Help with Thanksgiving meal
Hello ,
I am a single mom of 2 on odsp and I am desperately trying to find help with buying the groceries to make a Thanksgiving supper for my family.
u/AshleyWillowRose — 5 days ago
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Turkey vegetable soup with cornbread $9.50 feeds 6+
1 lb ground turkey
1 tsp onion powder
Salt and pepper
1 can corn
1 can mushrooms
46 oz can tomato juice
2 big handfuls egg noodles
2 boxes jiffy cornbread mix
u/HighQualityDonation — 5 days ago
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What Are Your Favorite Cheap Meals When You Need to Stretch Every Dollar?
Grocery prices can make it difficult to eat well on a tight budget, so I’m always interested in simple meals that are filling, affordable, and easy to prepare.
Rice, beans, eggs, potatoes, and pasta can go a long way when you combine them with a few basic ingredients. I’d love to discover more recipes that don’t require expensive ingredients or much cooking time.
What are your go-to budget meals, and how much do they usually cost per serving? Sharing ideas could really help someone get through a difficult week.
u/Any_Manager_5853 — 6 days ago
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Is there a cheap food app that actually works when money is really tight?
I keep seeing these apps advertised as ways to save money on food, and every time I try one, it feels like they’re built for people who have money and just want to feel clever about saving it, not people trying to figure out dinner on less than sixty dollars a week. Too Good To Go was the last one I tried, and the surprise bag was mostly bakery stuff that didn’t help much with actual meals for the week. I’m looking for a cheap food app where you can see what you’re getting before you pay and that covers actual grocery items instead of just leftover bread and pastries from a cafe.
u/No-Egg-2824 — 7 days ago
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Food bank haul and food bank chili.
Everything for chili is from food bank except chili seasoning- diced onion and mushrooms, precooked beans, corn and tomato sauce
Edit: and ground turkey
u/purplepickletoes — 7 days ago
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investing in flour -> infinite food
I bit the bullet and got flour, yeast, oil, and thrifted a couple casserole dishes. Me and my fiance are tight on money, but he works overtime and so I've taken on cooking when Im home and hes not. Saves money and hopefully our health.
Part of the struggle is always the time limit. But in thinking back to how my mom handled 2008, a huge part was cooking and baking from basic ingredients. No pretentious shit. Just stupid cheap bread, cakes, pizzas, and so on. So shout out to her for teaching me how to be comfortable making bread.
Id love to hear anything outside of bread you use flour and bread related products for (Pancakes are HIGH on my list to make next). I made a wheat and white mix loaf with pumpkin seeds and used $1.80 worth of ingredients earlier this week.
Ingredients:
- All Purpose Flour (1c)
- Whear Flour (2c)
- Activated Dry Yeast (1 tsp)
- Honey/Sugar/Agave (1-2 tbsp)
- Olive Oil (~3 tbsp)
- mushrooms
- Bratwurst/sausage
- cheese
- Pizza sauce (didn't make my own this time)
- salt and pepper
(Bonuses: garlic powder, Italien seasoning, Parmesan, red wine to reduce with mushrooms)
Instructions:
Let yeast come alive in a half cup of warm water (110 F) with a tablespoon or so of sweetener. make sure its frothing.
Combine Flour, oil, and yeast. Kneed on a floured surface for five minutes.
Let rise for an hour in an oiled bowl ideally in a warm place.
Stretch into (in my case) a small bread tin (1.5 Q). push up crusts along the sides and stab little fork holes all over so no bubbles.
Preheat oven to 450. Put crust in for 8 min.
Meanwhile, cut open one sausage. crumble and cook until browned (8ish min).
Cut mushrooms to even sizes and spread out in sausage grease. dont disturb them too much. add tiny bit of oil if they start to stick.
Bonus: once browned add 1 tbsp of red wine. let reduce for one minute. add garlic and thyme after its reduced. maximum yummy.
Take pizza crust out when just starting to brown, add pizza sauce, little bit of cheese, sausage and shrooms, and more cheese.
Stick back oven 12-15 min until cheese starts to get crispy.
wait 5-10 min.
Eat.
u/matcha-macho — 14 days ago
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Cookbook from Food Bank Items
I want to make a digital cookbook with meals that can be made with common foods you receive at a food bank. I wanted to see here if anyone would be interested in creating this with me?
I know there’s been lots of recipes shared here. It can include additional items but sticking to the basic ingredients would be best. Maybe we start a sheet of what foods people have received and utilize the most popular or prevalent in the majority of recipes?
That being said, I may need recipe testers while it’s coming together.
This would of course be available to everyone, free of charge.
u/Sea_Pomegranate1122 — 13 days ago
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Red lentil Spaghetti sauce
A can of tomatoes, an onion, carrot, bell pepper and a cup of red lentils. Added stock cube, seasoning and blended it all. It turned out amazingly satisfying with pasta.
u/Middle-Definition106 — 13 days ago