[blue_heading] Sesame Chicken $1.28 per serving [/blue_heading] This is a recipe I have been wanting to make for a long long time. This is a great option for a healthier version of my favorite sesame chicken dish. Here in the Midwest, we have a grocery store chain named Hy-Vee; which I may have worked at
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[blue_heading] Healthy Baked Savory Tilapia Fillets $1.32 per serving [/blue_heading] Tilapia is a versatile fish. It’s cheap, easily takes on any seasonings you desire, and it can be found literally everywhere. I dislike calling this fish a cheapo version of catfish, but that’s essentially what it is. If eating a lower class(whatever that means) fish
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[blue_heading] Shrimp Tacos with Spanish Style Rice $1.66 per taco with rice [/blue_heading] It’s summer here in the Midwest of America, temperatures are in the nineties for July and August. Most of my free time is spent outdoors this time of year so preparing big meals is kind of put on the back burner. Light
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[blue_heading] Hot Crock Pot Chicken Curry only $1.15 per serving [/blue_heading] Here I have a easy “Hot Crock Pot Chicken Curry” dish that is sure to please even the most anti-curry protesters. Most curry recipes are intimidating. There is a long list of ingredients, usually consisting of foreign items. As an American coming from a
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[blue_heading] Beef and Broccoli $1.49 per cup [/blue_heading] Looking over my recipe it seems that for whatever reason beef has been maybe not neglected, but definitely under utilized on my blog. Today, let’s fix that by whipping up a simple tasty beef and broccoli meal with my own twist on it.  Using ground beef is
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[blue_heading] Chorizo Homemade Spicy Pizza $4.51 entire pizza [/blue_heading] Decided to kick it up a notch the other day, which turned out to be a great decision! If you’ve never tried Chorizo sausage before; it’s a popular spicy kind of sausage within the Hispanic communities.  I love this stuff!  I’m not sure what gave me
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[blue_heading] Jerk Chicken Tacos $0.78 per taco [/blue_heading] Today is a simple day.  Chicken + tortillas+Caribbean jerk sauce=Jerk Chicken Tacos. Not knowing what I had in my fridge yesterday I spotted a bottle of jerk marinade sitting behind the line up of rarely used condiments.  Rarely, do I find time to marinate my meats properly
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[blue_heading] Vegetarian Lentil Soup $0.36 per serving [/blue_heading] Becoming “cheap” doesn’t just happen overnight for most people in the world.  It usually happens out of necessity or it’s apart of your over all lifestyle.  Here at CheapStir we don’t descriminate anyone who is looking to make good quality cheap meals to feed their loved ones.
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[blue_heading] Easy Peasy Oink Oink Pork Roast $5.53 for 32oz or 2lbs [/blue_heading] So you guys are gonna have to forgive me this week because as I was making this meal I got busy with something else and didn’t get as many pictures as I normally would. Regardless, this is a crock pot recipe so
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[blue_heading] Hot Curried Roasted Chickpeas $0.24 per half cup serving  [/blue_heading] Finding healthy snacks is a challenge most of us have but it doesn’t HAVE to be that way.  Chickpeas are a versatile bean that is used most popularly in hummus recipes as I have done many times.  Another popular(at least in my kitchen) recipe
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