I’m hoping to get help in finding a website, or maybe an app, for recipes using what is on hand? I need to be able to list things I have in my refrigerator and pantry and be given recipe ideas from what I already have. I get some recipes when I go to the food distributions. However, the recipes usually list things I don’t have on hand (and cannot obtain). Does such a thing even exist? 🙂

Homemade Creole Seasoning is sooo good on almost everything!!! 😋

Ingredients 3 tablespoons paprika 2 tablespoons garlic powder 1 tablespoon onion powder 1 tablespoons cayenne or more for a spicier version 1 tablespoon black pepper 1 tablespoon white pepper 1 tablespoon dried oregano 1 tablespoon dried basil 1 tablespoon dried thyme 1 tablespoon salt

*Take all ingredients and mix together in a container with a lid. Enjoy!!

I like to cook veggies with my spaghetti. I wanted to try something new and blend the veggies with my Nutribullet and poor it in the sauce. Thing is, it won’t blend without some kind of liquid. Would broth work with it?

You don’t have to sacrifice sustainability for savings. Discover easy ways to reduce food waste, grow your own ingredients, and shop smarter to help local agriculture. What are your best tips for eating sustainably on a budget?

Probably been posted before but I think the best use of $ is roasting a chicken with veggies then making stock and soup with some pasta or rice. You can do this for about $15 and eat for 3-4 days. Tonight I’m doing beats, parsnips, potato, and onion.

I hope everyone enjoys my mom's vegetable soup. I made a pot last night and am having leftovers if it tonight. Nothing better in cold weather.

MOM'S VEGETABLE SOUP Mom, used to make this especially during fall and winter months. It was a warm and welcomed meal ready when we came home or finished working outside. You can make this for only $7-$9 depending on cost of meat mostly.

SERVINGS: 6-8

INGREDIENTS: 1 # Ground Beef 4 cups of Russet Potatoes cubed 2 cup of Carrots sliced in bite size pieces 1 can of Green Beans drained/pack of Frozen Green Beans 1 cup Frozen Peas 1 cup rough chopped Onions 1 1/2 stalks of Celery chopped 8 oz Tomato Sauce 2 Tbls Garlic minced 2-4+ cups Beef Broth 2-3 Tbls. Worcestershire Sauce ½ tbl Onion Powder ½ tbl Garlic Powder 1 tsp Chives 1 tsp Parsley ½ tsp Thyme 1 tsp Savory 1 tsp Salt 1 tsp Pepper OPTIONAL: 1 cup of Corn 1 bag of Frozen Peas and Carrots in place of carrots and peas.

INSTRUCTIONS: Brown ground beef and onions until onions are soft.

Drain ground beef of any grease cooked off it.

Add celery along with carrots, peas, potatoes stirring it all together.

Add 2 cups of broth and stir mixture together.

Add savory, chives, onion powder, garlic powder, parsley, thyme, salt and pepper. Add fresh or frozen green beans. Stir into mix well.

Add tomato sauce and rest of broth and stir together with other ingredients adding frozen green beans instead of canned here.

Bring to a hard simmer the turn down. (You may have to add extra water to make sufficient soup liquids.

Add 1-2 tbls Worcestershire sauce (add drained can of green beans, corn if using here) stirring in well.

Bring to a fast simmer or low boil.

Turn to low simmer for a few hours to cook vegetables. I'm

NOTES: When vegetables are cooked taste if flavors a bit bland add a tsp or so of either lemon juice or vinegar and stir.

Best if served with either biscuits or fresh baked bread.

Growing up, my family always bought the cheapest sauces for food we would make; when I moved out, I started learning how to make these sauces from scratch and they've come out a hundred times better...but it's a lot more expensive to make.

I spend more on just tomatoes than I would if I would just by a 48oz jar of Spaghetti sauce. I spend more on just the Milk or Heavy Cream than I would spend on a jar of Alfredo.

So I started experimenting with buying these jarred sauces and elevating them.

