5 Suppers I Cook When Money Runs Out (Under $2 a Plate)
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There's a week that turns up at the end of some months. The money's spent, payday's still a ways off, and you open the fridge and stand there looking at not very much. You're not a bad cook and your family isn't going hungry — you just need a handful of real, hot suppers for the nights there's next to nothing left. Our grandmothers got whole families through lean times on flour, beans and potatoes, and nobody at their table ever felt poor.
In this one I'll walk you through the 5 suppers I cook when money runs out, every one under $2 a plate:
🍳 Egg gravy over toast — ten minutes and about forty cents a plate
🥬 Fried cabbage and noodles that feeds a crowd for pennies
🥔 A big pot of potato soup that tastes richer than it has any right to
🫘 Beans and cornbread, and baked spaghetti that looks like Sunday dinner
…and who makes money off you believing cooking from scratch is too hard.
Keep a few of these in your back pocket and a hard week never turns into a scary one. A little know-how feeds your family well and keeps your money right where it belongs.
If saving money and running a smart, thrifty kitchen sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛
What's the supper your family leaned on when things got tight? Tell me down in the comments.
#budgetmeals #cheapmeals #frugalliving #savemoney #depressionmeals #easydinners #homemaking #householdtips #thrifty
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Cook macaroni, at last 2-3 mins add meat & veggies to the boiling water until hot, and add cheese mix/packet & stir.
If you dont want meat & veggies boiled, then when pasta is done, put pasta in strainer & let sit for a min while you heat the rest of the ingredients, then add butter to the pot & add the meat & veggies to heat them up, then add pasta & cheese mix/packet & stir the whole thing together.
Broccoli is best for veggies, but green beans is good, and peas will do. Dont use corn because that changes the whole flavor of the dish & not in a good way.
And if you stop & think about it, using the green veggies with cheese, is actually normal.
Same with the meat.
You know, Broccoli & Cheese Sauce, Peas & Cheese for kids that wont eat veggies, and the green beans was my idea & it's good too.
The only difference is putting it all in one pot.
FYI - to get pasta that's stuck together in a clump in the strainer, to unstick, just run boiling/hot water over it & stir it up into individual pieces again. Only takes a second to do & makes it easy to get out of the strainer.
5 Suppers I Cook When Money Runs Out (Under $2 a Plate)
Brenda Cooks
13,157 views
📘 Brenda Cooks: 162 recipes for every kind of week your kitchen goes through
https://brendacooks.com/
There's a week that turns up at the end of some months. The money's spent, payday's still a ways off, and you open the fridge and stand there looking at not very much. You're not a bad cook and your family isn't going hungry — you just need a handful of real, hot suppers for the nights there's next to nothing left. Our grandmothers got whole families through lean times on flour, beans and potatoes, and nobody at their table ever felt poor.
In this one I'll walk you through the 5 suppers I cook when money runs out, every one under $2 a plate:
🍳 Egg gravy over toast — ten minutes and about forty cents a plate
🥬 Fried cabbage and noodles that feeds a crowd for pennies
🥔 A big pot of potato soup that tastes richer than it has any right to
🫘 Beans and cornbread, and baked spaghetti that looks like Sunday dinner
…and who makes money off you believing cooking from scratch is too hard.
Keep a few of these in your back pocket and a hard week never turns into a scary one. A little know-how feeds your family well and keeps your money right where it belongs.
If saving money and running a smart, thrifty kitchen sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛
What's the supper your family leaned on when things got tight? Tell me down in the comments.
#budgetmeals #cheapmeals #frugalliving #savemoney #depressionmeals #easydinners #homemaking #householdtips #thrifty
https://brendacooks.com/