Microwave-baked potato w/ sour cream and melted margarine. :9
1 Grapefruit.
YES. Yes and amen, sistah!Menolly wrote:If you have freezer space, I recommend chicken leg quarters at 29 to 59 cents a pound when bought in the 10 lb. bag on sale. Split the quarters and use the drumsticks multiple ways: fried, grilled, smoked then glazed and broiled with teriyaki, etc.
The thighs can be used whole, skinned, skinned and deboned to be flattened in to cutlets which can then be substituted for boneless/skinless chicken breasts in recipes, boiled for stock along with the bones that were removed from others and then shredded for recipes that call for cooked chicken, etc.
I have found leg quarters to be one of the most frugal of meats when on an extremely limited budget.
Don't forget dried beans! (though I don't usu like dealing with the prep so I often use canned even though they're more) And the 20lb bag of brown rice!
But I feel like preparation of such foods is a habit you work on over the long haul. Trying to cook with such preparation-intensive ingredients has sometimes seemed excruciating to me.