Spaghetti Sauce can be elevated with Fish Sauce or Worcestershire Sauce and some Italian Seasoning (some red pepper flakes, if you like heat) and Alfredo Sauce can be elevated with butter and a chicken bouillon cube that has been reconstituted in 1 oz of hot water.

Have you found any other "shortcuts" to elevate cheap food?

I want to start cooking, I never really have but I’m going to college this upcoming fall and I want to become better at it by cooking for my family the rest of this school year.

My question is, what do I absolutely need to know about cooking? And what are some meals I definitely should learn how to make?

My boyfriend and I are going together & living in a condo, and he is going to be a diesel mechanic and works 2 jobs so I want to make sure that I can cook good meals for him as well. He says he wants a lot of proteins, rice, and vegetables. I want to be creative with it though.

I just have no idea where to start. So please, any advice I’ll take! I literally have only cooked chicken once and other than that nothing so I’m super beginner level! I’ll take any help I can get!

Also any videos/cookbooks/channels you recommend pls link!

Running into a bit of a rough 20 days or so here. I have rice, black beans, pinto beans, chickpeas, lentils, and potatoes in my cart for breakfasts, lunches and dinners.

I figure I'll need some vegetables and/or fruit. I have ten dollars left to spend. I'm in the USA, and only have Walmart and Aldi available, so no produce stands or ethnic stores for me, nor much of a selection. Any input would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: thank you all so much for the replies. I got a couole cabbages, canned corn, diced and crushed tomatos, and carrots. I've got a lot of stuff goin on and I truly appreciate the help. My thinkin box is a little dented at the moment.

Ingredients: 1 can of condensed cream of chicken (Campbell's works). 1 can of creamed corn 1-2 cup of milk (add two to make more servings) 1 cup of water 2 tbsp of chicken or vegetable stock powder. (Optional: add shredded chicken)

Method: In a big ish cooking pot, add the can of condensed cream of chicken, milk, creamed corn, water and chicken/ vegetable stock.

Stir or whisk the ingredients together until combined (the corn will not combine, its corn)

Place over medium high heat, stirring until the soup begins to come to a simmer (do not let boil).

Immediately take the soup off heat.

Serve!

Id say this makes 3-6 servings depending on the amount of milk and how much u eat, but its decently filling and will get you by in a pinch! It costs me $4 and $5-6 if i didnt have chicken stock already on hand, and comes out to pretty close to a dollar a serve.

So long story short- I have celiac disease (do o can’t eat gluten, wheat, barley, malt, rye, or anything that has been exposed to those ) so for the last 10 days while visiting my parents I had to buy all my own groceries (and when everyone ordered take out Chinese for Christmas, I had to make my own) Needless to say, I’m back home and broke.

I have 4 dozen eggs that expire 1/13. I have other food but I need to not waste the eggs. So I need egg focused wheat/gluten free recipes besides omelettes, quiche, and scrambled/over easy/etc.

Hit me with what you got! (Even ones that call for flour are fine as I have gluten free flour)

If so, do you know any recipes?

All the videos I see are for entire families.

I’m one person living alone and need groceries that are versatile and do not go spoilt quickly! I generally eat out, at work or at university so I’m struggling to find things to keep in my fridge. Meal ideas along with the grocery would help a lot! Any ideas?

I wanted to make the fruit salad my mom used to make. It has red and green grapes, apples, bananas and nuts in a homemade whipped cream. Always a favorite at home. I made it for a Friendsgiving as a dessert years ago and once again it was loved. I wanted to make it this year but just the grapes would cost $16.43! I try to keep my food budget at $200-$250 for the month! I guess I will stick to frosted brownies.

The kind where it's a mix of bullion, seasonings, lentils or pasta, other dry stuff, and you just add water and maybe a can of something like coconut milk. I'd like to gift some this year.

I've found a couple online that look okayish but I can't really land on one. I'm making for 4 people, two of them are vegan, and one(non vegan) doesn't like lentils or beans, and honestly has a really basic(bland) flavor pallet.

