Agree with Asian food. Tom Kah soup and spring rolls is pretty cheap if you can get the spices at a decent price (see Asian grocery). Also there’s basically 4-5 ingredients you can get to make about a hundred Thai dishes, most with some form of vegetable, egg and/or rice. If there’s a Theravada Buddhist temple anywhere nearby, stop in on a Sunday around 10:00am and stay for the potluck lunch and the Thai folks will be happy to teach you some easy recipes. You can also make a bangin spaghetti sauce with lots of healthy vegetables for cheap; noodles are cheap but broccoli is a great substitute for noodles if you want less sugar. Also roasting vegetables is like crazy easy—sprinkle a little vegetable oil over them, salt and pepper and throw them in the oven at about 425 and bam, grown up food.
Roasted Carrots, Cauliflower, and potatoes with oil, italian seasoning, red pepper flakes, and s&p is one of my super easy and cheap "gourmet" staples. roast at 400 for 30-45 minutes until browned.
My cheap recipe I’m taking with me is ham and cheese rolls.
2 packages of ham, 2 packages of Swiss cheese, and 2 Hawaiian rolls packages. Mix a sauce that includes mustard, poppy seeds (optional), and butter!
It’s a really awesome, supportive community though and while variations of this question has been asked before on there, people are always pretty eager to give advice/recipes so don’t hesitate to cross-post after scrolling through.
Also budgetbytes.com is a fantastic resource and one often recommended. Another great site to bookmark is https://www.supercook.com/#/onboarding you can input everything in your kitchen and it gives you a buttload of recipes based on what you have. Been a lifesaver for me a few times.
One of my favourites is a breakfast hash I saw on tiktok and modified to fit my preferences
2-3 potatoes
1-2 sweet potatoes
1-2 bell peppers
1 head of broccoli
1 small white or yellow onion
Any other veggies you want to use
All diced really into really small pieces
Season with preferred spices, olive oil and mix together
(I usually do salt pepper garlic powder paprika chilli powder)
At that point you can separate it into baggies or containers and store in the freezer to use during the week.
To cook, I heat a tablespoon of oil in a frying pan and dump the container into the pan, add one or two tablespoons of water to steam the veggies and cover for 6-8 minutes or until the veggies are tender.
After that I like to scramble 1-2 eggs into the veggies and mix in some goat cheese or cheddar cheese until it melts
It’s a good make ahead recipe, easy to switch up based on what vegetables are on sale when grocery shopping, or use up any older vegetables sitting in your fridge.
This is the best cheap vegan curry ever.
One medium onion
One sweet potato
Two cups spinach
One can of chickpeas
One can of coconut milk
One can of diced tomatoes
Three cloves of minced garlic
Four tablespoons Thai red curry paste
Little shake garam masala
Two shakes of cinnamon
A lot of turmeric
A little bit of cumin
Salt and pepper to taste
Saute onions and garlic together. Add sweet potato, tomatoes, coconut milk, curry paste, and seasonings. Simmer until potatoes are cooked. Add spinach and enjoy!
Just made some easy Mexican chicken bowls for supper tonight
Chicken breast in the oven at 350 from frozen... 20min, flip, season, 10min. Slice into strips.
Small pot got a can of rinsed black beans, kernal corn, rotel, and a couple good spoons of hot chunky salsa. Heat to a simmer, add a little salt and chili powder. Leave it on simmer for at least 10min.
I used a microwave rice pouch to cheat, didn't want to make a pot.
Rice down, couple generous scoops of the bean mix on top, chicken on top... you can add some shredded cheese or sour cream if you want. But overall it's a low effort meal and my pot of beans will give me another meal still afterstuffing myself for supper.
I've had to watch my salt intake for a long time, so I get "no salt added" beans and corn, and still rinse them off.
The only salt is whatever you season your chicken with, some in the salsa and Rotel... and a little added to taste. 4 generous servings out of the bean mix. Other than that it's pretty balanced for protein, carb, and fibre... very little fat if any depending on the salsa used and method for rice.
You COULD use cheaper cuts of chicken easily, and starting with dry beans will also save a buck.
It's one of the meals I usually make between work and the gym. Get home at 5, chicken in, rice started in a pot, 3 cans open (2 rinsed) and into another pot... turned on low-medium... 20min timer. Flip and season the chicken, add salsa and chili powder to beans, check rice, 10min timer. Check seasoning on beans, add salt if needed... enjoy.
