Quick Easy Dinner Ideas Using 3 Cans Of Soup

Long day?

Dirty house?

Need a break!

Here is one of those quick easy dinner recipes using 3 cans.

Yes, its that simple.

If your looking for cheap meals less than $5 to prepare then you have just found it.

I always purchase the ingredients for this meal in quantity.

This is one of my favorite last minute, quick easy dinner recipes

to make when I have had a bad day and ordering dinner would be nice but isn’t an option.

 

Easy Dinner Recipe – 3 Can Soup

 

Quick Easy Dinner Recipes

Quick Easy Dinner Recipes

Cheap Cooking Ingredients:

  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 1 can (26 oz.) tomato soup
  • 1 can (26 oz.) bean with bacon soup
  • 1 can (26 oz.) vegetable soup
  • 3 cans water
  • Chili Powder to taste

Easy Dinner Directions:

  1. Brown hamburger in a large pot
  2. Add soups and water.
  3. Season with Chili Powder to taste.

Serves 6-8. Add a side salad and your quick healthy meal is complete. Such an easy dinner and so delicious.

TIP: Double the batch for a freezer meal recipe next week!! Here is a great article to help you begin in planning make ahead meals: Quick Tips For Make Ahead Meals

Here’s another Quick Easy Dinner Recipe to try: My Mom’s Goulash – My Poverty Meal

January 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Dinner Recipes, easy ground beef meals, freezer meals recipes | One comment

My Mom’s Goulash – My Poverty Meal

I ran across a goulash recipe today from Recipezaar called Poverty Meal and I had to laugh.

As a child my mom made something very similar to this but she called it Goulash. I think I like calling it the Poverty Meal instead as that is exactly what it was.

We grew up poor and my mom did her best to provide for us. I could always tell how broke we were by the ingredients she used, no kidding.

If times were good the recipe included vegetables, ground beef, cream of mushroom soup and cheese. If we were broke it became a simple tomato sauce and noodle dinner.

I have made this a few times for my family and I need to include it in my menu planning more often as my kids actually like it and eat it well.

It’s one of those quick dinner recipes that  definitely fits well within my $5 dinner meals and depending on the ingredients you use it could actually be less than $2 to prepare. So here is my version of a Poverty Meal or as my mom calls it her Goulash recipe.

My Mom’s Goulash Recipe – My Poverty Meal

Quick Dinner Recipes

Goulash Recipe

Inspiration from Recipezaar, family recipe
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Meal Preparation Ingredients:

  • 1 lb ground beef (ground turkey works well too)
  • 2 small cans of tomato sauce
  • 1 can of cream of mushroom soup
  • 1 pkg. elbow macaroni
  • 1 can of mixed vegetables (optional)
  • 1 cup of cheese (optional)
  • salt and pepper to taste

Meal Preparation Directions:

  1. Prepare elbow macaroni according to directions on package, drain and put back in pot
  2. Cook ground beef or turkey until done, drain grease
  3. Add tomato sauce, cream of mushroom soup and mixed vegetable to pot of macaroni, mix well
  4. Add ground beef or turkey and salt and pepper to taste.
  5. Top with cheese if desired.

Meal Assembly:
Serves 4-6. Add a dinner salad and sliced french bread for a nutritious cheap family meal.

TIP: Double the batch for a make ahead freezer meal next week. Need tips to begin make ahead meal planning? Here is a great article: Quick Tips For Make Ahead Meals

Looking for something different? Try this Quick Dinner Recipe: Easy Tuna-Fish Casserole

Or better yet try this kid approved meal: Easy Meatloaf Recipe

January 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Dinner Recipes, Casserole Cooking, easy ground beef meals, freezer meals recipes | 8 comments

Cooking Meals For A Month Website – Update

Just a quick update on my Cooking Meals For a Month website. I’m still working out some kinks.

As a newbie to WordPress, I have to figure things out bit by bit and that can get crazy.

My biggest problem to date is getting pages to correctly print out, like for the complete shopping list, etc., another is the fact that I continually change the theme, I like what one looks like but the functions of another, finding it difficult to settle on just one.

So I try to customize and most of time get myself in trouble because I am not a programmer.

In the meantime you can get a sneak peak at what the site will offer, I have posted 2 separate articles on cheap family menu’s for a week at a time. Take a look:

A Cheap Family Menu For Less Than $40.00

A Budget Family Menu Only $33.06 – Week 2

This will give you a good idea of what direction I’m taking with the new site. I appreciate all the feedback given and polls taken. Having a months worth of menus for inexpensive meals really is necessary right now. Stay tuned more details will soon follow! -Machelle

January 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Dinner Recipes, Best Crockpot Recipes, Casserole Cooking, Cooking Tricks & Tips, easy ground beef meals, freezer meals recipes, Kids Recipes Made easy, Simply Delicious Desserts | Leave a comment
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