Economical cheap dishes. Budget recipes for families with low income

Budget recipes for families with low incomes are very diverse and numerous. After all, the need for invention is cunning, and there have been many difficult periods in the history of our people. And each time the culinary treasury was replenished with more and more new ways of preparing inexpensive dishes. Therefore, even in the most crisis times, if you wish, you can eat tasty, satisfying and varied.

For example, this recipe - cabbage cutlets, assumes the presence of ingredients that can be found in every home. The products are traditional and familiar to everyone, and the dish turns out to be original and very tasty. It's called "fermented cutlets".

So, cabbage cutlets, the most delicious recipe

To prepare it you will need:

· half a kilo of sauerkraut;

· five medium-sized potatoes;

· a pair of bulbs;

· fresh herbs(dill, parsley);

breadcrumbs for breading;

· salt, black pepper, a little sugar;

· vegetable oil for frying.

The cutlets are prepared as follows. The potatoes must be boiled in their skins, then peeled and pureed using a meat grinder or blender. The cabbage needs to be washed if it is very sour. If not, just squeeze it thoroughly and then chop it. Better with a regular knife. The onion is cut into small cubes and fried in oil until golden brown. The greens are chopped.

Next, all ingredients are mixed, salted and peppered. Literally a teaspoon of sugar is added here. From the resulting mass, small cutlets are molded, which need to be rolled in breadcrumbs and then fry in vegetable oil until golden brown crust.

The cutlets turn out to be very unusual - with a pleasant sourness. At the same time, nourishing, tasty and beautiful. They will become a complete meal for those who are forced to save money, adhere to fasting or vegetarian traditions. After all, there are carbohydrates, fats, and even some protein, as well as valuable fiber and vitamins.

Bon appetit!

1. Cheese soup
   Traditionally French dish in the post-Soviet style, very popular among students. They prepared it like this: first, boil the carrots and onions in a saucepan with water until soft, then throw in the potatoes and processed cheese. When the potatoes were boiled and the cheese melted in hot water, it turned out tasty, aromatic and rich soup. It was so appetizing that even children - ardent opponents of soups - slurped it with pleasure, sprinkling it with crackers.

   Many are trying to repeat cheese soup from modern products, but in vain: either the cheese curds have become different, or before everything was tastier due to hunger.

2. Bouillon cube soup
   Magic bouillon cubes “Galina Blanca” or “Maggi” could turn any dish into culinary masterpiece. What is there! As a child, they were stolen from kitchen cabinets and secretly gnawed just like that. Enterprising mothers still hid the cubes from premature destruction, and then prepared a delicious diet soup: vermicelli, onion, carrots, a couple of potatoes and the coveted bouillon cube.

   The soup, depending on the contents of the cubes, could be mushroom or chicken. Quite a decent first course, no one disdained.

   

3. Beet caviar
   Those who lived best were those who had their own garden - they grew potatoes, carrots, beets, cucumbers, and tomatoes. But those who were less fortunate turned on their creativity at full capacity and prepared great snack from just one type of vegetable. The most accessible and cheapest was beets. It was boiled, passed through a meat grinder, sugar, salt, butter were added, citric acid and simmered for 5-10 minutes on fire. When chilled, such caviar tasted just as good as squash caviar!

   

4. Onion salad made only from onions
   Recipes with more than five ingredients were rare in those years. Inventive housewives got the hang of it and cooked hearty snack from only one onion salad. The onions were cut into rings, scalded with boiling water, salted and seasoned with sour cream or vegetable oil. It was difficult to feed the children with a simple snack, but the adults crunched on such “vitamins” with delight while drinking vodka.

   

5. Oatmeal cutlets
   The favorite delicacy of a child of the 90s was a slice sandwich rye bread and cutlets, in which there is more bread than meat. But it was so delicious! In the complete absence of meat, the cunning parents prepared cutlets without it at all. They were made like this: a bouillon cube was dissolved in water, a glass of Hercules, finely chopped onion, and spices were added. Cutlets were made from the resulting pulp and fried in oil. Served with tomato sauce or mayonnaise.

   

6. Bread with garlic and salt
   This is now called the fashionable word “bruschetta”. Only earlier, instead of ciabatta or baguette, they took a slice of black rye bread, thickly rubbed it with a clove of garlic, sprinkled it with salt and enjoyed it. Before salting, the bread could be greased with sunflower or butter; instead of garlic, young garlic was used green onions. If there was no cheese, sausage or salted fish in the house, it was the cheapest and most delicious sandwich in the world!

   

7. Toast with egg
   Basically, our practical parents disposed of dried bread this way. But often fresh ones were used for croutons. The bread was cut into slices, dipped in beaten egg and fried in a frying pan. If you took a loaf, you first dipped it in milk. Such a snack could be both sweet (at that time it was called “Poor Knight”) and salty, like a beer snack.

   

8. Homemade bread cake
   The easiest and fastest delicacy to prepare from what is always on hand. There were two types of homemade cakes: with sugar and jam. Classical basis always been white bread with butter. Most families always had jam in the house. But it was inexpressibly delicious to spread condensed milk or honey on bread. Almost anything could be made from bread, post-Soviet culinary creativity knew no boundaries!

   

9. Sugar candies in a spoon
   Only the laziest did not warm sugar in a spoon. When overcome by a frantic desire to eat something sweet, they began to cook delicious dessert with your own hands on gas stove. And now no one is stopping you from creating your favorite homemade treat at home. To do this, just grease a spoon with vegetable oil, pour sugar into it and hold it over the fire until the sugar thickens and turns yellow.

   

Sasha: | February 9th, 2019 | 2:12 dp

Of course, there aren’t enough fruits - that’s all I need for a week, and the salad isn’t exactly made from fresh vegetables. For the rest, well done! Will my husband and children wait 10 minutes? Funny question of course :)
Answer: Sasha, thanks for the comment! You can buy as much fruit as you need;)

Anna: | February 3rd, 2019 | 8:44 am

Anyone who is planning to starve to death from such a menu should urgently read Chekhov’s story “The Stupid Frenchman” and draw conclusions. There are only 3 pages.
Answer: Anna, thank you!

Irina: | January 8th, 2019 | 8:48 am

Daria, thank you very much for your work! The site itself is pleasant and conveniently designed, and I found so many useful tips for myself! All the best to you!
Answer: Irina and thank you!

Elena: | December 12th, 2018 | 1:18 pm

Now in 2018, food prices are different... Perhaps for a family with small children, this menu is relevant, but when there are grown men, it is unlikely that they will remain full for a long time with such a set of products.
Answer: Elena, of course the price is different now. Even in regions the prices are different;). But still, the menu is designed with savings in mind. I agree people eat differently, some eat less, others a large number. Even different men have different ways ;). Therefore, the concept of portion is relative.

Evelina: | October 6th, 2018 | 6:00 pm

Hello, Dasha. Please advise what can be replaced chicken soup? We've already eaten it to tears))))
Answer: Evelina, you can try these soups

Or in this catalog, many recipes fall into the economical category, look at the soups section, find one to suit your taste.

