Cheap meals

[Curmudgeoness]

9. A meal I lived on when I was in dire straits

is not exactly good for you (like the beans), but it is very filling and it goes a long way. And it is my favorite meal from my childhood. Great if eggs are on sale.

Homemade noodles:

Any pieces of chicken that are on sale----boil to make stock.

For noodles, mix flour and eggs and add a little salt. You can use as much as you want, I usually use 6 eggs and enough flour to make the dough stiff enough to roll out.

Separate into baseball sized balls and put more flour down on a surface to roll them out. Add flour if it sticks. Let it sit a while on newspaper. Roll it like a jelly roll and cut, unroll the noodles. Cook the noodles in the stock until done (mine are rather thick so it takes a while). You can test to see when they are done by cutting one and seeing if it is cooked through.

Serve over mashed potatoes.

This will give you lots of leftovers. Filling and cheap. And I know it sounds like too much starch, but it is so good.