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Cooking fast or HOW TO BREAK OUT OF THE KITCHEN WITHOUT LEAVING THE FAMILY HUNGRY

Cooking fast or HOW TO BREAK OUT OF THE KITCHEN WITHOUT LEAVING THE FAMILY HUNGRY

IN THE EVENING I PREPARE SEMI-FINISHED FOOD FOR THREE DAYS

Not, folk wisdom always right! I began to make for three days, only not ready-made food, but semi-finished products, for example, strong broth. Having taken out the meat with a slotted spoon on a plate, I separate it from the bones, crumble it, put it in the broth, and boil it for sure. From a part of the broth I cook vermicelli soup on the first day, pickle soup the next day, then kharcho or others. When the broth is over, I make milk soup, fish soup, and on the day off I take longer, I process a lot of vegetables into borscht, I cook fresh meat or chicken broth - again for three days.
If the cooked meat is too much for soups, I put some of it in the refrigerator, be sure to cover it so that it does not wind up and is not saturated with extraneous odors. I use such meat for salad, pancakes, pies, pizza, naval pasta.
I fry not one carrot in vegetable oil, but several at once, I put some of it in a jar and keep it in the refrigerator. I use carrots for first courses, stewing chicken or fish, dressing salad from boiled beans with garlic, etc. Similarly, I pass the onion in in large numbers A: He subsequently goes everywhere.
I make melted lard immediately from a large piece. Scooping a spoonful of greaves with fat from a jar in the refrigerator is much faster than frying them every time, say, for scrambled eggs or potato dough. I can fry chicken skin cracklings and also use it at the right time, for example, in egg salad or stuffing pies with mushrooms.
boiled mushrooms(fresh or dried), fried in vegetable oil with onions, in a few days they participate in salad, stewed potatoes, zrazy, soup, cabbage hodgepodge.

I keep the broth from these mushrooms in the refrigerator for no more than two days. On it I cook soup or sour cream sauce (with fried onions, you can also carrots) for pasta, rice. Mushroom broth can be added to stewed potatoes or vegetable stew with fresh cabbage. And the cracklings go wonderfully there.
I cook cereals in two or three portions. I cook barley on water with salt, partially set aside; I add sugar, butter, milk, more salt to taste in a saucepan, boil over low heat, if possible, rearrange to languish in the oven - milk soup is ready. The remaining barley the next day, warming up in a pan with fried onions, serve as a side dish to the second, and use the next portion from the refrigerator in a pickle or mushroom soup. Similarly, rice cooked without fat is used for several days - for porridge, pilaf, cabbage rolls, kharcho soup, etc. I boil rice only with salt (I boil three glasses of water, salt, pour a glass of rice, turn the fire down to the smallest, cover with a lid, do not touch it for 10 minutes, then turn it off; I do not open it for another 10-12 minutes).
I use boiled beans in salads (with fried carrots and onions; with garlic; with raw onions; with cracklings; with fried ham and onions; with boiled or smoked fish), in vinaigrette, borscht, pickle, mushroom and simply bean soups.
Cabbage leaves boiled in salt water, except for cabbage rolls, go to “cabbage in sour cream”, “envelopes” and “envelopes with fish”, as well as in crushed form - in lazy cabbage rolls, hodgepodge, fish stew.
All these and other semi-finished products without additional heat treatment, for example, in a salad, are used only on the day of preparation, and on the following days - after boiling or roasting.

SEMI-FINISHED FOOD HELP TO COOK FAST

The presence in the refrigerator of several types of semi-finished products of a high degree of readiness made it possible to quickly compose in the morning complex dishes. So, I get a full-fledged mushroom soup in 20 minutes by boiling potatoes over high heat in water with salt and onions, adding concentrated broth with meat, fried onions and carrots, boiled pearl barley, fried mushrooms, mushroom broth, sour cream, boiled, then held over low heat, bringing to taste and adding dried herbs.
Not quite correct, but “quick” pilaf is done in a few minutes by frying semi-finished products from the refrigerator in a deep frying pan in vegetable oil: boiled meat that needs to be peppered, pour a spoonful of sugar into boiling oil, a pinch of cumin, if you like - a handful of raisins, add from fried carrots and onions in the refrigerator, put garlic, mix, pour in any sauce, even of your own preparation, containing tomato, bring everything to a boil, mix with boiled rice, reduce heat; if there is not enough liquid (oil with sauce) at the bottom, add a couple of tablespoons of broth or water, cover with a lid; bring to a boil, turn off.

BLANKS - A GOOD HELP

I also have blanks that I actively use: adjika from tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers, garlic, pickled cucumbers, a semi-finished product for pickle (some, which turned out to be empty, are grated on a beetroot grater, placed in half-liter jars, sterilized and rolled up tin lids), borscht dressings (summer - one from sorrel, the other from a mixture of sorrel, Beijing cabbage, chard, green onions, dill, spinach, and autumn - from beets, carrots, beans, zucchini, cabbage, onions, cauliflower, tomatoes red and brown beet tops and parsley; by the way, all the ingredients of the autumn dressing are listed in the order they are boiled in vegetable oil and the released juice before being placed in sterilized half-liter jars and seaming). All these blanks are made without vinegar (they contain preservatives - cucumber pickle, oxalic acid and tomatoes), therefore, perfectly combined with fresh broth potatoes, meat broth, sour cream, allow you to prepare a first course rich in taste in a matter of minutes.
For broths, especially fish and chicken, I dry a “broom” of dill “umbrellas” in the summer. Both dry stems and the "umbrellas" themselves give the soup a very pleasant taste. A mixture of dill seeds, cumin, black and a little allspice peas, drying a little in a dry frying pan (preferably cast iron), grind it on a coffee grinder (then you need to carefully wipe it with a soft dry cloth) and use it in chicken, fish stew, fried vegetables - cauliflower, green beans, regular beans, etc.

LONG LIVE DOUGH!

When friends often began to come to the children, pies, donuts, buns, brushwood, pancakes and other dough products helped me out. Therefore, I began to make dough, both unleavened and yeast, in large portions, leaving half overnight in the refrigerator, which made it possible to modify the products the next day, saturate the family and the children's company. For example, the dough for dumplings could be used the next day on ears with berries, pasties, handkerchiefs with fish, brushwood; watery yeast pancake dough, adding flour - for whites, adding muffins - for a roll with sweet fillings (for example, chopped lemon with sugar / I also make such a blank for future use / and pieces of nuts). And pancakes, given that they are fried before serving, were stuffed with either meat, or cottage cheese, or apples (I bake at least 20-30 pieces of thin pancakes from one batch). From another half of the dough for pancakes, I will make pies the next day, and also - half with meat, fish filling or cabbage, and the other half with sweets. As a rule, the dough, having spent the night in the refrigerator, with swollen gluten, is neither better nor worse on the second day, it is just different, not so light, but more interesting. A raw egg is mixed into the unused part of the syrniki dough (you can add flour), lazy dumplings are formed, or you can make them from the syrniki dough without adding anything, but with an additional egg they are lighter, not so gummy. Lazy dumplings taken out of boiling water with a slotted spoon are seasoned with butter and sprinkled powdered sugar(to get it, grind a couple of tablespoons of granulated sugar in a coffee grinder). Such dumplings are tasty and cooled down within a few hours, while those seasoned with sour cream or unseasoned lose their quality quickly.
But if you have time, do everything fresh!

