My Recession Meal

[olllllo]

I had a can of Steak and Shake Chili and can of Vegetarian Madras Lentils.

Mixed 'em up and nuked for 3 minutes.




That is all.

 

[BigKahuna]

SWMBO's not home?
The real question...what did you drink with it?

 

[phissionkorps]

Too rich for my blood. The ultimate recession meal = wodzionka. Boil some water, add a bit of fat like bacon grease or so, add cubed stale bread. Spices are for pansies. It tastes like what it is, but surprisingly it's not bad.

 

[Bongofury]

Too rich for my blood. The ultimate recession meal = wodzionka. Boil some water, add a bit of fat like bacon grease or so, add cubed stale bread. Spices are for pansies. It tastes like what it is, but surprisingly it's not bad.

Wait why don't you just put the fat on the bread and eat it like ... bread? I guess because its stale?

 

[Arneba28]

Had my recesion meal the last 5 meals. Less then $6 for the whole deal, just about 1.10$ per meal. 1# ground beef with minced onions and allspice. 2 eggplants halved and pealed. Layer alternately beef and eggplant and bake for 1.5hours. So good.!!! That or rice. When I was really really poor I once only ate rice and peas for 2 weeks straight, then I got smart and started stealing lamb shanks from the greek restaurant I was working at. This was a matter of feeding myself, and I absolutely hate stealing and people that steal. Now I am in better times. I eat ramen noodle with chunks of really bad cuts of chicken on top. lo

 

[Dr Vorlauf]

Had my recesion meal the last 5 meals. Less then $6 for the whole deal, just about 1.10$ per meal. 1# ground beef with minced onions and allspice. 2 eggplants halved and pealed. Layer alternately beef and eggplant and bake for 1.5hours. So good.!!! That or rice. When I was really really poor I once only ate rice and peas for 2 weeks straight, then I got smart and started stealing lamb shanks from the greek restaurant I was working at. This was a matter of feeding myself, and I absolutely hate stealing and people that steal. Now I am in better times. I eat ramen noodle with chunks of really bad cuts of chicken on top. lo

I went to UB and that was my diet... minus the lamb shanks..

 

[olllllo]

SWMBO's not home?
The real question...what did you drink with it?

She reheated some pizza.

Homebrew of course.
10 day mild.

 

[Arneba28]

I went to UB and that was my diet... minus the lamb shanks..

I was in the grocery store thats right next to UB South and there were 2 asian kids and all they had in there cart were 5 12packs of Ramen and 2 5#bags of white rice.

 

[olllllo]

I used to eat alot of tuna and rice in college.

 

[phissionkorps]

Wait why don't you just put the fat on the bread and eat it like ... bread? I guess because its stale?

Yeah, it's "supposed" to be made out of stale rye or other hard bread. I make it with stale hotdog buns or whatever is around really.

 

[bad coffee]

when I was living in my truck a bag of rice and a bag of beans would feed me for a week.

$3 for a weeks worth of food. blech. I would dream of some meat to eat one day a week.

 

[zoebisch01]

Yeah Rice -n- Beans are your friend. One thing the American palate wants is meat and lots of it. The trick is to use small amounts of meat and lots of veggies in a stew, etc. Meat was once used more as a flavoring than the actual main part of the dish. For me, a good deal of stuff is very cheap because I grow or raise a good portion of our diet.

 

[s3n8]

I saw this link yesterday and laughed like an idiot... I love the Onion.

Report: Meat Now America's No. 2 Condiment | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

I lived off of potatoes and frozen veggies for a while in college. Never was a big fan of top ramen, although I ate a lot of it.

 

[flyangler18]

The ultimate recession meal = wodzionka. Boil some water, add a bit of fat like bacon grease or so, add cubed stale bread.

Classic farmer's food- I ate it a lot when I would spend summers in Poland as a kid with family. Properly seasoned, it's quite tasty and a simple comfort food.

 

[BigKahuna]

Problem with being a frugal person....I eat lots of beans and rice anyway....is there isn't much cutting back you can do. Now if I lived on Truffles and Goose pate, I'd be able to cut back....I live in a shack...I poop in a hole...I brew the beer I drink and shoot the food I eat....I guess I'm too Simple for the Recession.

 

[Revvy]

Too rich for my blood. The ultimate recession meal = wodzionka. Boil some water, add a bit of fat like bacon grease or so, add cubed stale bread. Spices are for pansies. It tastes like what it is, but surprisingly it's not bad.

That's almost close to a Spanish Dish, that my Parents and a lot of spaniards live on during the depression....Called Migas.

Have you got any bread left over from yesterday that you don't know what to do with? Here's a great idea: you can prepare a typical country dish, made of breadcrumbs. It's a traditional recipe found in practically all of Spain, although the recipe varies depending on the region. Perhaps it won't appeal to you... but it's truly delicious and also has a great many... calories! To help you digest it, what could go down better than a bottle of red wine?

INGREDIENTS: (for 4 people)

* 1 loaf of stale (one-day-old) bread, with a lot of substance.
* 3/4 pound of ham Diced
* 3/4 ( Spanish) chorizo removed from casing and diced.
* 2 dry red peppers
* Paprika
* 2 cloves of garlic
* olive oil
* salt
* 2 eggs

PREPARATION:

1. Cut the bread into tiny pieces and dampen in a little water, salt and paprika. Cover the breadcrumbs with a cloth and leave to stand for 12 hours.
2. Fry the crushed garlic and sliced peppers in 4 tablespoonfuls of oil and then drain.
3. Fry the diced bacon in the same oil. Then lightly fry the chorizo or ham, and drain off the fat.
4. Leave 1 tablespoonful of oil in the pan and fry the bread for about 2 minutes.
5. Add the bacon and chorizo and fry lightly until the bread is golden, stirring constantly.
6. Garnish with the fried garlic and peppers and serve.
7. Eat together with fried eggs.