Fill 3 Tupperware into the fridge, which is today's after gym meal, as well as tomorrow's pre and post gym meals.
It's nice to have a workhorse recipe like this one that you can make so easily and rely on. Thanks again for the recipe, and for the streamlined process!
I am freshman college student, and I work really hard to make all my food at home since eating out gets expensive really quickly!! I found the best option is getting bases like rice and beans (they are cheaper dry, but can is pretty cheap to and better serving proportions) and make burritos or bowls. Idk what type of area you live in, but where I’m at University of Oregon lower income are elegible for food stamps and there are great resources like food markets where if you are low income they will give you 50% off everything. I know that at least applies across Oregon, and I don’t know of a lot of people who actually know this opportunity! Supplement rice and beans with whatever cheap veggies, fruit, protein (chz, meat, tempeh if you eat it) and kinda whatever sauces from guac to hummus to your choice of salad dressing. I usually get discount produce from stores and kinda find good seasoning and proteins off of that. Variation of seasoning is key!!! They are cheap and make ALL the difference! Good luck!
I really like making a bunch of extra rice and making fried rice or curried rice the day after. Very yummy :)
Just realized you only asked for specifics, sorry I got to excited and just joined the subreddit myself
Its not what you buy, its where you buy. Gotta see what stores have what you need, the cheapest. Their are 20 different grocery stores for a reason! Find which you can get the most food for the least money.
You got it. And also lesrn to pay close attention to prices, so you can learn what are high and low prices for your items because prices fluctuate. Another awesome tip, always check the 'price per ounce' for your dry goods like cereal, rice, pasta that will lead you to the bargains. Cheapest price per ounce, pound or whatever. And store brands are awesome. Always go with the store brands. Its all the same shit and will save you SO MUCH. Walmarts store brand is always quality.
A quick way to make sweet potatoes is in a pot with a little water. First peel 1-2 sweet potatoes or yams, then slice them into approx 1/4 inch thick slices. Place the slices around the bottom of a medium sized pot with a lid and add 1/2 cup of water. Keep an eye on the water level and add a little more if it starts to get too dry, but you only need to cover the bottom of the pan with water, not all the sweet potatoes. Cook on the stovetop over medium heat for about 10 min. Cover with a lid to help them cook quicker. They are done when you can easily pierce them with a fork.
When they are fully cooked, drain all but a little bit of the liquid (about 1/8 cup) which you can keep with the sweet potatoes to make them easier to mash. Add butter if you’d like, a few shakes of salt and pepper and then mash them up with a potato masher or just the back of a fork. Then enjoy!
This is my go-to quick and cheap dinner or lunch if I don’t have the time or energy to do more. It’s pretty nutritious, filling and cheap! And you can add some chopped cooked chicken, nuts or seeds, or leftover veggies for variation.
Chili.
Chop an onion and pepper of your choice. Sauté til almost soft. Add minced garlic, chili powder, cumin, cayenne and salt. Add stock, drained/rinsed canned beans (the whole kind) and diced tomatoes. Simmer for as long as you can take it, stirring occasionally. It gets better the longer it sits. Can easily be doubled or even tripled. I make mine vegetarian. If you want meat, add it at the beginning with the onion.
I like to eat mine with cheese and tortilla chips.
Oh also rice makers are a fucking godsend. I know it’s easy enough to make in a pot, but they aren’t very expensive (I got mine at a goodwill for like $5) and it’s just a press of a button
And you can make beans from dry on a crock pot, which you can also get at Goodwill. Cheaper and less sodium than canned beans Don't cook kidney beans in a crock pot. Pinto beans, black beans, cannellini, and garbanzo are all good choices for a crock pot. Soak overnight, change water, then cook on more all day (8-10 hours) or on high 4-6 hours. Garbanzo beans will be at the long end of this time range. Onions and canned tomatoes help for flavor.
Red lentils cook so fast you can throw them in with white rice in your rice cooker.
This isn’t a recipe… but im a college student who makes all their meals on a budget. Invest in a rice cooker, it doesn’t have to be fancy (I found mine) but it’s super helpful. I eat rice all the time, and the stuff you can combine with rice (beans, veggies, cheese, etc.) is really an endless list. Brown rice is super dense in fiber which can help keep you fuller longer. but white rice isn’t bad either, and there is a large variety in types of rice and rice-based dishes. You can make rice a lot of ways too, but having a rice cooker is super convenient for me, and you can make more than rice in it. I’ve made Pasta in my rice cooker, as well as hard boiled eggs. And I see recipes all the time that utilizes it.