CAST IRON COOKWARE SAVE TIME

Another lifesaver for me was fast cooking second courses in a cast-iron enameled pan (goose-cooker) over high heat, including without water, in hot vegetable oil. It quickly cooks pieces of meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, cereals. Either constantly stirring, then reducing the heat and covering with a lid, I brought the dish to the desired condition in a few minutes and ran to work, and the thick-walled cast-iron pan kept the food down.

IN THE FREEZER - EVERYTHING IN PORTIONS

The third help is when semi-finished products in the freezer are already laid out in packages of one serving (for your number of eaters, per frying pan or pan): beef and pork, cut into goulash, chopped chops; fish and liver - in pieces, minced meat is seasoned, for individual dishes, pieces of meat, fish are already seasoned with raw eggs, even the shish kebab is marinated. Then in the evening you can transfer the bag from the freezer to a plate in the refrigerator (on the balcony, on the windowsill or directly on the sink, if it’s not hot), and the next day straight (or through the breading) into the pan or into the saucepan, without cutting, beating, without seasoning. It happened, however, that I took out beef entrecote, and in the morning it turned out that in fact there was liver in this package. Nothing, fries even faster. And one more reason, besides the time spent: semi-finished products are prepared after “shopping”, when no one is sleeping, but would you try to beat the meat at 6-7 in the morning!
The same goes for other products. You can not send unwashed vegetables, berries with tails to the freezer; everything should be ready to use: asparagus beans - cut into pieces that fit in a spoon, Bell pepper– de-seeded and sliced ​​or prepared for stuffing, cauliflower disassembled into inflorescences.

FOOD HEATS FASTER THAN COOKING

The freezer is also good for freezing cooked food. Leaving for a few days on a business trip, she left in the freezer a stack of plates packed in plastic bags (with meatballs, fried fish, chicken liver, stewed chicken, cabbage rolls). All that was left was to heat them up in the microwave. If you still have uneaten kebabs, cutlets, Fried fish or others, but there is time and food for cooking today, put the finished products in the freezer: when there is neither time nor food, as you find it, warm it up.

IN THE OVEN - IMMEDIATELY TWO-THREE DISHES

If you turn on the oven for any dish, for example, roasting meat, chicken, use it at the same time to cook other dishes, for example, sweat porridge, bake sandwiches, make pizza, shortbreads, just dry crackers or roast seeds. Even if you have vanilla cottage cheese casserole on one sheet and fish on the other, the smells do not penetrate into another dish (but there is an original mixture of aromas on the outside).

I AM NOT AT HOME, BUT THE PROCESS IS ON

In addition to the above, you can make the products “cook” even in your absence: knead and leave yeast dough(if you can’t do it earlier than after three hours, feel free to put it in the refrigerator; yeast, although slow, will work), soak peas, beans, dry mushrooms and dried fruits, soak kidneys, scars, peeled radish, pickle semi-finished products, etc. d. Other products can be left before leaving (or overnight) by boiling a little in salt water (cereals, legumes, broths); subsequently, it will take much less time to bring them to readiness than with continuous cooking.

I'M BUSY AND THE COOKING IS MOVING

And also use the time when you are at home, although you are busy with other things, so that at this time beets, broth, beans or other “long-playing” products are cooked, cabbage and rice for cabbage rolls are boiled, etc.

WHAT ELSE CAN YOU COOK?

When preparing semi-finished products for a dish, think about why you can make another blank from this raw material at the same time: it turns out, firstly, saving time, and secondly, a variety of menus. For example, before turning all the available meat or fish into minced meat, look, maybe put some pieces aside for goulash, frying; cut them and put them in the freezer, twist the rest.

When you have free time, cook for the future, then - as it turns out.
I prepare dry cake layers in advance, which can be quickly soaked with warm custard, and with sour cream or condensed milk cream with butter - from the evening before the guests arrive, so that the cake is soaked. Also, a few days before the holiday, birthdays, I bake shortbread (not too sweet) baskets - they can serve salad, pate, fruit with ice cream or cream, boiled condensed milk with dried fruits soaked in alcohol, nuts, soft cheese and custard and the like. You can make blanks from choux pastry - both for cakes and for baskets with salads.

A few days before the celebration, you can make preparations of labor-intensive dishes, for example, stuffed fish, chicken, chicken skin rolls, and send them to the freezer in the form of raw semi-finished products, and on the eve of the celebration, when there is a lot of trouble without them, simply defrost them and send them to boil, bake, fry.

WHY THE KITCHEN IS FIRST

The kitchen has become a priority for me over the years, because no one comes home and asks to admire a well-tidy room or a clean window, but everyone wants to eat.

Have in stock such products that the household will not be left on an empty stomach if there is no opportunity to do shopping and cooking, and from which you can quickly make food for those who come without warning.

From the book by Evgenia Efimova "How to escape from the kitchen without leaving the family hungry"

The crisis has already touched us in full, and more and more people are looking for cheap recipes for every day on the Internet. simple products. When there is no money, and more and more money earned is spent on food, then, naturally, you want to cook inexpensive budget meals in order to save the family budget. You can often hear the expression: all the money goes "down the toilet." And yes, the products are expensive, but you still want to get dressed, put on shoes, take a break at least somehow from everyday work, teach children, etc.

Therefore, on our site you will find many simple recipes, from which you can make a menu for every day and for holidays. You will learn how to save on groceries, and yet cook tasty and easy without spending a lot of money on food. This is important now. And indeed, you can buy inexpensive offal, and cook a delicious liver pate, cook stomachs in sour cream sauce, just bake potatoes with spices in a sleeve or in foil, and feed your household deliciously and satisfyingly.

You will find recipes for cheap second courses for every day on the pages of the site, see step by step recipes with photo. And the team of our site will try to help you prepare budget, simple and inexpensive dishes for the second or first meal. Soups and side dishes, snacks and sandwiches, cereals and cottage cheese dishes will help your budget and you can reduce food costs without harming your family.

When there is no money (and now the majority of the population does not have it), recipes for simple and tasty cheap dishes will come to your aid, and you will be able to save at least a little money for various other needs, the same communal apartment, vacation, and so on. Inexpensive budget meals type, soups from canned food and various cereals are able to give good help in saving money.

Our cheap recipes for soups and salads, main courses, pastries and snacks will help you feed your family not expensively and economically, but at the same time tasty and satisfying. We will also show you how to cook cheap holiday meals, how to economically celebrate a birthday or New Year. You will learn how to save money on groceries and survive in a crisis.

