Reply To: Economic Cooking

Soups are a great way to stretch your budget – they can be made vegetarian or if your spouse is a real die-hard “I need meat at every meal” kind of person, throw in a chunk of meat to the soup. Eat it along with some good bread (you can bake your own really easily). Some soup ides:

Split pea

Lentil

Winter vegetable

Pumpkin soup

Tomato soup

The best way is to experiment – find a basic recipe online (I like to use allrecipes.com) and vary based on what you have/like.

Also, but the vegetables that are in season. My mother buys tons of tomatoes when they go on sale and freezes them for cooking. In the fall she buys lots and lots of potatoes and onions – they dont need to be refridgerated and they last long spans of time.