Ideas for meals - low cost

Something Different .  It’s been over a month now since the shutdown and things may be getting a bit more tight.  There are creative ways to make good meals.

• French Toast, fruit , sausage or bacon if you have it
• Loaded baked potato bar uses inexpensive potatoes and can use up bits of anything that sounds good. We often have them if we have leftover chili.  Taco meat, cheese, sour cream, chives, bacon, just about anyth8ng,   
• Impossible pie.  Uses a bit of meat and cheese or vegetable and eggs, milk, and bisquick,  you can make your own bisquick, 
• Depression stew.  Potatoes, carrots , and any meat you have.  I remember my. Other adding a little bacon and some meatballs, 
• Meatball subs.  “Noreen’s Kitchen” on u tube has a good recipe for rolls,   Add homemade French fries.  Meatballs are two dollars for almost a pound ( equivalent of a pound of raw meat) at Winco.  ARMOUR. Brand. I have found coupons for them 
• 1/2 lb of spaghetti, pasta sauce, and some parm.  Spaghetti can be found for as low as .59.  Pasta sauce has been a dollar lately.  Parmesan cheese - the real stiff is cheap at Winco and is a  treat that can upscale almost anything. Sometimes Barilla is at the dollar store, 
• Chili fries, 
• Nachos. Huge bags of tortilla chips are at Costco, but you can also get so,e at the dollar tree or make your own 
• Pizza is cheap and can have just about anything on it.  Buffalo chicken pizza takes a bit of cooked chicken, ranch or blue cheese dressing, cheese if you have it and we add chopped peppers. Dollar store pepperoni, any wetback. 
• Potato soup.  Add carrots and celery.  Uses only a cup of milk and some chicken broth.  Bouillon can be cheap.   
• Tomato soup.  Make baking powder biscuits with a little grated cheese on them.  Roll dough like you were making cinnamon rolls and sprinkle cheese on it,  roll it and cut into slices, bake off just like you were making the biscuits. Homemade is cheap if you have diced tomatoes, we get the organic pacific roasted red pepper. and tomato for two dollars when we can.  Add blue cheese and basil of you like those flavors  yum.  Blue cheese was a dollar at grocery outlet.   
• Vegetarian chili. 
• Rice and beans , add a red sauce and SASON
• Enchiladas,  use dollar store tortillas, beans. Cheese, shredded chicken or pork. Make sauce.  We isle red for meat and beans, or green for chicken. Pork shoulder is .99 specified days at qfc this week.  Shredded pork goes a long ways,   Tacos, pulled pork sandwiches, enchiladas.  
• Vegetable bean  soup comes in at a bit more than two dollars for a Six quart pot. You can do a lot of things with carrots and celery. Onions help too.   Onions were three pounds for a dollar at Winco,   Carrots are 2.28 for FIVE pounds.  Save the peels after you wash them with vinegar for stock. 
• Sausage (brown and serve in a pinch DT) eggs, pancakes. 
• Chicken noodle soup.  Add homemade noodles, noodles from the Dollar Tree, or dumplings.