Best recipes on a budget?

frozen pizzas are one of my favorite recipes

doesn't get any cheaper or better tasting than red beans and rice w/ some smoked sausage.

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I was really wanting to know if anyone had a good recipe to make that is cheap?

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yeah i kinda misread your post didnt I

Soba Noodles

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You can find them at an Asian grocery

But I linked it just to illustrate how cheap they are. You can get 8 packs of 3 for 18 dollars

That's less than a dollar a meal

Good point.

How are those soba noodles?

Caloric amount?

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This is pretty close to the recipe I use. I cook it fairly often and eat on it for days. Really cheap too. Tastes awesome, I sub meat for turkey and I believe I cook mine for an hour.

If you happen to have a crockpot or can borrow from your parents, a roast overnight is awesome. You can get a couple lbs for about 10-15$ and the rest of whatever you want to put in for less than 5. Let it cook overnight and leave it in the crockpot on warm and eat on it for a few days. Stretches the 20 or so across at least 3 days. After a day or so it starts to break down and is awesome for some quick tacos or even by itself. I do this at lest least every month and a half or so.

Look up pasta primevera(chicken or cheap pork can be added), beef stroganoff(buy a roast in the cheap seats section and cut it into appropriately sized pieces)over egg noodles, a store bought roasted chicken is dirt cheap with veggies and a starch should come to about 11-12. Learn to shop at Southside and the farmers market as much as possible for staple foods as the price variation on goods bought from those places versus a store are extreme to say the least. Soups are a cheap meals when prepared right, and are damned nutritious to boot. A beef based veggie soup will feed and are heart soothers and anti-freeze in the winter, chilled soups work well in summer to cool off the days heat. The soup with corn bread is cheap date food.

ETA corn bread should not be made from the cheap assed single packages of crap at the store, get real corn meal and follow the directions for the "dough", put your cast iron skillet in the oven at 425 and heat up a bit of cooking oil, when the temp is reached pour the batter into it and bake for twenty five minutes. Another thing, NO SUGAR!!!!

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crockpot

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This is my suggestion. Get a crockpot and a good bit of tupperware. Make a huge meal for $10 and then freeze servings. My girlfriend and I can get three meals out of a crockpot recipe, sometimes more, so 6 servings.