Look, delicious and fragrant, and save money on a store-bought, moreover, harmful product.

It is not necessary to sit on bread and water in order not to spend a fortune on food. Lifehacker picked up some simple and quick-to-cook dishes and calculated how much one serving would cost.

For calculations, the site of the online store "OK" with delivery in St. Petersburg was used. For all goods, constant prices are taken without taking into account promotions. Most products are not the cheapest in their segment, and the price of a dish can be reduced if you choose more available options, buy products from local manufacturers or follow special offers.

Salt and soda are not included in the calculations, since a teaspoon of these ingredients costs 5-10 kopecks, which affects the final amount very slightly. Spices are added to the taste and purse of the cook, so they were also not included in the calculations.

For calculations, the average serving size is selected. It can be modified to suit your appetite and needs. Accordingly, in this case, the cost will have to be adjusted.

1. Jellied pie with cabbage and canned fish

Ingredients for 4 large servings:

• 2 cups of kefir;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 glass of flour;
• ½ teaspoon of soda;
• ½ teaspoon salt;
• 1 can of canned fish;
• 500 g cabbage;
• 1½ tablespoons of sunflower oil.

Cooking

Shred the cabbage and fry it in one tablespoon of oil. Remove the fish from the jar, mash with a fork and mix with cabbage. Beat eggs with salt, add kefir, flour and soda. The dough should have a consistency similar to sour cream.

Lubricate the form with the remaining oil, pour half of the dough into it, put the filling, and the remaining dough on top. Bake for 35-40 minutes at 180 degrees.

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2. Pilaf with chicken

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 600 g chicken thighs;
• 230 g of rice;
• 1 large onion;
• 2 medium carrots;
• 1 head of garlic;
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil;
• 1 teaspoon of salt.

Cooking

Pour vegetable oil into a deep frying pan or cauldron and heat it. Finely chop the onion, fry. Grate on a coarse grater or cut into half rings carrots, add to the onion. Chop the thighs into large pieces, put to the vegetables. Salt the mixture and add spices. Fry the contents of the cauldron until half cooked.

Disassemble the garlic into cloves and, without peeling, lay on the meat. Pour in the rice and smooth it out. Carefully pour water into the cauldron so that it is 1.5–2 cm higher than the rice. Bring the rice to readiness.

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3. Chicken meatballs with pasta

Ingredients for 1 serving:

• 130 g chicken breast fillet;
• 2 tablespoons canned tomatoes own juice;
• ¼ onion;
• 1 teaspoon of salt;
• ½ cup of water;
• 60 g pasta.

Cooking

Turn the chicken fillet into minced meat, add chopped onion, spices and a pinch of salt to it. With wet hands, roll into small meatballs. Pour oil into the pan, fry the meatballs until golden brown. Then fill them with water, add canned tomatoes and leave to simmer under the lid until tender (7-10 minutes). Boil the pasta in water with a pinch of salt, when serving, put the meatballs on them and pour over the sauce.

The dish will cost less if you buy chicken breast on the bone and cut the fillet yourself.

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4. Pollock stewed with vegetables + garnish

Ingredients for 1 serving:

• 1 carcass of pollock weighing about 200 g;
• 1 carrot;
• ½ onion;
• 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil;
• ½ teaspoon salt;
• 1 large potato tuber.

Cooking

Cut the pollock carcass into large pieces, chop the onion, and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Grease the frying pan with oil, lay out the pieces of pollock, fill the space between them with vegetables, pour in a little water and simmer until tender. Peel potatoes, cut into large cubes and boil in salted water.

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5. Chicken drumsticks with potatoes baked in a sleeve

Ingredients for 1 serving:

• 2 chicken drumsticks;
• 2 medium potatoes;
• 1 tablespoon of oil;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• ½ teaspoon salt.

Cooking

Mix together oil, garlic, salt and your favorite spices. Rub your shins with this mixture. Cut the potatoes into circles or cubes, put them in a baking sleeve, put the drumsticks on top. Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes at 200 degrees.

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6. Buckwheat with mushrooms in a pot

Ingredients for 1 serving:

• 80 g of buckwheat;
• 100 g of champignons;
• ½ small onion;
• 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil;
• ½ teaspoon salt.

Cooking

Cut the mushrooms and fry in oil until golden brown. Reduce heat, add finely chopped onion and salt, cook for 5 minutes. Wash the buckwheat. Put all ingredients in a pot. Products should occupy no more than half the volume of dishes. Pour boiling water so that it is 1 cm higher than the cereal, mix. Add salt to taste. Put the pot in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 40-45 minutes.

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7. Potato casserole with sour cream and garlic

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 700 g potatoes;
• 200 g sour cream;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 teaspoon of salt;
• 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil;
• 3 cloves of garlic.

Cooking

Boil the potatoes in their skins, peel, cut into circles and place in a greased form. Whisk sour cream with salt, eggs and minced garlic, pour the mixture over the potatoes and bake them in the oven for about 20 minutes at 200 degrees.

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8. Chicken liver with pancakes

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• 300 g chicken liver;
• 8 tablespoons of cream;
• 2 tablespoons of oil;
• 2 potato tubers;
• 1 egg;
• 20 g flour;
• ¼ onion;
• 1 teaspoon of salt.

Cooking

Cut the liver into small pieces, salt, fry a little on a spoonful of butter, then pour in the cream and simmer until tender. Grate potatoes and squeeze out excess liquid. Mix the potato mass with salt, flour, egg and finely chopped onion. Form potato pancakes and fry until tender on the remaining oil.

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9. Chicken meatballs with cabbage

Ingredients for 8 servings:

• 700 g chicken fillet;
• 200 g of rice;
• 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil;
• 600 g cabbage;
• 2 tablespoons of tomato paste;
• 1 teaspoon of salt.

Cooking

Make minced chicken fillet, add salt and pepper to taste. Boil rice until half cooked, refrigerate. Mix it with minced meat. Form meatballs. Shred the cabbage.

Grease the bottom of a saucepan or deep pan with thick walls with oil. Lay out a layer of cabbage, then a layer of meatballs. Fill the gaps with cabbage. Repeat the manipulations until the meatballs and cabbage run out. Stir the tomato paste in a glass of water, pour the liquid into the pan. Cover and simmer until meatballs are tender (about an hour).

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10. Pangasius in batter with mashed potatoes

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• 300 g pangasius fillet;
• 4 medium potatoes;
• 1 egg;
• 20 g flour;
• 150 ml of milk;
• 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil;
• 1 tablespoon of salt.

Cooking

Cut the pangasius fillet into medium pieces. For batter, beat the egg with a mixer, add salt, spices and flour. Dip fish pieces in batter and fry in a pan greased with oil.

For mashed potatoes, peel and boil potatoes with a pinch of salt. Drain the water, mash the tubers into a puree, adding a little warm milk.