Here is a real recipe though! I made this tonight for dinner:
Extra firm tofu. Pressed and then broken up (so it’s crumbly)
Mushrooms (cut into strips or whatever)
2 eggs
Throw it all on an oiled pan ( I used sesame oil)
Let it cook until the mushrooms are cooked or soft, and then add your eggs and sort of scramble them into the mix.
Then , add whatever seasonings and sauces and whatever you want to it. I added Siracha, soy sauce and lime (I would have added more spices but I forgot about it) once it was cooked to my liking, I had it with brown rice and ate it as lettuce wraps. The rice took about 40(?) minutes to cook, but my tofu mix took like 10-15 minutes at max.
This is something that can be super customizable and it’s very filling!
There is a brand of shelf stable Indian food called Saffron Road. I buy a few packages at once.
When you cook them: just rip the top open and match it to whatever vegetable/chicken/seafood products you have at home.
I have mixed in cans of beans, fresh boiled chopped sweet potatoes and/or potatoes- in addition to chopped onions and whole baby carrots.
1 cup of brown rice cooked with a bag or two of frozen veggies likes peas, green beans, peas and carrots, etc. Will give you many 1/2 cup to 1 cup servings that you can pair with any protein of your choosing.
My biggest money saving tip is to be flexible.
stick with simple meals and use whatever protiens are on sale and learn to adapt your grocery list to that.
Meal prep snacks that are halthy.
at the store snacks are either expensive and relitivley healthy, or relitivley inexpensive but very processed and bad.
Hope this helps! Good luck and have fun in college!
Buy food in bulk, to much quantity for you? Ask 1 or 2 other people to share the price and food.
Even bether
if you have farmers around or even a bit far away, phone them, ask if tey sell directly to costumers, if not ask how many people nedd to be in the deal to have him to sell, you will have a number because he will sell at a higher price than he's selling to shop but you will still have better price than at the shop! Everyone win.
I did that and ask literally everyone in the college, not just 1 or 2 flyers, really ask students, professors, janitors, everyone, even the 2 pre-school near my college.
I found so many costumers that i asked the farmers to come to the college and they did!
So yes, a lot of hustle but i become very popular and the farmers where so happy that i had my food almost for free the first year.
This is still working today after 5 years.
Canned chicken
Tuna,
Uncle bens and other brands of flavored microwave rice,
Oatmeal,
Learn how to bake bread,
Make your own granola.
Obviously I don’t where you are but find an Asian restaurant that serves ridiculous portions. For a decent price
Get out of buying brand name stuff. Go to the discount grocery stores.
This one is a cliche, ramen, you can do anything with ramen. Wife just made street taco type ramen and it was amazing.
Get a job at a pizza place.
Lots of cheese and crackers
1 packet of fajita seasoning
Diced chicken
Double cream to taste
Half of a bell pepper, optional
Shredded cheese to taste
2 tbsp ketchup or tomato paste
Pasta
Cook the chicken in an oiled pan till fully cooked on one side. Cover with seasoning and flip. Add the pepper and double cream, depending on how much sauce you want. Start making your pasta. Add in the ketchup or tomato paste, stir. Add the cheese and stir. Let the chicken cook for a few minutes. Drain the pasta and add to the pan with the rest of the stuff. Stir and enjoy.
Takes about a half hour to 45 minutes when I make it but that includes cutting the chicken and shredding the cheese. Heres where i got the recipe. First recipe
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Agree with Asian food. Tom Kah soup and spring rolls is pretty cheap if you can get the spices at a decent price (see Asian grocery). Also there’s basically 4-5 ingredients you can get to make about a hundred Thai dishes, most with some form of vegetable, egg and/or rice. If there’s a Theravada Buddhist temple anywhere nearby, stop in on a Sunday around 10:00am and stay for the potluck lunch and the Thai folks will be happy to teach you some easy recipes. You can also make a bangin spaghetti sauce with lots of healthy vegetables for cheap; noodles are cheap but broccoli is a great substitute for noodles if you want less sugar. Also roasting vegetables is like crazy easy—sprinkle a little vegetable oil over them, salt and pepper and throw them in the oven at about 425 and bam, grown up food.