Olga: | August 21st, 2018 | 3:52 pm

Creating a menu for the week saves both time and money. Very convenient. My only request, as an experienced person who knows a lot, is to come up with a menu for people with diabetes. I have to cook for my family and separately for myself, a diabetic.
Answer: Olga, thanks for the comment! I may be an experienced person;), but I don’t have any special education that gives me the right to create a menu for medical reasons, so I have such responsibility
I won't take it upon myself. Here we have one menu for diabetics, compiled under the guidance of a doctor. I hope it helps you.

Marina: | June 23rd, 2018 | 8:16 pm

I liked the menu. Can I have a list of products?
Answer: Marina, below is the subscription form, subscribe and the list will be sent to your email. Or write to .

Anatoly: | May 30th, 2018 | 12:39 pm

Thank you! Useful information and masterfully presented!
Answer: Anatoly, thanks for the comment!

Irina: | April 26th, 2018 | 9:08 am

Great menu! Thanks for your hard work. Can I please full list send purchases by mail. Thanks in advance!
Answer: Irina, thank you! I sent the list.

Svetlana: | April 20th, 2018 | 2:33 pm

Thanks a lot. I'll get started right away!))). Could you send me a list of groceries for the week by email?
Answer: Svetlana, thanks for the comment! I sent the list.

Ekaterina: | February 21st, 2018 | 4:54 pm

3000 per week, that’s 12,000 per month, if you immediately buy food for this amount, then you can eat for the whole month varied menu and at the same time not economical, but quite chic.
The recipes themselves are not bad, there is something to borrow from.
Answer: Ekaterina, thanks for the comment!

Anna: | January 23rd, 2018 | 10:54 am

Thank you, I diversified my menu, took note of a few things
Answer: Anna, thanks for the comment!

Antonina: | December 12th, 2017 | 8:05 am

I was looking for a menu where I could use as little meat as possible... But I can’t imagine a lunch consisting of only soup!.. It will probably take a long time to get used to....
Answer: Antonina, you can add salad, vegetable or cereal dish at lunchtime. And also use this sample Lenten menu
Or vegetarian

Maria: | September 6th, 2017 | 3:20 pm

I just started cooking according to this menu. but so far I even like it :) I don’t know why, but fish meatballs They turned out with a slight bitter aftertaste (maybe the fish was old, it was pollock...) next time I’ll try a different fish. but the meatballs are soft, although I don’t like fish ones, these satisfied me :)) Thanks Dasha! You are great! I watched your preparations live on IG, you are smart!
Answer: And thank you for your comment! The fish could be either old or improperly stored. Bon appetit!

Ekaterina: | August 7th, 2017 | 2:21 pm

Well, I don’t know, but what exactly don’t you like? Nobody FORCES you to cook exactly as it is written. This is a kind of framework that does not have to be followed, in addition, it is also completely free))) If there is not enough, add, no one bothers, adjust for your health. So thanks for the menu. Personally, I used it, but with changes in some dishes according to the amount of food and replacing a couple of dishes for our family. Plus we bought more fruits and vegetables.
Answer: Ekaterina, thank you for your support :)

Veronica: | June 29th, 2017 | 4:47 dp

The amount in the Khabarovsk Territory will be three times more (
Answer: Veronica, unfortunately, yes - prices are different in different cities...

Tanyusha: | June 2nd, 2017 | 8:33 pm

I support the idea of ​​a menu for the week in advance and a grocery list. I'm not talking about money, I'm talking about time. I’m tired of buying something more every day, and this without a clear knowledge of the final dish. And then drag all this + three children and a stroller. and spend another hour searching on the internet for what to cook. Otherwise, I’ll stock up in advance, order by phone and everything will be delivered. No, well, I have to try. It will work. I have been looking for a specific weekly menu and grocery list for a long time. Thank you! And if you're hungry for a menu, come to the restaurant.
Answer: Tanyusha, thank you for your comment and kind words!

Ksenia: | June 1st, 2017 | 5:59 pm

It’s an excellent menu, but it’s just a bit much in total - our food is very expensive, but I spend much less and make sure to cook meat every day (the biggest glutton won’t forgive me for its absence))). Once a month we buy long-lasting products - cereals, tea, flour, canned food, a box of milk (my daughter is 1.4, so we need a lot of milk), we spend about 3000 rubles on this. Then I buy meat, chicken, minced meat, heart, liver - whatever I have at the moment, I take it - it costs about 2500 rubles. And fruits and vegetables are about 1000-1500 rubles. Over the course of a month I buy more bread and milk, which also costs about 1000 rubles. leaves. Total 7000-7500r. and this is for a month. Either our prices are not so high, or I save so much))))
Our menu is similar, only I usually prepare breakfast and dinner, which is then served as lunch. There are much fewer soups on the menu; after all, you can’t really feed a family with them, and you can cook so many things that it’s somehow a pity to feed your goblets with soups alone). I can add that freezing helps to save money without harming your health - it’s just right for working people, on the weekends I make a lot of different semi-finished products - dumplings, various dumplings, cabbage rolls, poses, khinkali, stuffed peppers, stuffed zucchini - you need 2 kg of minced meat, filling for dumplings and vegetables, it all takes about two hours. Then I prepare snacks - stuffed pancakes with cottage cheese and meat + rice, cheesecakes, several different pies from yeast dough raw (took it out, defrosted it and baked it in 20 minutes), more various baked goods until the freezer runs out. The baked goods can be stored for a couple of weeks without harm, but all you have to do for breakfast is take it out and heat it up. By the way, I also freeze vegetables, it’s easier to cut carrots and put them in the freezer than to buy them every week, of course they won’t be suitable for salads, but for pilaf, frying, etc. just right. You could say that the contents of the freezer save me all month.
Now we need to finalize our menu and yours will fit just right as a basis! Thanks for your work)
Answer: Ksenia, thank you for your experience! Yes, you spend your food budget very economically!

Krealeksa: | May 23rd, 2017 | 2:42 dp

Wonderful site!! I want to go to work after the birth of the child. So, I’m thinking about how to break away from the stove. There are solutions, and you have provided them to us all in a very accessible form. Although I read a lot in the comments about “yesterday’s food” and about “eating soup for the second time this day”? And she laughed heartily. A lot here depends on upbringing, my mother raised us like this: the family was large, my mother cooked for several days at a time. If someone said that they wouldn’t eat it, my mother didn’t mind; if you don’t want to eat, it means you’re not hungry. This is how problems were solved.
Secondly, creating a menu is a wonderful opportunity to spend interesting time with the whole family and communicate. This is very cool! Especially when children understand that their parents need their help, that they make decisions with their parents on equal terms.
Answer: Krealeksa, thank you for your comment and your experience!