I'm looking to make 2 max 3 recipes total. Has anyone here done anything like this before?

My late mom made a dish she called Poor Man’s Stew. It was the corned beef ( from the can) with cubed potatoes, onion, garlic, and black pepper. In hindsight, I’m wondering if I should alter the way she made it because of sodium abundance. She chopped up the beef, added water and brought to a boil. Then added the rest of ingredients and simmered it for a while. Should I drain the water after it boils? Would leaving it in be too much sodium, or is corned beef just a high sodium food that will be very salty no matter what? Please be gentle as I’m only a basic cook.

It's a traditional dutch meal. 1kg potatos, 750gr carrots, 300gr unions. Clean it. Boil it. Drain it, add a salt/pepper and a bit of milk and butter to get it more creamy, and mash it with a potatomasher. Traditionally served with gravy and smoked sausage.

You could also do potatos and kale, or potatos and endive (add the endive at the very end) or 50%potatos, 25%unions and 25%apples (its called "hete bliksem" translated to hot lightnig because the apples make it very hot) it's dirt cheap, and I know more than a few families in the netherlands that eat this few times a week, especially old people.

5 meals for a Family of 3 plus about 100oz of stock.

I have lot of cans of veggies and cream of mushroom soups, cream of chicken soup. i have chicken noodle soup and tomato soup. I don't have any meat. i have lots of white rice, noodles of every kind. what can i make with this stuff?

Ingredients with pricing (based on Food Lion)

(Name Brand Items equally works with Great Value or Sotre Brand Products)

● 6 Pack Top Ramen Beef: $3.49 ● McCormick Freeze Dried Chives: $6.19 ● Kikkoman Soy Sauce: $2.59 ● 4 pack gimMe Sea Salt Sea Weed: $3.99 ● Wyler's Intant Bouillon Beef Cubes: $3.19 ●Oscar Mayer Roast Beef Deli: $4.99

Total: $24.44

Steps:

1.) Take a microwave-safe bowl, your ramen, and the beef cube. Put them in the bowl, fill it with water, and microwave for 5 minutes.

2.) Carefully take your ramen and stir it. Then, add the beef seasoning from the ramen packet, as well as shredded roast beef, and let it rest for 3 to 5 minutes after stirring again.

3.) Take two or more pieces of seaweed and rip them into small, bite-sized pieces. Then, put them in your ramen along with the chives and soy sauce (Bonus if your office has soy sauce packets).

4.) Enjoy

Notes: You can also do this process with other flavors of ramen packets; for example, get some sliced chicken for chicken ramen, and some ham for pork ramen, etc. This usually gets me through the work week before buying more supplies.

P.S. I forgot my chives at home that's why you don't see chives in my current meal. I also got a free Eggroll from a coworker which made lunch so much better.

honestly it's plently of food but really random ones, and im unsure what to even do with this for the next week. 19F, live alone, vegetarian

- 12 protein shakes
- 6 mini cucumbers
- like 80% of a package of cherry tomatoes
- 50% small bag of shredded lettuce
- 1 large bag of frozen blueberries
- 1.5 small bags of frozen peas
- 1/3 bag of frozen strawberries
- 4 yogurt cups

thanks :)

It's just starting to turn, not curdled yet. If I scald it now, can I buy a few extra days? If not, can it be used in recipes calling for buttermilk? Give me your favorites!

So basically what the tittle asks. Something you can do at 3am because you’re hungry. Something you can do with all the leftovers. Something you can do because a friend is coming and you have no idea.

Well you understood what I’m looking for. My example would be pan cooked mushrooms and oignons, on a toasted bread with olive oil and some mozzarella cheese melting on top !!

Make me hungry !

I’ve been on a mission to eat cheap without feeling like I’m compromising on flavor. Lately, I’ve been living off this chickpea curry that’s delicious and dirt cheap. What’s your secret weapon for eating well on a budget?