The fact that cooking is an art has long been known. Moreover, it consists not only in cooking deliciously, but also in reasonably distributing products and creating mouth-watering masterpieces “from an ax”. Even the most luxurious dinner and hearty lunch can be prepared without sacrificing family budget. You just need to know economical recipes and not be afraid to experiment.

Soup with chicken and melted cheese

A very tasty economical recipe for those who want to cook unusual, but do not require special costs soup.

1. We need chicken fillet. Approximately 400 g should be enough. Cut it at your discretion, but cubes are better. And fry a little. Then put them in a boiling broth, send them there Bay leaf and a bit of allspice. Reduce heat, then wait 10 minutes.
2. Chop potatoes, it is better to do it in cubes, carrots and onions in half rings. Send them to the meat company. And cook for another 15 minutes. Put processed cheese on top (you can skip it through a grater). Wait until it melts completely.
3. At the end, salt, if necessary - pepper the soup. Decorate with greens.

Shurpa

This variety of first courses belongs to national food many nomadic peoples near Asia. It is highly nutritious and requires very few ingredients to prepare.

1. Take 1400-1500 g of beef or lamb shoulder. Cut and cook for 2.5 hours. The fire must be slow. Don't forget to remove the foam.
2. Carrots (300 g will be enough) cut in half and throw it into the broth along with potatoes (700 g). Boil until soft.
3. Throw tomato slices, onion rings and bell pepper. Everything needs to be taken in 200 g. Cook for another 15 minutes.
4. Salt, add spices.
5. Sprinkle parsley on top, stir in garlic (25 g).
6. Add melted butter (50 g), close the lid and leave for 15 minutes. Shurpa should be infused.

Main courses

Potatoes in the sleeve

This economical dish can be prepared for the family at least every day. It is very tasty and healthy, despite the fact that it requires very few ingredients to prepare it.

1. We need potatoes. Its quantity is not limited. Take a kilo. Cut into cubes.
2. It's the turn of carrots (1 pc.). It needs to be crushed in the form of bars.
3. Chop the onion too, but only in half rings.
4. Mix all these products. Add your favorite spices or spices specially designed for potatoes, one large spoonful of sunflower oil, grated tomato (1 pc.).
5. After mixing again, fill the baking sleeve with this mass. Send it to a hot oven tray (180 degrees). And wait an hour and a half.
6. Transfer the dish to a large container and garnish with herbs and garlic (through a press).

This is how, with the addition of just a spoonful of oil, a mountain of potatoes is obtained. In this case, you do not need to constantly check whether it is burnt.

Unusual barley porridge

For some reason, barley groats are not very popular. Meanwhile, it is very cheap, it is used as diet food. And if you cook it not like ordinary porridge with milk and water, but with some additives, you can get a tasty and economical dish for every day.

1. Pour barley groats (2 tablespoons) into a pot of boiling salted water. Bring to readiness.
2. Fry any mushrooms (200 g), after adding salt and cumin. You need to do this for at least 15 minutes.
3. Then add pepper, chopped garlic (3-5 cloves) to the mixture and pour into porridge.
4. Also fry lard (60 g) until cracklings form and onions until golden color. Send this mixture to porridge too.
5. Place in a mold and send to the oven, heating it to 200 degrees. As soon as the porridge becomes golden, it is ready.

desserts

sweet sausage

This sweet dessert comes from childhood. Probably, everyone in the family, although not every day, spoiled their household with it.

1. The leftover cookies do not need to be thrown away, but it is better to use them for good. It will take 300 g regular varieties like sugar. They need to be broken down. There is one way to do it quickly. Put the sweets in the bag and roll over it with a rolling pin.
2. In a saucepan, you need to heat milk (5 tablespoons), cocoa (3 tablespoons), sugar (1 tablespoon), condensed milk (5 tablespoons). Keep on fire, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Leave the mass to cool. And only after that grind it until smooth with butter (200 g will be enough).
3. It remains only to stir in the cookies and chopped nuts. There are no specific requirements here. Take the ones you like best: walnuts or peanuts. Just don't forget to grind them.
4. Put all this disgrace on the foil and give the shape of a sausage. And send it straight to the refrigerator so that it does not lose its shape.

chocolate mood

Very tender, light and beautiful (you can see it in the photo) dessert.

1. Pour gelatin (20 g) with water, preferably warm. Leave it for a while, let it swell.
2. We need cottage cheese (300 g). It is better to take home. But if you follow the figure, then you can replace it with a fat-free one.
3. Grind cottage cheese, 20% sour cream and sugar (200 g) thoroughly. To make it faster, use a mixer.
4. Heat the gelatin a little in a saucepan. You shouldn't boil it. Hold until it dissolves.
5. Let it cool down. To do this, the container can be placed in a sink lined with wet towel that needs to be watered periodically cold water. So the process will go faster.
6. Pour the gelatin into the curd mixture and mix quickly.
7. In a confectionery syringe (you can in a regular bag), transfer a quarter of the mass.
8. Stir in cocoa (4 tablespoons) into the rest. Pour into a mold lined with cling film.
9. Immerse the syringe into the mass and gently squeeze out small balls of the white mixture. Spread the rest on top.
10. Leave for 4 hours in the cold.
11. Before serving, turn the form with dessert into a dish, remove the cling film.

Salads

Liver and Rice Salad

Your family will surely love this hearty and tasty salad.

Boil a glass of rice in water. Don't forget to salt.
Since our goal is to save money, take chicken liver, not beef. The taste won't be affected at all. Take 450 g and lightly fry. Don't forget to add salt and some pepper. Then grind on a grater or cut into thin strips.
Pass one carrot through the grater too. Fry it until it becomes soft. Do the same with the onion, only chop it finely first.
Boil eggs (4 pcs.). Separately grind the yolks and whites on a grater.

Chop the green onion very finely.
Layer everything:

• carrot,
• proteins,
• liver,
• yolks,
• green onion.

Do not forget to grease the layers with mayonnaise.

glutton

Replacing meat with sausage does not impair the quality of food, but allows significant savings.

1. Half-smoked sausage (50 g) cut into strips.
2. Cheese (50 g) chop on a fine grater.
3. Chop tomatoes (2 pcs.) into cubes.
4. Parsley (50 g) chop.
5. Combine all products and season with mayonnaise.

This is how you can cook delicious and economical meals for every day from a minimum of products, which every family member will definitely like. One view of these dishes in the photo is appetizing.

Sasha: | February 9th, 2019 | 2:12 dp

Fruit is not enough, of course, this is one for me for a week and the salad is not quite from fresh vegetables. As for the rest, well done! Will the husband and children wait 10 minutes? Ridiculous question for sure :)
Answer: Sasha, thanks for your comment! You can buy as many fruits as you need;)

Anna: | February 3rd, 2019 | 8:44 dp

Anyone who is going to die of starvation from such a menu should urgently read Chekhov's story “The Stupid Frenchman” and draw conclusions. There are only 3 pages.
Answer: Anna, thanks!

