The best comfort food for me (vegetarian) is warm stuffing followed by vegan pumpkin pie-always eat too much! We once had a tofurfy soy turkey but didn't follow directions and it was too rubbery to eat.
My favorite comfort food is Mashed Potatoes.I remember my mom making these with homemade gravy a couple times a week. I use a pressure cooker and in no time have perfectly cooked mashed potatoes to go with any meal.
This time of year rice mixes tend to be pretty cheap and if your store doubles coupons they can end up free. I discovered this years ago so I started to make my now famous "Day after Thanksgiving turkey and Wild Rice soup". Boil the carcass (as if I needed to tell you that), strain and pick our meat, add chopped veggies of choice and two boxes of wild rice mix complete with flavor packs. No need to add salt but add parsley or other herbs. My daughter has her own family now and my grandkids look forward to my special soup. It costs next to nothing but tastes great and is filling, plus you can make it slowly while you decorate for the holidays!
We always make homemade applesauce for Thanksgiving. I live in NY state, so apples are plentiful and wonderful! We go to one of the apple farms or a farm market and buy utility apples - a lot less expensive, but the results are the same. Because the apples themselves are sweet, we just add cinnamon. So it's a perfect dish for anyone who has to watch their sugar intake!
As a vegetarian, my Thanksgiving meals are really focused on the side dishes. I love doing mashed potatoes the old fashioned way, with boiled potatoes, mashed by hand with sturdy pastry cutter, adding milk and butter as I go along. Trust me, it's cheap, rustic, and delicious.
My favorite Thanksgiving comfort food is a take-home, left-over package from ANYONE in my (small) circle of people that still cook on holidays! I am not ashamed to say--Hey got any food that you made too much of? I especially LOVE the carcass of the turkey---I love hunting thru the bones and finding all the chunks of meat that the knives failed to slice off! I have even made myself some Turkey Bone Soup from a (really large) bunch of bones!
Thanks for the tips; they'll come in handy. Turkey Pad Thai is a stretch for my taste; but, I like your thinking outside the box. Can't wait to try the T-C roll-up. Perhaps put turkey pot pie on your list using a (store-bought?) puff pastry topping as the only crust?
My budget idea is to ensure there is no waste -- if you have more leftovers than your family will be eating over the few post-Thanksgiving days, freeze them so they don't go to waste and you have them to enjoy another day. Put mashed potatoes and stuffing/dressing in ziplock bags and flatten them to take up less space in your freezer. Mark bag with contents and date -- don't waste your time, oven energy, and food by throwing anything away after your feast.
My favorite Thanksgiving comfort dish is Sweet Potato Casserole. It is so good with that crunchy topping. It is easy to make and budget-friendly and soooooo good. My husband waits all year for it.
The best thanksgiving budget AND comfort food is stuffing! Once you add the bread, you're really free to make it your own - just use up whatever is leftover from your other recipes. It seems no matter what you put in, it always ends up delicious! And of course, a $1.29 box of stove top works just fine in a pinch!
My favorite Thanksgiving budget dish (and comfort food!) is green bean casserole! It's the one time of year that I make it and it reminds me of family get-togethers and the holidays.
I'm a vegetarian, so my favorite cheap eats on Thanksgiving are green beans (because all it takes is a little bit of garlic salt to make them gourmet) and mashed potatoes from scratch--with skins, with butter, with salt... and then my awesome vegan gravy that tastes like the real thing.
I live in a different time zone than my family I'm related to, so I spend Thanksgiving with my family I'm not related to and I always bring pies. It's gotten so that one of the guys in the family is convinced that it can't be Thanksgiving without my crunchy caramel apple pie. One uncle has taken a liking to my French Silk pie and has been known to (mostly jokingly) threaten his sons if they take pieces that are too large and don't leave enough for him to have a second helping.
I've also contributed a family recipe for sweet potatoes that is one of my comfort foods and always reminds me of friends and family gatherings when I was growing up.
Greeb Bean casserole is the ultimate thanksgiving go to comfort food- can make slight adjustments but dont know anyone who doesnt love traditional green bean casserole!!!!
Canned asparagus, rolled in cracker crumbs and deep-fried. My family is the only one that I know of that eats this, but it's definitely comfort food for me.
Stuffing is one of my favorite budget dishes. You can use any kind of day old bread or cornbread, add some chopped onions, celery, carrots, veggie or chicken broth, your favorite dried herbs, and salt and pepper to taste. Serve it with turkey, with your eggs in the morning, in a sandwich with your left over turkey for lunch, or as a soup or stew thickener.
