5 Budget-Friendly Recipes That Will Make Your Family Hate You.
Trying to save some extra cash against your family’s will? Maybe you have some credit card debt that you’re not ready to tell them about, or perhaps you lost your job and have been pretending to go to work for the last two weeks.
Maybe you’re just ready to start saving up for that divorce attorney that you don’t want your spouse to know about yet.
Don’t worry. It’s never too late to start looking for places to cut back and start budgeting.
But wait, If we’re going to cut back on our food expenses, then we also have to sacrifice a bit of flavor too, right?
Yes, that’s right. And you know what, that’s okay. Tasty food is overrated anyways. Your family probably doesn’t even deserve to eat tasty food to begin with. After all, their job is to eat the food and shut up, not to tell you what their taste buds are thinking.
I mean, we all sometimes wish that we could just stop feeding our kids and let the universe facilitate their destiny, but in today’s world that’s not always the best option, so we might as well keep them breathing with the cheapest food possible.
In this post I’m going to share with you 5 life-changing and budget-friendly recipes that you can bring into your home for just a fraction of the cost of all that fast food you’ve been eating every night.
This Post is all about the Top 5 budget friendly recipes that will make your family hate you.
1. Three Ingredient Slow Cooker Chili
For this recipe you will need:
⦁ one pound of ground beef
⦁ one can of black pinto beans
⦁ water
Instructions:
Begin by filling your trusty crockpot to the brim with tap water. Next, break up the ground beef in your hands until it turns into a fine mush. Set the cooking temperature to high and boil the beef for 15 minutes or until it is a pale grey. Once the meat is cooked all the way through it’s time to add the beans. Open your can of beans and dump the contents into the crockpot without draining the excess liquid (you don’t want to lose all that flavor).
Cook it low and slow for one hour. let cool for 30 minutes and serve to your lovely family.
This recipe makes about 4 servings. Make sure to add a little more to your plate when nobody’s looking. After all, you made it so you deserve a little extra.
I like to take two whole servings for myself, give one to my spouse, and put one serving in the middle of the dining table for our kids to fight over. It’s a great form of entertainment while I’m eating. It makes me feel like an emporer watching a little gladiator fight.
2. Soggy Pizza with Toppings that Everyone Hates
Pizza has always been my favorite food for as long as I can remember. I’ll never forget the joy I felt whenever they served pizza for school lunch. I would always be so hungry from my school lunch the day before that I would devour my slice of pizza in just a few seconds. I would even dig through the trashcan for seconds. My friends would all make fun of me and call me names but it’s okay, they got what was coming to them in the end.
This recipe is a throwback to my days as a schoolboy who ate pizza to survive.
For this recipe you will need:
⦁ All purpose flour
⦁ one (1) large tomato
⦁ one can of diced pineapple
⦁ sliced American cheese
⦁ freshly picked mushrooms from outside
Instructions:
Start by mixing your all purpose flower with a bunch of lukewarm water into a bowl. Play with it in your hands for a few minutes until it turns into a ball of dough. Slap it onto a baking sheet and then sit on it to get it nice and flat.
Next place your tomato in the middle of the pizza dough and crush it with your hands. Boom, now you have tomato sauce. Smear the sauce all over the dough.
Place the slices of cheese over the sauced up areas, avoiding the crust.
Open the can of pineapples and dump the contents over the cheese. Then add the mushrooms.
Now you’re ready to bake your pizza!
Microwave for three minutes so as to not burn the cheese. Let cool for one minute and serve.
3. Beef Bourguignon with Baby Carrots
For this recipe you will need:
⦁ 3 lb chuck roast
⦁ One bag of baby carrots
⦁ One can cream of mushroom soup
⦁ Box wine.
Instructions:
Start by opening the cream of mushroom and rub into the roast. Let that marinate uncovered on kitchen counter overnight.
When you’re ready to start cooking, start by pouring 8 cups of wine into slow cooker, then add the baby carrots.
Throw the marinated roast in the microwave. Push the popcorn button and let it do it’s thing. Repeat 4 more times. This will give your roast a nice irradiated char on the outside and will really bring out the flavor.
Finally add the roast to the slow cooker and cook on highest setting for 30 minutes. Let cool for one hour. Replace any of the sauce that was lost in the cooking process with more wine, then serve. This one is always a big hit in our household.
4. Spaghetti Soup
For this recipe you will need:
⦁ one pack of instant ramen
⦁ ketchup
⦁ Hotdogs (pretend they’re meatballs)
Instructions:
Bring 6 cups of water to a boil. Open the pack of instant ramen and remove the little seasoning pack. Empty contents onto countertop and snort. Put the noodles in the water and cook until soft.
Now that the noodles are cooking it’s time for the tomato sauce. Add one bottle of ketchup and two sliced-up hot dogs to a nonstick pan. Cook for 15 min, stirring occasionally.
Once the noodles are done cooking, add 4 cups of the pasta water to the tomato sauce to help emulsify it.
Drain the noodles and add them to the sauce. Serve with chopsticks.
5. Grey Meatloaf
This is the perfect recipe that will shut your kids the hell up. Not only will their unrefined taste buds be unable to detect the lack of any seasoning, but the wildly skewed onion to meat ratio will be lost to them as well.
The trick here is to make what basically amounts to a giant brick of onions that is shrouding itself in a disguise of meat. We’re going to do this by mixing one lb of ground beef into some finely minced onions and then drowning it all in a pool of ketchup.
For this recipe you will need:
⦁ 1 lbs ground beef
⦁ 3 large onions
⦁ ketchup
Here’s how to to it:
1. Place onion on cutting board.
2. Grab hammer.
3. Smash onion for 60 seconds.
4. Place smashed onion into blender.
5. Repeat for onions 2 and 3.
6. Put ground beef into blender alongside onion remnants.
7. Blend on highest speed setting until everything turns into a fine paste.
8. Open blender lid.
9. Grab some black pepper.
10. Sniff.
11. Sneeze directly into blender.
12. Blend for 30 more seconds.
13. Remove mixture from blender and pour into microwave-safe meatloaf pan.
14. Squirt contents of one whole ketchup bottle onto meatloaf.
15. Throw the whole affair into the microwave and cook on high for 15 minutes.
16. Let cool for 5 minutes and serve.
By the time your family takes their first bite of this onionated mass it’ll be too late. Enjoy the looks on their faces as they all pretend how delicious it is so they can avoid your wrath.
We can’t wait to hear about what your family thinks of these budget-friendly dinner ideas! Make sure to leave a comment and share your thoughts. Until next time!