Money-Saving Dinner Recipes

Executive Member Joined: Dec 15 2008 Posts: 394

Hi,
Hope this topic hasn't been posted already. Could everyone post their favorite money-saving dinner recipes?
Mine is:
On weeks that I make fresh chicken soup for Shabbos, that Sunday I'll take out the chicken from the soup, shred it and saute' it along with onions, garlic, peppers, carrots or whatever veggies I have in the house (first saute the veggies, then add the chicken), add salt, pepper, soy sauce, 2 tsp of flour and some leftover chicken soup broth.
Then I put it in the bottom of a pan and spread mashed potatoes over it and lay puff pastry on top of that. Pierce puff pastry with a fork, egg and bake til golden.
Yum! It's one of our favorite dinners and costs almost nothing.

Moderator Joined: Dec 26 2005 Age: 33 Posts: 11430

We eat lots of things with beans.
Vegetarian chili
veggie tacos
burritos

Senior Member Joined: Sep 12 2008 Posts: 103

I make homemade veggie burgers- just puree them for picky kids, baked potatos with cheese and veggies, pasta and cabbage, chickpeas and rice in teriyaki sauce, homemade veggie lo mein.... I hope these are helpful to you Very Happy

Posted: Tue, Jan 27 2009, 4:15 pm Post subject:

My family loves omlettes with potatoes and veggie salami or veggie pepperoni. Sometimes we have baked beans with it, sometimes just a salad.

I also make pasta with meat sauce. Though meat is expensive, I find that it goes a long way mixed with the sauce!
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Posted: Tue, Jan 27 2009, 4:16 pm Post subject:

muffinsmommy, I love the chicken dish! I never know what to do with the soup chicken. Great idea!

Diamond Member Joined: Mar 17 2008 Posts: 3555

Diamond Member Joined: Apr 27 2006 Age: 30 Posts: 2535

tonight I just made turkey burgers.

ground turkey, crushed garlic, say sauce, cornstarch, eggs, pureed lima beans, parsely flakes, chopped onion and shredded carrots. then I just made patties and sauted them, they taste great but fall apart a bit. we will see how my kids like it.

the lima beans stretched the turkey. I only used 1/2 pack turkey and 1 cup of lima beans but with everything else mixed in it cam e out to like 15 burgers.

im gonna use the rest of the turkey tomorow for taco filling