My family was poor, but my mom always had a hot meal for dinner, anything from fried bologna and eggs, spam and eggs, meatloaf, greenbeans and mashed taters, and on Fridays it was always bread pudding made from the leftover bread from the past week. Please list your cheap but delicious meals your mom served you. As the economy falters many of us will be serving those tasty meals of the past.
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Lol. Maybe it was just vegetables then. I was thinking if meat was in it it would be like one of those biscuit casseroles or a pot pie.
I make what I call sausage casserole. Sausage (from our farm raised hogs) brown rice, onions, peppers, celery, peas, carrots, green beans and a little bullion. My kids like that with cheese on top. I quit buying most meats from stores and we are going to fill the freezer with venison, pork, fish, and wild turkey and hope to get some other small game birds. My garden gave some great produce this year (first year) and I put in strawberries, blueberries and raspberries
I'm not really a good cook, lol. I make kid friendly food as much as possible as we have six, four teens, two boys that eat me out of house and home, lol. We do the sausage casserole, taco meat, sausage meatloaf, sloppy Joe's and spaghetti a lot. We raise 3-4 hogs a year now and I make most things with sausage. My boys are getting into hunting and fishing more so hoping to fill the freezer with venison, game birds and fish as well as what I grow in the garden
Ooh and sausage biscuits and gravy, fried eggs and bacon. I discovered I can make biscuits with sourcream and water (stuff I normally have on hand) since no one drinks cow milk in my house.
I personally love beans and rice or dirty rice, but my kids don't. My ham and beans are delicious.
Yeah, I was thinking of that at first but that's not so much with a crust, it's potatoes, I think. But similar in the sense it would be filling and comforting.
I mix in some cheese to the mash potatoes, and do a thin layer on the bottom of a casserole with the mash, then seasoned ground beef with a can of sweet corn overlayed with a can of creamed corn. Then a thick layer of the mash with some extra cheese on top or bread crumbs. Beef gravy or ketchup when served depending on taste. I grew up with ketchup on top. Husband thinks that's gross so I make the gravy.
Condensed cream of mushrooms, canned green beans and cripsy French onions memory.
Homemade French meat pie, touche on toast with mustard, homemade beans with a big glob of bacon fat with fresh baked bread.
We ate a lot of Italian and French foods. I had an Italian Nana and a French memere.
That is a very original sounding recipe, different from anything I have tried. Thanks for posting.