Ira: | December 6th, 2016 | 1:25 pm

Thank you. To save in winter, I do a lot fruits and vegetables froze.
Answer: Irina, yes, summer frosts really help save money in winter;)

Natalya: | February 26th, 2016 | 9:13 am

Dasha, for some reason I can’t get an economical menu for the week, I’ve already tried several times.
Answer: Natalya, an economical menu for the week has been published on the website. If you would like to receive a shopping list for the economical menu, please write to me by email

Katya: | February 1st, 2016 | 6:45 pm

I really liked the idea of ​​creating a menu and planning out shopping for the week. And the menu is delicious and varied. But the question has arisen: where is the bread? Thanks for your hard work.
Answer: Katya, I bake bread in a bread machine.

Gulmira: | January 19th, 2016 | 10:10 am

Thank you Dasha, I took something into my piggy bank, but our breakfast is cottage cheese, in addition to porridge. omelettes, sandwiches and sour cream

Tatiana: | January 19th, 2016 | 7:48 am

I experienced housewife, I cook a lot of delicious food, I try to save money. But on Daria’s website I found a lot of useful information, especially on freezing - cooking food for future use is my thing, and I make a lot of semi-finished products.

Oksana: | January 16th, 2016 | 12:17 pm

I agree with those who consider such a menu to be something on the verge of hunger...
One soup without meat for lunch... Suitable for young ladies who are losing weight, but to feed a man... and children...
Mine, for example, don’t eat yesterday’s food at all.

Valentina: | January 16th, 2016 | 2:23 dp

Dasha, thank you for your site and articles! It's always a good idea to remind yourself to be smart about your food spending. But I am on the side of those whose family cannot live on such a menu. When I was growing up, the three of us lived - me, my mother and my grandmother. We could eat this amount for two weeks. And living with my husband and seven-year-old son, if I cook a kilogram of meat for dinner, it’s a stretch to leave something for my husband to take with him for lunch. And this comes with soups and side dishes. And for a child to have something to take to school with him for lunch is generally an unrealistic event. (We don’t live in Russia and the children all bring their own lunch to school and they have 30 minutes to eat.) But thanks anyway, useful site.

Ksenia: | December 15th, 2015 | 1:41 pm

Does lunch only consist of soup? very few(
Answer: Ksenia, my family has enough for lunch. You can add a salad or appetizer to your lunch, for example. You might find this section useful

Elena: | November 5th, 2015 | 5:59 dp

Thank you very much, very much good menu. We have a family of 4 people - 2 adults and 2 children. Our menu is approximately the same as here (the set of dishes varies, but the essence is the same), only there is more fruit. We always eat like this, no one dies of hunger. Everyone is full and happy!

Lily: | October 13th, 2015 | 1:50 dp

Thank you. We rarely buy meat. Chicken in all of ours meat dishes. Just right for our seven and our incomes.

Anastasia: | July 14th, 2015 | 1:50 pm

Thank you very much! We only recently formed a young family, we had very little money and most of it was spent on groceries, in addition to all this, we had a headache about what to cook. Now there are no problems with this and we can still save a little money, in general, an excellent menu and website, to all the housewives note!

Anastasia: | April 2nd, 2015 | 3:52 pm

Thank you I have been looking for such information for a long time. I constantly buy groceries randomly. And I understand that more money is being spent than necessary. I started putting together a menu based on your recommendation and now my head doesn’t hurt what to cook today.

Anonymous: | January 25th, 2015 | 5:38 pm

Good evening. What about drinks? After all, these are also costs.
Answer: Yes, drinks are not included. The most economical thing is water, homemade fruit drinks from berries frozen for the winter and compotes - from prepared dried fruits or canned ones.

Marina: | January 23rd, 2015 | 5:11 pm

It seems to me that dinner is hearty, but lunch is not very filling. Where is the logic? After all, as I understand it, you should eat normally in the morning and at lunch, and lightly for dinner? Or did I miss something?
Answer: Marina, we have dinner early, around 5-6 pm. And for us, a hearty dinner is logical. But there may be another situation when everyone gathers at home only late in the evening. This menu is just one of the options. You can carry the salad over for lunch. Or leave only a salad for dinner and move the hot dish to lunch. Focus on your family's needs.

Svetlana: | December 17th, 2014 | 8:03 am

Very interesting, I’ll take note, thank you. Everything is simple and delicious.

Olya: | September 16th, 2014 | 9:12 pm

Thank you so much!! I wrote everything down and took an example! I live alone, but at the moment I need to save on food, but still eat healthy food– I took everything into account! Wonderfully painted!!! Peace and love to your family!!
Answer: Olya, thank you very much for your kind words! I'm very glad that you liked the menu :)

Ray: | May 21st, 2013 | 2:54 dp

Anonymous: | May 21st, 2013 | 2:53 dp

Thank you very much! I really liked it.

Caroline: | May 16th, 2013 | 7:10 am

Very good recipes, and most importantly I’ll learn to save money))) Thank you very much, I’ll use it with pleasure!

Christina: | April 29th, 2013 | 12:04 pm

DASHA)!!! Your menu is just a find) thank you so much!!! since I have a young family, I am 20 years old, and my husband is 33 years old, and we have two children, a girl is 10 months old, and a boy is 2 and 9. My husband has not been a bachelor for two years now and does not eat sausage with sticks and bread. Soups, porridge, and so on appeared. I don’t have to say what a young family is like (the wife is on maternity leave, and the husband works every day and weekends too. I’m at home with the children - every single day I’m racking my brains about what to feed and what to cook - it’s just terrible. GOING TO THE HUSBAND AND ASKING AGAIN WHAT SHOULD I COOK TODAY? ??- WE'RE FIGHTING AGAIN ((so I try to come up with ideas myself, but there's a ton of stuff on the Internet (all possible recipes but when reading their ingredients, you understand that there is not enough money even for the base of the dish, not to mention the taste and beauty) but I want both the children to eat and the husband to be full. Today I found your site completely by accident, and I am simply delighted, you have made life easier for many families who cannot afford something, not because they are low-income, but maybe because they have some kind of purchase or debt, each has its own reasons (but for each they are significant) but you saved many young families; most families, both officially registered and civilly, are falling apart precisely because there is no money to eat tasty and satisfying food, and from what is even in the kitchen, both in the refrigerator and on the bedside tables, it is impossible to come up with anything from anyone due to ignorance and lack of experience and some people just don’t want to bother. And your website is built precisely on the basis of an ECONOMICAL MENU FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY, from the youngest to the oldest.
YOU CAN WITH FULL CONFIDENCE AND PRIDE CALL YOURSELF A HOMEKEEPER (and this is your most important contribution to your family.) And just don’t pay attention to all the comments of people who throw mud at you, not only that they have never lived 200 UAH for 2 or even For 3 weeks they will never understand the romance and value of such things as care, respect and understanding. As they say, you can’t put a scarf over someone else’s mouth. It's unpleasant. but... Behind your back there are more than one hundred families (where both a man and a woman stand at the stove) who are incredibly grateful to you, and thousands more of whom you don’t even know about. All the best to you. Do not lose optimism under any circumstances and harmony in your family hearth!! God help you!