Irina: | January 8th, 2019 | 8:48 dp

Daria, thank you very much for your work! And the site itself is pleasant, and conveniently made, and I found so many useful tips for myself! All the best!
Answer: Irina and thank you!

Elena: | December 12th, 2018 | 1:18 pp

Now in 2018 there is a different price for products ... Perhaps for a family where small children this menu is relevant, but when there are adult men, they are unlikely to remain full for a long time with such a set of products.
Answer: Elena, of course the price is different now. Even in the regions the prices are different;). But still, the menu is made with savings in mind. I agree people eat differently, someone eats less, someone large quantity. Even different men differently;). According to this, the concept of a portion is relative.

Evelina: | October 6th, 2018 | 6:00 pm

Hello Dasha. Any suggestions for a substitute for chicken soup? I've already eaten it to tears))))
Answer: Evelina, you can try these soups

Or here in this catalog a lot of recipes belong to the category sparingly, look at the soups section, find it to your liking.

Olga: | August 21st, 2018 | 3:52 pm

Making a menu for the week saves both time and money. Very convenient. The only request, as to an experienced person who knows a lot, is to come up with a menu for people with diabetes. I have to cook for my family and separately for myself, a diabetic.
Answer: Olga, thanks for the comment! Maybe I’m an experienced person;), but I don’t have a special education that gives me the right to make a menu for medical reasons, so I don’t have such a responsibility
I will not take over. Here we have one menu for diabetics, compiled under the guidance of a doctor. Hope it helps you.

Marina: | June 23rd, 2018 | 8:16 pm

Liked the menu. How about a list of products?
Answer: Marina, below is the subscription form, subscribe and the list will be sent to your mail. Or write to .

Anatoly: | May 30th, 2018 | 12:39 pm

Thank you! Helpful information and masterfully presented!
Answer: Anatoly, thanks for the comment!

Irina: | April 26th, 2018 | 9:08 am

Great menu! Thank you for your hard work. Can I please, full list send purchases by mail. Thanks in advance!
Answer: Irina, thanks! List sent.

Svetlana: | April 20th, 2018 | 2:33 pm

Thanks a lot. I'll do it right away!))) Could you email me the list of products for the week?
Answer: Svetlana, thanks for your comment! List sent.

Catherine: | February 21st, 2018 | 4:54 pm

3,000 a week, that's 12,000 a month, if you immediately buy food for this amount, then you can eat a varied menu for the whole month and at the same time not economically, but quite chic.
The recipes themselves are not bad, there is something to borrow.
Answer: Catherine, thanks for the comment!

Anna: | January 23rd, 2018 | 10:54 am

Thank you, I diversified my menu, took note of something
Answer: Anna, thanks for the comment!

Antonina: | December 12th, 2017 | 8:05 am

I was looking for a menu where meat would be used to a minimum ... But I can’t imagine dinner from one soup! .. Probably, it will take a long time to get used to ....
Answer: Antonina, you can add a salad, vegetable or cereal dish to this basic menu for lunch. And also take advantage of such an exemplary Lenten menu
Or vegetarian

Maria: | September 6th, 2017 | 3:20 pm

So far, I have just started cooking on this menu. but so far I even like it :) I don’t know why, but the fish meatballs turned out with a slight bitter aftertaste (maybe the fish is old, there was pollock ...) I’ll try another fish next time. but the meatballs are soft, although I don't like fish meatballs, these suit me :)) Thank you Dasha! You are a big guy! in live I watched your blanks in IG, you are a smart girl!
Answer: And thank you for your comment! The fish could be both old and with a disturbed storage regime. Enjoy your meal!

Catherine: | August 7th, 2017 | 2:21 pm

Well, I don't know, what's not to like about it? No one is FORCING you to cook exactly as it is written. This is a kind of framework that does not have to be observed, besides it is also completely free))) If you don’t have enough, add it, no one interferes, adjust it for health. So thanks for the menu. Personally, I used it, but with changes in some dishes in terms of the amount of food and replacing a couple of dishes for our family. Plus we bought fruits and vegetables.
Answer: Catherine, thank you for your support :)

Veronica: | June 29th, 2017 | 4:47 dp

We have three times more in the Khabarovsk Territory (
Answer: Veronica, unfortunately, yes - in different cities the prices are different ...

Tanya: | June 2nd, 2017 | 8:33 pm

I support the idea of ​​a menu for a week in advance and a list of products. I'm not talking about money, I'm talking about time. I got tired of buying something every day and this without a clear knowledge of the final dish. And then drag it all + three children and a stroller. and another hour to seek out in the internet what to cook. And so I stock up in advance, order by phone and everything will be brought. No, well, I have to try. It will work. I have been looking for a specific menu for a week and a list of products for a long time. Thank you! And to whom the hungry menu, please visit the restaurant.
Answer: Tanya, thank you for your comment and kind words!

Xenia: | June 1st, 2017 | 5:59 pm

An excellent menu, but it’s just too much in terms of amount - our products are very expensive, but I spend much less and I definitely cook meat every day (the main glutton will not forgive me for his absence))). Once a month we buy long-lasting products - cereals, tea, flour, canned food, a box of milk (daughter 1.4, respectively, a lot of milk is spent), about 3000 rubles are spent on this. Then I buy meat, chicken, minced meat, heart, liver - what on this moment is, then I take it, it takes about 2500r. And fruits, vegetables about 1000-1500r. Within a month I buy more bread and milk, also about 1000 rubles. leaves. Total 7000-7500r. and that's for a month. Either our prices are not so high, or I save so well))))
We have a similar menu, only I usually cook breakfast and dinner, which then goes as lunch. There are much fewer soups on the menu, after all, you can’t really feed a family with them, and you can cook so many things that it’s somehow a pity to feed your swallows with soups alone) . I can add that freezing helps to save money without harm to health - it’s just right for workers, I make a lot of different semi-finished products on weekends - dumplings, different dumplings, cabbage rolls, poses, khinkali, stuffed peppers, stuffed zucchini - you need 2 kg of minced meat, stuffing for dumplings and vegetables, in time it all takes about two hours. Then I cook snacks - stuffed pancakes with cottage cheese and meat + rice, cheesecakes, several different pies from yeast dough raw (I got it, thawed it and baked it in 20 minutes), more different pastries until the freezer is over. Baking for a couple of weeks is stored without harm, but for breakfast it remains only to get it out and warm it up. By the way, I also freeze vegetables, the same carrots are easier to cut and put in the freezer than to buy every week, of course, it will no longer fit for salads, but for pilaf, roasting, etc. just right. We can say that the contents of the freezer save me the whole month.
Now we need to bring our menu to mind and yours as the basis will fit just right! Thank you for your work)
Answer: Xenia, thank you for your experience! Yes, you are very economical in spending your budget on food!

