What's for dinner? Was it "budget"?

[tonilea]

Taco Soup - cheap, easy and enough for leftovers!

 

[babytrees]

Taco Soup - cheap, easy and enough for leftovers!

have you given us the recipe before?? If you haven't recipe please...if you have I will hunt it down

 

[beckanoah]

We're having Cheeseburgers on the grill (it's 75 today) and Baked potato fries! DD will have hotdogs and Easy Mac.

 

[tonilea]

have you given us the recipe before?? If you haven't recipe please...if you have I will hunt it down

I don't think I have posted it on this thread. ETA: It can also be made in a crock pot.

Taco Soup
1 medium onion, chopped
1 1/4 pounds lean ground beef
46 ounces tomato-vegetable juice cocktail (I have made this w/ just tomato sauce and water - I can't tell much, if any, difference)
1 (29 ounce) can diced tomatoes
1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
1 (15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 (15.25 ounce) can whole kernel corn
1 or 2 (1 ounce) packages taco seasoning mix (we just use one)
Sour cream
Shredded cheese
Tortilla chips

In a large stock pot brown ground beef with chopped onion. Drain grease (I also rinse it under hot water) and add tomato vegetable juice, tomatoes, kidney beans, black beans, corn and taco seasoning. Heat through and serve with sour cream, cheese and tortilla chips.

 

[lisaj68]

Yesterday, I took my leftover ham bone from Easter that still had quite a bit of meat on it and cooked it with about 3 lbs. or so of green beans that i got for 89 cents a lb. It cooked alllll daaaaay looooong and into the evening with 1 sm. chopped up onion and some pepper. Skimmed off the fat after it cooled and tonight we ate it for dinner with some bread. Very Tasty Soup!!! Cheap, too.

 

[beckanoah]

Just something to think about with the taco soup, I use 1 pkt ranch dressing mix and 1 taco seasoning. It's AWESOME that way, I promise!

 

[babytrees]

thanks for the taco soup recipe....sounds scrumptious!!

We changed dinner tonight because we have a super picky guest...so mac & cheese with ham and peas and whatever fruit they want to have. less than $5 to feed five.

 

[marcyinPA]

Yesterday, I took my leftover ham bone from Easter that still had quite a bit of meat on it and cooked it with about 3 lbs. or so of green beans that i got for 89 cents a lb. It cooked alllll daaaaay looooong and into the evening with 1 sm. chopped up onion and some pepper. Skimmed off the fat after it cooled and tonight we ate it for dinner with some bread. Very Tasty Soup!!! Cheap, too.

Ham and String Beans is one of my favorite PA Dutch meals! I usually add potatoes to mine too. My family hates it....but I think it's YUMM-O!

 

[kath1210]

I don't think I have posted it on this thread. ETA: It can also be made in a crock pot.

Taco Soup
1 medium onion, chopped
1 1/4 pounds lean ground beef
46 ounces tomato-vegetable juice cocktail (I have made this w/ just tomato sauce and water - I can't tell much, if any, difference)
1 (29 ounce) can diced tomatoes
1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
1 (15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 (15.25 ounce) can whole kernel corn
1 or 2 (1 ounce) packages taco seasoning mix (we just use one)
Sour cream
Shredded cheese
Tortilla chips

In a large stock pot brown ground beef with chopped onion. Drain grease (I also rinse it under hot water) and add tomato vegetable juice, tomatoes, kidney beans, black beans, corn and taco seasoning. Heat through and serve with sour cream, cheese and tortilla chips.

This sounds delicious! Do you mix the tomato sauce and water 50-50?

 

[averysmom]

I'm making a ham that our store had on 50% off after Easter - almost 8 pounds for a little over 8 dollars. I'm making biscuits, mashed potatoes, fresh beans, spagetti squash, salad and apple pie.

There are only 4 of us - so we'll have dinner tonight, dinner tomorrow night, impossible pie (kinda like a quiche) on Tuesday and I'll make split pea soup on Wednesday.

I figure 4 dinners will cost us around 20.00 in total - and I'll get a lunch or two out of it as well

 

[OceanAnnie]

I just cooked beef and broccoli for tonight. All I need to cook is the brown rice. I also made chocolate fudge pudding.

The taco soup does sound great! I'm putting it in the file!

 

[SnowWhite607]

Bookmarking this thread - we can all use a little budget now and then!

Stitchlet - I also do the spaghetti sauce thing. I added a huge can of tomatoes to my last can of Ragu and it made 3 meals for the 3 of us.

We usually eat pretty simpy but not so cheaply. We eat out too much and when I add up all the restaurant receipts ($300 last month just eating out ) I think of how much stuff at WDW that could buy!!

Thanks for all the ideas!

 

[babytrees]

tonight was homemade fried rice and marinated pork chops...kind of expensive for us about $8 but we've got a couple of lunches in there too.

 

[tasha99]

Tonight I'm making a HUGE batch of teriyaki chicken wings to serve as dinner tonight and snacks for the rest of the week. We have leftover fried rice, so I think I'll serve them with that, a tossed salad, and some corn. The wings were kind of budget (compared to premade wings, they were very budget), but I did have to buy a bottle of sake to make them. Oh well . . . something good to drink on a different weekend.

 

[tonilea]

This sounds delicious! Do you mix the tomato sauce and water 50-50?

Yes, I just filled up the tomato sauce can with water. I used a 28 oz can of tomato sauce.

 

[kath1210]

Yes, I just filled up the tomato sauce can with water. I used a 28 oz can of tomato sauce.

Thanks!

 

[rentayenta]

I made an elk roast with mushroom gravy, potatoes, and asparagus. I am guessing the entire meal for all five of us costs less than $5.

 

[NHWX]

Hamburger was on sale last week so I bought a bunch on Saturday (7+ pounds) and browned it up today, portioning it out for future meals.

Tonight I mixed up a family sized can of sloppy joe sauce (2.59) with some browned meat (2.19/lb), made breadsticks out of homemade pizza dough (pennies?) and cooked some green beans (.99/lb so $1.50?). I had originally intended to make calzones with sloppy joe filling but breadsticks were what they wanted and it did cook faster!

NHWX

 

[babytrees]

Tonight I'm making a HUGE batch of teriyaki chicken wings to serve as dinner tonight and snacks for the rest of the week. We have leftover fried rice, so I think I'll serve them with that, a tossed salad, and some corn. The wings were kind of budget (compared to premade wings, they were very budget), but I did have to buy a bottle of sake to make them. Oh well . . . something good to drink on a different weekend.

would love a recipe!!

 

[merekc]

I've posted this recipe before in the crockpot thread. It is a windy, stormy day here and this sounds good. Probably cost me around $10 and we will get dinner, lunch and more out of it.

Crockpot Layered Cabbage Rolls (I layer the ingredients instead of rolling them to get it going fast)

1-1.5 lbs lean ground beef (raw)
medium cabbage, sliced
1 onion finely chopped
1 cup uncooked minute rice
1 large can tomato sauce
2 Tbl. worchestershire
Cavender's Greek Seasoning (or Salt and pepper)

I mix the beef, rice, onion and Greek Seasoning. In separate bowl, mix tomato sauce and worchestershire. I don't measure any of it, just do what looks good. Repeating layers of cabbage and meat with tomato sauce and Greek Seasoning on each layer. Cook all day on low, or if I get it on later in the am, I do on high for an hour then down to low.

Tastes like Cabbage Rolls without the work.