Asian recipes are probably my favorite to come up with. Growing up in Hawaii gave me a huge craving for Asian food, and a wealth of knowledge from my aunties, uncles, and tutus (those are grandmas by the way!) of multiple Asian ethnicities. They’re also great on a budget because with rice and noodles in the recipe, it’s easier to stretch your more expensive ingredients like meat and produce.
Today’s Hunger Challenge recipe is a simple chicken pasta recipe with juicy bites of pan fried chicken, peas that burst in your mouth with sweetness, and a rich creamy parmesan sauce that’s so much healthier than it tastes. Oh and good news: I no longer feel sick and can actually eat it! There were definitely some things that I did differently for this recipe because of being on a food stamp budget.
A great way to save money on food is having breakfast food for lunch or dinner. Eggs, potatoes, and cheese are super affordable. This simple scrambled recipe takes only 10-15 minutes to make and costs under $1 for two people! I’m incorporating eggs, cheese, potatoes, bell peppers, and onions into a lot of my recipes this week as we participate in the hunger challenge. They’re very affordable and easy to stretch.
Taco Soup is my favorite soup recipe and one of my absolute favorite crockpot recipes! Whenever a friend has a baby or is in the hospital we deliver this for the family. It freezes so well that I’ve eaten it six months after making a batch. This taco soup recipe is so cheap to make that even a family surviving on food stamps can afford it. Wondering what food stamps have to do with it? Read on!
Leftover recipes! In my house that’s something there’s never enough of. Eric doesn’t like eating leftovers, but if I turn them into another dish, he doesn’t know they’re leftovers, and I can save tons of money in our food budget by re-purposing leftover food. I love making leftover pork chop recipes because pork chops are SO CHEAP!
