r/Cheap_Meals

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Seeking advice on what I can start doing DIY or homemade to help save money?

Hello!! I am one of those millennials who was essentially raised to be a housewife, but lives in an area/situation where there’s just no way we can have a one income household. I don’t have the greatest job (housekeeping), but I enjoy it and I work hard to add what support I can to our household.

Recently I’ve decided another way I can support our household is to start making some things homemade - we stopped ordering pizza and buying tomato pasta sauce and stuff, we make it at home, type of thing, but I would like advice on what else I could do homemade in order to help pinch pennies. Bread is an obvious one, but what are good/healthy/easy ish ways to approach this? How do I decide what kind of bread or recipe? What are some other things I can do? Is there a chart or method I can use to plan things like this and organize chores?

I understand I can just google this stuff, but there is SO much info and I wanted advice from actual people on what things they’ve done at home that has helped save them money and keep their household clean and organized, despite working.

Anyway. Thanks in advance for any advice or recipes or organization tips. I no longer have my mother to ask direct advice like this and appreciate any and all suggestions.

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u/indiaelle — 6 days ago

Slumgullion

1 pkg pasta of your choice. Boil according to package instructions. Drain. Put in baking dish or roast pan

1 pkg of ground beef, turkey orchicken. Brown wirh chopped onion, bell pepper and garlic. Drain and mix with the pasta.

I jar favorite red pasta sauce. Mix with pasta and ground meat.

Grate cheese of your choice and mix with the ingredients in the dish/pan. Top with more grated cheese without mixing it in.

Bake uncovered at 350 dehrees until all is hot all the way through.

Another name for this dish is Goulash.

u/DriverMelodic — 8 days ago