Need some ideas for inexpensive main dish recipes? Recently I was asked by Kimi at The Nourishing Gourmet to join in the Nourishing Frugal Food Carnival.
FRUGAL MAIN DISH RECIPES:
- Lyn’s French Stew – this has so few ingredients that it doesn’t cost much to make
- Healthy Egg Recipes – eggs are always an inexpensive meal, yet SO healthy
- Pesto Chicken - another one with very few ingredients and simple to make
- “Chicken Hurry” – ditto
- “Ketchup Soup” & Grilled Cheese – frugal AND kid-friendly!
Be sure to comment below with your frugal recipe ideas!
*Also see: carnival of nourishing and frugal Sides/Salads/Desserts*
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Michigan Mom2three 07.11.08 at 3:36 am
I don’t know about you, but when I cook from scratch, even my meals with my higher priced, better quality meats seem frugal!
The key is to learn to cook WELL from a few basic foods. High quality meats (grass fed beef, pastured poultry), real whole grains (I buy all my grains/pantry basics from a natural foods wholesaler in Pullman, Michigan – I buy in 25# and 50# quantities….. so I’ve always got a serious stock on hand!), a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables (I’m on my way to market in just half an hour! Yippee!).
Last night, we had Venison BBQ. I made the rolls from scratch, I really don’t pay for venison, I made the BBQ sauce (just shredded the venison in the crock pot, poured in sauce, added an onion….. good to go for sandwich filling!). I made fried potatoes and onions in coconut oil, and a veggie tray with homeade dill dip to go along with. The whole meal had to cost UNDER $5 and it fed my whole family with leftovers! If I had gone to the store and “bought” ingredients, I can’t imagine how much it would have cost!!! (Store bought bread, bbq filling, pre-fabbed veggie tray, frozen potatoes of some sort – fries, hashbrowns, o’brien, etc).
Shauna
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Kimi Harris 07.11.08 at 8:02 am
Looks you have some wonderful recipes here! Thanks for sharing them with us and thanks for being part of the carnival.
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Kelly the Kitchen Kop 07.11.08 at 9:48 am
Kimi,
I appreciate the invitation!
Shauna,
Great reminders on how eating healthy doesn’t have to break the bank.
Kelly
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Rebecca 06.15.09 at 3:32 pm
Hi Kelly,
I enjoy your website in that it offers lots of healthy recipes, but doesn’t seem overly dogmatic. I’ve been a fan of Nourishing traditions for awhile now, though I’ve done things like feed my kids non-sprouted whole wheat bread and brown rice and oatmeal not soaked or sprouted. Sugar sneaks in when relatives come. My daughter has very mild allergies to wheat and egg whites–she gets a runny nose when she eats them alot. I think she could benefit from more probiotics in her system, but the GAPS diet makes me feel depressed and like I’ll just have to move far away from friends or family for awhile if they don’t abandon me first. Do you think there’s another way to treat her allergies with probiotics and healthy food without cutting out so much stuff?
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Kelly 06.19.09 at 10:49 am
Hi Rebecca,
This is what I suggest to people, but keep in mind, I’m no expert.
I tell them to begin to implement *some* of the GAPS principles, the ones you think you can pull off, and see how it goes. For some they are healed by just adding (or getting rid of) one or two or three things. For others they need the full-blown all-out GAPS protocol to be healed.
Remember the goal is to heal the immune system – what your body needs for that to happen may be more extreme for some than others.
Kelly
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Kelly 06.19.09 at 10:49 am
Not sure how the last two comments ended up here, I’ll cut and paste them to the GAPS post…
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