[Excentrique]

I'm starting a spin off of my own thread!

Many of us would have gone through a time of severe financial strain. So tell me what you ate while pinching pennies?

DH and I were both at uni and had just rented out our first crappy unit. Neither one of us had a job and DH was also paying off a c/link debt so times were rather hard!

Two meals that spring to mind:

Dinner: Buy a large bag of frozen dim sims from aldi. Steam with broccoli and serve. And when times were really tough, surprise visit to the parents!!
Uni student lunch: buy a tin of baked beans, take to uni with a fork and your set!

[Casii]

Savory mince... so many different ways to flavour it too!
Mince, noodles, random vegies, sauces to flavour!

My daughter asks for this often, despite the bank balance lol!

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This post has been edited by *SnowFlower*: 20/02/2013, 04:52 PM

[eyesabove]

Vegemite sandwiches.

As toast in the morning.

As a sanger at lunch.

Grilled with a slither of cheese for dinner.


Possibly all on the one day

Thank heavens for Bgroup vitamins...

[VJs Mummy]

Will be watching this thread to get ideas lol, unfortunately hard times always come at the worst but some for me a couple of years ago was
Noodles,
Pasta,
Mince
Frozen Vegies,
Toast

[in(s)ane]

At uni - cooked pasta mixed with frozen veg and a jar of pasta sauce could do me for two or three days meals.
Later in uni - for some reason we lived on fish fingers and frozen veg. Never again.

[Becstarinator]

Slow cooker meals with budget cuts or alternatively done in a pot on the stove over a good few hours (just keep topping up the water).

Baked beans on toast.

Spaghetti beefed out with red kidney beans.

We sometimes do steak (usually rump as it is cheapest), chips, eggs and baked beans for dinner.

Meat loaf using half mince, half sausage mince (dirt cheap).

We try to buy in bulk from the butcher. Things like chicken breasts with the skin on and then we remove it ourselves (saves up to $5 a kilo). We try to keep the cost of meat down to $5 a meal. Hard but not impossible.

[Sunnycat]

Rice with soy sauce and egg.

2 minute noodles with frozen vege, mushrooms and egg

Pasta with butter. I used to love this as a kid as well.

[lynnemine]

Baked potato with a little of any of the following: cheese, baked beans, butter, tinned corn, tinned tuna etc

Pasta with cheap jar sauce and frozen mixed vege.

2 min noodles.

I once ate 2 weetbix (dry) with butter and vegemite for lunch. Every day for 4 months. Never again.

Eating vegetarian is cheap. Rice, pasta, noodles, couscous, potato - all are cheap and filling.

[CharliMarley]

Things with mince: meatloaf, hamburgers, curried mince with vegetables.

curried sausages with sultanas and apricot jam.

pasta dishes which could probably last a few days.

For dessert: Jam roly - which is just some packet pastry rolled out and one side covered with jam and grated apple. Cook in an oven with a cup of water and a cup of sugar poured over the pastry roll.