Healthy Cheap Food

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.

I am always interested in new ways to earn extra money and that is what I have been able to do lately by making crafts. I have been selling our homemade crafts at craft fairs lately, but the real boon is coming this Christmas.

We devote a few hours every week just to make Christmas crafts. By November, the Christmas craft fair season will start in earnest and there is a lot of money to be made with Christmas handicraft items.

I think this prove to be a real winner for my family.

Don’t you just love going to garage sales on the weekend? I just love it. It’s a chance to get some real treasures for cheap prices. So many people just want to toss out their old stuff. Well, it might be old to them, but it’s new to me and my family.

I especially love going out with my mother in law and and sister in law. They are real experts on garage sales and they can spot the duds and the good ones even before we get out of the car. It’s great learning from such garage sale experts.

Home improvement is a great way to add value to your home and increase your net worth. Often times people forget about this very easy way to add value to your home. Home improvement doesn’t have to expensive. In fact you can do a lot of home improvement work without spending any outlay of cash.

One easy way is to grab a hammer and your tools and go around the house looking for things to repair. It may be that you have a lot of little home repair that need to be done. Every repair you do increases the value of your home.

Another thing you can do is to go outside and make sure your yard is in tip top shape. Spend time cleaning it. Weed your flower beds and generally make things look nice.

If you can improve your home, you’ll improve your home’s value and your net worth.

There are simple things we can do to lower health care costs. One of these is to start to eat healthy. If you are eating healthy then your whole body feels better and your health costs will drop. Another simple you can do to lower health care costs is to take vitamins regularly. The more often you take your vitamins then the healthier you are. Again, this translates into lower health care costs.

What are you doing to take control of your health care costs? You need to care about your body so that you’ll save money taking care of it.

It is so difficult to deal with children who insist upon going on the internet to cause problems for other people. They are not very kind and like to spread their vile venom all over the net. On another site of mine, there are these two very creepy men who continually harass me in the comments section. They are really freaky and they should probably be arrested for the way they are.

I have finally figured out their real names. Should I post it here what their real names are? I sometimes think that if it was public knowledge how vile they are then they would stop doing it.

Life doesn’t have to be as difficult as some people make it out to be. Some people think that life has to be difficult or not very fun at times, but that doesn’t have to be the case. There is real joy in life if we seek it out. This joy can become a part of lives and the lives of our family.

Easy living isn’t just about lots of money, it’s about low stress and trying to make our lives easier and less complicated. There is a lot of happiness in easy living and I am glad to have found it.

I am trying to find new ways to cut down on our family’s monthly expenses. It’s tough to find the ways to cut expenses and it seems like I have hit a brick wall lately. Inflation is really hitting the family budget and instead of making cuts, the budget is ballooning.

At least I know other families are experiencing the same thing. I know that we are not alone in this quest to make life even more enjoyable on less money. It’s what Frugal Living and Cheap Healthy Food is all about.

Have you got any ideas to offer?

My husband just loves beef chili. In fact, it’s favorite among every one in the household. It’s easy to buy cans of chili at the supermarket, but I don’t think the taste is really that good enough.

I am interested in quality food at that why I make up all of the chili we eat. Basically, I make a huge amount of it on a Saturday and then put it in container to freeze. All I need to do is thaw it and stick in the microwave and we can have chili anytime.

Here’s my recipe:

Ingredients:

* 3 pounds lean beef, coarsely ground or cut in small cubes
* 1/4 cup chopped onion
* 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
* 6 cups water
* 2 bay leaves
* 1/4 cup chili powder
* 1 tablespoon salt
* 8 to 10 cloves garlic, minced
* 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
* 1 teaspoon oregano leaves, crushed
* 1/2 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
* 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
* 1 tablespoon sugar
* 3 tablespoons sweet Hungarian paprika
* 3 tablespoons flour
* 6 tablespoons cornmeal
* cold water

Preparation:
In a 6-quart saucepan, sear beef with onion in vegetable oil until beef is no longer pink. Add water, bay leaves, chili powder, salt, garlic, cumin, oregano, cayenne pepper, black pepper, sugar, and paprika. Simmer, covered, 2 hours. Cool. Refrigerate overnight so flavors will mellow. Skim off the solidified fat. Reheat. Combine flour and cornmeal; add a little cold water to make a smooth paste-like mixture. Add paste mixture to chili. Cook, stirring, for about 6 to 8 minutes longer. Remove bay leaves before serving.
Serves 6.

It’s important that you always do what is right whether it is in business or your personal life. We are all responsible for our own actions and our own future. If we are doing the things that are right, then how can we possibly better our lives or keep bad things from happening to us.

It’s important to be the very best person you can be and show everyone that you can be a light in this world, rather than be a dark spot. If we can do this, than we can make things better not only for ourselves, but the people around us.