What's Your Favorite Go-To "I'm Broke" Meal? - Page 4

We do this same thing!  We call it Frittata.  It could have potaotes, pasts, rice or bread in the bottom, leftover veggies & chopped up leftover meats in the middle, beaten eggs to fill it up & then topped with cheese.  We eat a version of this 4xMonth.  At least.  Sometimes more  :)

Whoops!  "pasta" is the word I meant there...
 

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Originally Posted by reiwechick83 

At our house the go to is Spanish Tortilla.  These are not the corn or flour variety you find in Mexico, but from a cook at the Air Force Base we lived in in Madrid.  They are totally easy, filling and best of all cheap.

 

These are SOOOOO good!  Here is my recipe for the Spanish Omelet (Tortilla Espanola).  The caramelized onions give it such a rich flavor.

Ya'll have good tips, I'm definitely going to try a few out! I travel a lot for work, and I try to get rid of all my perishables before I leave, so I'm in this situation on a pretty regular basis. Even when I am in town though, we work long Monday-Thrusdays so we get short days on Friday, so sometimes I'm just too tired to get to the store anyway

One of my cheap go-to meals that I don't even have to go to the store for is pasta with previously frozen green beans and cherry tomatoes, EVOO and a couple drops of lemon juice (from a bottle).

If you go to the store, breakfast for dinner (eggs and toast, French toast, pancakes, breakfast stir-fry [potatoes (previously-frozen), cheese, spinach, previously-frozen tomatoes]) is always a good option on a budget.

Also, I try to cook meat in bulk and freeze it so when I get back from travelling, I have minimal effort on cooking, since jet-lag sucks. For instance, I'll buy ground turkey meat and cook a lot of spaghetti sauce and freeze it in smaller containers so all I have to cook is the spaghetti. I do this with chicken breasts, too. Cook them, cut them in half and freeze. I'll microwave it and some frozen vegetables (green beans, broccoli, etc.) for my side dish and have a quickly-cooked, healthy meal. 

Finally, I do like to cook with herbs when I'm in town, but they go bad pretty quick. So, if it's basil or something you can add to just about anything, I cut up the leaves, put them in ice cube trays, fill them with EVOO and freeze. That way, I can make pasta, throw one of the herb cubes and a couple drops of lemon juice and call that a meal as well.

Hope these help!