Six Cheap Easy Meals on a Budget
BROKE, BUT HUNGRY?
If you have checked out my recent quote post then you may have guessed my goal is to give a little foreshadowing as to what my next post will be. This week will be about eating well and nomming down (yes that is a word now.) on cheap budget easy dishes like this Cast Iron chicken from Gabi M. at brokeassgourmet.com cheeky name aside, from one broke chica to another {Hai, girl hai!} You gotta love throwing everything into a skillet and having it on the table in under an hour for $7.
Recipe & Image by Broke !@#$%^&* gourmet
Next up: Wellvegan’s basic marinara sauce combined with Pastabased’s meatballs for an ‘even the meat eater will like it’ kind of meal.
Recipe & Image by Wellvegan
Dang you Chipotle. Got us all hooked on your steamy bowls full of rice and beans and Responsibly Raised®meats… 😉 that’s okay. With help of a packet of ranch dressing and a recipe from Carlsbadcravings for a homemade do over, we’re good.
Recipe & Image by Carlsbad Cravings
For some of you in the states that have no technical Winter season (Yeah, I see you Florida with your “Oooh look at me I’m temperate” weather.) a soup recipe might not appeal.
But for others especially my vegan friends, take a look at BudgetBytes Smoky Potato Chickpea stew which will only set you back $5.74 for six servings, and will allow you to ride out the remaining few weeks of winter as everyone’s favorite rodent predicted.
Recipe & Image by BudgetBytes
Speaking of vegans, here is another filling and cheap dinner (but not as healthy as the aforementioned recipes) which makes it a great Friday night meal courtesy of the 99 cent chef. This recipe for 4-5 sandwiches, total’s out to approx $4.21 (Whuuut?!?!) (Minus the pita cost though.) Put it together with some baked Garlic fries by Fifteen Spatulas using the left over garlic and parsley; just add a potato and you are set!
Recipe & Image by The 99 cent chef
Image by Fifteen spatulas
And topping out at number 6 is a quick 5 dollar dinners meal that when I stumbled upon it, I had to laugh because this is how my mom would cook for me when I was little. Very basic but good. Though if it required more than 6 ingredients or more than 30 minutes in the kitchen (chin nod to old school Rachel Ray.), dinner wasn’t happening in my house. So yay for us to pre-packaged mirepoix, and Trader Joe’s chicken sausages.
Recipe & Image by 5 dollar dinners
So there you have it! Six meals that are cheap, 90% healthy and quick because long cook times in the kitchen?…
(Whatever happened to this chick after her TP movie cameo?)
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