Answer: Christina, thank you very much!

Diana: | December 1st, 2012 | 11:48 pm

I support this menu too. everything is very correct and economical. I also stay at home with my child on maternity leave. My husband only has dinner with us. I love soups, and my baby loves everything, but I won’t give him cutlets yet. still small)) but everything is super.

Katya: | November 18th, 2012 | 9:17 am

I'm the same hot dish 2 times a day. And we love borscht so much that we eat borscht soup next to the dish that we prepared for the evening. the menu is amazing! I'm speeding up the harness

Victoria: | November 8th, 2012 | 2:01 pm

The menu is not even bad, it’s clear that you still need to make it personal, taking into account the tastes and habits of the family (for example, we absolutely do not eat radishes). I don’t see much of a problem with soups twice a day. For example, my husband has soup for breakfast, because... at lunchtime he does not have the opportunity to have lunch, not just a first meal, but generally something adequate - only a snack. But a salad as a side dish won’t suit my husband for dinner, but to be honest, I don’t see the problem that everyone is so indignant about. Cooking a portion of pasta for your husband costs very little material and will add satiety to the meal)))

Vyacheslav: | October 25th, 2012 | 11:21 pm

I liked everything. All that remains is to somehow implement it, that is, to convince my wife to adopt it, otherwise I’m pretty fed up with the eternal moaning about cooking.

Lelka: | October 1st, 2012 | 1:30 pm

how evil everyone is, if you don’t like it, don’t use it. if you have more money to spend on food, go for it! but everyone spends a lot of time thinking about it – purchasing and cooking. Thank you, Dasha, for the implementation and example of the system itself. Today I finally and irrevocably decided to implement it in my household organization!

Julia: | July 14th, 2012 | 5:23 pm

In my opinion, food should please both the eye and the body! And there are so few joys in life, so you still have to mock food like that. I cook for my family (husband and son) in the morning, at lunch and in the evening. It's not hard for me!

Answer: I am very happy for you, Julia, and your family!

Katama: | June 28th, 2012 | 12:52 pm

I bow to your thriftiness, thoughtfulness and clarity of thought)) It was necessary to develop such a system!
I want to learn everything at once, I’ve already made a list of what I can cook – and a test menu for the week. Let's see how it goes.

This particular menu would suit me. In my opinion, there is quite a sufficient amount of food and variety.

Violetta: | June 15th, 2012 | 1:14 pm

I would have remained hungry. Yes, I swallowed it :) and you’re great, how I wish I could spend little on food, but to be full and it would be delicious:((yes

Answer: Then welcome to the site. Here in the “saving money” section there are a lot of tips and ideas on how to save wisely without compromising your health and taste.

Ekaterina: | June 6th, 2012 | 9:03 pm

The site is interesting, the menu is thought out, thank you.
True, I have a small remark. Economy menu This, apparently, is not for every time. That is, if you need to get by with money, then go ahead, but it’s still not worth it forever. Not enough fruit, not enough meat.
We also observe fasting. True, for religious reasons. A month and a half without meat... just think... With full milk and daily fish. And the child’s hemoglobin fell below normal. After a month of our usual diet, it returned to normal...
We have a large family - 8 people, and yet, for everyone to eat meat every day, except for fasting days, you need 3 kg and chicken 1.5 - 2 kg. I cook meat in a slow cooker and therefore the “active cooking” time is about 15 minutes. price, fresh and boneless meat I manage to buy rubles for 600 rubles. So this is for 8 people!!! So, if for 3 people, then we can safely say that 200 rubles of meat can buy a week for a small family. Let there be food not for 25, but for 30 S per month, but with meat. (Of course, we never eat any sausages.)
But these are just my thoughts, otherwise the site is great!!

Answer: thank you, Ekaterina! Yes, if you are not lazy, choose the right products and cook everything yourself, then food can be very economical. Even $30 a month is very little.
By the way, if you fast for religious reasons, the Church allows children not to fast (as well as sick, pregnant and lactating women). Although you most likely already know this :)

Oksana: | May 24th, 2012 | 1:05 pm

Super site! I am very glad that I found you! As for the menu, I’ll say that we sometimes spend even less for a family of 3 people when money is really tight. But we hardly have a varied menu. We switch from buckwheat to pasta and fried cutlets for a week in which there is more bread than meat (And such a menu as you described is just a festive table! I learned a lot for myself and added your site to the notes. I will use the economical menu, this is just for us .It’s really varied and doesn’t get boring, otherwise sometimes I don’t know what to cook that’s inexpensive and something new. Thanks for the ideas!!!

Answer: Yes, if the goal was simply an economical menu, then you could spend even less. But I tried to make it varied, it contains meat, fruits, and vegetables. Almost a feast :)

Roman: | May 22nd, 2012 | 3:29 pm

When I read this menu, I also thought that the week would be a fast week (not in terms of speed, but in terms of volume), but no, it’s quite enough, the moral is that you can’t come up with a beautiful moral, there’s nothing to say in a nutshell until you try it.
The experiment is being carried out in the heroic city of Minsk. But this does not affect the purity of the experiment.

Answer: There is no question about the purity of the experiment, but very much about the prices. Your total purchase price turned out to be more than my calculations. But, most likely, the products should remain. Thanks for the experiment. And then, after reading the comments, I began to suspect that we feed on air and should soon die of hunger :)

Roman: | May 21st, 2012 | 2:42 pm

I decided to start getting acquainted with the method of weekly menu planning. Yesterday (Sunday) I bought everything according to the list (it came out to the amount of 325,000 rubles = 40 $)
Day one (Monday).
And Roman had a saucepan, and he took it out and put it on the fire, poured in the buckwheat and said: Let there be porridge, and it became porridge. And he looked at the porridge and saw that the porridge was not good and he could have added a little less water (but overall nothing))))).

The story with the pies ended with scooping out the filling and throwing away the dry dough.

Ooooh, the afternoon snack turned out just right, it was just impossible to spoil anything.

Lunch, for some reason it turned out to be puree soup)))))

For the two of us, my wife and I had leftovers for dinner: buckwheat porridge, pies’ entrails and pureed pasta soup (enough for another 3 days). So we'll leave the cutlets for another time.

I will improve with your help. The one who does nothing makes no mistakes.
Although, of course, you can, like some visitors to your site, criticize and go fry some eggs, or go to McDuck. God bless you with health and family happiness.

Answer: Hello, Roman! I will watch the progress of the experiment with interest. If you have any questions about the recipes, just ask. And I want to ask the question that torments almost everyone who has read such a menu: are you full? Did you feel hungry? Also, in what city is the experiment being conducted?

Svetlana: | May 16th, 2012 | 8:09 pm

Thank you very much for good idea to create such a site to save money on food, this is just necessary in our family. Otherwise, too much money goes to waste. The menu is also interesting, I want to use it in my family, my husband also approved it.

