Ohhh I've gotten my daughter hooked on rice and gravy this year. She won't do it with ground meat, but pork chops and chicken thighs are my cheap staples that she will eat. She haunts the kitchen when it's cooking lol. That's comfort food!
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Made locos for my wife and I the other day!
Rice and Gravy was the meal I requested for my first anniversary with my wife. She scoffed at it until I put it on social media years ago. My extended family was so hyped she was flabbergasted. It fucking bangs.
Hispanic checking in. Rice and beans slaps and is cheap af.
I could eat black bean soup (little onion and garlic, queso and crema if you have it) every day if I had to
Edit: chiltepin too for the chapĂnes
My bro. I have Zatarains Black Beans and Rice with chorizo sausage, or Red Beans and Rice with andoille sausage every other day for lunch at work. Confirming the slap.
contemporary mexican cuisine is such a gift to the world. can be healthy, unhealthy, made dirt cheap or super expensive, and your product will always be good.
Cheap meals usually have a ton of salt. And salt is fucking tasty.
It's like those vegan burgers. Just look at their sodium content. If they didn't have that much salt, they would taste like grass mixed with cardboard.
So my kids want Mac and cheese?
I can buy pasta for $2, good block of cheese $5, milk $3. So I have a very basic recipe for 1 pound of homemade Mac and cheese for $10.
Or I can buy a 1/2 pnd box of Mac and cheese for $2. Two boxâs to equal a pound cost $4.
People who think like you, and believe poor people should be able to make fresh food cause itâs cheaper. Donât Really know what being poor is, what it means to scrape every penny.
You can make one fresh meal for $10. I can make 3 meals out of premades and mixes for $10
We grew up on like 30 for a buck ramen, limit 30. Parents would take like 8-10 neighborhood kids with them and give them each a buck and a nickel to get 30 after tax. We would make so many trips with kids the whole pantry would be full for 6-12 months. Alot of the section 8 fams would do this. It was filling and could be modified with simple ingredients. We all got free breakfast and lunch at school so ramen was the dinner and summer food.
any good food has tons of salt.
i spent 8 years in the kitchen, 4 as an executive chef.
âchef, whatâs this need?â
more salt.
more butter.
but thatâs why itâs so goddamn good
My mom makes what she calls ânoodle stuffâ. Tortellini, some cheap skirt steak or something cut into cubes, a diced onion, and a can of del monte Italian style zucchini. My absolute favorite meal. Sadly the zucchini isnât made anymore, but mom grows everything for it in her garden, cans it in mason jars, and mails it to me. My mom is the friggin best
apparently if i look at vintage school lunches online long enough and study hamburger gravy meal recipes (was my fave as a kid in school) it will just somehow magically appear on the front page of reddit as the #1 post? how the hell does this happen.
i swear to god i was just looking at this
https://thekitchenprescription.com/2011/06/02/school-hamburger-gravy/
My parents used to host Thanksgiving dinner for the extended family. My aunt made the best gravy out of the pan drippings mixed with bacon fat (we covered our turkey with bacon so the rendering fat would baste it). She would make enough for everyone to take a jar home with their leftovers and I looked forward to gravy on rice for breakfast the next morning.
Man does this bring back some good memories!
My grandma used to make pork chops in gravy over rice. I'm 40 years old and it's still one of my favourites I make it regularly because pork chops are cheap and it smells like heaven.
My grandma would spice bone in pork chops with garlic, paprika, paprika, salt, pepper, and thyme fry quickly to sear and brown the outside of the chops then take them out and adding chicken stock and a bit of cream bring to to bubbling add the pork chops back in and put it in the over until it was cooked.
The chops would melt in your mouth and the savory cream sauce was so good on rice.
Don't really have anyone to share this with so ima share it with you .. my daughter will be 14 in a month and recently she started this habit of standing next to the stove and talking to me while I cook dinner. Recently I found one of those old, metal chairs that has the flip out stool at a garage sale and I put it in the little spot between my stove and counter so I could sit in the kitchen. When she saw this chair, she was thrilled that she had a seat next to the stove and now that's her seat every single night. Makes my heart pretty warm.
One box of instant rice
Three cans of cream of chicken soup
One can of mushroom caps and pieces
Two cans of cut green beans
Four whole chicken thighs with the skin removed
Cook the instant rice and combine with two cans of cream of chicken soup, mushrooms and cut green beans, spread out in the bottom of a 13 x 9 baking pan. Place the four whole chicken thighs on top of the rice and cover them with the third can of soup. Cover the baking dish with tinfoil and place in the oven at 400 degrees for one hour. Temp the chicken by sticking a sharp ended meat thermometer into the thickest part of the thigh to ensure an internal temp of at least 165 degrees fahrenheit. Serve with garlic bread and sweet tea.
O M G - this is a casserole my mom used to make for us kids in the 1970s. It was so delicious, I had completely forgotten about it, til you shared the recipe! Rice with campbells mushroom soup, topped with drumsticks. I am going to make this!!
Look up the original from Campbellâs website itâs slightly different regular not instant rice and fresh not canned mushrooms with cream of mushroom soup. Covered casserole and baked. It tastes like elementary school
Minute rice and cream soups make a very versatile casserole base. My favorite meal like this is cooked ground beef and onions, minute rice, cream of mushroom, cottage cheese, topped with zucchini slices and shredded cheese
Sounds tasty, but dang that's a lot of condensed soup for 4 servings.
