Braised Chicken With Tomatoes, Zucchini and Roasted Garlic Polenta
These are some of my “go-to” recipes when money gets tight – no ramen noodles required (although I do like ramen….)! They all taste amazing and are under $1.42 per serving. The lentil/sausage recipe is the lowest at $.30 per serving – you can’t beat that!
Sunday Pasta Sauce with Meatballs
My Grandmother’s Pasta Fagioli
Warm Lentils With Caramelized Onions, Sweet Potatoes and Sausage
Spinach, Rice and Cheese Stuffed Meatloaf
Braised Chicken With Zucchini, Tomatoes and Roasted Garlic Polenta
Ham, Broccoli and Cheese Strata
What are your favorite budget-friendly meals? I’d love to hear from you!
Funny, I was just making up my meal and shopping lists when I saw this. Cannot wait to try a bunch of these. Thanks for posting!
Great! I’d love to hear what you think of the recipes! 🙂
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Great, inexpensive home cooking ideas!
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Thank you!
Thank you so very much! Your so sweet! I really appreciate the nomination! 🙂
Great post! I love the ideas you are sharing. Sigh…haven’t got to try that marvelous chocolate cake yet. Wish I had more time for “fun” cooking and baking.
Thank you so much! I agree – I need more time for just about everything! 🙂
thank you…I have pinned this, and look forward to trying them in the future!
Sure! I can’t wait to hear what you think!
Great stuff! Thank you
Thanks! 🙂
These are lovely ideas for low cost meals!! I love stir fried rice, and the best thing is that you can use up all leftovers in your fridge and make a wonderful one dish meal!! Check out my recipe for stir fried rice:
http://yummyfoodmadeeasy.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/stir-fried-rice/
Yum, yum, yum! I love stir fry rice also – it is a great use for leftovers! 🙂
Ooh, these look good!
This is amazing! Just what I needed. 😀 I’ll be hitting up some of these recipes soon!
Great! If you do – I’d love to hear what you think of them!
It’s amazing how much cheaper food is in the U.S.A. than for the rest of the world! Here in Australia we grow just about everything that we need but our food is a lot more expensive than yours AND we have less choice than you do (not always a bad thing I guess 😉 ). Cheers for your suggestions…now we just need to find cheaper ingredients to make these meals here in Australia
I didn’t know that about Australia!
It’s like that in just about everywhere else in the world. For some reason the US has really cheap food. They also have the worst obesity (with the rest of us rapidly catching up!) so I guess more choice = poorer food choices?