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Skipping a meal or two is pretty cheap.

Sugardale salami, a little mayo, dill slices, brown bread.

Browned up ground meat, can of cheap pork and beans, both on top of crispy fried taters.... Little onion in the meat if you want to be all fancy.....

Never chased a "cheap" meal. Mine just work...

All of the skin, bones and trimmings from the holiday ham with a bunch of pinto beans (white beans will work too).

Beans or preferably with skillet crusted cornbread.

Bean soup is pretty cheap, if you already have a ham bone. If you don’t, smoked turkey wings, drumsticks, or even necks are usually available soon after the turkey holidays, and do as well. Some chicken broth makes it richer, and an insta-pot cuts the cooking time at least in half.

I’ve also picked up frozen whole turkeys for as little as $.10 a pound or even free, using store points. A free turkey can go a long way too, probably farther than you can stand it unless you freeze some to use later.

Sav A Lot has prime sirloin primals at $4/#.
Sirloin isn't my favorite, but this should be good.
Primal, bag of taters, mushrooms, butter, garlic, plus some
other crap was $60. Pay more than that for supper at Hosses eating
Sirloin. Plus have to pay the maifia bitch that brings me my
overcooked food.

Today's steak dinner will be cheap.
Next one will be free. (Savings covered it)

Marked down fresh turkeys right after Tgiving are great.

Two meals from the sliced breast.
A meal from the roasted leg quarters.
A soup meal from the carcase and wings.

And the bare carcass makes great broth. Just add it to a large pot of water, some pepper corns, some bay leaves, some garlic cloves, salt, carrots, onions, celery, and low boil for six hours.

Ham bone and lentils, onions, carrots a bit of celery............... yum. Especially like using one of those spiral cut brown sugar/maple cured ham bones.

These also make very good smoked turkey salad sandwiches.

Potato soup and cornbread.

Oklahoma rez corn soup or the white guy version
with ground beef and canned corn

Tuna mess- aldi 89 cent angel hair parmesan side,
cooked per directions, can of drained water tuna,
drained can of green peas, goodly shake of black
pepper, goodly shake of complete seasoning,
either a tablespoon of fresh minced onion or the
rehydrated dried
Had it for supper

white rice, cook add some cream cheese and hot sauce, mix thoroughly until creamcheese if well distributed, S&P to taste and eat away

Corn bread, oatmeal.

You must eat a lot, or have a big family.

A normal size turkey would feed a bachelor like me, a week at least!

Any time I've got a big roast, or a turkey, or a ham,
I make up a double portion and stick in freezer bags
until I'm down to what will last refrigerated until I
can eat it all. Then fall back on what I have frozen

Haven't seen any smoked thighs, but I always pick up the fresh ones when I see them. I roast them or have the wife brown them in the insta-pot then pressure cook them with soup fixins’.

I’ve become a convert to the Asian method of cooking the noodles or rice separately, then adding the soup when serving. Lets you get both noodle and rice soup from the same batch, and the starch part doesn’t get soggy. We’re making our noodles now too.

Family of 4.
The fried breast makes 2 meals. We clean that up.
The roasted legs make 2 meals. Leftovers
Soup for supper, freeze some for later.

The trick is catching those birds marked down.
They used to do it the day after T-giving.
Now they wait.

Canned soup, embellished with whatever's available and/or thickened with a handful of soda crackers.