I have a favorite frozen salad that has been passed down for years in our family. It is marshmallows, cream cheese, walnuts. sour cream and pineapple. It is so refreshing!
hands down is anything with sweet potatoes - mashed,in a pie or in a casserole - but no marshmallows on top, please. They are wonderful and so healthy for you!
Yes and the people who owe on the loans work and pay taxes too. I'm so sick of hearing people say that they pay for all the government help that others get when many times those getting the help also work and pay into those funds. I get that all the time when people find out my kids have Medicaid...people say "oh so I and everyone else pays for your kids medical care." I work...and I have 2 pretty good jobs aside from the fact that my employers don't offer insurance...so I pay for not only my kids medicaid but everyone else's. I'm drowning in student loans I took out to better myself so I could "make it on my own" but those same loans are making it so I can't "make it on my own." Sallie Mae wants me to pay $639 a month...that's almost half my income...and only one of my loans. So you tell me the solution so people can pay off their loans and still make ends meet so they don't need government help...which people like you will then bitch about! People like you are always saying "go get a job and pay your own way." Well guess what? I have 2 jobs so now what kind of ignorant thing can you come up with for why I don't deserve a break? Lots of people work their asses off and still can't seem to make ends meet...so stop with all the illogical fallacies that those who have a hard time making it and need a little help are just lazy or lack motivation...and are looking for a handout. I'm not looking for a handout or for them to wipe my debt clean...just a reasonable payment plan I can afford. I'm willing to pay but I think it's ridiculous for loan companies to expect people to pay such high payments that they can't even make rent and other bills if they do. It's pretty simple...if you want people to pay...make the terms reasonable enough so they can. I'm not gonna go homeless or hungry to pay a loan that covered an education that was suppose to better my situation not make it worse. Seems to me that they don't want their money when they would rather go without it than take what I can give...kinda like cutting off their nose to spite their face isn't it? Oh that's right...they don't actually want people to pay cause they'd rather give out high-risk loans with repayment plans that people can't meet so they can get a government bailout...but I guess it's okay for them to get handouts right?
The best comfort food for me (vegetarian) is warm stuffing followed by vegan pumpkin pie-always eat too much! We once had a tofurfy soy turkey but didn't follow directions and it was too rubbery to eat.
My favorite comfort food is Mashed Potatoes.I remember my mom making these with homemade gravy a couple times a week. I use a pressure cooker and in no time have perfectly cooked mashed potatoes to go with any meal.
This time of year rice mixes tend to be pretty cheap and if your store doubles coupons they can end up free. I discovered this years ago so I started to make my now famous "Day after Thanksgiving turkey and Wild Rice soup". Boil the carcass (as if I needed to tell you that), strain and pick our meat, add chopped veggies of choice and two boxes of wild rice mix complete with flavor packs. No need to add salt but add parsley or other herbs. My daughter has her own family now and my grandkids look forward to my special soup. It costs next to nothing but tastes great and is filling, plus you can make it slowly while you decorate for the holidays!
We always make homemade applesauce for Thanksgiving. I live in NY state, so apples are plentiful and wonderful! We go to one of the apple farms or a farm market and buy utility apples - a lot less expensive, but the results are the same. Because the apples themselves are sweet, we just add cinnamon. So it's a perfect dish for anyone who has to watch their sugar intake!
I love eating stuffing, especially warmed-up leftover stuffing. Or after Thanksgiving, making broth from the carcass and having that. Yum.
As a vegetarian, my Thanksgiving meals are really focused on the side dishes. I love doing mashed potatoes the old fashioned way, with boiled potatoes, mashed by hand with sturdy pastry cutter, adding milk and butter as I go along. Trust me, it's cheap, rustic, and delicious.
My favorite Thanksgiving comfort food is a take-home, left-over package from ANYONE in my (small) circle of people that still cook on holidays! I am not ashamed to say--Hey got any food that you made too much of? I especially LOVE the carcass of the turkey---I love hunting thru the bones and finding all the chunks of meat that the knives failed to slice off! I have even made myself some Turkey Bone Soup from a (really large) bunch of bones!
Thanks for the tips; they'll come in handy. Turkey Pad Thai is a stretch for my taste; but, I like your thinking outside the box. Can't wait to try the T-C roll-up. Perhaps put turkey pot pie on your list using a (store-bought?) puff pastry topping as the only crust?
Mmm, corn bread and pumpkin pie. I can't decide. They're both inexpensive and comforting.
My favorite Thanksgiving comfort food is stuffing. That's really what I look forward to -- the turkey is just incidental!!
My budget idea is to ensure there is no waste -- if you have more leftovers than your family will be eating over the few post-Thanksgiving days, freeze them so they don't go to waste and you have them to enjoy another day. Put mashed potatoes and stuffing/dressing in ziplock bags and flatten them to take up less space in your freezer. Mark bag with contents and date -- don't waste your time, oven energy, and food by throwing anything away after your feast.
