What to make for dinner? On a budget, very strict budget.

Question

So my boyfriend and I live together, it's been 4 months, and about 2 wks compleatly on our own.

we're both college students and are on a budget.

i LOVE to cook, recently discovered that.

Usually make dinner every night, but I'm running out of ideas.

can you help me out?

on a budget, remember.

;D

Answer 1

turkey goulash

Ingredients: 1 jar of Alfredo sauce

                  1 bag of rainbow pasta

                  1 package of cooked turkey breast

(optional)     1 can of peas

Directions:boil pasta as shown on back of bag,meanwhile cut the cooked turkey breat in small cubes,drain pasta when done turn off stove add alfredo sauce, peas and cooked turkey breast until turkey breast is warm

Answer 2

There is a website

www.cheapcooking.com

When your poor cassaroles use less meat and can stretch for 2 days.  

Oh and another trick is save all your left over vegtables for a couple days then make vegtable soup......yea I know I don't like it either.  :)  

Answer 3

I was in the exact same situtation a few months after my husband and I got married, ramen soups are cheap, so is rice.  what i've learned; always shop the unit prices!!! Name brand and store brand are the same unless your getting female products. If you normally cook a 1 pound steak make a 1 1/2 pound instead, after it's cooked put half in the fridge, you can use the leftovers the following night in a beef lomein or a beef fried rice...ect...go for the cheaper cuts of meat, you wont care after you ate it.  good luck it will get easier

Answer 4

You've just given me horrible flashbacks to the time when macaroni and cheese and weenies were the best we could come up with. That was a feast.

It works, but veggies, properly shopped, can fill up your stomach and are healthy. If you can, start a vegetable garden or a spice garden. Find deals at farmers' markets. We used to go to the pier at 5 am in the morning and meet the fishing boats, and bought directly from the fishermen --- shrimp was 50 cents an pound and shark was cheaper than poultry.

Eating well, at that level, was really more of a shopping challenge than a cooking challenge. When times were good, we would go to a restaurant twice a year or so, and it was never a fast-food joint.

Good luck to you both. You'll survive, and learn lessons that will help you out later.

Answer 5

Make stuffed tomato's  get some tomato's make some tuna salad cut a hole on top of tomato and stuff with tuna aw some summer meal  and cheap...hope this helps