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    Default Food - cheap easy good for you

    Hello
    so i am pinching pennies these days but determined not to buy junk (junk is sooo cheap compared to fruits and vegetables ...ect..)
    So with $10 for I bought this and made something that filled me up and satisfyed my salt cravings

    Dried Pinto Beans (highest fiber food.. 10 g vrs 4 grams from other things)
    Lettuce
    Dried Brown Rice
    Tomato
    Onion

    I had butter and Celtic Sea Salt (the good salt
    and Taco Sauce

    Takes a bit but soak beans then cook on low until done
    Cook rice
    You get a pile of beans and rice to store in the fridge

    In pot melt little bit of butter and 1/4 onion
    Sprinkle salt
    Add rice/beans and stir around
    It is bland so add your seasonings.. I just used Salt/Pepper and Taco sauce

    Put over a bed of lettuce
    Top with chopped tomato also seasoned

    Fills the tummy and is fiber fiber
    And I still have tomato, lettuce and a pile of rice/beans left

    I also bought a banana and couple plums that I ate later that day

    Pretty good for hardly any money

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    Default Re: Food - cheap easy good for you

    Sounds good! I've been eating lots of tuna and eggs lately, which are pretty cheap as well.

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    How about pasta (spelt is best) and premade bottled pasta sauces. The organic version.
    I'm sure they go easy on preservatives and other nasties.
    Cheap, healthy and fills the tummy
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    oatmeal. so cheap, so easy, so filling.




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    a box of whole grain cereal and low fat milk.
    I have a lot of healty low fat recipes from a book I will post later.Most have cheap ingredients.

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    Default Re: Food - cheap easy good for you

    Cheap and easy foods that I love are:

    -Pasta
    -Soup
    -A medley of rice, beans, & corn
    -yogurt (so good for you, and it's a great snack)
    -Garlic spinach
    -Veggies on herbed bread

    etc.

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    Not healthy, but goooooood:

    Buy a whole chicken from your local Asian market.

    Chop it up into parts.

    Make bread crumbs with a slice of bread and a blender.

    Add salt, pepper, and any other seasonings (I like cayenne pepper and cinnamon) to the breading.

    Dip the chicken in milk or egg (I use milk and honey), dip in breading, and fry in a bit of oil.

    Slather in Ashanti hot sauce for 70 cents a bottle.

    Enjoy! Oh man i'm drooling now...

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    Making your own soup is suuuuuper cheap.

    I just put chicken broth, kidney beans, celery, carrots, lentils, and/or pasta shells, sometimes chicken in a pot and let it simmer for a few hours and walla... dinner under $5 for the next week. I freeze some for later.
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    ^ Soup is indeed cheap. Whenever I fry up a chicken I boil the carcass and all the giblets to make a rich broth, Then I add random vegetables, rice, and strips of chicken meat and I have soup for 3 days.
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    The trick lies in leftovers. On Sunday, my boyfriend and I made a delicious four-cheese fondue. We refrigerated the leftover fondue; it solidified into a big chunk. He used the leftover potatoes (which we were dipping in the fondue) to make hashbrowns for breakfast for a few days. I took the leftover solid fondue, cut it up, made dough in my bread machine, and made calzones with the fondue cheese as filling. We still have some leftover fondue cheese (which is now a combined mess of gruyere, gorgonzola, asiago, and fontina with roasted garlic and basil mixed in)... I will most likely be making pasta sauce with it by adding some tomatoes and a splash of canned spaghetti sauce. All I have to buy for that is the whole-wheat pasta.

    Yeah, it's $20 of expensive cheese for a fancy fondue, but it becomes pretty damn economical when you use the leftovers in a smart way. We spent about $30 on the week's groceries for two people and a cat, and we're eating pretty damn good food for it (well, the bf and I are; the cat just gets Friskies).

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    Try making soup with the left overs from a roast dinner (if using chicken, boil the carcass for stock) Delicious I mash all the veges for a thick creamy soup.
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    This may be a little on the unhealthy side, but then not too bad, depending on what you eat it with.

    It's a very southern/country thing...

    Get a ham hock (or a regular ham with the bone and cut the meat off for sandwiches and such) and a small bag of beans. Put the hock (the bone part, with a little meat still attached) and beans into a crock pot and set it to low. Add a little salt/seasonings to taste. The ham hock infuses alot of flavor though, so use some moderation with the seasonings. Go to bed.

    Next day you'll have a daaammmnn tasty pot of beans and ham that you can eat with rice, potatoes, cornbread, veggies, whatever. This is some good shit!!

    I like to get most my veggies frozen. Cheaper than fresh and still better than canned. I'll get some oranges, bananas or something for fresh fruit.

    With a ham like that described above you can eat for a week. Use the hock for the beans, use some of the meat for sandwiches, use some for breakfast or a ham/veggie meal, etc. Get some frozen veggies, a bag of fruit, eggs, yogurt, milk, bread, rice and some oatmeal and you'll have a week's worth of meals for about $30. It won't be extremely lowfat but it's reasonably balanced and healthy.

    I'll throw in some chicken or fish sometimes too. I like to get a large piece of salmon filet, cut it into portions and freeze what I don't use right away. A large bag of frozen chicken breasts goes a long way too (it was frozen before they thawed it and put it out as "fresh" at the store, so might as well save a little money and buy it frozen). I like to bake my chicken or fish in aluminum foil that formed into a bag and sealed up. The foil is cheap enough and makes easy cleanup, plus it cooks healthy that way.

    Stick the meat in the fridge to thaw overnight. Put some season on the meat, seal the foil, put it in the oven on a baking sheet at about 350 for about 20 minutes, cook up some boil-in-bag brown rice and steam some frozen veggies and you've got a nice easy lowfat meal. Be sure to check the meat for doneness - you'll learn how long to cook it in a couple tries.
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    Default Re: Food - cheap easy good for you

    mmm.. soups
    I found if you keep Whipping cream in the fridge and a jar of Better than boulion the combination of the two you can add to any vegetable/meat for a creamy soup
    Fill pot with water and splash of whipping cream and boulion and get bubbly
    then add Kale, sausage and potatoes and onions - spices
    Or Chicken and vegetables for a pot pie filling type soup
    Or cut up butter nut squash and add onions
    OR... Tomatoes and spices and then put the whole mess in the blender for tomato soup
    good food cheap really is doable just takes a little creativity and effort on my part
    I like the fondue idea.. a big block of fancy cheese would go along way .. i bet even nachos.. mmmm. mmmm

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    Found a cool website where you can input ingredients you have and they will find recipes for you.
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    just checked out the site- great idea, but it finds recipes using the ingredients you list as some of the ingredients... So the recipes that will come up will include lots of stuff you don't have.

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    Default Re: Food - cheap easy good for you

    Bridgette.. so funny you mentioned the southern "hamhock"
    I got my idea for the dried $1 bag of pinto beans after my dad said when he grew up they'd take a big bag of dried beans and cook them with a hunk of some sort of fat and serve with cornbread (also cheap and easy) .. those old timers live close to 100 so cant be too artery clogging
    Also my granny has a garden and when I go there alot of times we just eat green beans and potatoes.. if you put enough salt and pepper its pretty good and leaves you feeling full but "clean"

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