Krealeksa: | May 23rd, 2017 | 2:42 dp

Great site!! I want to go back to work after having a baby. Here, I think, how to break away from the stove. There are solutions, and you have provided them to all of us in a very accessible form. Although I read a lot in the comments about “yesterday's food” and about “eating soup for the second time in a day”? And she laughed heartily. Here a lot depends on upbringing, my mother raised us like this: the family was big, my mother cooked for several days at once. If someone said that they wouldn’t eat it, my mother didn’t mind - if you don’t want to eat, then you’re not hungry. This is how the problems were solved.
The second is menu planning. wonderful opportunity spend interesting time with the whole family, chat. It is very cool! Especially when children understand that their parents need their help, that they make decisions with their parents on an equal footing.
Answer: Krealeksa, thank you for your comment and your experience!

Ira: | December 6th, 2016 | 1:25 pm

Thank you. To save money in winter, I froze a lot of fruits and vegetables.
Answer: Irina, yes, summer frosts really help to save money in winter;)

Natalia: | February 26th, 2016 | 9:13 am

Dasha, for some reason I can’t get an economical menu for a week, I have already tried several times.
Answer: Natalia, the economical menu for the week is published on the website. If you would like to receive a shopping list for the economy menu, please email me.

Katya: | February 1st, 2016 | 6:45 pm

I really liked the idea of ​​compiling a menu and planning purchases for the week. And the menu is delicious and varied. But the question arose: where is the bread? Thank you for your hard work.
Answer: Katya, I bake bread in a bread machine.

Gulmira: | January 19th, 2016 | 10:10 am

thanks Dasha, I took something in the piggy bank, but our breakfast is cottage cheese, in addition to cereals. omelets, sandwiches and sour cream

Tatiana: | January 19th, 2016 | 7:48 dp

I experienced hostess I cook a lot, I try to save money. But on the site of Daria I found a lot of useful things, especially for freezing - cooking food for the future is my strong point, and I make a lot of semi-finished products.

Oksana: | January 16th, 2016 | 12:17 pm

I agree with those who consider such a menu to be something on the verge of starvation ...
One soup without meat for lunch... Suitable for slimming young ladies, but to feed a man... and children...
Mine, for example, do not eat yesterday at all ..

Valentina: | January 16th, 2016 | 2:23 dp

Dasha, thank you for your site and articles! It's always a good idea to remind yourself to be smart about your food spending. But I am on the side of those whose family cannot live on such a menu. When I was growing up, the three of us lived - me, my mother and grandmother. We could eat this amount for two weeks. And living with my husband and seven-year-old son, if I cook a kilogram of meat for dinner, but from it, with a stretch, something will remain for my husband for lunch with me. And this is with soups and side dishes. And for a child to have something to take to school with him for lunch is generally an unrealistic event. (We don't live in Russia and the kids all bring lunch to school with them and they have 30 minutes to eat.) Thanks anyway, useful site.

Xenia: | December 15th, 2015 | 1:41 pm

Is lunch just soup? very little(
Answer: Ksenia, my family has enough for lunch. You can add to lunch, for example, a salad or an appetizer. You may find this section helpful.

Elena: | November 5th, 2015 | 5:59 dp

Thank you very much good menu. There are 4 people in our family - 2 adults and 2 children. Our menu is about the same as here (the set of dishes varies, but the essence is the same), only there are more fruits. We always eat like this, no one dies of hunger. Everyone is full and happy!

Lily: | October 13th, 2015 | 1:50 dp

Thanks to. We rarely buy meat. Hen in all our meat dishes. For our seven and with our income just right.

Anastasia: | July 14th, 2015 | 1:50 pp

Thank you very much! We just recently formed a young family, very little money and most of it was spent on groceries, in addition to all this, my head ached about what to cook. Now there are no problems with this and it turns out to save money, in general, an excellent menu and website, for all hostesses on a note!

Anastasia: | April 2nd, 2015 | 3:52 pm

Thanks to! I have been looking for this kind of information for a long time. I buy random products all the time. And I understand that more money is spent than necessary. I started to make a menu according to your recommendation and now my head does not hurt what to cook today.

Anonymous: | January 25th, 2015 | 5:38 pm

Good evening. How about drinks? because it is also a cost.
Answer: Yes, drinks are not included. The most economical is water, homemade fruit drinks from berries frozen for the winter and compotes from harvested dried fruits or canned.

Marina: | January 23rd, 2015 | 5:11 pm

It seems to me that dinner is dense, and lunch is somehow not very satisfying. Where is the logic? After all, in the morning and at lunch, as I understand it, you need to eat normally, but for dinner - easy? Or did I miss something?
Answer: Marina, we have dinner early, at 5-6 pm. And for us, a hearty dinner is logical. But there may be another situation when everyone gathers at home only late in the evening. This menu is just one of the options. You can move the salad to lunch. Or leave only salad for dinner, and move the hot dish to lunch. Focus on the needs of your family.

Svetlana: | December 17th, 2014 | 8:03 dp

Very interesting, I'll take note, thank you. Everything is simple and delicious.

Olya: | September 16th, 2014 | 9:12 pm

Thank you very much!! I wrote everything down and took an example! I live alone, but at the moment I need to save on food, but at the same time eat healthy food - I took everything into service! Beautifully painted!!! Peace and love to your family!!
Answer: Olya, thank you very much for the kind words! I'm glad you liked the menu :)

Ray: | May 21st, 2013 | 2:54 dp

Anonymous: | May 21st, 2013 | 2:53 dp

Thank you very much! I really liked it.

Carolina: | May 16th, 2013 | 7:10 am

Highly good recipes and the main thing is to learn how to save))) Thank you very much I will use it with pleasure!

Christina: | April 29th, 2013 | 12:04 pm

DASHA)!!! Your menu is just a godsend) thank you so much!!! since I have a young family, I am 20 years old, and my husband is 33 years old, and we have two children, a girl is 10 months old, and a boy is 2 and 9. My husband has not been a bachelor for two years and has not eaten sausage with sticks of bread. There were soups, cereals, and so on. I don’t have to say what a young family is (the wife is on maternity leave, and the husband works every day and weekends too. I’m at home with the children - every single day I puzzle over what to feed, and what to cook is just awful. APPROACHING TO THE HUSBAND AND AGAIN ASKING WHAT TO COOK TODAY? ??-WE FIGHT AGAIN ((so I try to invent it myself, but there are a lot of things on the Internet (all possible recipes, but when reading their ingredients, you understand that there is not enough money even for the basis of the dish, not to mention taste and beauty) but I want something and the children ate, and the husband was full.Today I found your site quite by accident, and I'm just delighted you have not easily made life easier for many families who cannot afford something, not because they are low-income, but maybe because there are some purchases or debts for each reason your own (but they are significant for everyone), but you saved many young families in most families, both officially registered and civilly falling apart precisely because there is no money to eat tasty and satisfying food, and from what is even in the kitchen in the refrigerator and on the bedside tables it’s impossible to come up with anything from ignorance and not experience, and someone just doesn’t want to bother. And your site is built on the basis of the ECONOMY MENU FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY from the smallest to the oldest.
YOU CAN WITH FULL CONFIDENCE AND PRIDE CALL YOURSELF THE KEEPER OF THE HOME (and this is the most important thing - your contribution to your family.) 3 weeks they will never understand all the romance and value of such things as respect and understanding. As they say, you can't put a scarf on someone else's mouth. Yes, it's unpleasant. but ... Behind your back there are more than one hundred families (where both a man and a woman stand at the stove) that are incredibly grateful to you and thousands more that you don’t even know about. All the very best to you. Do not lose optimism under any circumstances and harmony in your family hearth!! The Lord help you!

