cheese if I have any)

You can really do a lot w/ flour tortillas, salads, mix any left over meat w/ salsa...it's endless really.

scrambled eggs and keilbasa

veggie chili

soups go a long way and don't really need much in them.

now that the garden is going great, we make lots of salads, you can make some boneless chicken breast w/ grilled or w/ hot sauce to make them a meal, any tiny bits of meat sliced thin is good.

This one isn't a health recipe, but my little guys like it and they'll eat their veggies. They love those awful ramon noodles, so I use only a part of a packet and make soup and and brocholi to it.

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We do the ramen, too, only we add 1/2 a bag of mixed veggies. The kids love it, and it is about the cheapest thing I can make!! LOL
We also do a lot of rice or potato creations...using left over meat and veggies with cream soups to make caserolles. It stretches things further by using the left overs and rice/potatos are cheap, too!

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Ribs 'n rice

spaghetti

grilled sausage & onions

I think that people should add recipes - it is funny how some meals are just unknown to me how to cook them b/c my mom didn't cook them when I was growing up kwim??? I love experimenting.


One of mine that is not only cheap but easy is greenbeans, smoked sausage and potatoes. Take a couple of cans of beans, cut up some potatoes, and a package of smoked sausage cut up and put in your crockpot - can do on the stove top. Let it cook all day on low - My dh LOVES it!

love this thread! keep the ideas (w/instructions) comming!

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Amanda
Mommy to Zack & Emily

Chicken quarters for 19 cents a pound! Bake and serve with rice for dinner. Boil to make soup. Take l/o chicken off bone to make chicken salad, chicken w/cheese in tortillas or make whole other casserole with noodles. $2 for more than 5 full meals for the main dish - 40 cents a meal!!

Spaghetti, egg noodles w/butter & cheese, eggs, ramen noodles, pb&j & grilled cheese sandwiches - all frequent cheap meals at our house.

Lou

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Boneless, skinless chicken breasts baked or cooked in skillet with cream of mushroom soup poured over top.

Mix baked beans and hot dogs, heat through.