Mexican food, eggs, Mac and cheese doctored up, ground meat stretches more than whole meats, Tuna, pasta a million ways, breakfast thinks like pancakes, waffles, pancakes. Use leftover fruit and cook with water and a bit of jelly and make a syrup. Think diner, what grandmas make, ethnic like Mexican food. those stretch meals made from one protein into many meals. Use flour, if gf us coconut and almond floors, eggs, a fat like oil or butter and make breads, biscuits, cookies Oatmeal Rice Pasta Shop sale proteins Eggs in omelette or sandwich firm. Breakfast burritos with cheese, cooked breakfast sausage or chorizo and corn or flour tortillas and hot sauce. Breakfast casserole with cheap bread, eggs, cheeses, ground bead or breakfast sausage even the cheap Jones links just cook meat up and make a egg and water or egg snd evaporated milk custard and bake. Slow cooker idea. One rotisserie or whole chicken. Cook and shred all parts. Use dark meat for chicken quesadillas with $1 bag of frozen green pepper and onions and cook with dark meat and add a bit of hot sauce, cumin, chili powder or $. 60 taco packet and then place tortilla in skillet put spoonfuls in half the tortilla and add cheese . whatever you have if any, fold and flip and serve with salsa if you have it or diced tomato . any topping you have. Then take chicken bones and put in oven for 45 minutes to roast then put roasted bones in a slow cooker, instant pot, pressure cooker or stock pot. Cover with water and toss in any vegetables you have including stems and cut a head of garlic in half and toss in and any scraps of herbs or veggies bring to just under boil and skim fat and foam off and cook for 6-8 hours low and slow. Then strain and use stock with shredded white chicken you saved and add broken spaghetti or rice or any noodles and 2 carrots sliced in coins and if you have celery. Season to taste and serve chicken soup with a bit of cream added or just as chicken noodle soup and then you got all that from veggie scraps 2 carrots and a chicken. Any Pasta noodles with hunts canned sauce($2 for a pound of pasta and if you have veggies you can put in food processor and add to sauce) add garlic white toast butter with a tiny bit of grated garlic garlic toast and side of microwaved or roasted baked broccoli either frozen or fresh is cheap make ($2 meal $4-5) Grilled cheese with whatever cheese you gave and generic tomato soup with a bit of garlic or basil added and use milk if you have. Cut grilled cheese into sticks for dunking. Ground turkey or pork or whatever’s on sale, house sauce in Asian isle, can chopped water chestnuts and bag of coleslaw mix and serve on leaves of iceberg lettuce . very yummy and slaw is $1 and chestnuts $1. 50 and a lb of ground meat on sale is $3-4 and head of lettuce $1 and houses $2 and you can thin with bit of water and a splash of soy or teriyaki if you have it but don’t buy it. Can toss in leftover veggies. Frozen Buffalo Chicken nuggets (aldi’s)or strips, ranch dressing or blue cheese dressing. kraft or generic $1 is fine . tortillas and lettuce and shredded carrots or whatever veggies you have and make buffalo chicken wraps (any combo of chicken, dressing and veggies and coconut wraps or corn tortillas) Make empanadas with massa or look up a recipe for whatever flour or cornmeal you have but meseca masa is traditional and water to make dough and fill with leftover ground meat, veggies cheese and a 2 tablespoons is all you need. Make make pockets and fill and use fork to crimp and seal and bake and serve with regrows beans and salsa and sour cream and lime ( google empanadas)
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