What would you have on your $20 grocery list?

Right now:
potatoes
bananas
apples
onions
some sort of pasta/noodles
<gulp> hamburger
maybe cheese

What else? :)

rice n beans, maybe some inexpensive canned tomatoes to makeinto pasta sauces, use for salsa,

Maybe flour, rice, definitely *dried beans* you can make dried beans go a long way and great source of protein. Eggs! (if you aren't opposed to eating them, we're not) how about a block of xfirm tofu and the cheapest veggies you can find for stir fry. Reheat dinners for lunch next day.

If you have some spices/herbs to doctor this stuff up...

Pasta, white pasta here is 3 packs for $1 or if you eat them, ramen noodles! They are soooooo cheap!
Rice
Mac 'n cheese (I know, I know! But it is SUPER cheap here! At one store it is 4/$1)
Lentils & Dried Pinto Beans
Tomato Sauce
Eggs
Oatmeal
Some frozen veggies
Carrots
Onion or two
Couple of loaves of bread at the bakery outlet
If you have enough money left, some canned tuna if on sale

Hope

Rice
Oatmeal
Flour
eggs
dried beans/peas
carrots
potatoes
onions
ramen
mac n cheese
a chicken to roast, and then make soup from the bones, I sometimes can stretch this into three meals (roast chicken, stirfry with leftover meat and rice, and the soup)

anne

Usually this is my list:
eggs
milk
bananas
oranges
onions
peppers
tomatoes
rice/or noodles
bottle water
butter
cheese

And sometimes dog food or something not fun like that!
LOL

here are some of our cheap meals

black beans and yellow rice - I usually buy the yellow rice mix and canned beans but it would be cheaper to buy plain white rice and dried beans even buying canned and the mix it is a $2 meal for us.

If you can find chicken cheap buy it and boil it. Take some of the meat and season to taste and grill or broil and add to the beans and rice.

Take the chicken stock and add a carrot and some egg noodle with some of the shredded chicken and seasoning. Cheap chicken noodle soup. Serve with grilled cheese.

Spaghetti with sauce. Buy whatever noodles you like and I like the canned sauce for ease it is less than $1 a can and I love the mushroom and garlic. Less than $2 for a meal.

Save some sauce and use for homemade pizza sauce if you have the pantry ingrediants for dough (flour, salt, yeast, oil can't remember what else) All you would have to add was whatever veggies you have and mozzarella cheese or no veggies if you don't have them and just have cheese.

Cheap bread and cheese and eggs. This can be grilled cheese for one meal, omelot for another and french toast for another. If you get bananas cheap add one to the french toast.

Canned tuna, if you have flour, milk and butter, you can make a cream sauce and serve this as tuna on toast or serve with some type of noddles.

cheap chili, can of crushed tomato, can of tomato, chilies and onion (rotel), some type of beans and if you buy hamburger a little burger and whatever of these seasonings you have on hand chili powder, cumin, cilantro, salt, pepper.

So here is my list

rice
beans probably black and pinto
chicken
carrot
bread
cheese
eggs
spaghetti sauce
noodles (lots for sauce and soup)
bananas
tuna
crushed tomatos
rotel tomatos
hamburger (small package)
apples
butter
soy milk
yeast

It depends on what you have in your pantry to help supply extras and what spices you keep but we could probably eat pretty well off $20 for a week if we raided the pantry.