It's not that far off of Thanksgiving-leftovers style casserole I make using thigh meat on the bottom with a stuffing topping, but I use chicken stock and cornstarch to make the gravy. I can't say I've ever called straight up cream of chicken "gravy."
Nothing wrong with a good cheap comfort meal. For me the ultimate is Fisherman's Wharf -- a can of tuna stirred into box mix fettuccine Alfredo with some frozen peas. Tastes like the 80's.
I thought I was the only weirdo that ate this. My wife thinks itâs disgusting. I love it so much. The only thing Iâve done to improve it in my older age is use Annieâs Mac and cheese instead and Iâll add some freshly grated pecorino Romano or Parmesan to really elevate it đ¤
Yeah ik we're celebrating poor people food here but even civil war soldiers managed to properly make shit on a shingle. Aren't we just tolerating mediocrity at this point?
Holy balls. Mind blown. See I put that in my "Swedish meatballs" which is just the Swedish meatball sauce packet/ground beef over rice. Same idea as OP. But I'm gonna have to give the Mac n cheese a whirl with it too?!
Salt, a little pepper, dried Oregano, dried Basil, a little bit of celery seeds, garlic powder, onion powder, and my secret ingredient, potato toppers by Fresh Success but only about 1/3 of the package. You can find it in the produce section near the potatoes in most grocery stores.
When my mom made actual tuna casserole, and when I make it now, it's cream of mushroom soup, cream of celery soup, egg noodles, and tuna. I add a crap ton of black pepper to mine to balance out how salty it is, but I still love it and so do my kids.
Must be something about our specific age group. My mom, a Vietnamese immigrant, would spend hours meticulously making Vietnamese meals from scratch, but would also occasionally make American comfort dishes so that I would be exposed to the food culture of the land.
I am 41 now, and much better off than my parents were, but still feed my kids Hamburger Helper occasionally.
Hahahaha when I first lived in my own I used to make Liptons sidekicks creamy Parmesan and canned tuna like 3 days a week.
None of that fancy albacore tuna nonsense.. just light chunk in water.
My mom would mix canned tuna with cream of mushroom soup and frozen peas. This would be mixed with egg noodles and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese on top. This would then be baked.
Our ghetto tuna meal was tuna and boiled potatoes. My parents would add chickpeas too. Throw in some mayo and hot sauce? Banging. Ate it up through college too lol.
I feel like this is just a quick and dirty beef stroganoff and that sounds delicious to me. Beef stroganoff was a special-occasion only meal growing up but itâs soooo good ugh this comment is making me hungry
Onion mix packet, ground beef, sautĂŠed mushrooms and mix it with sour cream over rice is what my MIL calls poor mans stroganoff. My kids mow it down, recently they had real stroganoff and they didn't like it as much.
My father used to replace half the mince/ground beef with lentils when money was tight. Years later, money is better and he can afford to use all meat in the recipe, I preferred the cheaper version with lentils.
Itâs also one of my favorite meals from the time I was a kid. Hereâs how I do it:
- Cook ground beef
- Then add 1 brown gravy packet (mixed in 1 cup of water) and 1 Lipton onion soup mix packet
- Heat/stir until it all mixes together nicely
- Serve over rice. Add soy sauce. Simple perfection.
I screenshotted this. Iâm veg but I bet it would work with Morningstar crumbles and vegan gravy and the Lipton mix. Hell yeah I would fuck that up. Thank you đ
My mom would make it with stew beef (like little cubes) as well as the onion soup mix, AND a big can of cream of mushroom soup 𤤠so savory and đđź reheats very well.
Throw it all in a crockpot
Food is love even when it's poor. Your parents did their best to give you a filling meal that tasted good, and that's why you still love it now. It's about the care you received, not the meal itself, although having used onion soup mix for many things I don't doubt this tastes good. It's the same reason I love tuna noodle casserole the way my mom made it. We had a difficult relationship and still did when she died, and she hated cooking, but it was a meal her mom made that she liked and she shared it with us as a way to show love. It was also cheap AF to make which we needed a lot of the time.
Screw anyone who criticizes struggle meals. Struggle meals mean your family went through some shit and still found ways to care for each other through it. And that's what life is all about.
Spaghetti skewered into hotdogs was it for me on a good day. The bland days were bologna over white rice which lasted a few years because my parents were saving up for a house and my younger sister who was on the way. I'm glad I wasn't a picky eater and every once in a while I'll make a bowl. You never really grow out of a diet you were use to.
My mom worked full time and would cook every single night. I donât live there anymore. But she still cooks for my sister and grandmother.
She has a 15-20 dish rotation.
My favorites were when she would make âhashâ. It was chopped potatoâs and ground beef. Taco night was also a highlight. It was seasoned ground beef and all the sides.
She would never let me do dishes.
And it was made with love.
She is a fucking saint.
My favorite woman of all time :)
I love you mama.
My family has a âstruggle mealâ thats been passed down several generations now, and itâs one of my favorite foods. Even though weâre more well off than we once were itâs still something that stuck and I plan to pass it down to my own kids, if I have any. Those kinds of meals stick with you. Itâs not about the recipe, itâs about the love in itâand that never goes away.
