Healthy Cheap Food

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I was just thinking, this site is becoming more and more relevent as the finacial crisis deepens. Anyway, thats all I have to say.

Want something quick easy and tasty? Then pasta is for you! Start by boiling water in a kettle, once it has boiled put in a large saucepan, put on the stove and turn the heat up. Add to the pan about two generous handfuls of pasta (frusilli, penne, whatever you like) for each person who will be eating. Let this cook for about 10 minutes and regular stir it to avoid it sticking together. While you wait for the pasta to finish you start making the sauce. You will need:

- Garlic or garlic paste

- Tin of chopped tomatoes

- Herbs

- Vegetable oil (olive preferable)

Get small saucepan and pour a small amount of oil in and add around 4 crushed garlic cloves or a large amount of garlic paste. Turn up the heat and slowly add more and more of your tin chopped tomatoes. Keep in mind how many people you are making this for, you may not need the whole tin. Using a small spoon stir up the mix and start to add herbs. Oregano and mixed herbs work well. Now would be a good time to check how the pasta is doing! Once the water form the tinned chopped tomatoes has been boiled you should end up with a tasty sauce to add to you pasta. Serve and enjoy.

Okay, so my year in review post was a bit late this year, but lets take a look at some of the healthy (and not so healthy) cheap recipes of the year:

Ramaghetti

The Cheap Mac and Cheese

BBQ Pork

Corned Beef and Potatoes

Great Brownies

My Favourite Cookies

Grits Rice Porridge

Beef Chilli

I hope you enjoyed them!

I love the taste of Horchata, it’s a really refreshing drink on a warm day. It’’s not only refreshing, but it’s also healthy and relatively cheap to make. It’s definitely deserves to be on a list of healthy, cheap food. Unfortunately, if you look on the web, many of the recipes for Aqua De Horchata sounds very difficult. Not to worry, I have an easier recipe.

Ingredients:
1/4 cup of rice
6 to 10 cups of water
1 can of condensed milk
cinnamon to taste
1 tsp of vanilla
sugar to taste

First off, take your 1/4 cup of rice and either put in the blender or put it in a mortar and pestle in order to break it up. You don’t really have to do this but it results in a thicker horchata.

Next, rinse your pulverized rice on time and then put your water. Bring it to a boil and let it sit covered for 1 to 2 hours so it can begin to soften up. After the wait time, boil the rice for 1 hour(covered). You are now ready to extract the rice water.

You can do this one of two ways. You can either ladled out the rice water, making sure you don’t disturb the rice at the bottom or you run it all through a cheesecloth/wire mesh. The goal is to get the rice water alone in a container.

To your rice water, you add the can of condensed milk and vanilla. Try adding 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon to start off with. If you like the cinnamon flavor, you can start adding sugar to the taste you desire. You might want to start off with a 1/4 cup of sugar, depending on how much rice water you have.

Finally put it in the refrigerator and chill until it’s cold. Enjoy!

I came up with a brand new interesting recipe that it is easily made from foods that store well in the kitchen cupboard. It’s a quick and easy to prepare and best of all, it tastes great. It’s called Ramaghetti. It’s instant ramen noodles made into a spaghetti. Trust me, it tastes fabulous, it’s cheap, and it’s easy to make.

Ingredients:
Instant ramen noodles
canned corned beef
1 can of tomato sauce

First boil 6 or 7 packages of instant ramen noodles. The number of noodle packs is up to you. Make sure you don’t put in the seasoning just yet. After the noodles are finished cooking, drain off the excess water and then add the seasoning packets and mix it up. Next add in 1/2 can of corned beef and 1 can of tomato sauce. You’ll want to simmer for your Ramaghetti for a minute or two just so everything gets nice and warm and tasty.

This is very tasty and if you make it up in bulk, you can put it in a lunch for the kids. They’ll love it.