What Is The Best Meal You've Made When There Was Almost No Food In The House?

As long as I have all the ingredients, tuna mornay....my way is just making a bechemel sauce, adding the tuna & cooked onion & serving it on a bed of rice. All you need is a bit of milk, flour, butter, tuna, onion & rice. Not only is it quick & easy but cheap too.

The meal I created was crab meat pasta. There was literally just one pepper in the fridge, one can of mushrooms, an onion , some pasta and spaghetti sauce. You know what it was really good, the next time I cooked I put in lots of garlic. That made it even better. Earlier on this summer there were no groceries for a month. By the end I was eating maccaroni and frozen veggies with cheese sprinkled on top.

Usually we fry eggs and eat it with rice and tomatoes ,and is not that bad at all.

Well, i didn't personally make the meal but there was almost no food in the house and i ordered a small or medium pizza that lasted a day or two, i hate months like that.

I had a can of tomato soup and some bread and sliced cheese. I doubled the amount of soup by adding milk and thickening it up. I made double cheese grilled cheese sandwiches. Everybody (4) were stuffed and the next time I offered it as a meal they all held up their hands and claimed they were still stuffed a month later. Sounds like you made it work too.

i have mergered hahauashdua, stuffs like these. mayonnaise,, katchup, sugar, salt, onion, olive oil,hackedp sausage i mean its all DDDD: after, put it into the bread, and to eat. DDDDDDDDDDD: that's amazing.

Luckily, my favourite food is also the poor man’s source of sustenance so on month ends when the family finance minister (me) has goofed up one more time, its khichdi for us. I would vouch that the khichdi is the tastiest and healthiest low cost food in the world. Since rice is our staple and always at home, I need only pulses, potato, onions and one tomato for taste. Spices can be bare minimum to as many as you like. Just chop the veggies, sauté all the ingredients together in a little oil (spices incl), add enough water to boil, allow to simmer till porridge-like consistency and voila…serve hot with a little butter or ghee and the world is at your feet!

I think the best meal that we ever made had to be bland beans and cornbread. I love beans and cornbread anyway but my husband really doesn;t care for them too much. He ate them like they were going out of style that time though, LOL.

I think that the best I've done is to make some soup. I almost always have the ingredients to make a vegetable soup and find myself thtowing one together and letting it simmer all day when my food supply might not be so great. I almost always have canned vegetables, a potato, carrots, onions, tomato juice and all the spices that I put in and the smell in the house is great. I also will throw in some type of pasta, which usually is spaghetti, which I have broken into smaller pieces. The last time I made it I had so much, that I put some in the freezer for later. It is difficult to make a small batch and I live alone!

I rarely get low on food which is good because I am not really creative when it comes to cooking. Mostly we would be eating eggs and sandwiches if we got low on food.

Every Saturday I make a pot of home made soup with my leftovers from the week. I freeze my leftovers so that they keep till Saturday and I throw them all into a pot and simmer it for a few hours. Sometimes I may have to add some boullion, if not enough meat for flavour in the soup but usually I don't need to. I also will throw in some fresh stuff like onions and lots of spices. When we were kids we didn't have a lot of food. My mom would quite often make up macaroni noodles and ketchup. Or macaroni noodles fried with bread crumbs and little butter. Iprin soup was something we ate a lot of. Iprin soup is where you put a little bit of oil in a pot and brown some flour with paprika and salt. Then add some more water and anything you can find in the house, potatoes, carrots, onions, whatever you have and let it simmer. Then after cooking for whatever, about an hour, make some dumplings in it.

Ramen Noodles! They are cheaper than regular even if you toss the seasonings in another dish later. Plan one package a person if you can. One package of tuna with that and you have a whole meal. Or 1/4 pound of ground beef if you get into the real money! Been there and still three many a night.Fried potatoes. Look at any grocery for reduced items. Go with no menu in hand, Just wander the store and see what you can find. If you eggs and bread go for strata which is egg and bread casserole. The key is when you do have money again buy the extra can of soup, veggies etc and start a new supply. Hang in there. It all changes.

It is very difficult to decide what to cook when there is nothing available in the house. Last days of month are like these. Generally when it happens we cook simple poha(puffed rice) or go with bread butter or dal and rice.

My favorite thing to do is to make rice and then throw random things into it. If I have meat that is the best (even lunch meat that I fry with spices) then I just mix it all together with a light butter sauce. If not then I use chicken or beef bullion to make the rice and add spices to make it taste good. I always try to keep chicken in the house though, and when I do have chicken then I will boil it down and make noodles out of the water I boiled the chicken in, and I have soup. Any left over broth I freeze to and use it to make more noodles later or rice. If I for see a really bad month coming up I will buy a whole chicken before hand and boil it completely down, that way I can bone it really easily and freeze the meat for sandwiches. Boiled chicken can also be battered and fried for a new twist. But one whole chicken can last me and my finance about 2 or three weeks if I break the meat up into potatoes, noodles or rice.

When I know it's going to be a tough month, I buy a whole ham or turkey, cook them up and make as many things out of them as I possibly can and freeze it. with the turkey I've made a turkey dinner the first night, turkey pot pie with left over veggies, turkey & gravy over biscuits, freeze some of it sliced for a future night and some for lunch meat/sandwiches. With the ham I basically do the same thing, saving the bone at the end to make soup beans and corn bread. I try to stretch something like that as far as I can get it to go!!

The last thing I made that I wasn't sure how it would turn out was chicken, I took a half bottle of sweet n sour salad dressing, put it in the bottom of my roaster, put the chicken in with salt,pepper and garlic salt. took it out half way through cooking, added some brown rice and water to the salad dressing. Flipped the chicken, found some bread crumbs and put over the top of it and put the oven on broil to finish baking it. Everyone liked it.

barbecue ham sandwich - leftover ham, barbecue sauce and bread...

theres a few normally involving pasta as it can be brought really cheaply pasta tinned tomatoes pinch of mixed herbs and a tin of tuna is our favourite and it is so so cheap too!

In my experience.. I usually utilize my left over foods and then I cook it again to kill microorganisms.. and then I would buy a can of tuna or cornbeef and other canned goods.

Yups there was no food in the house & i had myself made maggi for the first time that was the best meal i had ever made.