Answer: Christina, thank you very much!

Diana: | December 1st, 2012 | 11:48 pm

I also support this menu. very accurate and economical. I am also at home with a child on maternity leave. Husband only has dinner with us. I love soups, and my baby loves everything, but I won’t give him cutlets yet. small still)) and so everything is super.

Katya: | November 18th, 2012 | 9:17 am

We also have a hot dish 2 times a day. And we love borscht so much that in the evening we will eat the dish that we prepared for the evening tato there is cabbage soup. miracle menu! I am speeding

Victoria: | November 8th, 2012 | 2:01 pm

The menu is not even bad, it’s clear that it’s necessary to make it personal anyway, taking into account the tastes and habits of the family (for example, we don’t eat radish categorically). As for soups twice a day, I don't see much of a problem. For example, my husband has soup for breakfast. at lunch, he does not have the opportunity to dine either first, but in general with something adequate - only a snack. But a salad in the form of a side dish for my husband’s dinner will not suit, but, frankly, I don’t see the problem that everyone is so indignant about. Cooking a portion of pasta for a husband at material costs is quite a bit and will add satiety to the food)))

Vyacheslav: | October 25th, 2012 | 11:21 pm

I liked everything. It remains to somehow introduce it, that is, to convince the spouse to take it into service, otherwise the eternal lamentations about cooking are fed up with the order.

Lelka: | October 1st, 2012 | 1:30 pm

which are all evil, if you don’t like it, don’t use it. if you have more money to spend on food, go! but everyone spends a lot of time for thinking - buying and cooking. Thanks, Dasha, for the implementation and the example of the system itself. today I finally and irrevocably decided to implement it in my organization of the economy!

Julia: | July 14th, 2012 | 5:23 pm

In my opinion, food should please both the eye and the body! And so there are few joys in life, so even scoff at food. I cook for my family (husband and son) in the morning, afternoon and evening. I'm not hard!

Answer: I am very happy for you, Julia, and your family!

Katama: | June 28th, 2012 | 12:52 pm

I bow to your thriftiness, thoughtfulness and clarity of thought)) It was necessary to develop such a system!
I want to adopt everything at once, I have already made a list of what I can cook - and a trial menu for a week. Let's see how it goes.

This particular menu would suit me. In my opinion, quite sufficient amount of food and variety.

Violetta: | June 15th, 2012 | 1:14 pm

I would have been hungry. Yes, I swallowed :) and you are great, how I would like to spend little on food, but to eat up and it was delicious: ((no

Answer: then welcome to the site. Here in the heading “saving money” there are a lot of tips and ideas on how to save money wisely without compromising health and taste.

Catherine: | June 6th, 2012 | 9:03 pm

The site is interesting, the menu is thought out, thank you.
True, I have a small remark. An economical menu is, apparently, not for every time. That is, if you need to get by with money, then please, but it’s still not worth it forever. Not enough fruit, not enough meat.
We also observe fasting. True, for religious reasons. A month and a half without meat ... just think .... With full-fledged milk and everyday fish. And the hemoglobin in the child fell below the norm. After a month of our usual nutrition, it returned to normal ...
We have a big family - 8 people, and yet, so that everyone, except for lean ones, needs 3 kg of meat and 1.5 - 2 kg of chicken for a day. I cook meat in a slow cooker and therefore the “active cooking” time is about 15 minutes. For the price of fresh and boneless meat, I manage to buy rubles for 600. So this is for 8 people !!! So, if for 3 people, then we can safely say that for 200 rubles of meat you can buy a week for a small family. not for 25, but for 30 S per month, but with meat. (We never eat any sausages, of course.)
But these are just my thoughts, otherwise the site is great !!

Answer: Thank you, Ekaterina! Yes, if you are not lazy, choose the right products and cook everything yourself, then food can be very economical. Even $30 a month is very little.
By the way, if you fast for religious reasons, then the Church allows children not to fast (as well as sick, pregnant and lactating women). Although you probably already know this :)

Oksana: | May 24th, 2012 | 1:05 pm

Super website! I'm very glad I found you! As for the menu, I’ll say that we spend even less on a family of 3 when it’s very tight with money. But we hardly have a varied menu. We live from buckwheat to pasta and cutlets are fried for a week in which there is more bread than meat (And such a menu as you described is just festive table! I learned a lot for myself and added your site to my notes. I will use the economical menu, this is just for us. It is really varied and not boring, otherwise I sometimes don’t know what to cook so that it’s inexpensive and something new. Thanks for the ideas!!!

Answer: yes, if the goal was just an economical menu, then you could spend even less. But I tried to make it varied, it has meat, fruits, and vegetables. Almost a feast :)

Roman: | May 22nd, 2012 | 3:29 pm

When I read this menu, I also thought that the week would be lean (not in terms of modesty, but in terms of volume), but no, it’s enough, even morality - something beautiful morality is not invented, in a nutshell there is nothing to slander until you try it.
The experiment is being carried out in the hero city of Minsk. But this does not affect the purity of the experiment.

Answer: there is no experiment on the purity, but the prices are very even. Your total purchase at a price turned out to be more than my calculations. But, most likely, the products should remain. Thanks for the experiment. And then, after reading the comments, I began to suspect that we feed on air and should die of hunger soon :)

Roman: | May 21st, 2012 | 2:42 pm

I decided to start getting acquainted with the method of weekly menu preparation. Yesterday (on Sunday) I bought everything according to the list (it came out in the amount of 325,000 rubles = $ 40)
Day one (Monday).
And Roman had a saucepan, and he took it out and put it on the fire, poured in buckwheat and said: Let there be porridge, and porridge became. And he looked at the porridge and saw that the porridge was not good and it was possible to add a little less water (but in general, nothing))))).

The story with pies ended with picking out the filling and throwing away the dry dough.

Oooooh, the afternoon snack came out just right, it was just not realistic to spoil something.

Lunch, for some reason it turned out soup-puree)))))

Left for dinner for two with my wife: buckwheat porridge, entrails from pies and pasta puree soup (it’s enough for another 3 days). So we will leave the meatballs for another time.

