One of my tricks for rocking a champagne life on a beer budget is cooking almost all of my meals at home. But if I'm not careful my menu will very quickly devolve into a never ending cycle of avocado toast, cereal and quorn fake chicken patties. Enter Budget Bytes!
Beth creates healthy, delicious, wallet-friendly dishes, photographs them beautifully and even outlines how much a recipe will cost to assemble and how much it costs per serving! I'm particularly enamored with her garden tomato soup and spicy sweet carrot salad.
What's your go-to cheap and easy recipe? Mine's black bean soup!
Beth creates healthy, delicious, wallet-friendly dishes, photographs them beautifully and even outlines how much a recipe will cost to assemble and how much it costs per serving! I'm particularly enamored with her garden tomato soup and spicy sweet carrot salad.
What's your go-to cheap and easy recipe? Mine's black bean soup!
11 comments:
Hey there I have to say, Yes and Yes is a blog I love to read. You always have great topics and really interesting, in depth interviews.
Thank you
Does heating canned Ranch Style Beans in the microwave count as an easy wallet-friendly recipe? If so, it's my all time fave!
Thank the goodness of the world that Yes and Yes exists (and of course its writer) because if it didn't I would never know that blogs like Budget Bytes existed. I need more of this kinda reading in my life!
@Carly Awww, thanks!
@Chelsea it's such a good blog! Beth does a great job!
Sarah, you brilliant mind-reader! I recommend Budget Bytes to every 20something I know. In fact, I was recommending it to someone this afternoon and literally thought to myself, "Man, I can't wait until my project year's over, so I can run Recommended Blogs and tell more people about Budget Bytes." Way to spread the good word!
I'd better bookmark that site and go to bed before I decide that 1:30 a.m. before my second day of my new job is a good time to cook... but yeah, awesome! Thanks : )
My favorite inexpensive-but-universally-loved recipe is black bean burgers, from a recipe my mom found somewhere when I was in high school: one can of black beans (drained), 3/4 cup bread crumbs (panko works best), 1 large egg, hot chili oil to taste. Mush it all together, form large, thinnish patties and fry in just a wee bit of butter until the outside is a little crispy (about 4 minutes on each side). Serve in toasted pita pockets (I always add swiss or cheddar cheese). Delicious, cheap, and infinitely customizable.
Hi again
I just promoted your blog on a blog entry of mine.
http://carlyfindlay.blogspot.com/2010/08/blogs-you-might-like-to-check-out.html
Carly
White pasta!
You boil it, you add some evoo and some grated parmesan (which melts beautifully), and you eat it!
Yay, I love my national food XD
There's also "working class foodies", they make videos with really cheap (but good!) stuff!
Luckily, my boyf and I love to cook (and save money). Our go-to is stir-fried mixed veggies with chicken, flank steak, or shrimp with A1 over rice. We can usually stretch it for 4 meals between us and it only costs about $6 to make!
Thanks for the share.
Cheers,
existenceET.blogspot.com
My fav budget meal is tacos: corn tortillas, can of black beans, sprouts (sounds strange to some, but trust me on this), sour cream or yogurt, and hot sauce. So simple, so good, so cheap... win, win, win!
Thanks for sharing this! I always appreciate inexpensive recipes!
I think my favorite cheap meal is "leftover soup" because it saves food that otherwise might head for the compost pile! The leftover meat, veggies, pasta, rice *whatever* that's in my fridge just gets dumped in a big pot of broth and simmered for a while. It's a great way to get rid of a bunch of odds and ends that are hard to make more meals with.
Thank you so much for your kind words :D ...and bringing me a bunch of new readers ;)
You rock!
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