rice then?
I grew up beyond poor.... we ate lots of sauce over rice kind of meals. Sometimes we'd have a tomato sauce with ground beef and frozen veggies chucked in to the pot and then poured over rice. Or, I remember some kind of white sauce (started with a rue, flour and butter I guess) I suppose using milk? We'd add peas and corn (I imagine canned or frozen would work equally well), and pour that over rice.
I think goulash is pretty inexpensive as well. Thick kind of stewy thing...ground beef again, onions, stewed tomatoes, frozen veggies, and perhaps macaroni noodles thrown in.
Oh, and shepherd's pie is good too. ground beef (again), veggies, potatoes.
Basic meals and not too expensive if you can buy a bulk amount of ground beef at a place like Costco, and freeze meal sized amounts in separate bags to make using it easier. And I think okay as far as health concerns go. Not fast-food greasy kinds of stuff.
Let us know what you do? :-)
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