What are the best tasting, inexpensive, quick, and easy meals for a cash strapped college student?
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Take a big pot, boil water in it, add a box of pasta (any kind will work) and cook according to directions. In the last four minutes of boiling, add a box of frozen spinach. After that, microwave a big bowl of pasta sauce. When the pasta/spinach is done, drain it all in a colander/with the lid of the pot, add the tomato sauce, and then add about half a container of part-skim ricotta and then mix it all together - the hot pasta/sauce will melt the ricotta until it turns everything into a creamy tomato sauce. If you're feeling fancy, throw some parmesan cheese on top.
You wind up with something that tastes just like lasagna, is reasonably healthy, and very quick and easy! And for some reason, easy as it is, people are always impressed with this.
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http://www.amazon.com/101-Things-Do-Ramen-Noodles/dp/1586857355/ref=pd_sim_b_1
There's always "Macaroni, Cheese, Tuna & Peas," which is making a pot of Kraft Mac & Cheese, then tossing in a cup of peas and a can of drained tuna.
MCT&P can be an acquired taste though. It's nutritionally balanced and healthful, especially if you make it with less butter.
Good luck and enjoy!
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You can still eat good while being cheap.
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/healthy_hurry/cheap_eats.html
And if you already have stuff in your fridge....
http://www.cookingbynumbers.com/frames.html
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M$My mum's recipe:
1lb rice
2 pint chicken/vegetable stock
1 sliced onion
1 sliced dry sausage (salami or chorizo are good)
1 stick Celery
1 red pepper
Chicken breast / prawns / bacon
Chili (to taste)
1 bay leaf
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp thyme
1 tsp paprika
Fry the dry sausage in a little oil, then add the onions and celery and fry until soft.
Add the meat and peppers and fry until cooked through.
Stir the rice in until coated in oil.
Add all the other ingredients and the stock.
Leave to simmer for 20 minutes until rice is cooked through and liquid soaked in.
My mum!
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What a fun recipe! Thanks for sharing. I think I'll try this one this week.