Inexpensive %26amp; easy to prepare.
Happy Thanksgiving.Im a single broke mom what are some simple cheap recipes for thanksgiving.they have to be simple i cant cook:)
They sell a turkey that is ready to just put in the oven. It is small and shouldn't be too expensive. Cranberry sauce comes in a can and can be jazzed up with a few real cranberries. Pumpkin pie from a can is really not bad. Mashed potatoes and gravy (from a box).
Sparkling Apple cider will be a nice touch.
Not too fancy, but it's still special. Trust me I know what it's like to be broke.Im a single broke mom what are some simple cheap recipes for thanksgiving.they have to be simple i cant cook:)
Bake a turkey or a chicken. Rub it with salt, pepper, and sage. Bake it in one of those oven roasting bags according to the instructions that come with the bag.
*Stovetop Stuffing is easy - follow the instructions.
*Wash sweet potatoes, wrap them in foil, and bake at 350 for about an hour. Serve with butter and some brown sugar.
*Soften a block of cream cheese, spread it in the bottom of a bowl with a spoon, cover with a can of whole-berry cranberry sauce. Top with chopped pecans.
*Simmer a couple cans of green beans with 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder and about a handful of sliced or slivered almonds.
*Look on epicurious.com for a recipe and instructions for ';Apple Brown Betty'; for dessert. It's easy and cheap.
Cooking the turkey and making the stuffing are easy.
I use the gizzard in the stuffing with onion and celery and those boxed stuffing mixes. I stuff the turkey and put it in the renalds turkey bags and cook it at the prescribed temp and time.
I use the canned yams and put pancake syrup and brown sugar to cover them and top it with marshmallows and cook them with the turkey for the last hour. and then I use frozen veggies and microwave them. store rolls are always good. and then store made pumpkin pie for desert.
Rachael Ray's 30-minute meals are pretty simple %26amp; some stores sell pre-cooked meals, which are quick %26amp; easy. You'll have to look around and research. Also, Thanksgiving doesn't have to be the traditional dinner %26amp; such...just make sure your children are happy and everything else will fall into place. %26lt;3
Garlic mashed potatoes:
-Boil some potato pieces to soften them up
-In a separate pot boil 4 garlic cloves for every potato you are using. Many stores sell garlic cloves pre-pealed so there's no work there except for just cutting the little ends off. Boil them for at least 10 minutes, but longer won't hurt them.
-Mash the potatoes and garlic together or even better use a hand-mixer or kitchen-aid. The garlic will be as soft as toothpaste and very sweet at this point.
-While you are mixing, add things like butter or olive oil, milk, touch of salt, herbs like oregano (a little goes a long way). You can even melt some shredded pizza cheese in there.
By far the longest thing involved is peeling and boiling potatoes here. But the end result is going to have this kids demanding more.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Can you make meatloaf?
Just make meatloaf and use ground turkey instead of hamburger. Make mashed potatoes and stuffing (the box kind is fine), maybe heat up a can of corn and a can of baked beans and buy some rolls and a pie or cake (make it) - that's really all you need and a jar or can of turkey gravy.
1 to 2 pounds of ground turkey
1 to 2 eggs (1 egg for each pound of turkey)
1 to 2 cups of Italian seasoned bread crumbs (1 cup per pound of meat)
a big squirt of ketchup
Mix it all together and bake at 350 for 45 minutes to an hour, internal temp has to reach 180.
Happy holidays.
PS you can do it all for about $20. $3 for turkey, $1 each for crumbs, corn, beans, gravy, eggs, rolls, cake mix, icing, ketchup, $2 each for potatoes and stuffing, $4 milk.
In the town I live in there are several churches and organizations that prepare a Thanksgiving meal for those that are without a family or cannot provide a meal for their family. We also have churches that give away food baskets.
yahoo has a great recipes in the ';food '; section. The ingredients are not expensive either.
just by a turkey and put seasoning on it check on this website there are many recipes. it is easy recipes and save you money
Turkey rollups. Yopu get slices of turkey, stove-top stuffing and bottled or canned gravy. If you're really suffering financially have them slice the turkey really thin. Make the stove-top stuffing then take the turkey slice , put some stuffing in the middle, roll up the turkey, make how ever many you want put them all in a corningware bowl or pan pour the gravy over the top, heat about 350 for 20 , 30 minutes. Buy some spinach and/or instant potatoes and you have a meal. ou coulkd possibly buy 1/2 a pumpkin pie at the store and voila
Make a hash-brown casserole!