Victoria: | April 5th, 2012 | 12:00 pm

What a miracle that I found you! :)) Just a wonderful site!!! Wonderful menu! Super!!! Thank you Daryushka!!!

Olga: | February 24th, 2012 | 7:13 pm

In principle, I’m a little hungry, of course, and will crave candy and other delights. I would wash down the porridge with yogurt, eat the soup with salad, and in between eat bananas, apples, etc. But I’m always pregnant and nursing, probably because of this)
It is not correct to compare mushrooms with chips. Still, it is better not to give mushrooms to small children, this can be fraught with unpleasant consequences (chips and other things should also not be given).

Answer: You see, Olga, my goal in compiling this menu was to choose economical, but delicious dishes. I think that I achieved my goal. If I had published this menu on some website dedicated to diets, I would definitely have received a barrage of criticism for the fact that we eat too much, and per day human body need less calories :)

Anna: | February 19th, 2012 | 4:26 pm

Thanks for the wonderful menu! Just right for my family:) Lots of useful finds!

Alena: | February 17th, 2012 | 8:37 am

Super! Practical. Thank you! and those who are indignant, then let them go to restaurants))))

Dara: | February 13th, 2012 | 9:20 am

Views are good. And servings – at least 5 per day. 1 serving is about one not very much big apple, two carrots, etc., i.e. about 200 grams. Total minimum kilogram of vegetables and fruits per day. Potatoes are not included :)
And also the same WHO recommendations for proteins (for adults) – 0.8-1 g of protein per kg of weight. That is, for a woman weighing 60 kg, this in real products will be approximately 300 grams chicken fillet or 350 g of low-fat cottage cheese. Oddly enough, many people don't...

Answer: yes, there are also vegetarians, ascetics, fasters and just people who do not like meat. It seems to me that if a person is healthy and feels well, then the nutritional system he has chosen suits him, even if he does not fit into the WHO statistical standards.

Lana: | February 13th, 2012 | 8:11 am

Dasha, you have created an extremely useful site! I have four men in my family and your planning tips are just a godsend for me. I’ve read so much about how good it is, but this is the first time I’ve seen a tested live program. Thank you so much!

Answer: Thank you, Lana! I am pleased that my experience can be useful to other housewives. This is a big incentive for me to continue working on the site.

Dara: | February 10th, 2012 | 12:53 pm

And fruits are not included in the amount? Because I only see banana on the menu. There won’t even be enough vegetables to meet the minimum WHO recommendations...

Answer: How much is the minimum WHO recommendation? This day's menu includes vegetables: cabbage, potatoes, carrots, onions, radishes and mushrooms. I think it's six different types vegetables in one day is quite enough and varied.

Kokosik: | February 8th, 2012 | 10:18 am

Dasha, thank you for the recipes and useful tips. I’ll share my experience (or maybe it’s not my know-how) for the sake of economy. For some reason, my soup is prepared for 3 days. Either it’s a mess, or the subconscious is at work. In general, the family eats with pleasure for 2 days, and on the third there is a strike. Therefore, I make puree soup from the leftovers, adding some of the seasonings. And be sure to have crackers or croutons. Goes with a bang, like the first time. No, throw tomatoes at me, I know that dishes must be eaten within 2 hours of preparation, and then it’s horror, horror!!! But the realities of life are...

Answer: Only someone who has never tried to feed more than 2 people for at least a week can throw slippers:) I don’t see anything wrong with soups being prepared for a couple of days (I do this myself). Vitamins can be obtained fresh salads and fruits and vegetables. And soup is food, not medicine. The creamy soup idea is great!

Natalya (other:)):| February 7th, 2012 | 12:18 pm

In my opinion a good menu. Very similar to how our family eats (also 3 people - mom, dad and child). And certainly not “hungry.” It apparently depends on the habits of the family.

Natalya: | February 7th, 2012 | 11:43 am

This is true for our family too. My daughter and I get quite full of soup at lunchtime. I him I cook it thicker, for satiety :)
And my husband won’t refuse a hot plate of something in the evening, especially in winter.
I’ll try to make these cutlets too. I just need to go to my mom’s to pick mushrooms. I also thought that if there are small children in the family and you are afraid to give them mushrooms, then you can take even fewer of them, just a couple of pieces for flavor, and add carrots with sautéed onions to the rice. It seems to me that this will not spoil the taste of the cutlets :)

Answer: I’m not afraid to give mushrooms, since I collect them myself in clean forests, dry them myself and cook them myself :) Not for reasons of economy, it’s just a form of relaxation for me. But your option with an onion can also be. I just don't have a good relationship with onions, so I prefer mushrooms.

Natalya: | February 7th, 2012 | 11:39 am

And I like it too! :)
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Tatiana: | February 7th, 2012 | 10:10 am

I think everything is fine!)
Somehow everyone has gone hostile, I see...
If you count the calories, it will probably be enough!
The title says “Economy Menu” - what a quibble there can be!
If someone can and wants to eat meat in pieces and a mountain of side dish sprinkled with oil (and in my opinion, a salad - this is great side dish) four times a day – that’s good for your health!
Still, the goal of saving is also pursued here, and not just “to eat from the belly.”
I myself don’t save much on food and can afford not to count every ruble spent on it, but I see here a completely adequate calculation and tips that are useful for many!
Mushrooms... I don’t think that in small quantities they can somehow harm a child, especially if we remember that children for the most part consume a bunch of all sorts of chemicals, such as chips, snacks, it’s unclear what candies, drinks are made from, and the like... mushrooms in compared to this - dietary food)))))
And eat soup/borscht twice a day - no big deal! Here everything depends on the habits in the family and on upbringing - there are very capricious children and husbands)) but this often depends on the woman herself - how much she will allow them to sit on her neck)) But in general - this is a personal matter - you can’t judge here...
Dasha, you are great! ;)

Answer: thanks for support! I am calm about comments like “Your family won’t be able to eat this because ours eats differently.” Everyone has their own approach to nutrition.

Cheslav: | February 7th, 2012 | 10:08 am

Great. Thanks a lot. This menu is just right for our young family.

Answer: thanks to you too! I usually turn to housewives, but it’s even more pleasant to see a man in our ranks!

Irina: | February 7th, 2012 | 9:30 am

Dasha, excellent menu, I support it. We can also eat soup 2 times a day, and if my husband doesn’t come for lunch, he eats it for dinner. It's all a matter of how you cook it. It looks like what you cook is very tasty and with love :) Now I’m leaving the menu from the nutritionist for the whole family - it’s different from the usual, but little by little both my husband and son are switching to it. Good luck, continue your work, you are doing great!

Answer: thanks for support!

