What ingredients and recipes do you keep on hand for cheap, easy, healthy meals?

I'm just looking for ideas of what to feed my family of 5. I'm in a rut. Does anyone else get like this? Just looking for things I can cheaply stock up on for those nights when I just want to make something easy. Thanks!What ingredients and recipes do you keep on hand for cheap, easy, healthy meals?
frozen stuffed chicken breasts (broccoli cheese are my favorite!)


spaghetti


tacos


burgers


chicken and rice bake (mix one can cream of whatever soup, frozen veggies, 1cup uncooked white rice, 1 can water, put in baking glass dish, top with raw chicken breasts, bake for 1 hour at 375) you may want to double this recipe to serve 5 people


club sandwiches - turkey, ham, bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayo, 3 slices of toast per sandwich


stuffed peppers


meat loaf


chiliWhat ingredients and recipes do you keep on hand for cheap, easy, healthy meals?
frozen fish tenders sticks





they make great little meals with mac and cheese





or you can make fish tacos with them





those canned french bread and bread sticks are pretty good / buy when on sale / by the biscuit aisle in grocery. they cook quick and easy . hot bread is great with soup or any other meal you prepare. with the breadsticks you can make half of them and use the other half later in the week. just refridgerate what you don't use in a ziploc bag.





chilli is great in the winter. make a large batch and freeze some for fast meals.





ragu pasta sauce and sea shell pasta. i get a garden salad 99 cents at mcdonalds and bring it home and add some extra vegetables and italian salad dressing to it.
Pasta


Beans


canned tuna


tomato sauce


polenta


flour


sugar


rice


beans


Baked beens








I find Polenta can go a long way. One day you can cook it and serve soft the next you can fry it with some butter.
my very favorite cheap, healthy and easy meal is stir fry. I use a bag of frozen stir fry veggies (about $1.39 for store-brand), and I slice up whatever leftover meat we have. If we had steak the night before, I use that, if it was chicken I cube that up.





I usually make my own stir fry sauce to keep it even healthier, but not always. Store-bought sauces can contain a lot of sodium, so by using low-sodium soy sauce as your base you can do a lot. Any combination you like works pretty well, but I especially like to use about a 1/4 c. of soy sauce with 2TB honey, 3TB ketchup, 1/4c. water, red pepper flakes, ginger, garlic and some cornstarch to thicken. Mix them all over medium heat to simmer.





I steam some rice to go with it (or if we have leftover pasta, I mix the stir fry to that for ';lo mein';), and that does it! Dinner in 15 minutes!
When I want to make something simple this is what I make.(I dont know the exact amount of some of these ingredients...I just guess)





little spiral noodle


browned hamburger and onions


1 can of cream mushroom soup


1 can evaporated milk





cook the noodles


cook the hamburger and onions


After them are cooked mix all the ingredients in a baking dish and bake it for about 30 mins or so...dont let it get to dry.





Also I use cheap can biscuits and sprinkle garlic salt on them and bake them.


My family likes this easy cheap meal....I made it tonight :o)