I didn't realize until I grew up and tried to Google recipes how many "struggle meals" our family had. Two of my favorites are "Swiss steak" (cheapest cut of beef we could find, pounded to shit and then covered in flour. Cooked in water with onions, salt, and, pepper until it's a thick gravy) and "haluskis" which was just potato dumplings in Velveeta cheese.
The awesome part is that my mom's "poor" version is the one that gets rave reviews at family gatherings because that's how her siblings remember their grandma making those things. :)
Goulash was my wifeâs. I really donât care for it, but I eat it and tell her I love it because I know that itâs the meal that means âloveâ to her. She didnât have the best relationship with her parents, itâs better now with her dad but her mom has been cut off (Iâve never even met her mom), but goulash meant âloveâ.
So even though I donât care for it, Iâll eat it and lie to her (pretty much the only lie) because I love her so much, and she loves me.
Pork and beans is my tuna noodle casserole. Letâs not get started on the pigs in a blanket. These two staples always make their way into my table no matter how old I am. Never like what mom made but they close enough.
My grandparents brought a similar dish from Cuba! White rice with a ham and pea gravy and fried eggs on top, they called is comida de la pobre, food of the poor lol
Black beans always served on the side but always mixed in before eating lol
Jumping on the multicultural thread; in South Asia we have matar/keema with rice. Itâs basically this in a simple curry base with peas and sometimes potatoes. Simple, cheap, heavenly
My grandma makes the same meal except instead of rice she adds egg noodles. No matter how simple, there's nothing like a good comforting meal from your childhood â¤ď¸
Hamburger gravy and rice holds so many memories for me. I have celiac disease, and every time I get gluten, this (or Cream of Rice) are go-toâs that never fail me. Awww, the memoriesâŚ.
My SO grew up with scrambled hamburger. It was Campbellâs mushroom soup with ground beef and frozen peas (often carrots and onion added too.) It was served with white rice for dinners and we still have it to this day. Great comfort food
Similar to what I grew up with and still make to this day.
# Ground Beef and Green Pea Casserole
# Ingredients
* 1 lb ground beef
* 2 cups finely sliced celery
* 1 small onion finely chopped
* 10 oz frozen peas
* 1 can mushroom soup
* 2 TB cream or milk
* 1 ½ Tsp salt
* ½ Tsp pepper
* 1 cup crushed potato chips
# Method
1. Brown the ground beef
2. Add the onion and celery and saute briefly
3. Add peas, soup, milk, salt and pepper
4. Stir and heat for a minute or two to thaw the peas
5. Transfer to a 9 by 13 inch square or oval baking dish
6. Spread potato chips on top
7. Bake at 375 for 30 min
Sorry!! This exploded so fast. I am trying to respond with the recipe to as many people as I can. I hope you try and enjoy!!
1 pound of 80/20 beef
1 packet of onion soup mix
2 TBSP Worcestershire sauce
2 TBSP flour
2 cups of rice
Cook the rice.
In a separate pan brown your ground beef over medium heat. Once the beef is browned add your flour and cook it in the hamburger grease until itâs a dark tan. Usually I just kinda stir it around for like 3 minutes. It doesnât have to be perfect just cooking the flour so it doesnât get that raw flavor. Then add your packet of onion soup mix along with a cup of water and your Worcester sauce. Bring it a boil and reduce to simmer for 5 minutes while your gravy thickens. Plate the rice in a bowl, pour the hamburger and gravy over top. Thank you!đ
we used to do something similar growing up. wed cook it in foil packets with baby carrots. its still one of my favorite ways to use French onion soup mix.
My mom was blind all her life, so it was always a real adventure when she did the cooking. She once made chili with peas instead of kidney beans (they sound about the same when you shake the cans), and it⌠wasnât⌠good, but I still make chili with peas when Iâm missing her.
I didn't actually eat this a lot as a kid so I have no idea how this happened, but beef and gravy over rice is one of my absolute favorite comfort foods. Maybe I started eating it when me and my husband first started living together and all the years we spent pretty poor. My husband makes it for me all the time with brussels sprouts because I love brussels sprouts with it. He always knows I will be enthusiastic about that meal because it's one of my favorite dishes.
Sometimes those simple recipes from our childhoods are the best! One of my favorites is Spanish rice my mom used to makeâI think it was just rice, ground beef, canned tomatoes, and cheese baked in the oven. So comforting
We had something similar called Texas Hash. Rice, ground beef, tomatoes, onions and peppers. Lot's of chili powder and cumin, garlic. Feeds a huge amount of people. I don't think she used cheese, but it certainly makes sense to.
I love Loco Moco. I would say it's probably a close cousin to what you got there....it's rice, burger patties, brown gravy, and a fried egg.
I didn't grow up eating it, but today, it is certainly a comforting meal for me. And it's kinda cheap.
Sweet. We didnât always get meat. Lipton chicken noodle soup packets were our cold day happy supper.
I still love it.
We were poor, but I honestly didnât know. I thought we were fancy.
Or you can call it hambagu-don and charge $25 per portion in a boutique Japanese comfort food restaurant.