Irina: | February 6th, 2012 | 8:32 pm

A very strange menu, it’s not just saving money, it’s some kind of hunger strike, to be honest...
Eating soup twice a day is something new. I wouldn’t even eat it myself, unless there’s nothing else, but here it seems like everything is thought out in advance. Secondly, for some reason there is only soup for lunch, but there is no second course (meat/fish/chicken + side dish) or salad. For dinner, there is clearly a lack of a normal side dish, because the salad is just an addition, but not a side dish. That is, if a woman is on a diet, then yes, salad without everything ideal option, but this is clearly not enough and uninteresting for the children and husband.
What a depressing menu you have, sorry.

Answer: We have enough. We eat soup not twice, but once. At lunch – my daughter and I, and my husband for dinner. Since my daughter and I are at home, we can afford to eat four small meals a day. We're completely full. For my husband, due to his work schedule, his main meal is dinner, for which he eats first course, second course and salad. There is no need for a side dish for cutlets that already consist of rice. This is quite enough for me, my husband and my child.

Natalya: | February 6th, 2012 | 5:57 pm

Dasha! I have a few questions for you. For dinner, rice cutlets with mushrooms are designed for three servings (for you, your husband and your daughter), and your daughter is less than three years old. But experts baby food It is not recommended to feed mushrooms to children under three years of age. Secondly, based on my own experience, my family (husband and children) would never eat anything for dinner that was for lunch. And the food should be varied. Is it really possible that your daughter eats soup for the second time in a day? And thirdly, if neither the husband nor the daughter wants soup or cutlets, have they already sat down at the table? You have a freezer full of semi-finished products, but it takes at least 10 minutes to warm them up and defrost them? Will they sit quietly and wait?

Answer: for 8 servings, 50 grams of mushrooms are not even food, but just a seasoning for taste. In addition, these mushrooms have already been boiled and even ground in a blender, so I don’t see any problems for the body, even for children. I just don’t give her mushrooms as food, but in such small quantities it’s possible. In my family, it’s customary to create a menu for the week together, and then not be capricious if they serve what was chosen in advance :) An exception, of course, is made for my daughter: she wants soup, she wants cutlets, but if she doesn’t want it, she may not eat it. Well, I don’t see any problem with waiting 10 minutes for the table to be set. In general, we are coping :)

The situation today is such that many people have to save money. Utilities are creeping up by leaps and bounds, wages are barely rising, unable to keep up with prices, pensions are tiny, so you have to get out of it to support your family. I suggest considering budget meals for every day and for festive table, inexpensive, with a simple set of products. This way you can save significantly on food, and given current food prices this is quite significant.

Based on my experience, I suggest cooking deliciously and inexpensively from cheap ingredients, and it will become much easier for you. financially. This is especially true for large families, low-income people, and when there is simply not enough money before payday. So, economical recipes: look at recipes with photos, cook tasty, satisfying and inexpensive.

For breakfast

Croutons in egg

A very simple budget dish that will serve as a hearty breakfast with a cup of tea, milk or kefir.

Cut the bread about a centimeter thick.

Break the eggs into a deep plate. Add a little salt and beat with a fork.

Pour some oil into the frying pan (odorless, purified). Dip the bread in the egg and place it in hot oil.

Fry until golden, turn over. Fry a little more and remove.
Our croutons are ready. Fast, simple and inexpensive.

Millet porridge with pumpkin on water

By the way, not only economical, but also healthy dish. Millet is good for the kidneys, for the stomach, hematopoiesis, pumpkin is a storehouse of usefulness. Nourishing, tasty, economical a quick fix, a good start to the day.

You will need:

• a piece of pumpkin;
• a glass of millet;
• 1 onion;
• frying oil;
• salt, pepper, Italian herbs.

Step-by-step preparation

Rinse the millet and add water to a cauldron. We take 3 times more water than millet. Add some salt and cook for half an hour. The grains need to be boiled.

Separately fry the onion. Boil the pumpkin separately (you can bake it in the oven with a small amount of water) and puree it.

Once the porridge is cooked, add onion and pumpkin, mix, taste for salt. Add spices. Let it simmer for a couple more minutes. Our pumpkin porridge ready.

Brine cookies

If you are preparing canned food for the winter, you will love this recipe. There is no need to pour out the cucumber or tomato brine; you can use it to prepare a delicious crumbly Lenten cookies. Prepares quickly. The products are the cheapest, and the results are excellent. Practical, filling with a cup of tea for breakfast or for a snack, quick, in a hurry.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups flour;
• glass of sugar;
• not a full glass of brine;
• 0.5 cups any odorless vegetable oil;
• soda 1 tsp.

Mix all the ingredients (sift the flour!), knead the dough. Cut into balls the size of a small fist. These balls will turn out more like buns (don’t brown them too much!), or like this: roll out the dough. Cut out circles (this is how the cookies turn out crispy and crumbly).

Place in a pan, greased with butter and sprinkled with flour, and bake.

Budget meals for lunch

You can also come up with a lot of inexpensive dishes for dinner for your family. All of them are from the most simple products They are prepared, do not take much time, are filling and tasty. Let's start our review of inexpensive and hearty dishes by three times with dough products. You can make a million goodies from flour without spending a lot of money and time. An example of this is dumplings. And look how quick and easy it is to prepare - serve it with vegetables and it will turn out delicious inexpensive dish in a hurry.

Dumplings with cracklings

We take:

• half a kilo wheat flour;
• half a glass of water;
• salt to taste;
• two eggs;
• half a pack butter.

Cooking process step by step

1. Mix flour with salt, melt butter separately.
2. Beat the eggs with water, continue beating, add melted butter.
3. Pour our mixture into the flour, stirring slowly. As the dough begins to thicken, knead it with your hands.
4. Pour some flour onto the table and roll out into a thin layer.
5. We cut it arbitrarily: into strips, circles, make flagella - it’s all at your discretion.
   We boil water in a saucepan (don’t forget to salt it), and put our dough pieces into it. Cook until they float.
6. We wait another three minutes and remove to a colander to drain excess water.

Transfer to a deep plate and add fried cracklings. To prevent the finished dumplings from sticking together, you need to shake our dish. If desired, you can serve them with sour cream.

Potato dumplings

Dumplings prepared with the addition of potatoes are very tasty. Potatoes can also be taken raw, but boiled potatoes will give your dumplings a special taste.

1. As usual, cook the potatoes, about six of them, salt them, when ready, drain the water.
2. Let's do mashed potatoes, adding two eggs, two tablespoons of wheat flour and knead the dough. It will turn out very loose and airy, so roll it into small balls.
3. In a frying pan, fry the chopped onion in oil until slightly fried, and put it there potato balls. Fry on each side for a total of five to seven minutes.
   Fry in oil until golden brown and serve with sour cream. Fast and tasty.

Advice! You can also from potato dough make pies by choosing different fillings: fried cabbage, mushrooms with onions, roll in flour or breadcrumbs. Only this dough has one peculiarity: you need to form the pies while the mashed potatoes are hot, otherwise it will begin to crumble.

