Fast, Cheap, and Easy--Of course I'm talking about food

[Mofo Rising]

What's a meal you make all the time because it's fast, cheap, and easy.

Here's something I make all the time.

Take a package of ramen, and crush it beneath the ball of your hand. All of the noodles are now bite-size pieces. Add the flavor packet and let it simmer.

You may not know, I'm an Alaskan Native, and one thing we eat is dried black seaweed. We eat it like popcorn. Well, add a good sized portion of that to the boiling ramen. Then drop an egg into the boiling mix. You're going to have to search around a bit to break up the yolk, because you want delicious yellow bits mixing it up with the rest of the soup, instead of a monolithic yolk.

Now, if you're like me, add a crazy amount of chile powder. I don't mean chili powder, with it's cumin, I mean something that is going to make eating this dish like eating hot lava. Eating hot lava is just the way I roll. Crazy amounts of cayenne pepper gives it a nice red look, but I also have dried ghost chile powder in my house. I like it hot.

If you have any meat leftovers in the house, slice it up and add it. It's not necessary, but if you've never had ramen infused with pork fat, you have not lived. Same goes with fresh peppers.

Once the noodles have boiled down to a nice consistency, take it off, put it a bowl and add even more red pepper flakes with a modicum of cracked pepper. I add some soy sauce, because why not more sodium? Make sure you have a sleeve of soda crackers to eat along with it, and enjoy.

This is one of my go-to meals. I imagine it doesn't sound all that good, but I eat it all the time. It's cheap, fast, and easy.

So what are your go-to meals? What do you make when you just can't be bothered to make anything better? (Recipes would be nice.)

[Derf]

I'll add my super easy recipe for guacamole even though it's not necessarily a whole meal (you need chips for that  ).

1. Mash a couple of avocados.
2. Add salsa of your choice. Grocery stores in South Texas offer a plethora of salsa brands and types, so your choices may be more limited than mine.
3. Eat and enjoy!

This may already be common knowledge, but I thought of it only recently, so maybe someone else could use the idea, too. Aside from the chips, it's actually a very healthy dish.

[indianasmith]

Chicken and dumplings!  Take some boneless, skinless chicken thighs, chop them up,  and boil them in a large pot full of water.  Add 4 cans of Pillsbury Buttermilk biscuits, pinching each biscuit into 5 dumplings.  Salt and pepper to taste.  Add a bit of milk to thicken the broth.  Feeds a family of 5.

[Umaril Has Returned]

I take a big old deli bagel, and put either a slice of lebanon bologna or a slice of ham (or both sometimes) on it, then a slice of cheese or two, and a generous helping of yellow mustard. To top it off, I take a handful of finely crushed Doritos and sprinkle it on top, and microwave it.  All the flavors come together and with the added extra of melted cheese, it's a winner. 'Ya just gotta try it.

[Trevor]

Buy it, heat it up and eat it. 

[Flangepart]

Chili!
One can each Black, Red, butter (Yes!) and Pinto beans.
One can Corn Beef Hash fried till it's Juuuust crispy.
black papper and Jalapenos. (I average 8)
One box Beef stock.
One can tomato paste.
one can stewed tomato's.
One can cheap beer.

Crockpot on high for two hours, and enjoy.

Oh, and I like cornbread, crackers or good crutons (crushed) with it.

[ER]

1. Shoot animal.
2. Gut and skin animal.
3. Cook animal.
4. Eat animal.

Cheap and easy, and almost always fast....so shoot straight.

[indianasmith]

This from the vegetarian!!!! 

[ER]

Thought you might like that, lol.

[alandhopewell]

     My all-time favorite cheap, easy, quick meal, c. 1985....

One pound chicken necks (.19 at Fligner's)

One 1-pound bag egg noodles (.50)

1/2 cup Ronnie Reagan (Govt.) cheese, shredded (free)

2 oz. Govt. butter (free)

1 tsp. vinegar

2-3 shakes garlic salt

    Boil water in one of those beat up, two quart saucepans that everyone seems to have. Add necks, let cook at full boil until bones soften-doesn't take all that long.

     Add noodles, cook until done, with necks. Drain, reserving about 1/4 of the water. Gradually stir in the Ronnie Reagan, and the butter, adding in the vinegar and the garlic salt, mixing well.

     Served me.

[cqmorrell]

A good chicken recipe my mom makes fairly often:
http://www.housewivesofriverton.com/2013/03/parmesan-mayonnaise-chicken-recipe.html

[lester1/2jr]

Vegan hot dogs aka smart dogs are gross. One way you can eat them though is how I do it:

1. cook baked beans
2. chop up the smart dogs into bite sized pieces and stir them in

If you want, use 2 smart dogs and one real dog

It's not bad