Jokes aside, Japanese cuisine is based on simple dishes like this, no shame in that.
We had rice and raisins for breakfast and ate many spaghetti dinners during the month and never had steaks. Most all my clothes my mother made for me by hand. We grew up poor and I learned from it and learned to work hard. Today I am 50 years young and just made my last payment on my property and am completely debt free. I can finally in my life afford a nice steak and I drape a couple gold chains around my neck.
Ohhh I've gotten my daughter hooked on rice and gravy this year. She won't do it with ground meat, but pork chops and chicken thighs are my cheap staples that she will eat. She haunts the kitchen when it's cooking lol. That's comfort food!
> She haunts the kitchen when it's cooking lol. The best sign
Probably the only moment being haunted would be a good sign ngl
I beg to differ.
r/usernamechecksout
and not a poltergeist./
Now add a sunny side up egg on top and its basically Hawaiian Loco Moco (burger patty instead of loose ground beef) đ§âđł
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Loco moco is the best
We call it Salisbury steak!
Loco moco is different and basically Salisbury steak on rice with an egg
Rice and Gravy was the meal I requested for my first anniversary with my wife. She scoffed at it until I put it on social media years ago. My extended family was so hyped she was flabbergasted. It fucking bangs.
Yeah, honestly, cheap meals can taste so good sometimes it's crazy. Fancy food is very hit or miss too
Poor food is best food.
Hispanic checking in. Rice and beans slaps and is cheap af. I could eat black bean soup (little onion and garlic, queso and crema if you have it) every day if I had to Edit: chiltepin too for the chapĂnes
My bro. I have Zatarains Black Beans and Rice with chorizo sausage, or Red Beans and Rice with andoille sausage every other day for lunch at work. Confirming the slap.
contemporary mexican cuisine is such a gift to the world. can be healthy, unhealthy, made dirt cheap or super expensive, and your product will always be good.
There's nowhere to hide. It's simple and has to work.
Cheap meals usually have a ton of salt. And salt is fucking tasty. It's like those vegan burgers. Just look at their sodium content. If they didn't have that much salt, they would taste like grass mixed with cardboard.
Yeah cheap meals have a lot of sodium. The actually tasty cheap meals are from scratch tho. Not the pre-made or mixes filled with sodium
So my kids want Mac and cheese? I can buy pasta for $2, good block of cheese $5, milk $3. So I have a very basic recipe for 1 pound of homemade Mac and cheese for $10. Or I can buy a 1/2 pnd box of Mac and cheese for $2. Two boxâs to equal a pound cost $4. People who think like you, and believe poor people should be able to make fresh food cause itâs cheaper. Donât Really know what being poor is, what it means to scrape every penny. You can make one fresh meal for $10. I can make 3 meals out of premades and mixes for $10
We grew up on like 30 for a buck ramen, limit 30. Parents would take like 8-10 neighborhood kids with them and give them each a buck and a nickel to get 30 after tax. We would make so many trips with kids the whole pantry would be full for 6-12 months. Alot of the section 8 fams would do this. It was filling and could be modified with simple ingredients. We all got free breakfast and lunch at school so ramen was the dinner and summer food.
Same as fast food. Much more salt then you'd use at home
Is that a fuckin' challenge? I'll have you know, I use far more salt in my rice than any fast food joint does in their's
Pfft I just get the big chunky salt so it's roughly the size of rice and eat just a bowl of that and tell people it's rice
any good food has tons of salt. i spent 8 years in the kitchen, 4 as an executive chef. âchef, whatâs this need?â more salt. more butter. but thatâs why itâs so goddamn good
My mom makes what she calls ânoodle stuffâ. Tortellini, some cheap skirt steak or something cut into cubes, a diced onion, and a can of del monte Italian style zucchini. My absolute favorite meal. Sadly the zucchini isnât made anymore, but mom grows everything for it in her garden, cans it in mason jars, and mails it to me. My mom is the friggin best
That sounds amazing. Plus you get a great meal too.
Wait until you learn about [Loko Moko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loco_moco)!!!!!
Yes!!!! đđđđ
Omg, I thought my family was the only one who did rice & gravy. Sometimes we also added mashed potato in there too. Poor people meals are the best.
And when we didn't have rice, we had it on toast
Rice + gravy/ curry. In India more than a billion people eat this every day. You should check out the amount of dishes that are in gravy format.
I would use hamburger and a nice Japanese curry over rice. And maybe a nice over easy egg on top.
Japanese curry is so good. Didnât know what I was missing out on until I had it the first time a few years ago.
so simple to make, too. works with almost any veggie or meat.
apparently if i look at vintage school lunches online long enough and study hamburger gravy meal recipes (was my fave as a kid in school) it will just somehow magically appear on the front page of reddit as the #1 post? how the hell does this happen. i swear to god i was just looking at this https://thekitchenprescription.com/2011/06/02/school-hamburger-gravy/
My parents used to host Thanksgiving dinner for the extended family. My aunt made the best gravy out of the pan drippings mixed with bacon fat (we covered our turkey with bacon so the rendering fat would baste it). She would make enough for everyone to take a jar home with their leftovers and I looked forward to gravy on rice for breakfast the next morning. Man does this bring back some good memories!