1 bag of Colby or 2 cheese blend ';your choice';
1 bag of Tater tots
1 Lb of sour cream and onion dip
1 can of cream of chicken soup
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
Blend all together ';tots do not need to be thawed';
place in a 9 x 13 pan for 45 min at 350!!!!
It's a good old county recipe of mine that my mother use to make if you desire you could also use square diced potatoes hash-browns as well either taste great!
~Jennie O turkeys are awesome-- you don't have to defrost or anything you just put them in the oven for like 4 hours and thats it--no basting or anything...and no prep- it's already oven ready.
~You can make green bean casserole easily with green beans, cream of mushroom soup and french fried onions.
~Get some dinner rolls
~Stove top stuffing
~ Instant mashed potatoes
~And you and your kids could make and decorate sugar cookies together. ...I think that would be a very fun Thanksgiving..
Good luck and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!
green bean casserole is good.
use some frozen green beans, heat them up, add some cream of mushroom and mix. put some french fried onions on the top, or even bread crumbs if you dont like onions. bake for about 20 minutes at 350.
just buy a meal from boston market and call it a day
How many are you cooking for?
If you want some yummy food on a budget why not try a chicken instead of a turkey...although you may get some good deals on a small turkey...you can still have all the side items that make it a Thanksgiving dinner without the Turkey.
I have a very simple stuffing recipe:
1 pkg. Pepridge farm stuffing (i like the country seasoned)
1 med onion
1 lb. ground sausage
1 can chicken stock
Prepare stuffing as directed on pkg.
Chop onion and sautee in 2 tbls. butter until tender
Fry sausage until cooked
mix all together and stuff it in your turkey.
1. Instead of a whole turkey, buy a turkey breast (they're big enough for a few people) or a whole chicken $4-$6
rub butter then season with garlic powder, season salt and bake
2. Box stuffing ($1) prepare according to pkg
3. Corn on cob ($2 /5 ears) boil 20 min
4. pkg instant potatoe ($1) prepare according to pkg
5. green beans ($1 /2 cans) cook in pan with little butter
6. tea bags or koolaid pkt ($1)
Voila! Thanksgiving for $10 maybe add $5 for a pecan pie (store bought since you can't cook) ;)
ok well I have a good recipe for sweet potatoes and it's easy... you take about 1 sweet potato for every two people and then you peel them and all and put them in a pot of boiling water and salt (2-3 pinches for each potato) - you can put that much sugar in there too if you want... then you put some ground clove and nutmeg in there and some cinnamon ... once they're cooked you drain the water and then you put them in something and add a stick of unsalted butter for every 3 potatoes and mash away... then you add tons of brown sugar... you taste the sweet potatos after adding a handful... keep adding the brown sugar until you think it tastes good... then you put the cute little marshmellows on top and you cook in a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes or until the tops of the marshmellows are golden brown... that's my absolute fave ... good luck
Here are a few I make, also on a budget. Hope you enjoy!!!!!
Cornbread %26amp; Sausage stuffing
INGREDIENTS
1 (12 ounce) package corn bread mix
1 pound sausage, cooked and drained
1 tablespoon butter
3/4 cup chopped onion
3 stalks celery, chopped
1 teaspoon dried thyme
2 teaspoons ground sage
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 cup vegetable broth
DIRECTIONS
One to two days ahead, make one pan of cornbread according to the box instructions. Let this sit out overnight and get a firm (almost hard) crust.
Place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Crumble, drain and set aside.
In a skillet, cook onion and celery in butter until soft. Remove from heat, allow to cool.
In a large bowl, combine crumbled cornbread, sausage, onions and celery. Add sage, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Mix well.
In 1/4 cup increments, add chicken or vegetable broth to stuffing mixture. Toss gently until evenly moist. Loosely stuff in fowl or casserole dish and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 minutes or until heated to 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).
Stuffing----Yummy!!!!
INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 pounds sausage
4 tablespoons butter
1 onion, finely diced
4 stalks celery, diced
2 apples - peeled, cored and diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
10 cups white bread cubes
3 TBS chopped parsley
3 teaspoons poultry seasoning
2 TBS ground sage
salt and pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS
Place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until crumbled and evenly brown. Drain, and set aside.
In the same skillet, add the butter, onion, celery, apples and garlic. Cook until all ingredients are soft.
In a large bowl, combine the onion mixture, sausage and bread cubes. Toss together.