Dumplings with potatoes in chicken broth

1. Boil the chicken, then put the peeled potatoes in the same bowl, add salt and cook everything together until tender.
2. Take out the chicken and potatoes, let them cool slightly, cut the chicken into strips and the potatoes into cubes. Separately, knead a loose dough in water, cut into pieces and cook on chicken broth until ready.
3. Then take out the dumplings, let the liquid drain, and mix with chicken and potatoes, add chopped garlic and sour cream.

Sweet dumplings with cottage cheese

Probably everyone knows their other name - lazy dumplings. A budget dish, hearty and tasty, in a hurry. To prepare them you will need:

• mashed cottage cheese;
• a tablespoon of melted butter;
• mashed eggs with sugar (for 4 eggs, take one and a half cups of sugar);
• a glass of flour.

How to cook:

Knead the dough so that it does not stick to your hands. Pour some flour onto the table and place our dough on it in small portions. Sprinkling with flour, we form small balls or other figures, whatever your imagination allows. Boil in salted water until tender. Remove and drain, serve with any sweet sauce. Or you can skip cooking and fry in oil in a frying pan, then you will get cheesecakes.

Poltava dumplings

A special feature of the dough for these dumplings is that it must be mixed with kefir and soda. The dough is rolled out thinly, cut into pieces and a depression is made with your finger into which a piece of lard is placed. These dumplings are prepared by steaming. They are served with chicken sauce with garlic and parsley. Only served hot.

Pilaf with mushrooms in a slow cooker

A hearty second course, economical and tasty, for fasting, a vegan menu, or when there is no money. Can be cooked in a cauldron.

Products:

• 300 g champignons;
• a glass of rice;
• carrots, onions, garlic;
• turmeric, seasoning for pilaf;
• oil for frying.

How to cook

Turn on the multi for frying. Add a couple of tablespoons of oil, finely chop the onion and fry.

Meanwhile, cut the carrots into cubes.

As soon as the onion browns a little, add the carrots and fry them.

Wash and chop the mushrooms. Send to vegetables. Fry lightly too.

Place the washed rice and a head of garlic, peeled from the top husk, inside.

Pour in three times more water than rice. Turn on the multi to Extinguishing mode. I have everything ready in 45 minutes.

See how delicious it is to fry for lunch or afternoon tea, a simple step-by-step recipe with photos.

For dinner

Dinner should be hearty, but low in calories and easy to digest. I suggest a simple economical recipe roasting vegetables in the oven.

Potatoes with vegetables in the oven

A very simple, but satisfying and tasty budget dish. The ingredients can be varied from those available in the kitchen.

• zucchini;
• potato;
• apple;
• sour cream (mayonnaise);
• salt, pepper

Cooking process:

Cut food.

Salt and pepper, you can add dried or fresh herbs. Mix with mayonnaise or sour cream and place in a mold.

Bake in the oven until the food is soft.

Natoteniya with vegetables

Excellent economical dish for dinner. Hearty, light and nutritious. Natoteniya fish is not expensive, so you won’t spend a lot of money on dinner, but you will still feed your household deliciously.

For a family of three:

• 3 pieces of fish;
• 1 kg of potatoes;
• sweet pepper - 1 piece;
• tomatoes – 2 pieces;
• carrot, onion;
• frying oil, herbs.

How to cook

Clean the cabin. Remove the entrails, rinse and chop.

Add some salt. Roll in flour, fry.

Remove to a plate, chop and fry the vegetables in the same frying pan. While the fish and vegetables are being prepared, boil the mashed potatoes. Mash the potatoes, place on a plate, place fish and vegetables on top. Tasty, simple, satisfying, economical!

Chicken drumsticks with potatoes in the oven

This budget-friendly dish can be prepared on a Sunday for the household, or for the arrival of guests. Shins are not expensive, from chicken meat, perhaps, only wings are cheaper, you can take them instead of drumsticks. It turns out nourishing, aromatic, very tasty!

Ingredients:

• 4 chicken drumsticks;
• 5-6 potatoes;
• a packet of mayonnaise;
• oil, salt, pepper, onion.

The cooking process is very simple and easy. We prepare the products.

We cut onions and potatoes.

Mix with mayonnaise (can be replaced with sour cream), salt, pepper, place on a greased baking sheet. Pour in half a glass of water so that it doesn’t turn out dry.

Cover with foil. Setting it to 200 degrees, bake for half an hour. This way the food will steam well.

Then remove the foil and let it bake until golden brown.

Our wonderful dish. Tasty, economical, satisfying and easy to prepare, it’s ready. You can treat yourself!

Olga Bar prepared everything. Bon appetit, and follow our publications, there are many more budget-friendly, tasty and simple dishes We will publish it on the website soon. Save your budget without going hungry.

Today's housewives often have to come up with lunches and dinners for the whole family. Besides the fact that eating in restaurants and cafes is quite expensive, home-made lunches are much healthier and tastier.

However, it is incredibly difficult to find truly budget-friendly recipes for a family with a small income, where there is no expensive products, fancy cooking options and other nuances that not everyone can afford.

There are many ways to save money every day. As a rule, these are the cooking options:

1. A large pot of soup, to heat up a little at a time and eat every day;

2. Preparations meatballs or cutlets served with various side dishes;

3.Usage summer preparations and salads from jars.

But soup gets boring, and not every housewife makes the preparations. Of course, if there are jars of pickles and jams in the pantry or cellar, recipes for budget meals for every day will be much more varied: today soaked apple or pickled tomato for a snack, tomorrow cabbage soup made from salted cabbage, lecho or peppers would be a great sauce for potatoes tomato sauce. Such budget meals for every day with photos are rarely seen in popular magazines, but every thrifty housewife needs to know about them.

How can a family with a low income save money on food?

Here are a few more ways to save money on cooking if your income is limited:

1. Cook broth from bones: chicken, pork, beef. The broth does not need to be seasoned or seasoned - it’s easier to peel a potato in the evening, throw in some pasta or season the soup with a scrambled egg. As a result, your family will receive fresh soup, and not stale food.

2. When cooking, add the whole onion to the broth made from bones, so as not to fry it later. Throw away the boiled whole onion when ready.

3. If you are making cutlets, pinch off 150-200 grams of minced meat, put it in the freezer, it will definitely come in handy at a time when the budget is reduced to a minimum.

4. Salted cabbage It’s not at all necessary to cook in the fall, you can buy a couple of forks, salt it as quickly as possible and cook cabbage soup, borscht, dressing soups, snacks.

5. Inclusion in the diet large quantity available vegetables: potatoes, carrots, beets, will significantly reduce costs.

6. Expensive mayonnaise will be replaced by sour cream with a drop lemon juice, and giving up mayonnaise in a week will affect your waist - extra folds will go away.

7. You can save a lot by buying food not in slices, in parts, but in whole. The chicken carcass is divided into several parts, and there are also thighs for frying, breasts for pilaf, wings with bones for broth and excellent fillet for cutlets - it’s profitable, just like taking pasta in bulk, without packaging in branded bags, which are more expensive than the contents themselves.

