Favorite Meal $5 or less - Page 16

You're welcome and enjoy!

1 cup leftover chicken, shredded (or one can)
4 cups chicken broth
1 can corn
1 can diced tomatoes with green chiles
1 can black beans

Mix together in large pot, heat for 5 minutes. I keep all these ingredients on hand for nights that I am in a hurry. This makes a BIG pot of soup that feeds us for days. You can top it with tortilla chips, shredded cheese, sour cream, etc. but it tastes great on its own, too!

1 lb ground beef
potatos (about 3 lbs)mashed
corn (fresh or canned) 1 can regular 1 can creamed
cheese (whatever type you like)

Brown the beef (salt & pepper to taste), drain fat
cook potatos and mash them
place beef in a large baking dish (so it is about 2" deep on the bottom of the pan), add the corn (both cans) to cover the beef, add the potatos on top of that so you have about a 2" layer, cook for approximately 1/2 hour covered in the oven on 350, then remove the cover add the cheese and cook until bubbly.

You can add whatever other spices you like, but black pepper and some salt is great for us. BTW: Kids love this meal, and so do hubbies!

This would feed a family of 4, but my DH and I usually take the leftovers to work for lunch for a day or two afterward.

I love this meal, it is my favorite, so easy and we usually have all the ingredients readily available.

I don't get this. Explain how this works. You use one piece of chicken and 1 jar of spaghetti sauce and have a meal and leftovers? How does this work to feed your family? I am cool with meatless meals. But what do you serve with this to make a nutritional meal? 1 ounce of protein per person at this meal?

Use two tubes of crescent rolls (can get on sale or generic for usually $1)
1/4 ib. ground beef/turkey
taco seasoning packet
1/2 can black beans
the small can of mexicorn
shredded mexican or other cheese

Layer the first can of cresent rolls in bottom of greased 8x8 pan. Brown meat, drain grease and rinse meat to lower the fat content, add taco seasoning, beans, mexicorn, and cheese. Once mixed through, layer on top of bottom layer crescent rolls and place second can of crescent rolls on top. Bake at 350 until the crescent rolls are golden brown and filling is bubbly.

We usually serve with a salad or cottage cheese with it and this recipe is a great way to stretch hamburger and add fiber w/ the beans,plus has your veggie, too.

I received this recipe from one of my aunt's at my bridal shower and it has become a family staple. It feeds us a meal w/ leftovers for two lunches for me to take to work, so I think this can be done for about $7-8 total.

2-4 chicken breasts or 5-6 thighs
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 cup milk-could use powdered milk, too
a piece of swiss cheese for each piece of chicken (I buy when on sale)
1 box stovetop (I have a lot of this due to the recent sale w/ coupon!)

To make this quicker, I cook the chicken breasts on the stove bout 1/2 way, but you can put them in raw and will need to cook for an hour and a half. Cooking them 1/2 way cuts the oven time down to 30 minutes.

Mix soup and milk together. Follow directions on stovetop box-I omit the butter-you don't miss it and it saves the fat/calories! Layer: 1/2 cooked chicken breasts/thighs, cheese on each piece, stove top, then pour the soup/milk mixture on top. Cover w/ aluminum foil for first 20 minutes, the uncover to finish off the last 10 minutes.

It is comfort food for sure!!!

This is my grandma's meatloaf recipe. I make "meatloaf cupcakes" from it to again save on the cooking time!

1 pound ground beef
2/3 cup oats
1 egg beaten
couple splashes of worscestshire sauce
small can tomato sauce (if I have it on hand as my hubby drinks tomato juice in his beer, esp. in the summer-I use a blood mary mix such as sargent pepper's-has lots of great flavor and spices)
salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and italian seasoning to taste
(sorry, I'm kind of a throw it in vs. measure kind of cook!)

mix this all together just until incorporated, then shape into balls the size of your muffin tin. Place the muffin tin on a cookie sheet, esp. if you use a higher fat beef so grease doesn't spill on your oven. Cook at 350 for about 25 minutes. Then pour sauce (ketchup, mustard, brown sugar, and nutmeg stirred together) over them and cook another 5 minutes.

Enjoy!

I like to make chicken legs in the crockpot.

Place chicken legs in the crock pot with one can of cream of chicken soup (or cream of mushroom or celery, whatever you have on hand). If I am doing 6-8 chicken legs I will use two cans. I sprinkle in some Nature's seasonings or if I don't have that just some pepper. If I have baby carrots on hand, I put some of them in too. Cook on low for 8 hours. 30 minutes before it's done I'll make some rice to serve with it.

Chicken legs are usually $3 for about 7 of them at my local store.

Majority of what I cook is for $5 and under!! We just can't afford to eat for much more than that. Our meals if prepared by my best friend or my parents would cost nearly double..but I do 98% from SCRATCH!! Including my cream of soups...and my gravy mixes...

And I almost ALWAYS make drop biscuits or include buttered bread with most meals.

1 pound Jimmy Dean Breakfast Sausage (Regular or Hot) $2.00
1 onion, chopped .50
2 cups frozen corn .50
1 regular or large can Ranchstyle Beans $1.00
1-15 oz can petite diced tomatoes .60 - $1.00
1-can of water...free

Brown sausage and onion together. Drain fat and add corn, beans, and tomatoes. Delicious, fast, and easy. One of my family's favorites.
Feeds 4-6

Tater Tot Casserole
1 lb ground beef
2lbs frozen tater tots
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 small can evaporated milk (or 10 ounces regular milk)
S&P

Brown the meat. Put in the bottom of a 9x13 pan. Top with the entire bag of tater tots. Then top with the soup/milk mixture. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

I've done this for about $3 when I stock up on the canned goods during the can can sale & it feeds 4-6.