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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We ate a lot of eggs. Rice, scrambled eggs and soy sauce. Scrambled eggs and sliced hot dogs. Fried Egg sandwiches, French toast, soft boiled eggs, egg salad sandwiches. Dad could stretch a pound of bacon or sausage to feed two adults and five kids.
My favorite meal during summer is saute onions in butter til transparent, wilt a LOT of rough-chopped swiss chard over them, and finish by scrambling eggs with it.
I also use butternut squash puree as the base for coconut curries over rice. There's never a shortage of squash, and they store well! Loads of Vit A.