Tell Us Tuesday: Your Favorite Frugal Food

I *love* english-muffin pizzas. So much healthier and yummier than the frozen kind (not to mention take-out) and cost-effective if you shred your own cheese. Maybe not the *most* frugal food, but I’m always craving pizza so this is a big savings for me.

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My family’s favorite frugal meal is chicken soup served with rice. We serve the broth with rice first, and then plate up the chicken and boiled veggies. My husband could eat this daily.

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vegan shepherd’s pie, with lentils & veg inside and potato on top! it costs about $4 to make and provides six enormous portions that have loads of protein and fiber for not many calories. You can eat supper for a week for $4!

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Mine has got to be chicken. You can dress it up, dress it down, and stretch it for a week. You can do Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Indian, Greek, soup, stew, chili, casserole, or comfort food with a chicken.

I’m going to have to say breakfast ~ eggs (there’s a 101 ways to fix them), pancakes, waffles, french toast, breakfast burritos, hashbrowns (frugal if you shred your own potatoes). I love breakfast food but most of us don’t have time in the morning to make this kind of a meal before we leave the house.

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ANYTHING in my slow cooker

But especially SOUP! Just one of many —

Vegetable soup: Combine carrots, diced potatoes, celery, chopped onion and water (or homemade chicken stock if you have) in slow cooker on low for about 8 hours.

Add egg noodles or angel hair pasta at the end.

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Ooh! I just posted my favorite “cheap eat” on my blog! I love potatoes and onions. Add in any type of meat(turkey kielbasa is a good one) and you’re in business, baby!

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Scrapple.
After butchering, I pressure cook up the bones and take whatever meat is left off of them, and save the broth. Mix that with flour and cornmeal, sage, and spices, and let it set up in loaf pans in the refrig. When gelled, slice and pan fry. Great with syrup for breakfast, with mayo for sandwiches, or with ketchup for dinner. And it’s about as frugal as you can get – made from the bones.

I like any meal that uses up the non-perfect fruit, veg and meat left in the fridge. Shepherd pie, stews, and soup are great for hiding rejected veg and meat. Amazing how many times my family have eaten veg that they ‘hate’ but happily ask for seconds in casseroles, shepherd pies, stews and such. Left over meats with gravy make a tasty base for a soup or stew. Fruit crumbles are a great way to use up fruit that will never pass my family’s lips from the fruit bowl due to a small blemish or wrinkles. And old bananas make scrummy banana bread. Bananas and soft fruits that are less-than-best can be frozen to make smooties, muffins or pie fillings if you don’t have time or inclination to deal with them right at that particular time. Oh, and left over bread. TONS of stuff to use for that- french toast, make into bread crumbs and freeze, to bulk up a meat loaf, toast into crutons, make Queens pudding (that uses going-off milk too), homemade stuffing, bread-and-butter pudding, etc. Loads of scrummy yet thrifty meals and desserts. Using my imagination to make a filling, healthy meal out ‘nothing’ is fun, economical and yummy!