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How to Freeze Soup to Save Money

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What are some of your poor man dinner meals?

Q: ** Posted in Cooking section but wanted some tips from parents also**I’m sitting here trying to figure out how we can possibly save more money. I can’t skimp too much on certain things with groceries but I can skimp when it comes to my husband and myself. My son is 21 months old and has to eat properly. I also have to make his lunch for school and I try to buy healthy stuff for him and well, healthy isn’t exactly cheap. And lots of fruits or veggies go to waste because I can’t cook them fast enough. So my question to some of you is this….What are your “poor man” meals? What do you guys make for dinner that costs very little but serves a lot? Please provide your recipes if you can. The one meal that we make a huge portion of is called “American Chop Suey”. It’s nothing like it’s name but we basically just take a huge portion of sauce, tomato soup, elbow macaroni, some diced onions and ground hamburg. Mix it all up and freeze what you don’t use up. Usually one big batch serves us for at least 3 other meals. So what types of meals do you guys make when you’re pinching pennies??

A: Wow, there have been some pretty good suggestions. We've done the American Chop Suey, and a cold tuna noodle thing (tuna and mayo mixed with cold noodles, it's extremely filling). The crockpot, as someone mentioned, is a must. You can make tons of meals with a crockpot, and you'll have warm food all day.Pasta is a big one. Depending upon what brand you use, pasta is pretty cheap, and if you go whole wheat, it's even good for you. My aunt lived on pasta for quite a while. You cook up the pasta, and then you can add frozen vegetables, you can add italien dressing (makes a great pasta salad), and then there are infinite sauces to choose from. It's nice because even though it's still pasta, if you change what you add to it, you don't get tired of it.Oatmeal is good to have around too. It's good for you, and it's filling, although you get bored of it pretty quick.