Here’s another cheap and easy recipe that’ll fill your tummy good on a cool winter’s night. My dad showed me how to make a good, hearty and tasty soup using just a few basic ingredients.
Navy Bean Soup
Category: Frugal Food
Delicious foods and frugal recipes from some of our favorites!
Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
You can’t beat homemade chicken soup, both for its health benefits and for the taste. With whole chickens at our grocer being around $7 each, chicken soup can be quite expensive, but we use an old DE trick to make our soup stretch:
Cinnamon Rice
This warm and tasty meal makes a great breakfast on a winter morning. It’s super cheap, fairly healthy, and the kids love it!
Creamy Mac & Cheese
This $3 meal is a family staple at our house because it’s got plenty of protein and it’s great comfort food. You’ll find it on our Meal Calendar at least 4 times a month. As usual, this size of a meal will feed our family of 6.
Black Bean Soup
This cheap and hearty meal will warm your soul on a cold night. It’s simple, yet tasty, and we’ll have enough leftover for soup the next day for lunch. Read more
Buttered Noodles With Veggies
This simple recipe is a family favorite, and great for days when I’m not up to cooking a complex meal. Read more
Chipotle Rice
This is one of our favorite lunch and/or dinner recipes. Cheap, tasty and filling, Chipotle Rice meets all of our criteria for a DE meal, and it fits into our cheapest meal category, feeding our family of 6 for about $1.24. Read more