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I like to make easy dinners when I am pressed for time. I have come up with 3 easy dinners that I like to make when I find myself short on time and I need to make food fast for the family. These are nutritious and filling meals that don’t require a lot of prep time or effort.

1) Mac and Cheese with ground beef. The easy part of this is to the boil the beef alongside the noodles. It cooks the beef and since Mac and Cheese is so easy, you get a hearty meal in no time at all.

2) Ramen Noodles with Tomato Sauce. Ramen noodles cook up so fast and easy. They are time pressed cook’s best friend. Adding a little tomato sauce to the noodles creates a cheap and easy spaghetti. You can even add a bit of canned corned beef and you have something that is very close to the real thing.

3) Super Scrambled Eggs. Fry up some ground beef to start off with and then put it aside. Cut up some bell peppers and cheese if you have them. Next, open several eggs into a bowl, add a bit of milk and whisk them. Add in the cheese, bell peppers and ground beef to the bowl then put it all in a skillet and start cooking it up. Delicious.

There you go, three easy dinners.

We were recently given a bunch of canned foods by my mother in law. It is great having a large selection of canned foods and I have started expanding the variety in my cooking. Included in the collection of cans is several cans of evaporated milk. It got me to thinking about the utility of this form of milk packaging.

Evaporated milk is milk with 60% of the water removed. This means you can pick up a can of evaporated milk and add water to reach one quart. It may not taste as great as fresh milk, but it does provide the nutrients the kids need in milk.

This was always a big issue when leaving in more isolated places. We couldn’t get fresh milk and UHT milk was very expensive. Fortunately, evaporated milk was always available in a can so we would get our milk that way. We could keep the re-hydrated milk in the refrigerator for a few days and the kids could get the milk they wanted. We overcame some of the off-taste by adding chocolate syrup to the milk so it would be a chocolate drink.

As strange as it may seem, we do a lot of our cooking on kerosene. It’s more economical than propane and it is just more convenient for us. Sure we have our electrical appliances that we do a lot of our cooking with, but kerosene is our old standby.

We have a small 10 wick kerosene burner made by some unimportant manufacturer. We have a 1 gallon gas can that we use to get our kerosene. We have found that cooking with kerosene is about 40% less expensive than cooking with propane. Our latest addition is a oven attachment that sits on top of our burner. We have just got it, so there hasn’t been enough time to really try it out, but I am looking forward to bake some cakes with it.

Christmas Dinner is one of the favorite meals in my family. We enjoy it all the time. This year will be a special year for our family so we are preparing a very special meal for this Christmas dinner. We won’t have turkey because we are going to have a Filipino style dinner.

A Filipino meal means adobo, lumpia, and spaghetti. Lumpia is like Shanghai spring rolls. We will stuff them with tuna fish and other we will stuff with corned beef and carrots. They certainly will taste very good. Our adobo will be beef adobo. I am anxious to see how the family enjoys the cooking this year. Merry Christmas!

I am always interested in new kinds of foods and new recipes that can save me a little money. That is why it was nice finding Healthy Cheap Food. I found a great recipe on the site for Phad Thai Farang. It was a really easy recipe to make with ingredients right from the supermarket. I didn’t have to go to a specialty Asian store and search for strange ingredients. It used easy ingredients.
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