People Are Sharing The Budget Meals That Get Them Through When They’re Low On Funds

محمد العربى Last Updated: September 15, 2023

“Broke ‘Til Payday”: People Are Sharing The Budget Meals That Get Them Through When They’re Low On Funds

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“Peanut noodles! Ingredients are peanut butter, soy sauce, and pasta, plus some things to jazz it up if you’ve got them. For the sauce, mix roughly equal parts of PB, soy sauce, and water, adjusting the ratio to taste. If I have them, I add red pepper flakes, garlic powder, and ground ginger, a few drops of sesame oil, and sesame seeds, but it’s also decent without. You just put it on cooked pasta and voila! I like it with steamed frozen broccoli. In an ideal world, you’d have spaghetti, fettucine, or linguine for the pasta, but any shape is fine.”

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“I always have flour and baking items on hand. If I needed to, I could make a variety of breads. Pancakes are popular, but I also like dumpling stew. For dumpling stew I flavor some water with pepper and chicken bouillon, then make drop dumplings with flour, salt, pepper, and any other spices I want. After I spoon the dumplings into the boiling water, I add a dash of milk to cream up the soup, but you can keep it thin if you need to. Basically, if you added chicken, it would be chicken and dumplings.”

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“A favorite in our family I can usually throw together out of the freezer and pantry staples — cheap chicken Parm. Take chicken tenders or chicken patties, even chicken nuggets in a pinch (we have a small child so these are staples) and add marinara and some cheese on top and bake. Add some pasta and a bag of frozen veggies or canned if you have it. If we want to be extra fancy, I take some bread and make ‘garlic bread’ by buttering the bread and sprinkling garlic powder on it and throwing it in the oven until crispy. It’s so easy but always a favorite.”

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“I usually go for a cheap puttanesca. I try to keep some olives, capers, and anchovies in my fridge (I don’t use them for anything else so they last a while), and a jar of minced garlic so all I need to get is some pasta and a can of tomatoes. It’s pretty cheap and easy; plus, it can be frozen easily as well. Plus, if you have any spare vegetables, some beef broth, or some mince meat, then it stretches even further and is super tasty. The way I make it when going cheap isn’t the ‘proper’ way to make puttanesca, but it’s still very tasty for how little it costs.”

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“About once a month, I purchase some bell peppers with the intent of making stuffed bell peppers. However, the ingredients are different every time as I just use a lot of leftovers in them. Things like: Leftover Chinese food; the rice is already cooked and flavored, and the chicken chunks can be cut up into smaller bites. Leftover Mexican, anything! Honestly, anything good on a taco is great in a pepper. Any cut up veggies for snacking laying around, chop those bad boys up tiny and add some nutrition to your meal! Need a lil’ more protein: Add a can of beans to the mix! Any leftover spaghetti? Definitely add any meatballs or hamburger meat, not sure about the leftover noodles, but I’m not above it!”

—u/peridot1211

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