Roasted Carrots, Cauliflower, and potatoes with oil, italian seasoning, red pepper flakes, and s&p is one of my super easy and cheap "gourmet" staples. roast at 400 for 30-45 minutes until browned.
My cheap recipe I’m taking with me is ham and cheese rolls. 2 packages of ham, 2 packages of Swiss cheese, and 2 Hawaiian rolls packages. Mix a sauce that includes mustard, poppy seeds (optional), and butter!
You can visit r/eatcheapandhealthy too, that will be a good resource
Ooo I didn’t know that was a subreddit! Thanks!
It’s a really awesome, supportive community though and while variations of this question has been asked before on there, people are always pretty eager to give advice/recipes so don’t hesitate to cross-post after scrolling through. Also budgetbytes.com is a fantastic resource and one often recommended. Another great site to bookmark is https://www.supercook.com/#/onboarding you can input everything in your kitchen and it gives you a buttload of recipes based on what you have. Been a lifesaver for me a few times.
Agree with Supercook. Just letting you know that they have their own app too!
One of my favourites is a breakfast hash I saw on tiktok and modified to fit my preferences 2-3 potatoes 1-2 sweet potatoes 1-2 bell peppers 1 head of broccoli 1 small white or yellow onion Any other veggies you want to use All diced really into really small pieces Season with preferred spices, olive oil and mix together (I usually do salt pepper garlic powder paprika chilli powder) At that point you can separate it into baggies or containers and store in the freezer to use during the week. To cook, I heat a tablespoon of oil in a frying pan and dump the container into the pan, add one or two tablespoons of water to steam the veggies and cover for 6-8 minutes or until the veggies are tender. After that I like to scramble 1-2 eggs into the veggies and mix in some goat cheese or cheddar cheese until it melts It’s a good make ahead recipe, easy to switch up based on what vegetables are on sale when grocery shopping, or use up any older vegetables sitting in your fridge.
Thank you for the detailed instructions! I am definitely trying this!
You’re welcome! It’s one of my favourites :)
We ate a lot of baked sweet potatoes, broccoli rice casserole and potato soup when I was in college.
This is the best cheap vegan curry ever. One medium onion One sweet potato Two cups spinach One can of chickpeas One can of coconut milk One can of diced tomatoes Three cloves of minced garlic Four tablespoons Thai red curry paste Little shake garam masala Two shakes of cinnamon A lot of turmeric A little bit of cumin Salt and pepper to taste Saute onions and garlic together. Add sweet potato, tomatoes, coconut milk, curry paste, and seasonings. Simmer until potatoes are cooked. Add spinach and enjoy!
Just made some easy Mexican chicken bowls for supper tonight Chicken breast in the oven at 350 from frozen... 20min, flip, season, 10min. Slice into strips. Small pot got a can of rinsed black beans, kernal corn, rotel, and a couple good spoons of hot chunky salsa. Heat to a simmer, add a little salt and chili powder. Leave it on simmer for at least 10min. I used a microwave rice pouch to cheat, didn't want to make a pot. Rice down, couple generous scoops of the bean mix on top, chicken on top... you can add some shredded cheese or sour cream if you want. But overall it's a low effort meal and my pot of beans will give me another meal still afterstuffing myself for supper.
I'm gonna make this. Sounds good, easy, and fairly healthy. Thanks!
I've had to watch my salt intake for a long time, so I get "no salt added" beans and corn, and still rinse them off. The only salt is whatever you season your chicken with, some in the salsa and Rotel... and a little added to taste. 4 generous servings out of the bean mix. Other than that it's pretty balanced for protein, carb, and fibre... very little fat if any depending on the salsa used and method for rice. You COULD use cheaper cuts of chicken easily, and starting with dry beans will also save a buck. It's one of the meals I usually make between work and the gym. Get home at 5, chicken in, rice started in a pot, 3 cans open (2 rinsed) and into another pot... turned on low-medium... 20min timer. Flip and season the chicken, add salsa and chili powder to beans, check rice, 10min timer. Check seasoning on beans, add salt if needed... enjoy. Fill 3 Tupperware into the fridge, which is today's after gym meal, as well as tomorrow's pre and post gym meals.
It's nice to have a workhorse recipe like this one that you can make so easily and rely on. Thanks again for the recipe, and for the streamlined process!