This isn't quite my recipe, but I can't find an online version any more...Here's how mine differs....

The only difference is that you don't crush the garlic, nor do you peal it, and you use 6-12 cloves. You put them in the hot oil with the skins on...they don't burn and they sweeten the oil with more of a roasted garlic flavor, after a few minutes when the skin darkens (not burns but get golden, you take them out)...then you let them cool and they come out of the skins...You add these cloves back in to the pan at serving time. They are sweet & delicious and not pungent at all. (if you've ever roasted garlic you know what I mean.)


You can do this with mexican Chorizo as well, but that is a spicy sausage as opposed to the Spanish Style which is mellower, and more of a garlic/paprika based product.

 

[TexLaw]

When you get down here, you make migas with corn tortillas.


TL

 

[Revvy]

When you get down here, you make migas with corn tortillas.


TL

Yeah I heard, but I never tried it...How different is it from my recipe, do you still soak the tortillas?

By the way, in mine when I'm soaking the bread over night I add some garlick, some paprika (both smoked and mild hungarian), and a little chicken stock to it...it gives it some depth of flavor.

 

[olllllo]

When I wrote this, I never expected any real responses. I'll be moving this to the cooking area.
It has got me thinking on how to scale back, if even for one day a week.

Thanks for taking the time.

 

[Revvy]

When I wrote this, I never expected any real responses. I'll be moving this to the cooking area.
It has got me thinking on how to scale back, if even for one day a week.

Thanks for taking the time.

Well, my friend, a wise guy once reminded me that "there ain't nobody here but us chickens." We all gotta stick together...and coming up with some cheap-ass food in these uncertain times is a good thing...

I think we all have a few dirt cheap recipes....this thread over in food, might be a good central place to post them

 

[BuffaloSabresBrewer]

Rice, pasta and beans and staples of my diet. Recession or no recession.

 

[david_42]

While I was in college two guys in the Ag school decided dog kibble was a great base for cheap eats. They actually published a recipe book. Also had great recipes like:

Break Lasagna noodles into pieces.
Boil until until tender with a little oil.
Add frozen peas & boil another 4 minutes.

 

[zoebisch01]

Well, my friend, a wise guy once reminded me that "there ain't nobody here but us chickens." We all gotta stick together...and coming up with some cheap-ass food in these uncertain times is a good thing...

I think we all have a few dirt cheap recipes....this thread over in food, might be a good central place to post them

Speaking of chickens....out of a whole chicken you can get quite a few meals if you debone it, make stock, render the skins. You then have the meat for a few meals, stock for soup or sauce, fat for cooking, and crispy fried skins which you can sprinkle with salt and eat. The bones can go into the compost.

 

[Yooper]

We eat well, but very frugally so there isn't a lot of cutting back to do. We hunt and fish, and HWMO grows an awesome garden. Last night, we had a little venison with homegrown shallots, splashed with some homemade wine and served with garden potatoes and garden brussel sprouts.

I eat very little meat, but I like chicken so we buy chicken from a friend who has a farm.

I remember the college days, when a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread fed me for nearly two weeks. Now, I really dislike peanut butter.

 

[BigKahuna]

I'm Thinking Home Brewers Challenge:

Feed your Family, for $??.00 Per Day Per Person. Now I'm thinking we'd need rules. Gotta be healthy enough for children. Can't be all home grown food.
Cost should be per person per day or per meal...as my fam only eats one meal a day at home.
You'll have to post recipies and prices at YOUR store.
Anyone interrested?

 

[phissionkorps]

Has to be at least semi-healthy though. Donuts and stuff are cheap, but that's not really "food". And no vegan diets. You can't get B12 from plants.

Almost forgot....my meal has its own song

 

[Chriso]

SWMBO and I have been trying to scale back a bit, with.. well.. you know.

We had a nasty habit of taking fast food 3 or 4 weeknights... and on the weekends too....

Now, we're doing a lot of Hamburger Helper ($2-beef, $1-kit, feeds 3 plus one lunch in the fridge for take-along) and Tuna Helper ($.89-tuna, $1.50-kit, again, feeds 3 comfortably).... For lunches, I've been taking Hot Pockets, as they were on sale again... $2 for 2 hot pockets (e.g. a day's lunch) is better than a $4.75 sub sandwich from the high-priced campus quick shop.

 

[phissionkorps]

I'd try to cut down on those meals and replace with something like tuna or chicken + beans, rice, veggies, bread, etc. You're probably getting close to or surpassing your daily value of sodium before dinner. I just read an article the other day about how the FDA is supposed to remove sodium from its "safe" list, and amend the RDA since it's too high right now. It also mentioned something like 300,000 lives per year could be saved by cutting sodium. Personally, I don't really like how it tastes, so I try to avoid it anyway.

 

[talleymonster]

I remember watching VH1 Behind The Music : Metallica. Scott Ian of Anthrax talked about the band being so poor that they ate "balogna on hand sandwiches". Just a slice of bologna in the palm of your hand.....no bread.

 

[Melana]

Our cheap meal is pasta with red sauce or pasta with an olive oil garlic sauce. We can get feed two for dinner and have a lunch left over for around $1.25.