What is your favorite CHEAP meal that you cook?

Entomatadas! you will just need tomato, tortillas, and cheese! Very cheap!

Garbanzo beans with crunchy Chinese noodles and cream of mushroom soup, baked with pees and chicken….

Ramen Noodles!

I love speghetti!!!! Very cheap to make. Lean ground meat, wheat pasta, and sauce in a jar! Add some Texas toast and a ceasar salad if u have a lil extra money. Yum yum!

Ziploc Omelets it was posted on here a couple days ago, but the idea is brilliant,cheap, and easy.

JackA: Haha…you provided a link for ramen.

I just made one of them – impossible cheesburger pie (ground beef or turkey, cheese, bisquick and milk and bake!) I made the Mexican version tonight – adding tomatoes, using nacho cheese and packet of spices. Yum!!!

Wow! Me thinks me has food to make for dinner tomorrow. I just had Macaroni and Tuna topped with salt and LOTS of pepper. I like pepper

@JackAdams Ramen is definitely a mainstay in my diet. I know there’s a site with recipes for it. My Ma just made some Ramen salad that was fantastic (although I don’t think it was cheap).

Quesadillas. They taste great, easy to make, and not that expensive.

@uberbatman: Thanks for mentioning that omelet link, which I supplied.

I can’t stand eggs, but I’ll make that for my wife in the morning – although that disclaimer from ziploc kinda scared me.

@JackAdams LoL! I think that’s the site I was thinking of for Ramen!

I like making a box of Kraft mac & cheese (with only 1/4 cup milk instead of 1/2) and throwing in a can of drained and flaked tuna.

eew allengreen pees in his food! lol kidding allen.. did you mean peas? ;)

Cheeseburger Pie

Ingrediants: 2 pillsbury cresent rolls
Ground meat
Cheese
Barbeque sauce

Lay the first crecent roll onto a flat cookie sheet. (do not break apart, it should be a large rectangle). Mix ground meat into a bowl with barbeque sauce. Add as much as you like. Evenly spread the meat onto the flat dough with about half an inch of uncovered dough around the edge. Place 4–6 pieces of American cheese onto the meat. Finally add the last crecent roll dough to the top. Push the sides together to cover up the meat. Preheat oven to 350 degrees then cook for 30 minutes or
Until crust becomes brown. Enjoy!

Easily feeds a family of 4–6, or 2 for 2–4 meals.

Any sort of stir fry. Buy the vegetables fresh, you only need a few slivers of meat (unless you’re a vegetarian), and it’s quick and easy to make.

Just be sure to add the sauce and noodles when the greens are at their greenest.

Costs £2 or £3 (probably about $4) to make a really great meal.

nachos… you can make them with just about anything you have on hand, and the vairety keeps it interesting

or my all time favorite…. chinese fried rice

Sub-Question: If you ate your parakeet, would that be a cheep meal?

Just curious…

Let’s hear it for Jack… he’ll be here all week, folks.

Not ALL week…

I have to return to the home periodically, to have my Lithium levels tested, and so they can put that there electricity into my brain…

Cymbal crash ;)

thanks richard! Now which one of us is going to clean up those tomatoes?

Tomatoes? you can use those in the cheeseburger pie! :0)

btw autumn, I think I might try that… I’ll add a few things but I think I’m going to try it in individual little pie-thingies.

Sardines on rye bread.
Aside from being delicious and nutritious it gets my wife out of the kitchen..

SRM

LoL @JackAdams…

@srmorgan I’ve found sardines to be too salty for me. Is there any way to take that down? What about adding flavor to it?

Eggs + Rice!

Spaghetti! $3 serves, like, 4!

Fresh, sliced tomatoes, whole wheat bread, sliced mozarella cheese.
Drizzle a little EVOL on bread, layer tomatoes and cheese.
Toast in toaster. Sprinkle fresh snipped basil on top.

@gail, I’ve had that before; it’s delicious!

@gailcalled Bruschetta is fantastic. I never thought of it as a cheap food, but now looking at the recipe, it indeed is.

Overall I guess that Italian food, in general, is relatively cheap.

TWrex; It is not even Bruschetta since I simply slice the tomatoes (picked from my bushes) and leave out the chopped onion. I am the laziest cook alive.

There’s nothing like a tomato fresh from the garden! Yum!

@gailcalled LoL. It’s not lazy. It’s using your talents to be inventive and creative and make the dish yours! =) See. I should be a politician. I can be a spin doctor! (ooooh. bad ju ju. now i need to listen to them! damn)

And the tomatoes being sliced rather than diced… I’ve seen that done before so it’s not actually being lazy and I can skip the onions on that anyways.

Eggs in Purgatory is my favorite cheap meal: Take a small jar of tomato sauce, heat it to a simmer, and poach two eggs in it. Put the eggs on pieces of toast and cover with the tomato sauce – so yummy!

(Also good with homemade tomato sauce, which is even cheaper – I make a huge batch of it and freeze it in small portions that I can use for this, or just put it over spaghetti…)

Shrimp scampi yummy ^_^

Extra Hot Rotel, and Tostidos scoops!

and of course, Velveeta

Lentils and rice. All you need is lentils, rice, an onion, and some sausage if you want a meat in there (you don’t need it though). Also cumin, salt, pepper, and apple cider vinegar. It’s super cheap and makes a TON of food.

@stratman37 Rotel and Velveeta Dip! Yum! Clearly that (with Fritos only—no tortilla chips) was what manna from heaven was.

@JackAdams Since the best price going on a baby budgie directly from a breeder is $9–10, it is not a cheap meal, especially on a pound-for-pound basis!

spam and rice!

yaki soba

OOOOOOOHHHHH SNAP! I can’t believe you just busted out the YAKISOBA! That and Taco Rice and Cheese! My favorite Okinawa meals!

Cream chicken on rice or on toast. Tasty, quick, easy and inexpensive.
MMMM.

boil top ramen—just the noodles, not seasoning. then saute some broccoli or whatever veggies you want and throw i the noodles with the veggies—saute in any kind of sauce you want. just garlic and butter, soy, nama shoyu, teriyaki, el pato. whatever. it’s good. or just butter and like a steak seasoning.