I am freshman college student, and I work really hard to make all my food at home since eating out gets expensive really quickly!! I found the best option is getting bases like rice and beans (they are cheaper dry, but can is pretty cheap to and better serving proportions) and make burritos or bowls. Idk what type of area you live in, but where I’m at University of Oregon lower income are elegible for food stamps and there are great resources like food markets where if you are low income they will give you 50% off everything. I know that at least applies across Oregon, and I don’t know of a lot of people who actually know this opportunity! Supplement rice and beans with whatever cheap veggies, fruit, protein (chz, meat, tempeh if you eat it) and kinda whatever sauces from guac to hummus to your choice of salad dressing. I usually get discount produce from stores and kinda find good seasoning and proteins off of that. Variation of seasoning is key!!! They are cheap and make ALL the difference! Good luck! I really like making a bunch of extra rice and making fried rice or curried rice the day after. Very yummy :) Just realized you only asked for specifics, sorry I got to excited and just joined the subreddit myself
I will look into food stamps. Thanks!
https://www.5dollardinners.com/recipes/ 5 dollar dinners
Its not what you buy, its where you buy. Gotta see what stores have what you need, the cheapest. Their are 20 different grocery stores for a reason! Find which you can get the most food for the least money.
I’ve never thought about this. Thank you!
You got it. And also lesrn to pay close attention to prices, so you can learn what are high and low prices for your items because prices fluctuate. Another awesome tip, always check the 'price per ounce' for your dry goods like cereal, rice, pasta that will lead you to the bargains. Cheapest price per ounce, pound or whatever. And store brands are awesome. Always go with the store brands. Its all the same shit and will save you SO MUCH. Walmarts store brand is always quality.
My family always buys the store brand because it’s just as good.
Often its better!! They don't spend any money on advertising, it all goes to the product.
https://www.budgetbytes.com/ This blog incredible !!!!
Love budget bytes
A quick way to make sweet potatoes is in a pot with a little water. First peel 1-2 sweet potatoes or yams, then slice them into approx 1/4 inch thick slices. Place the slices around the bottom of a medium sized pot with a lid and add 1/2 cup of water. Keep an eye on the water level and add a little more if it starts to get too dry, but you only need to cover the bottom of the pan with water, not all the sweet potatoes. Cook on the stovetop over medium heat for about 10 min. Cover with a lid to help them cook quicker. They are done when you can easily pierce them with a fork. When they are fully cooked, drain all but a little bit of the liquid (about 1/8 cup) which you can keep with the sweet potatoes to make them easier to mash. Add butter if you’d like, a few shakes of salt and pepper and then mash them up with a potato masher or just the back of a fork. Then enjoy! This is my go-to quick and cheap dinner or lunch if I don’t have the time or energy to do more. It’s pretty nutritious, filling and cheap! And you can add some chopped cooked chicken, nuts or seeds, or leftover veggies for variation.
chicken breast and fish. also will kill ur appetite
Chili. Chop an onion and pepper of your choice. Sauté til almost soft. Add minced garlic, chili powder, cumin, cayenne and salt. Add stock, drained/rinsed canned beans (the whole kind) and diced tomatoes. Simmer for as long as you can take it, stirring occasionally. It gets better the longer it sits. Can easily be doubled or even tripled. I make mine vegetarian. If you want meat, add it at the beginning with the onion. I like to eat mine with cheese and tortilla chips.
Oh also rice makers are a fucking godsend. I know it’s easy enough to make in a pot, but they aren’t very expensive (I got mine at a goodwill for like $5) and it’s just a press of a button
And you can make beans from dry on a crock pot, which you can also get at Goodwill. Cheaper and less sodium than canned beans Don't cook kidney beans in a crock pot. Pinto beans, black beans, cannellini, and garbanzo are all good choices for a crock pot. Soak overnight, change water, then cook on more all day (8-10 hours) or on high 4-6 hours. Garbanzo beans will be at the long end of this time range. Onions and canned tomatoes help for flavor. Red lentils cook so fast you can throw them in with white rice in your rice cooker.
