Breakfast for Dinner (Part 1)

Estimated Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Items: one pot (for frying eggs),  spatula, toaster
Servings: 1
Cost/Serving: $2.00


There's nothing quite as good a breakfast for dinner!

Ingredients:

• 2 slices of whole wheat bread
• 2 eggs
• butter
• fruit

Instructions:

• First, cook the eggs over-easy. (Melt about a teaspoon of butter in the pan. Carefully crack the eggs - don't break the yolk! The stove setting should be somewhere between medium and high. Cook 3-5 minutes, then flip the eggs over - again, carefully to keep the yolks intact).
• While cooking the eggs, toast the bread. Then butter the bread.
• Put the eggs on top of the bread.
• Serve with fruit.

Variations:
Scrambled eggs and toast with butter. Or, add cheese and veggies to make an omelet.

Macaroni Ink Soup

Estimated Preparation Time: 90 min
Cooking Items: soup pot, ladle, stir spoon
Servings: 4
Cost/Serving: $2.00

Notes:

Freezes well, can add any leftover veggies in the fridge. Can also use dried beans (just soak first). If the macaroni noodles are omitted, the soup is a good side-dish

Ingredients:

• 2 carrots
• 2 stalks of celery
• ½ onion
• 8 ounce canned beans (I used ½ a can of kidney beans and ½ a can of garbanzo beans, I froze the left-overs)
• 8 ounce canned diced tomatoes
• oil
• garlic
• vegetable broth (optional)
• 1 cup (uncooked) macaroni noodles

Spices:

I used roughly half a tablespoon of sage, rosemary, parsley, and thyme. I also put in a very small amount of cayenne pepper powder, to give the soup a bit of spice.

Instructions:

1. Chop the carrots, celery, and onions. Place them in the soup pot and add garlic, saute.
2. Rinse the beans.
3. When the onions are browned (about 10 minutes), add the tomatoes and beans. Add about 3 cups of water. Stir in the noodles.  Add spices.
4. Bring to a boil. Then simmer until noodles are cooked and carrots are soft.
5.  Eat.

Hi! I'm Ileane. I'm a college student living on her own for the first time. As any college student can tell you, getting food cheap can be a challenge at times, especially if you don't like Ramen and potato chips. However, I want to show that it can indeed be done.

This blog is an experiment. An experiment to create a variety of tasty, appetizing, and healthy good on $38 / week - the minimum amount of money the USDA says can be allotted to food. My goal is to use those $38 to buy easy-to-cook meals with whole grains, cheap protein, and fresh fruit and veggies. I will publish the shopping lists and recipes here.

Check back each week (or day, whatever) to see how well I'm accomplishing my goal.