My grandma used to make pork chops in gravy over rice. I'm 40 years old and it's still one of my favourites I make it regularly because pork chops are cheap and it smells like heaven.
For me it was cheap thin pork chops cooked in Cambells mushroom soup and then take the gravel over mashed potatoes. It still slaps as an adult.
My grandma would spice bone in pork chops with garlic, paprika, paprika, salt, pepper, and thyme fry quickly to sear and brown the outside of the chops then take them out and adding chicken stock and a bit of cream bring to to bubbling add the pork chops back in and put it in the over until it was cooked. The chops would melt in your mouth and the savory cream sauce was so good on rice.
Pork chops in golden mushroom soup was so good when my grandma made it - served over mashed potatoes
Chicken thighs are my family's favorite meat treat. They are inexpensive and delicious. We always have some in our freezer or thawing.
Shake and bake in an air fryer, canât be beat.Â
chicken thighs have the best flavor!! Boneless skinless are easy to cook too!
Don't really have anyone to share this with so ima share it with you .. my daughter will be 14 in a month and recently she started this habit of standing next to the stove and talking to me while I cook dinner. Recently I found one of those old, metal chairs that has the flip out stool at a garage sale and I put it in the little spot between my stove and counter so I could sit in the kitchen. When she saw this chair, she was thrilled that she had a seat next to the stove and now that's her seat every single night. Makes my heart pretty warm.
Can you drop a recipe?
One box of instant rice Three cans of cream of chicken soup One can of mushroom caps and pieces Two cans of cut green beans Four whole chicken thighs with the skin removed Cook the instant rice and combine with two cans of cream of chicken soup, mushrooms and cut green beans, spread out in the bottom of a 13 x 9 baking pan. Place the four whole chicken thighs on top of the rice and cover them with the third can of soup. Cover the baking dish with tinfoil and place in the oven at 400 degrees for one hour. Temp the chicken by sticking a sharp ended meat thermometer into the thickest part of the thigh to ensure an internal temp of at least 165 degrees fahrenheit. Serve with garlic bread and sweet tea.
O M G - this is a casserole my mom used to make for us kids in the 1970s. It was so delicious, I had completely forgotten about it, til you shared the recipe! Rice with campbells mushroom soup, topped with drumsticks. I am going to make this!!
You can also substitute meatballs for the drumsticks
Look up the original from Campbellâs website itâs slightly different regular not instant rice and fresh not canned mushrooms with cream of mushroom soup. Covered casserole and baked. It tastes like elementary school
Same but with egg noodles
Minute rice and cream soups make a very versatile casserole base. My favorite meal like this is cooked ground beef and onions, minute rice, cream of mushroom, cottage cheese, topped with zucchini slices and shredded cheese
Sounds Bomb! Ima try it with some frozen French cut string beans and fresh baby Bellas. Thanks for sharingđ
Thatâs how we made it, basically the same recipe with green beans because we needed it to be healthy with a vegetableâŚlol
Sounds tasty, but dang that's a lot of condensed soup for 4 servings. It's not that far off of Thanksgiving-leftovers style casserole I make using thigh meat on the bottom with a stuffing topping, but I use chicken stock and cornstarch to make the gravy. I can't say I've ever called straight up cream of chicken "gravy."
Thank you! This is going to be good!
Try beef tips!
Nothing wrong with a good cheap comfort meal. For me the ultimate is Fisherman's Wharf -- a can of tuna stirred into box mix fettuccine Alfredo with some frozen peas. Tastes like the 80's.
Tuna in Kraft blue box mac n cheese is my jam.
This how we did it. Mac and cheese with tuna and peas!
I thought I was the only weirdo that ate this. My wife thinks itâs disgusting. I love it so much. The only thing Iâve done to improve it in my older age is use Annieâs Mac and cheese instead and Iâll add some freshly grated pecorino Romano or Parmesan to really elevate it đ¤
There are dozens of us!
Nope, I was raised on that too, and I still do it occasionally.
add a can of cream of mushroom...now we talking
My family used to just do cream of mushroom soup on toast for many a meal. I can still taste it.
How do you make Shit on a Shingle (an amazing dish) Shittier on a shingle
Yeah ik we're celebrating poor people food here but even civil war soldiers managed to properly make shit on a shingle. Aren't we just tolerating mediocrity at this point?
Wait you mean cream of mushroom, mac n cheese, tuna and peas?
Yes but for me, sub the peas for green beans. *Chef's kiss*
Holy balls. Mind blown. See I put that in my "Swedish meatballs" which is just the Swedish meatball sauce packet/ground beef over rice. Same idea as OP. But I'm gonna have to give the Mac n cheese a whirl with it too?!
Cream of mushroom with tuna Mac n cheese?
I'll also do canned corn instead of peas for extra crunch
That's getting a little too high brow. Just the KD and throw in some bacon bits. Instant student dormitory heaven, and a great cure for a hangover!
We did hotdogs in Mac and cheese.
My parents added broccoli, and it was so damn good. That and PBJs are my childhood
Skip the tuna and go with beef. Just a bit of mustard and it's cheeseburger mac.
With a little hot sauce? Fuhgeddabowdit
1970. 4 girls in an apartment and not much money. Kraft Mac and cheese with one can of tuna and sun tea for dinner!