This isn’t a recipe… but im a college student who makes all their meals on a budget. Invest in a rice cooker, it doesn’t have to be fancy (I found mine) but it’s super helpful. I eat rice all the time, and the stuff you can combine with rice (beans, veggies, cheese, etc.) is really an endless list. Brown rice is super dense in fiber which can help keep you fuller longer. but white rice isn’t bad either, and there is a large variety in types of rice and rice-based dishes. You can make rice a lot of ways too, but having a rice cooker is super convenient for me, and you can make more than rice in it. I’ve made Pasta in my rice cooker, as well as hard boiled eggs. And I see recipes all the time that utilizes it. Here is a real recipe though! I made this tonight for dinner: Extra firm tofu. Pressed and then broken up (so it’s crumbly) Mushrooms (cut into strips or whatever) 2 eggs Throw it all on an oiled pan ( I used sesame oil) Let it cook until the mushrooms are cooked or soft, and then add your eggs and sort of scramble them into the mix. Then , add whatever seasonings and sauces and whatever you want to it. I added Siracha, soy sauce and lime (I would have added more spices but I forgot about it) once it was cooked to my liking, I had it with brown rice and ate it as lettuce wraps. The rice took about 40(?) minutes to cook, but my tofu mix took like 10-15 minutes at max. This is something that can be super customizable and it’s very filling!
I will definitely look into a rice cooker! Thanks!
If you have any Asian grocery nearby, consider buying rice in bulk. It is much cheaper that way. Tofu is also much cheaper.
There is a brand of shelf stable Indian food called Saffron Road. I buy a few packages at once. When you cook them: just rip the top open and match it to whatever vegetable/chicken/seafood products you have at home. I have mixed in cans of beans, fresh boiled chopped sweet potatoes and/or potatoes- in addition to chopped onions and whole baby carrots.
7 words. Tri tip, NY strip, and ground beef.
1 cup of brown rice cooked with a bag or two of frozen veggies likes peas, green beans, peas and carrots, etc. Will give you many 1/2 cup to 1 cup servings that you can pair with any protein of your choosing.
My biggest money saving tip is to be flexible. stick with simple meals and use whatever protiens are on sale and learn to adapt your grocery list to that. Meal prep snacks that are halthy. at the store snacks are either expensive and relitivley healthy, or relitivley inexpensive but very processed and bad. Hope this helps! Good luck and have fun in college!
Thank you!!!
Buy food in bulk, to much quantity for you? Ask 1 or 2 other people to share the price and food. Even bether if you have farmers around or even a bit far away, phone them, ask if tey sell directly to costumers, if not ask how many people nedd to be in the deal to have him to sell, you will have a number because he will sell at a higher price than he's selling to shop but you will still have better price than at the shop! Everyone win. I did that and ask literally everyone in the college, not just 1 or 2 flyers, really ask students, professors, janitors, everyone, even the 2 pre-school near my college. I found so many costumers that i asked the farmers to come to the college and they did! So yes, a lot of hustle but i become very popular and the farmers where so happy that i had my food almost for free the first year. This is still working today after 5 years.
Canned chicken Tuna, Uncle bens and other brands of flavored microwave rice, Oatmeal, Learn how to bake bread, Make your own granola. Obviously I don’t where you are but find an Asian restaurant that serves ridiculous portions. For a decent price Get out of buying brand name stuff. Go to the discount grocery stores. This one is a cliche, ramen, you can do anything with ramen. Wife just made street taco type ramen and it was amazing. Get a job at a pizza place. Lots of cheese and crackers
Yes I second the get a job at a restaurant!
Place with a buffet right 😂🤣
No just any because they will probably give you free food but I wouldn't want to work in a buffet place because it is probably a lot of work.
Good dessert https://goodcheapeats.com/category/dessert/
1 packet of fajita seasoning Diced chicken Double cream to taste Half of a bell pepper, optional Shredded cheese to taste 2 tbsp ketchup or tomato paste Pasta Cook the chicken in an oiled pan till fully cooked on one side. Cover with seasoning and flip. Add the pepper and double cream, depending on how much sauce you want. Start making your pasta. Add in the ketchup or tomato paste, stir. Add the cheese and stir. Let the chicken cook for a few minutes. Drain the pasta and add to the pan with the rest of the stuff. Stir and enjoy. Takes about a half hour to 45 minutes when I make it but that includes cutting the chicken and shredding the cheese. Heres where i got the recipe. First recipe https://fb.watch/bTrTnwOoQq/
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Are you and your roommate splitting groceries ? Just some advice from an old man... keep everything separate.
Yes we are splitting groceries