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Two hotdogs, a diced onion, an egg, spinach, tomato sauce, and my dear lover mozzarella cheese. Basically all I have in my fridge at the moment.

I mashed up some canned tomatoes I got from the food bank and threw in some Italian seasoning. I put paprika, onion powder, and parsley on it all while it cooked. I've been using those three seasonings a lot lately.

I put a plate over the pan to steam the spinach, and I'm eating it in the pan cause I don't want to make more dishes.

Sorry my camera sucks.

butter seed and the bread😉🇨🇿

Instant rice with mozzarella cheese 'its all I had on hand" with canned chicken and taco seasoning.

Nissin Hot and Spicy Fiery Beef Ramen Noodles with some baby potatoes I roasted and mixed in for dinner. Not bad. Pretty filling.

Kitchen is absolutely empty and the shops are to far from me this late , I have soju and some jam in a jar

Literally just rice and tomato sauce with some salt. Tastes better than you would think.

Not great not terrible.

If anyone is interested in our story surviving out on the prairie I made a sub that we post to often.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OffGridGriff/s/K2o409wndr

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ground turkey, potatoes, onions, carrots, minced garlic. seasoned with seasoned salt (dollar tree proprietary blend), pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, and dried oregano. hearty, nutritious, around $2 per serving (aldi prices)

I boiled the noodles, drained them and added a slice of american cheese and some whole milk. Mix it together and sprinkle some of that seasoning powder on top. I swear this taste INCREDIBLE.

Taste great! First time making pizza at home.. and now im hooked! First pics are before i baked the breads,

Ingredients: loaf bread white break to pieces (any brand)

2 eggs

Drop of oil any kind

Tomatoe sauce (any kind or paste)

Shredded cheese (any kind)

Ground beef and onions/peppers(optional)

Italian seasoning,garlic powder, paprika, red pepper flakes,salt,pepper, (can also use what you have at home and mix the way you like for preferred flavor)

Bake the breads at 350f for 8-10 mins after binding everything together and shaping

Next add your sauce and toppings and throw that bad boy back in there for another 8-10 minutes, Enjoy ;)

Microwaved the peas for too long so they're all pale and shrivelled up

Actually really good, not sure how filling it will be though.

Half a can of green peas and one filet of Great Catch farm raised tilapia. Package of tilapia comes with 9 filets.

Thawed then baked in seasoning and olive oil for 15 min at 400 degrees.

35g carbs 13g fat 43g protein

Cooked up this abomination today. Just some normal rice with hotdog and a single piece of potato. And a sandwich with 4 potatoes a hotdog spread altogether with mayonnaise.

I microwaved it another 30 seconds and it didn’t help.

Flour, half that in corn starch, salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder, parsley. Egg. Mix until very very sticky. Let sit for an hour or so covered. Fry.

Pretty good when your fridge is empty.

Suffering succotash was home canned succotash i opened and dried on window screens back in 2013. Boiled to rehydrate its dark brownish and chewy. They were stored in a jar inside a barrel full of jars buried in the woods as a hedge against times i got no money available to buy stuff and my crops fail.

I'm out of that succotash now too, but i can make more i think by combining leather brutches with dried corn and beans, just gonna take longer to boil.

The chicken was a very dented can of chicken expired in 2024. Heated, drained, then added BBQ sauce which expired 2019.

The mashed potatoes were mash potato powder reconstituted with boiling water, and i used the very last of my supply of soy based buttery popcorn topping on the potatoes (topping expired in 2024 iirc, no idea on the potatoes, probably around 2023).

I am now out of buttery topping, its the end of an era (or error) as i don't plan to buy any more of it ever again.

Edit: ate the same thing yesterday, didn't wash the plate, just left it on the counter overnight. BBQ sauce from yesterday is still stuck on the plate seen where food is not on it in this picture.