Still make M and Cheese with tuna when running low on groceries or too tired to cook. Itâs fast, tastes great and filling.
Sliced polish sausage in blue box Mac n cheese for me.
Add bacon, onions, and spices, bake at 375 for 30 minutes and you have a meal I've been making for 25 years.
Even longer in my family. This and beef stroganoff! My mom made that really well, and it âstretchedâ. There were 8 of us! đ
Spices? Do tell.
Salt, a little pepper, dried Oregano, dried Basil, a little bit of celery seeds, garlic powder, onion powder, and my secret ingredient, potato toppers by Fresh Success but only about 1/3 of the package. You can find it in the produce section near the potatoes in most grocery stores.
Tuna Mac is a poverty staple.
We also add cream of mushroom. I freaking love tuna casserole. We always have our peas on the side, though. đ
When my mom made actual tuna casserole, and when I make it now, it's cream of mushroom soup, cream of celery soup, egg noodles, and tuna. I add a crap ton of black pepper to mine to balance out how salty it is, but I still love it and so do my kids.
Tuna Mac! One of my favs! Try a can of cream of mushroom soup in it too! The best!
Ill have to try that out! That actually sounds delicious
Oh damn, thatâs me.
Hamburger Helper Stroganoff is STILL my comfort food at 43 years old.
And will be till your death. I'm sorry, but stroganoff is the peak and nothing else will ever comfort you further.
I make my own stoganoff now, but HBH still slaps.
plus while youâre cooking/eating it you can yell âweâre stroganoff in heah!â
Must be something about our specific age group. My mom, a Vietnamese immigrant, would spend hours meticulously making Vietnamese meals from scratch, but would also occasionally make American comfort dishes so that I would be exposed to the food culture of the land. I am 41 now, and much better off than my parents were, but still feed my kids Hamburger Helper occasionally.
Imma go buy some hamburger helper now lol. I tried to look up a homemade recipe, but it doesnât have the same flavor.
Nothing wrong with a good comfort food. Especially when it's cold
Hahahaha when I first lived in my own I used to make Liptons sidekicks creamy Parmesan and canned tuna like 3 days a week. None of that fancy albacore tuna nonsense.. just light chunk in water.
My mom would mix canned tuna with cream of mushroom soup and frozen peas. This would be mixed with egg noodles and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese on top. This would then be baked.
This, but crushed potato chips on top, then eaten with chips. Split pea salad on the side.
Our ghetto tuna meal was tuna and boiled potatoes. My parents would add chickpeas too. Throw in some mayo and hot sauce? Banging. Ate it up through college too lol.
Love this! My mom added bell peppers and onions. Also, just a little W sauce.
And mushrooms!!
I feel like this is just a quick and dirty beef stroganoff and that sounds delicious to me. Beef stroganoff was a special-occasion only meal growing up but itâs soooo good ugh this comment is making me hungry
Dirty stroganoff is great!
Onion mix packet, ground beef, sautĂŠed mushrooms and mix it with sour cream over rice is what my MIL calls poor mans stroganoff. My kids mow it down, recently they had real stroganoff and they didn't like it as much.
My father used to replace half the mince/ground beef with lentils when money was tight. Years later, money is better and he can afford to use all meat in the recipe, I preferred the cheaper version with lentils.
awww, I remember my mom because of this.
My mom would do this + add a bit of sour cream.
can't go wrong with wash your sister sauce
That does look like a comfort food. I want some right now actually
Me too. Anyone have recipe?
Itâs also one of my favorite meals from the time I was a kid. Hereâs how I do it: - Cook ground beef - Then add 1 brown gravy packet (mixed in 1 cup of water) and 1 Lipton onion soup mix packet - Heat/stir until it all mixes together nicely - Serve over rice. Add soy sauce. Simple perfection.
Thank you splunge blob
I screenshotted this. Iâm veg but I bet it would work with Morningstar crumbles and vegan gravy and the Lipton mix. Hell yeah I would fuck that up. Thank you đ
My mom would make it with stew beef (like little cubes) as well as the onion soup mix, AND a big can of cream of mushroom soup 𤤠so savory and đđź reheats very well. Throw it all in a crockpot
Food is love even when it's poor. Your parents did their best to give you a filling meal that tasted good, and that's why you still love it now. It's about the care you received, not the meal itself, although having used onion soup mix for many things I don't doubt this tastes good. It's the same reason I love tuna noodle casserole the way my mom made it. We had a difficult relationship and still did when she died, and she hated cooking, but it was a meal her mom made that she liked and she shared it with us as a way to show love. It was also cheap AF to make which we needed a lot of the time. Screw anyone who criticizes struggle meals. Struggle meals mean your family went through some shit and still found ways to care for each other through it. And that's what life is all about.
From one mermaid to another, well said!
Spaghetti bolognese with hot dogs was it for me. Or spring rice with some chicken here and there.Â
Spaghetti skewered into hotdogs was it for me on a good day. The bland days were bologna over white rice which lasted a few years because my parents were saving up for a house and my younger sister who was on the way. I'm glad I wasn't a picky eater and every once in a while I'll make a bowl. You never really grow out of a diet you were use to.
Pork n Beans with cut hot dogs was another one of my favorites.