8. Offal - this option sometimes passes by housewives, because “children don’t eat it.” But try making liver in sour cream or onion sauce, hepatic homemade pate, liver salad with egg or fricassee - budget dishes unique in their excellent taste for every day will decorate your table and culinary album. By the way, the recipe for each of them is extremely simple, and you can even serve it at a family celebration. By the way, the heart, light, and liver passed through a meat grinder can be fried with plenty of onion and baked into magnificent pies.

9. Fish - it always saves. Frozen pollock and squid are not so expensive that you cannot afford to eat them once a week, even if the family budget is extremely limited. We will definitely suggest the recipe for the dishes, and you will see that budget recipes for every day with photos are a real find.

10. Cottage cheese should also not be ignored, just like dairy products. Cottage cheese makes excellent lazy dumplings, dumplings, cottage cheese buns, donuts, salted curd cream with herbs, and an omelet with cottage cheese has not been canceled. And porridge and soups are cooked with milk, sweet dishes are made and, of course, milk and its derivatives are healthy and tasty.

Remember that even if you really don’t have extra finances and the entire budget is calculated to the penny, you will be able to eat normally. Refuse expensive sauces, mayonnaise, do not buy frozen dumplings, dumplings (in terms of a unit of product, the price of such a meal turns out to be exorbitant), cutlets, but buy several cans canned fish, squid carcasses, cereals and a couple of chickens - this is quite enough for a family with children for several days.

We plan a budget and cook cheaply

So, let's try to plan one full day of meals for a family on a minimal budget. We assume that at home there is a certain set of cereals, spices, potatoes, carrots, onions and beets. So, let's start with breakfast for budget meals for every day. This will be a great omelet with melted cheese, what you need:

• 4 chicken eggs;
• 120 ml milk;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• 30 gr. processed or any other non-soft cheese;
• 1 pinch of pepper;
• 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

How to cook:

1. Separate the whites and yolks;

2. Beat the whites with salt until foam appears;

3. Whisk the yolks with pepper and milk;

4. Combine both masses;

5. Add grated cheese, stir;

6. Pour into a frying pan heated with oil.

This omelet needs to be stirred constantly! Don’t make it as beautiful as in the pictures, let it be a homemade budget recipe for every day, which can be varied in season fresh tomatoes or peppers, previously simmered in a frying pan. And if you want hearty breakfast, thin slices of boiled potatoes will not hurt as the basis of an omelet, especially if there is only one potato left from dinner. Omelette dressed with herbs or served with pieces fresh bread, slightly dried in the oven. Children don’t eat omelettes, suggest curd mass from 150 gr. cottage cheese and a drop of honey - satisfying and healthy. Well, it’s suitable for the picky ones great option budget porridge what you need in the recipe:

• 2 tbsp. l. semolina;
• 0.3 l. milk;
• 1 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• 0.5 tbsp. butter;
• 100 gr. any nuts (already peeled).

How to cook:

1. Melt sugar with a drop of water in a saucepan and, as soon as the mass becomes hot, add butter and warm it up;

2. Add nuts, let cook for 1 minute, turn off. You can take much less nuts;

3. Boil milk, add a pinch of salt and pour in the cereal in a thin stream, brewing semolina porridge;

4. After boiling the porridge for 2-3 minutes, put the nuts in sugar and butter, stir and serve.

Very unusual, but incredibly inexpensive and tasty. You can put nuts in a plate and pour porridge over them, or you can serve it the other way around - decorate the porridge with nuts. Breakfast is ready, it's time to think about budget lunch. The soup recipe is simple: for half a liter of broth, one potato, half a boiled egg and some spices, dilute everything with crackers and it will be delicious. But here is the second dish, which will come in handy with those same 150 grams. minced meat. It will be perfect delicious gravy to pasta. What's needed in the recipe:

• 100-150 gr. any minced meat;
• 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 2 large onions;
• 1 generous pinch of salt and pepper;
• 150 gr. tomato paste, thick juice or neutral ketchup;
• Seasonings.

To prepare this recipe budget dish for every day, you need exactly 20 minutes of time, time:

1. Peel the onion and chop finely;

2. Heat the oil in a frying pan, fry the onion until half cooked, 3 minutes;

3. Lay out the minced meat, quickly fry over good heat for 2 minutes, turn off the heat, simmer for another 2 minutes;

4. Add salt, pepper, some spices;

5. Pour in tomato paste or whatever you have, stir and simmer for another 15 minutes;

6. Add the remaining spices, taste for salt, heat and turn off.

Everything is ready! While the gravy was heating up, you could cook the pasta and serve the perfect budget meal, fresh and appetizing. Jelly for dessert! It is simply cooked:

1. In half a glass cold water dilute a spoonful of starch;

2. Boil 0.5 liters of water in a saucepan, add jam syrup or berry juice, sugar to taste;

3. Pour starchy water into the boiling liquid in a thin stream, stir, let it simmer for a couple of minutes - ready.

When everyone is full, you can give yourself a rest and think about dinner. It will also be economical, especially if there are a couple of frozen squid carcasses in the house. They need to be taken out, defrosted and cleaned. It's easy - the skin is removed with a fingernail, the middle cartilages and chords are removed with a knife. Now the recipe will require the following:

• 2 potatoes;
• 1 small onion;
• 2 tbsp. l. thick sour cream;
• Salt, pepper.

In financial terms, this recipe costs about $2.5, but you can feed a large family with it. So:

1. Peel the potatoes, boil them, drain the water (not all), mash the tubers with the addition of the broth - it’s very inexpensive, healthy and tasty. If available, you can add a couple of tablespoons of warmed milk instead of broth;

2. Peel the squid, rinse until excess moisture is drained, peel the onion;

3. Chop the onion as finely as possible, throw it into a frying pan heated with oil and simmer until fully cooked;

4. Add salt, pepper, a spoonful of sour cream to the onion and heat until boiling;

5. Cut the squid into slices, strips or cubes;

6. Place in a frying pan, cook for 3 minutes;

7. Add another spoonful of sour cream, taste for salt and pepper, add spices and heat for 1 minute.

Serve in portions, pouring the sauce over the potatoes. You can decorate with fresh herbs, offer pickles and lecho.

Budget meals for every day can be incredibly tasty and simple, now you are convinced of this. Even if you are in austerity mode, you should not give up very simple dishes, a recipe for homemade chicken dumplings, vinaigrette or wonderful pie with potatoes, mushrooms, donuts with cottage cheese or cottage cheese in the oven - budget recipes for a family with a small income for every day are numerous, unique and tasty.

And remember, if you plan your expenses in advance, you will spend much less. Instead of a hamburger, which is cooked in unknown fat, make your baby a sandwich with homemade chocolate “Nutella”, which requires cocoa, butter, sugar and some nuts, your child will be full, satisfied and will never exchange “mom’s yummy” for something other. Budget recipes are a huge field for your imagination!

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