Food Stamp Challenge: Week 3 (Allergen-free)
It’s an allergen-free week in our kitchen this week and I am … most decidedly not an allergen-free cook. We love our salmon, our milk, pecans and peanuts and a slew of other foods that’ll send our allergy-prone readers into anaphylactic shock just by reading the recipes. So, this week, you’ll have to bear with me as I muddle my way though not one, but two combined challenges: a dwindling budget coupled with allergen-free cooking. As I wrote out, revised, revised and revised this week’s meal
Collegiate Cooking: Stuffed peppers
Budget cooking is largely dependent on being inventive. At home, my mom tends to take whatever is sitting in our cabinets, throw it into a pot, and out comes a masterpiece. Most of us aren’t yet quite that inventive, and I know in my case, I am not skilled enough to turn out more than a pile of oddly-flavored mush if I spontaneously throw together whatever I have around. Nonetheless, it seems to be a good skill to have, so this week’s recipe is one that allows for some slight flexibility bas
Quick and Simple Crustless Quiche: Cook in 10 Minutes
Ingredients: (Serves 2) 1 packet dried pasta in sauce (I use a cheese based one) 1 courgette / zucchini 1 tub cottage cheese / curd cheese 4 - 6 mushrooms 1 onion 2 small leeks 2 eggs 2 slicing tomatoes 4 rashers of bacon Method Cook pasta as per instructions on the packet Chop and fry the onions, courgette/zucchini and mushrooms until softened Chop and wash the leeks, allow them to drain and drop them into the cooking pasta Crack open and beat the 2 eggs When th
Washoku Warriors - Challenge 2 - Wafu Gyoza, Rice and Edamame
When I did the first challenge , I already had set my eyes on the recipe for the pork and wakame dumplings, and was planning on making them soon - La Fuji Mama must have read my mind when she chose the recipes for the second Washoku Warriors challenge! The Washoku Warriors group cooks its way through Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen by Elizabeth Andoh, a fabulous book on traditional Japanese home-style cooking. I knew I was in for a hard time, though - cooking rice and e
Simple Recipes for a Low Budget
published by christinedeur on Jul 20, 2009 Simple cooking for anyone who wants to save money. Here is a recipe for any one who has to live on a low budget and or don’t want to spend hours in the kitchen making expensive fancy food that doesn’t taste after all. This quick meal can be made from left overs.Cooking time 15-20 minutes.Spanish FritattaIngredientseggs ( use 2 per person)potato boiled and cubedpaprika of any colour, washed and cubedonion, peeled, washed and cut in halved stringscarrot,
Tips For Eating Healthy Food On A Budget
by Dan Sewinski Today’s restaurants serve massive amounts of food, and they are a major reason that Americans have grown accustomed to big meals. If Americans ate food that had high nutritional value and low calorie counts, this would not be a problem. Sadly, this just isn’t so. Thus, you should eat smaller amounts of healthy food when you dine at home so that you don’t eat too many calories. Cooking light is where the fight against extra calories must start, The oil used in cooking is a
It’s Getting Expensive Out There!
Could that possibly be the understatement of the century?
To say that the cost of living is increasing is like saying the sky is blue. Inflation has always been a part of the world’s economy but it seems as if the last few years have seen the worst increases in prices for every consumer commodity [...]
How to Make a Cheap Meal That Still Tastes Good!
Anyone can make a cheap meal; making one that tastes good and that is still relatively healthy is the real challenge! But considering the skyrocketing costs of groceries and everything else, it’s good to be concerned with how to prepare a cheap meal not just every once in a while but how you can do [...]
Don’t Forget This When Making Your Cheap Meal Plans
When trying to cut down your grocery bill you may find it helpful to actually sit down and make some cheap meal plans for the week. This doesn’t mean that your family is going to be stuck with some rigid schedule like a school lunch menu, but it does mean that you’re going to have [...]
Coming Up With Your Own Cheap Meal Ideas is Easy!
You might immediately hesitate to think that inventing or coming up with your own cheap meal ideas is relatively easy, but in a way it actually can be. Very often people have a hard time making meals inexpensively because they let themselves get overwhelmed, thinking that they need to watch every penny that every ingredient [...]
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