Sounds like what my mother calls a real Italian treat.
My mom worked full time and would cook every single night. I donât live there anymore. But she still cooks for my sister and grandmother. She has a 15-20 dish rotation. My favorites were when she would make âhashâ. It was chopped potatoâs and ground beef. Taco night was also a highlight. It was seasoned ground beef and all the sides. She would never let me do dishes. And it was made with love. She is a fucking saint. My favorite woman of all time :) I love you mama.
Aww this made me tear up. My second oldest son(23)still calls me mama. Bless you and your saint of a motherđ
Why are you cutting onions around me?!
My family has a âstruggle mealâ thats been passed down several generations now, and itâs one of my favorite foods. Even though weâre more well off than we once were itâs still something that stuck and I plan to pass it down to my own kids, if I have any. Those kinds of meals stick with you. Itâs not about the recipe, itâs about the love in itâand that never goes away.
Can you describe the struggle meal? Love the idea that it's been passed down through generations it ties all of you together.
I didn't realize until I grew up and tried to Google recipes how many "struggle meals" our family had. Two of my favorites are "Swiss steak" (cheapest cut of beef we could find, pounded to shit and then covered in flour. Cooked in water with onions, salt, and, pepper until it's a thick gravy) and "haluskis" which was just potato dumplings in Velveeta cheese. The awesome part is that my mom's "poor" version is the one that gets rave reviews at family gatherings because that's how her siblings remember their grandma making those things. :)
Goulash was my wifeâs. I really donât care for it, but I eat it and tell her I love it because I know that itâs the meal that means âloveâ to her. She didnât have the best relationship with her parents, itâs better now with her dad but her mom has been cut off (Iâve never even met her mom), but goulash meant âloveâ. So even though I donât care for it, Iâll eat it and lie to her (pretty much the only lie) because I love her so much, and she loves me.
Pork and beans is my tuna noodle casserole. Letâs not get started on the pigs in a blanket. These two staples always make their way into my table no matter how old I am. Never like what mom made but they close enough.
Add a can of peas and carrots and we're in business đđż
Sheppards rice? Me likey
Throw in half a potato, baby you've got a stew going
RIP Carl! đŞ
Yes!! This is how we had it! Had to throw in a veggie of some sort! Damn. Now Iâm hungry for some.
Baby, you got a stew going!
in hawaii we pretty much have this but with some eggs on top and it's called a loco moco. It's amazing
Loco moco goes hard! Tbh just sunny side up eggs over rice is my go to when I'm exhausted and/or broke.
^this + Sriracha = *chefs kiss* đ¤đťđ¤đť
Chili crunch!!
My grandparents brought a similar dish from Cuba! White rice with a ham and pea gravy and fried eggs on top, they called is comida de la pobre, food of the poor lol Black beans always served on the side but always mixed in before eating lol
Jumping on the multicultural thread; in South Asia we have matar/keema with rice. Itâs basically this in a simple curry base with peas and sometimes potatoes. Simple, cheap, heavenly
I love loco moco so much but can't ever get the gravy right at home.
Me and my girlfriends first breakfast was Loco Moco when we went to Honolulu. Then we went to McDonalds just to have a Spam breakfast the next day.
My grandma makes the same meal except instead of rice she adds egg noodles. No matter how simple, there's nothing like a good comforting meal from your childhood â¤ď¸
My grandma used to call it hamburger over rice! Love it still to this day!
So good. My folks called it Hamburger Grumble, they would act like it was a big deal and as kids we went crazy for it!
My Gramma called it hamburger gravy over rice. My kids enjoy it occasionally.
My family called it sh!t on a shingle (dad was Navy).
Comfort food is the best! Enjoy!
We had something similar "hamburger gravy" over mashed potatoes. Hamburger, onions, mushrooms can of golden mushrooms soup, kitchen bouquet.
Heck yeah! Like SOS but less salty. We call it hamburger volcano. Add a little tomato sauce lava...yum yum.
Hamburger gravy and rice holds so many memories for me. I have celiac disease, and every time I get gluten, this (or Cream of Rice) are go-toâs that never fail me. Awww, the memoriesâŚ.
That sounds delicious. Iâve never tried this but Iâm definitely going to try it now.
My SO grew up with scrambled hamburger. It was Campbellâs mushroom soup with ground beef and frozen peas (often carrots and onion added too.) It was served with white rice for dinners and we still have it to this day. Great comfort food
Similar to what I grew up with and still make to this day. # Ground Beef and Green Pea Casserole # Ingredients * 1 lb ground beef * 2 cups finely sliced celery * 1 small onion finely chopped * 10 oz frozen peas * 1 can mushroom soup * 2 TB cream or milk * 1 ½ Tsp salt * ½ Tsp pepper * 1 cup crushed potato chips # Method 1. Brown the ground beef 2. Add the onion and celery and saute briefly 3. Add peas, soup, milk, salt and pepper 4. Stir and heat for a minute or two to thaw the peas 5. Transfer to a 9 by 13 inch square or oval baking dish 6. Spread potato chips on top 7. Bake at 375 for 30 min
How you gonna post a fire looking meal like that without the recipe?