My favorite Thanksgiving comfort dish is Sweet Potato Casserole. It is so good with that crunchy topping. It is easy to make and budget-friendly and soooooo good. My husband waits all year for it.
The best thanksgiving budget AND comfort food is stuffing! Once you add the bread, you're really free to make it your own - just use up whatever is leftover from your other recipes. It seems no matter what you put in, it always ends up delicious! And of course, a $1.29 box of stove top works just fine in a pinch!
Macaroni and cheese is the favorite comfort food. But the more thanksgiving variety comfort food would have to be the mashies or sweet potatoes.
My favorite Thanksgiving budget dish (and comfort food!) is green bean casserole! It's the one time of year that I make it and it reminds me of family get-togethers and the holidays.
I'm a vegetarian, so my favorite cheap eats on Thanksgiving are green beans (because all it takes is a little bit of garlic salt to make them gourmet) and mashed potatoes from scratch--with skins, with butter, with salt... and then my awesome vegan gravy that tastes like the real thing.
I live in a different time zone than my family I'm related to, so I spend Thanksgiving with my family I'm not related to and I always bring pies. It's gotten so that one of the guys in the family is convinced that it can't be Thanksgiving without my crunchy caramel apple pie. One uncle has taken a liking to my French Silk pie and has been known to (mostly jokingly) threaten his sons if they take pieces that are too large and don't leave enough for him to have a second helping.
I've also contributed a family recipe for sweet potatoes that is one of my comfort foods and always reminds me of friends and family gatherings when I was growing up.
Greeb Bean casserole is the ultimate thanksgiving go to comfort food- can make slight adjustments but dont know anyone who doesnt love traditional green bean casserole!!!!
Canned asparagus, rolled in cracker crumbs and deep-fried. My family is the only one that I know of that eats this, but it's definitely comfort food for me.
Stuffing is one of my favorite budget dishes. You can use any kind of day old bread or cornbread, add some chopped onions, celery, carrots, veggie or chicken broth, your favorite dried herbs, and salt and pepper to taste. Serve it with turkey, with your eggs in the morning, in a sandwich with your left over turkey for lunch, or as a soup or stew thickener.
I have a favorite frozen salad that has been passed down for years in our family. It is marshmallows, cream cheese, walnuts. sour cream and pineapple. It is so refreshing!
Indian pudding! Delicious, traditional, cheap, and easy. Corn meal, molasses, eggs and milk.
As the little girl said, when asked HER favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner, "The bread the turkey ate."
My vote goes to stuffing, with mashed potatoes, and gravy over all. Nothing says "comfort" like carbs!
hands down is anything with sweet potatoes - mashed,in a pie or in a casserole - but no marshmallows on top, please. They are wonderful and so healthy for you!
Yes and the people who owe on the loans work and pay taxes too. I'm so sick of hearing people say that they pay for all the government help that others get when many times those getting the help also work and pay into those funds. I get that all the time when people find out my kids have Medicaid...people say "oh so I and everyone else pays for your kids medical care." I work...and I have 2 pretty good jobs aside from the fact that my employers don't offer insurance...so I pay for not only my kids medicaid but everyone else's. I'm drowning in student loans I took out to better myself so I could "make it on my own" but those same loans are making it so I can't "make it on my own." Sallie Mae wants me to pay $639 a month...that's almost half my income...and only one of my loans. So you tell me the solution so people can pay off their loans and still make ends meet so they don't need government help...which people like you will then bitch about! People like you are always saying "go get a job and pay your own way." Well guess what? I have 2 jobs so now what kind of ignorant thing can you come up with for why I don't deserve a break? Lots of people work their asses off and still can't seem to make ends meet...so stop with all the illogical fallacies that those who have a hard time making it and need a little help are just lazy or lack motivation...and are looking for a handout. I'm not looking for a handout or for them to wipe my debt clean...just a reasonable payment plan I can afford. I'm willing to pay but I think it's ridiculous for loan companies to expect people to pay such high payments that they can't even make rent and other bills if they do. It's pretty simple...if you want people to pay...make the terms reasonable enough so they can. I'm not gonna go homeless or hungry to pay a loan that covered an education that was suppose to better my situation not make it worse. Seems to me that they don't want their money when they would rather go without it than take what I can give...kinda like cutting off their nose to spite their face isn't it? Oh that's right...they don't actually want people to pay cause they'd rather give out high-risk loans with repayment plans that people can't meet so they can get a government bailout...but I guess it's okay for them to get handouts right?