Ramein noodles!!! you can make lots of things with it! I make a spicy cucumber soup (of my own concoction), make it into mac'n cheese + a can of corn for cheesey corn, even just adding some canned veggies & some sausage works too.
I agree you can make super cheap meal with eggs. You can make all sorts of omlets, scrambled or hard boiled dishes. And a fun one for the kids & or for a change of pace is "eggs in a basket", take a slice of bread take out half to 3/4's of the guts, butter one side put it in a frying pan (that's got cooking spray on it) and crack and egg in the middle where of the bread. Plus eggs last alot longer than the exp on the carton.
Tree - One of the big chain stores here used to mark down their fresh meats because they were toss'n out $1000 woth a week. Then for some reason it stopped!
I used to watch the shelf dates and go shopping for meat a day before the majority was to expire. But can't do that much anymore.
But I do that with another grocery store chain here, they do that with their bakery. So I'm always snoop'n around for expiration dates. Christmas eve I got a dozen frosted cinnamon rolls for $1 a pan instead of the $4. Same with cookie cakes, they mark them down usually the day after a holiday.
I don't know if this is going to be true anymore or not. But Aldi's when they were only 6 days a week here & would close for a holiday you go the day after and alot of times some parishable item or another was marked down. I got a ton of hot dog & hamburger buns for 10 cents last year that way. The store by my aunt didn't have the bread deal but they had tomatos for next to nothing