Add the parsley, poultry seasonings, sage, and salt and pepper. Toss to combine and loosely pack into turkey cavity.
Gravy---Yummy %26amp; easy!!
INGREDIENTS
1 (10.75 ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
1 (10.25 ounce) can beef gravy
1 1/4 cups Marsala wine
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
DIRECTIONS
Whisk together the mushroom soup, beef gravy, and Marsala wine in a saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium heat and cook for 10 minutes, whisking frequently. Season to taste with kosher salt before serving.
Apple Sweet Potatoe bake
INGREDIENTS
3 cups sliced peeled cooked sweet potatoes
3 cups sliced peeled tart apples
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 dash pepper
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
DIRECTIONS
In a greased 1-1/2-qt. baking dish, layer half of the sweet potatoes and apples. Combine brown sugar, nutmeg, allspice, salt and pepper; sprinkle half over apples. Dot with half of the butter. Repeat layers. Cover and bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Baste with pan juices. Bake, uncovered, 15 minutes longer or until the apples are tender.
Cranberry sweet potatoe bake
INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes
1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup orange juice
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 1/2 cups granola cereal
DIRECTIONS
In a large saucepan, cover sweet potatoes with water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until tender. Drain and cool. Peel potatoes; cut into 1-in. pieces. Combine cranberries, sugar, orange juice and salt; place half in a greased 11-in. x 7-in. x 2-in. baking dish. Top with half of the sweet potatoes. Repeat layers. Dot with butter. Cover and bake at 350 degrees F for 25 minutes or until cranberries are tender. Uncover and sprinkle with granola; return to the oven for 10 minutes.
Green bean casserole---very good!!
INGREDIENTS
1 (10 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
3 ounces processed cheese food, cubed
1 tablespoon real bacon bits
1 (4 ounce) can mushroom stems and pieces, drained
2 (15 ounce) cans cut green beans, drained
1 (2.8 ounce) can French-fried onions
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
Heat the undiluted cream of mushroom soup in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the processed cheese and bacon, and continue stirring until completely melted. Remove from the heat, stir in the mushrooms, then the green beans until evenly coated. Pour the mixture into a casserole dish, and top with the fried onions, leaving a 1 inch margin around the sides.
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until heated through and bubbly. Check near the end of cooking to make sure the onions aren't getting too brown.
Red potatoes---- one of my favs!!!
INGREDIENTS---- feeds 8 so then if less you can add less potatoes
16 medium red potatoes, cubed
1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon crushed garlic
1 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup half-and-half cream
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon steak seasoning
2 teaspoon garlic powder
DIRECTIONS
Place the potatoes into a large pot, and fill with enough water to cover. Add 1 teaspoon of the crushed garlic to the water for flavor. Bring to a boil, and cook for about 10 minutes, or until easily pierced with a fork.
Drain the potatoes, and add the butter. Mash until the butter is melted. Mix in the half-and-half, sugar, steak seasoning, garlic powder and remaining garlic. Mix potatoes with an electric mixer until smooth.
AuGratin potatoes---VERY simple %26amp; good!!
INGREDIENTS
1 (2 pound) package frozen hash browns
1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of potato soup
1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of celery soup
1 (8 ounce) container sour cream
1 small finely diced onion
1 green bell pepper, minced
1 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
Spread frozen hash browns into the bottom of the prepared pan. Mix together potato soup, celery soup, onion, green bell pepper and sour cream; pour the mixture over the potatoes.
Bake in the preheated 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) oven for 60 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven, sprinkle with cheese, and bake another 30 minutes or until the cheese melts.
Cheesy hash brown casserole---easy %26amp; good!
INGREDIENTS
1 (30 ounce) package frozen shredded hash brown potatoes, thawed
2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of potato soup, undiluted
2 cups sour cream
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese, divided
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
DIRECTIONS
In a bowl, combine the potatoes, soup, sour cream, 1-3/4 cups of cheddar cheese and Parmesan cheese. Transfer to a greased 3-qt. baking dish. Sprinkle with remaining cheddar cheese. Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees F for 40-45 minutes or until bubbly and cheese is melted. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.
it depends on how big your family is. but if you cant afford to buy a whole turkey buy the turkey drumsticks and bake them slowly for about 3 or 4 hours on about 225 or 250 with some seasoning. buy some box stuffing and box mac and cheese soem can veggies and maybe a frozen pumpkin pie and you have Thanksgiving!
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