We haven't been this poor in a long time. We are at least five hundred behind (aren't we all!) consistantly and now it is even worse. Please give me some ideas for foods from scratch that are good left overs! We may not be able to afford much food for awhile and I need to make what I am able to buy last! And hope that our friggin water doesn't get turned off!!
Are you on WIC? Foodstamps? Those may both be worth checking into.
Bread is cheap to make and filling. It really isn't so much work as long as you are home for a couple hours anyway.
Beans, when we were really cash poor we soaked a bag of beans overnight and boiled them up the next day. I kept some out and cooked them with spices or made them into bean soup with what ever veggis I had on hand. Beans are very versitile. Some one posted a receipe for salsa beans and corn meal pancakes at one time and we use that receipe often. If you find a receipe for salsa (I splurge and use from a bottle) it would be a very cheap, healthy and yummy meal as well. There are endless options with beans. Beans and rice are great staples.
Cornmeal and oatmeal are good filling hot breakfasts. They are a lot cheaper than cold cereal.
Home baked cookies work well for snacks, my sil makes ginger snaps without the ginger for her kids because it is a nice lowfat receipe and not too sweet. The kids think it is a special treat especially when they get to help cut them into shapes.
I hope you are able to have some fun with new receipes and creative money saving.
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We don't qualify for foodstamps by something like $300.00, which sucks! When I am attending births, we are able to somewhat supplement our income, but I have no births right now, and then two I am not getting paid for.
We do chili a lot. Also wild rice soup is inexpensive and goes a long way. I guess I am looking for recipes too, if anyone has any they would like to share!
*edited to change amount we don't qualify by...I just looked it up!
Last edited by homebirthin'mam : 02-22-2006 at 02:42 PM.
We are on WIC and I tryed to get ahold of our local food bank, but no one is ever there. We eat oatmeal every day for breakfast, because we can get it on WIC, and the kids love it. We just made baked oatmeal for the first time yesterday, and we LOVE it! I am going to try to cook more when I feel like cooking, and hopefully be able to make a couple of days worth of food at once. That way I won't feel so tied to the kitchen, but I will still be putting lots of good food on the table!
These are all great ideas! I would love the recipe for the corncakes..
I should also say that I cook a lot and bake a lot, so any recipes that your family loves we would be honored to have.
I think I am more scared then anything. I have some anxiety and I hate it when I feel like everything is out of control. I know everything will work out, I just hate feeling like I can't provide for my children. I know it will be OK.
the above is a link to a decent recipe for homemade hot pockets
I made a double batch and made 12 pizza pockets using 1# italian sausage, crumbled and cooked, 1" mozzarela cheese, shredded, and 1 batch of homemade spaghetti sauce. The pockets are tasty, cheap, and 1 each fills up me and dh and the kids split a third - so 4 main dish meals for under $10. I wrapped them, post-baking, in foil individually and froze them - reheat them by baking at 325 till hot and crusty. (I underbaked them a bit to start)
Cathy who is also trying to stretch a budget but only if it tastes good
use hamburger in casseroles and it will stretch further.
I do a ghoulash....
boil noodles
when noodles are cooked, throw in some corn, 1/2 lb friend hamburger, can of stewed tomatoes....i use my spatula to break up tomatoes more
simple--not very runny, cheap and the kids love it
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