I think it's the magazine Simple and Delicious that has a page dedicated to your most frugal meal. So let's list here....what are your most frugal meals you serve your family?

Just sauce and noodle's, no meat. The kids eat it and its cheap. Also, grilled cheese, hotdogs, chicken patties on buns, hamburger and noodles, rice and anything, sandwiches, soup, mac and cheese with hamburger in it, beans and cornbread, collard greens and bread.

Spaghetti and garlic bread. Nothing fancy--just regular sandwich bread with butter, a little salt and perhaps a little cheese (parm or moz) and a sprinkly of garlic. Even if I throw in a little ground meat, it's still pretty cheap. But then, there are only two adults and a toddler in my home, so we're not really expensive to feed!

Spaghetti
Chicken & Dumplings ( if you make your dumplings from scratch it is even cheaper to make)
Potato Soup
There are more, but my son just woke up from his nap, will have to post others later!

Breakfast for dinner (waffles, pancakes, eggs)

beans and rice/rice and beans
Spaghetti---I make a ton of meatballs at one time and freeze them so adding
a meatball or two per person is still pretty cheap
homemade hamburger helper
chicken fried rice
pancakes

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Pinto beans and cornbread is probably one of our favorites. And spaghetti of course.

I don't really think it gets much cheaper than pasta. Sometimes I make it with butter instead of sauce. Yum. After that, I'd have to say beans and rice.

My fancy-shmancy frugal meal is pasta carbonara, just some eggs, parm cheese (both of which I always have on hand) sometimes I add leftover bacon and a handful of frozen peas.

But everyone loves breakfast for dinner around our house. Homemade pancakes and scrambled eggs.

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"Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation & longing"~B Kingsolver

Today we had homemade pancakes, 2 eggs stretched for 3 people, and a few slices of bacon. Dessert was fruit. Super frugal. I'm saving my stockpile of chicken and pork roast for when my inlaws come for 10 days in October. Every year I make elaborate menus, etc. for when they come over. This year it's easy...we're simply going to have to have what is in the freezer!!