Fast, easy and cheap (foods)

A rotisserie chicken can be good for three meals for two people. The bones make great stock for chicken soup. We use the breast meat for chicken enchiladas from the Old El Paso kits. That's about 30 minutes, but it's almost all oven time. Eat the legs and thighs with like, vegetables and such for a third meal. That's three meals for like $25.

 

Instead of the jalapeno, I will add a slice of pepperoni. So effing good. Oh, and cracked pepper and olive oil Triscuit doesn't suck with that combo, either.

 

Cheap? Easy? SALAD!

 

Sliced, diced, cubed, chopped, mashed, smashed, steamed, fried, boiled, baked, nuked or grilled.

Fry a couple slices of bacon (or a hamburger patty or a couple hot dogs) to crispy-crumbly, chop up a small onion, slice up a couple medium potatoes, simmer the whole mess in the skillet until it's browned and fork-tender, you've got a dinner for just about a buck.

Cooking time: 15 minutes tops even allowing time to fully brown and crumble the bacon. While that's on the burner, you can do all your tater-and-onion chopping.

Not exactly ideal nutrition, but probably less caloric than a Big Mac and an order of fries and about 1/4 the price.

 

This is the saddest thread ever.

 

The squash post was. The rest of them are your future dinners.

 

People eating processed cheese and hot pockets is a better idea than squash? Jesus Christ.

Here's your sign, America.

 

It might just be because I love potatoes and hadn't even considered this, but seriously that is great. Thank you. I might go with ground beef instead of bacon only because i don't like my bacon crunchy.

 

I try to cook in bulk fairly regularly. I bake chicken or pork and make pasta so that i have at least three meals made at any given time. I don't mind baking stuff because it's difficult to screw up and doesn't require a lot of attention. But I tend to screw up most things that require actual cooking.

Still, I don't like prepared meals. I try to avoid them not because I think they taste bad, as many don't, but because I find that they are slightly more expensive and usually really bad for you if they provide enough food to actually fill a human.

Also, regarding squash... I'm with Care Bear.

 

The pepperoni is a solid, solid choice. One I've made several times.

Another cheap dinner I made last week was tuna melts. It won't feed you for a week or anything, but it's cheap and quick.

 

Sonner ... graduate from Cracker Barrel brand sharp to a Vermont white or a Cabot cheese. You'll thank me later.