When money is tight what frugal meals do you cook?

1. breakfast for supper (omelets, pancakes, french toast)
2. grilled cheese and tomato soup
3. spaghetti and meatballs
4. meatball subs (use the leftover meatballs from #3)
5. baked potato bar
6. Hamburger Helper
7. Mac and Cheese doctored up with tuna and peas
8. Cheeseburgers
9. Maidrites
10. Sloppy Joes
11. chili (colder weather food)
12. hot dogs

hamburgers
egg & cheese bagels
p b &j sandwiches
cereal

1) Fried potatoes w/ hotdogs cut up and add towards the end of the cooking.
2) Homemade potato soup w/ grill cheeses
3) Hamburger Stroganoff
4) Quesadillas (sp?)
5) Goulash

This is great!!! I need all the help I can get with this subject. I will have to think about some of the things that I do and post them

Homemade mac and beef
Pasta and sauce
quesidillas
wraps made from leftovers
Homemade Bean soup
Homemade chicken noodle soup
Homemade vegetable soup(sometimes I add beef)
Homemade chicken pot pie(a/k/a chicken and dumplings)
Tacos/Burritos
Grilled cheese
nachos
baked potatoes
chili
bake a turkey (make soup with the bones, leftover meat is either a salad, over rice with gravy, croquets, ect.)
Whatever can be put over rice




I keep tortillas, rice and potatoes in the house at all times.

Rice, with any kind of bean or vegetable mixed in along with whatever flavorings you have available. You can eat it hot or put in some salad dressing and make it into a cold salad. You can turn it into rice pudding for a desert/snack or hot with milk and sugar for breakfast.

Rice to me is the cheapest food ever- before I had some stockpile, on the weeks where I literally had barely any food, I would always buy a 5lb of rice (if I could) , milk in some form or other, and if I had a little extra $, beans and cheap canned veggies.