Inexpensive and Quick Recipes For Families on a Food Budget

With the sluggish economy right now and the price of things going up, coming up with inexpensive and quick recipes is a must. Some of us have to work two jobs while others have home businesses that are done in the evenings and on the weekends to make ends meet. This could be another reason why inexpensive and quick recipes are needed.

This article will give you some ideas that will help you to have meals that are good for you while saving money at the same time.

Here are some inexpensive meals that you can make whether you have a family or you are on your own.

1. Eggs, ham, and toast
2. Hamburgers and French fries
3. Frozen meals
4. Macaroni & cheese and hot dogs
5. Spaghetti with garlic toast
6. Taco's with Spanish rice

Quick recipes can take a few minutes to prepare or you can prepare them ahead of time and use a crock pot to cook them. Either way works for the busy family. These meals can also lead to leftovers which saves money in the long run.

Here are a few fairly inexpensive and quick recipes you can make with the crock pot.

Crock Pot Meatloaf

2 lbs ground beef
½ cup chopped green peppers
½ tsp salt
½ tsp onion powder
1 cup Ritz cracker crumbs
1 egg
7/8 oz envelope brown gravy mix
1 cup milk
10 small red potatoes cut up

1. Combine all ingredients except potatoes in a large bowl. Mix together with your hands and then shape into a loaf. Place in crock pot.
2. Place potatoes alongside the meatloaf.
3. Cover. Cook on Low for 8-10 hours or High for 4-5 hours.

Crock Pot Stroganoff

4 cups of roast, cubed
10 ¾ oz can cream of mushroom soup
1 cup sour cream
Seasoned salt
Pepper
Noodles

1. Place cubed roast in crock pot and add seasonings. Cover with mushroom soup.
2. Cover. Cook on Low for 8-10 hours or High for 4-5 hours.
3. Cook the noodles.
4. Before serving stir in the sour cream.

Crock Pot Roast

Roast
Potatoes
Baby carrots
Garlic powder
Pepper

Place the roast in the crock pot and season it with garlic powder and pepper. Cut the potatoes into wedges and add them around the roast. Next add the baby carrots on top of the potatoes.

Cook on Low for 8-10 hours or High for 4-5 hours. This meal is better if you can cook it for 10 hours on low.

You can serve a vegetable and a salad with the first two meals or a salad to the last one to make it complete.

Inexpensive and quick recipes are easy to find online. Do a Goggle search for recipe sites and then look to see what you can find. Whether times are tough financially or you have a lot of mouths to feed, inexpensive and quick recipes can really help save you time and money!

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