I planned out a week or 2 of easy meals like spaghetti. Wrote out ingredients I'd need (noodles, sauce, parmesan). When spaghetti was on sale so was the sauce at $1 each (before Xiden). SO I bought 52 spaghetti packs and 52 jars of sauce and then for a little more than $100 I could feed my family spaghetti once a week for a year. Then onto the next meal plan. Costco is GREAT on this plan.
My mom survived the holodomor and concentration camps so she was always teaching me how to make meals with flour and water and if you can find an apple.... or an onion.... a potato....etc.
As you mention potatoes, mom had to put plain mashed potatoes in milk in baby bottle to feed my brother during the holodomor. Not nutritious but he survived.
I planned out a week or 2 of easy meals like spaghetti. Wrote out ingredients I'd need (noodles, sauce, parmesan). When spaghetti was on sale so was the sauce at $1 each (before Xiden). SO I bought 52 spaghetti packs and 52 jars of sauce and then for a little more than $100 I could feed my family spaghetti once a week for a year. Then onto the next meal plan. Costco is GREAT on this plan.
My mom survived the holodomor and concentration camps so she was always teaching me how to make meals with flour and water and if you can find an apple.... or an onion.... a potato....etc.
As you mention potatoes, mom had to put plain mashed potatoes in milk in baby bottle to feed my brother during the holodomor. Not nutritious but he survived.