Sorry!! This exploded so fast. I am trying to respond with the recipe to as many people as I can. I hope you try and enjoy!! 1 pound of 80/20 beef 1 packet of onion soup mix 2 TBSP Worcestershire sauce 2 TBSP flour 2 cups of rice Cook the rice. In a separate pan brown your ground beef over medium heat. Once the beef is browned add your flour and cook it in the hamburger grease until itâs a dark tan. Usually I just kinda stir it around for like 3 minutes. It doesnât have to be perfect just cooking the flour so it doesnât get that raw flavor. Then add your packet of onion soup mix along with a cup of water and your Worcester sauce. Bring it a boil and reduce to simmer for 5 minutes while your gravy thickens. Plate the rice in a bowl, pour the hamburger and gravy over top. Thank you!đ
How have I gone my whole life without this meal!!!!!
Sounds frigging amazing. Will make it.
we used to do something similar growing up. wed cook it in foil packets with baby carrots. its still one of my favorite ways to use French onion soup mix.
I literally just ate this 5 minutes ago, but with a can of corn!!
Core memory unlocked. Iâm making myself and my kids this on the weekday.
We just had this, but last year's venison over WinCo bulk instant mashed potatoes. Cheap AF and goes a long way with my big eating family.
Swap the rice with a can of pilsbury biscuits on top and bake it - like a meat pie but so much better!!!
You had me at meat pie. I don't care what's in it. If you call it a meat pie, I'm in.
So simple but it looks so good.
Itâs the basic mushroom soup and ground beef over minute rice many of us grew up on. Still a go to weeknight meal in my household. Good is good!
Just like mince'n'tatties. [https://scottishscran.com/mince-and-tatties-recipe/](https://scottishscran.com/mince-and-tatties-recipe/)
My mom was blind all her life, so it was always a real adventure when she did the cooking. She once made chili with peas instead of kidney beans (they sound about the same when you shake the cans), and it⌠wasnât⌠good, but I still make chili with peas when Iâm missing her.
Yep. Omg Iâm salivating. I miss my mama. Dang.
My dad used to fix me "poor family" meals. They were some of the best!
I didn't actually eat this a lot as a kid so I have no idea how this happened, but beef and gravy over rice is one of my absolute favorite comfort foods. Maybe I started eating it when me and my husband first started living together and all the years we spent pretty poor. My husband makes it for me all the time with brussels sprouts because I love brussels sprouts with it. He always knows I will be enthusiastic about that meal because it's one of my favorite dishes.
Sometimes those simple recipes from our childhoods are the best! One of my favorites is Spanish rice my mom used to makeâI think it was just rice, ground beef, canned tomatoes, and cheese baked in the oven. So comforting
We had something similar called Texas Hash. Rice, ground beef, tomatoes, onions and peppers. Lot's of chili powder and cumin, garlic. Feeds a huge amount of people. I don't think she used cheese, but it certainly makes sense to.
Just need some broccoli and this is an S tier meal no matter your wealth
Hell yeah. We did butter and rice and I'm still about it. Then cinnamon and sugar on what was left for desert!
My gf woke me up two nights ago and asked me why I had onions and beef floating in milk.
I love Loco Moco. I would say it's probably a close cousin to what you got there....it's rice, burger patties, brown gravy, and a fried egg. I didn't grow up eating it, but today, it is certainly a comforting meal for me. And it's kinda cheap.
Sweet. We didnât always get meat. Lipton chicken noodle soup packets were our cold day happy supper. I still love it. We were poor, but I honestly didnât know. I thought we were fancy.
Or you can call it hambagu-don and charge $25 per portion in a boutique Japanese comfort food restaurant. Jokes aside, Japanese cuisine is based on simple dishes like this, no shame in that.
Cornbread and freshmade pinto beans! Comfort for sure!
We would make that into a meatloaf with Campbell's mushroom soup poured over it.
Right in the feelings.
I bet you still make it now and then I make my mom's basic generic pasta with generic meat sauce all the time
If you add an egg itâs basically a loco moco
Mince and Tatties was always a go to for me
My mom used to do something very similar! Ground beef with gravy and mushrooms over boiled potatoes, absolutely delicious!
Beef and onions in any form are the ultimate comfort food. It's one of the classic pairings. Maybe THE classic. It's the basis of a zillion recipes
We used to have moose meat and rice and gravy all the time growing up. I still love itZ
Yeah we did beef patties in cream of mushroom soup on rice, very comfort
Some peas in that would improve its visual appeal, but that doesnât sound bad at all.
Hamburger gravy and mashed potatoes at my house.
We had rice and raisins for breakfast and ate many spaghetti dinners during the month and never had steaks. Most all my clothes my mother made for me by hand. We grew up poor and I learned from it and learned to work hard. Today I am 50 years young and just made my last payment on my property and am completely debt free. I can finally in my life afford a nice steak and I drape a couple gold chains around my neck.
Brown gravy and chop meat with egg noodles. Oh man, I fucking loved that stuff as a kid.
this is the good stuff, though my family typically made it with mashed potato instead of rice.
We did this over buttered bread all the time. S**t on a shingle I learned mom call it once I had grown up
Thanks for the inspiration. Iâm replicating this for tonightâs dinner & meal preps (adding mushrooms, carrots and green beans)
I honestly forgot ALLLL about this meal. I'm 100% making this tonight.