I will improve with your help. The one who does nothing makes no mistakes.
Although, of course, you can, like some visitors to your site, criticize and go fry eggs, or go to McDuck. May God bless you and your family happiness.

Answer: Hello, Roman! I will be following the experiment with interest. If you have any questions about recipes, please ask. And I want to ask the question that torments almost everyone who read such a menu: have you eaten enough? Was there a feeling of hunger? Also, what city is the experiment taking place in?

Svetlana: | May 16th, 2012 | 8:09 pm

thank you very much for good idea to create such a website to save money on food, in our family it is just necessary. Otherwise, too much money goes nowhere. The menu is also interesting, I want to apply it in my family, my husband also approved.

Victoria: | April 5th, 2012 | 12:00 pm

What a miracle that I found you! :)) Just a wonderful site!!! Great menu! Super!!! Thank you Darya!!!

Olga: | February 24th, 2012 | 7:13 pm

in principle, it’s a bit hungry for me, of course, and I’m drawn to sweets and other delights. I would drink porridge with yogurt, soup with salad, in between I would eat bananas, apples, and so on. But I'm always-pregnant-nursing, probably from this)
It is not correct to compare mushrooms with chips. Still, it is better not to give mushrooms to small children, this can be fraught with unpleasant consequences (chips and other things should not be given either).

Answer: you see, Olga, my goal in compiling this menu was to choose economical, but delicious food. I think that I have achieved my goal. If I published this menu on some site dedicated to diets, then I would definitely be criticized for the fact that we eat too much, and the human body needs fewer calories per day :)

Anna: | February 19th, 2012 | 4:26 pm

Thanks for the great menu! Just right for my family :) Lots of useful finds!

Alena: | February 17th, 2012 | 8:37 am

Super! Practical. thank! and those who are outraged, then let them go to restaurants))))

Dara: | February 13th, 2012 | 9:20 am

Views are good. And servings - at least 5 per day. 1 serving is approximately one not very large apple, two carrots, etc., i.e. around 200 grams. Total at least a kilogram of vegetables and fruits per day. Potato is not included :)
And also the recommendations of the same WHO on proteins (for adults) - 0.8-1 g of protein per kg of weight. That is, for a woman weighing 60 kg, this in real products will be about 300 grams of chicken fillet or 350 g of low-fat cottage cheese. Surprisingly, many do not..

Answer: yes, there are also vegetarians, ascetics, fasters and just people who do not like meat. It seems to me that if a person is healthy and feels good, then the nutrition system he has chosen is suitable for him, even if he does not fit into the WHO statistical standards.

Lana: | February 13th, 2012 | 8:11 dp

Dasha, you have created an extremely useful site! There are four men in my family and your planning tips are just a godsend for me. I read so much about how good it is, but for the first time I see a tested live program. Thank you so much!

Answer: Thanks, Lana! I am glad that my experience can be useful to other hostesses. For me, this is a great incentive to keep working on the site.

Dara: | February 10th, 2012 | 12:53 pm

Is fruit not included? Because on the menu I see only a banana. Vegetables, too, even for the minimum WHO recommendations will not be typed ...

Answer: How much is the minimum WHO recommendation? The menu of this day includes vegetables: cabbage, potatoes, carrots, onions, radishes and mushrooms. I think six different types vegetables in one day is quite enough and varied.

Kokosik: | February 8th, 2012 | 10:18 am

Dasha, thank you for the recipes and helpful tips. I will share my experience (or maybe this is not my know-how) for economy. For some reason, I have soup prepared for 3 days. Either the pan is like this, or the subconscious mind is working. In general, the family eats with pleasure for 2 days, and on the third they go on strike. Therefore, I make puree soup from the leftovers, adding some of the seasonings. And be sure to croutons or croutons. Goes with a bang, like the first time. No, throw tomatoes at me, I know that dishes should be eaten within 2 hours of cooking, and then it's horror-horror!!! But the reality of life is...

Answer: only those who have never tried to feed more than 2 people for at least a week can throw slippers:) I don’t see anything wrong with preparing soups for a couple of days (I do it myself). Vitamins can be obtained with fresh salads and fruits and vegetables. Soup is food, not medicine. The soup idea is great!

Natalia (other :)):| February 7th, 2012 | 12:18 pm

I think it's a good menu. Very similar to how our family eats (also 3 people - mom, dad and child). And certainly not hungry. It seems to depend on the habits of the family.

Natalia: | February 7th, 2012 | 11:43 am

Our family is like this too. My daughter and I are quite full of soup for lunch. I cook it thicker, for satiety :)
And the husband in the evening will also not refuse a hot plate, especially in winter.
And I will try to make cutlets too. Just need to go to my mother for mushrooms. And I also thought that if there are small children in the family and you are afraid to give them mushrooms, then you can take even fewer of them, just a couple of pieces for flavor, and add carrots with browned onions to the rice. It seems to me that this will not spoil the taste of cutlets :)

Answer: I'm not afraid to give mushrooms, because I pick them myself in clean forests, dry them myself and cook them myself :) Not for reasons of economy, it's just a kind of recreation for me. But your version with a bow can also be. I just don't have much good relationship with onions, so I prefer mushrooms.

Natalia: | February 7th, 2012 | 11:39 am

And I like it too! :)
Is our

Tatiana: | February 7th, 2012 | 10:10 am

I think everything is fine!)
Something all went into hostility, I look ...
If you count calories, then for sure it will be enough according to the norm!
The title says - "Economical menu" - what can be nit-picking!
If someone can and wants to eat meat in chunks and a mountain of side dish sprinkled with butter (and in my opinion, salad is an excellent side dish) four times a day - then to your health!
Still, the goal of saving is also pursued here, and not just “to eat from the belly”.
I myself don’t save much on food and I can afford not to count every ruble spent on it, but I see here quite an adequate calculation and advice that is useful for many!
Mushrooms ... I don’t think that they can somehow harm a child in small quantities, especially if you remember that children generally consume a bunch of all kinds of chemicals, such as chips, snacks, it’s not clear what sweets, drinks and the like are made of ... mushrooms in Compared to this, dietary
And eat soup / borscht twice a day - but that's okay! It all depends on family habits and upbringing - there are very capricious children and husbands)) but it often depends on the woman herself - how much she will allow them to sit on her neck)) In general, this is a personal matter - you can’t judge here ...
Dasha, you are great! ;)

Answer: thanks for the support! I'm fine with comments like, "Your family can't get enough of this because ours eats differently." Everyone has their own approach to nutrition.

Cheslav: | February 7th, 2012 | 10:08 am

Fine. Thanks a lot. Just the right menu for our young family.

Answer: thank you too! I usually turn to hostesses, but it is even more pleasant to see a man in our ranks!

Irina: | February 7th, 2012 | 9:30 am

Dasha, excellent menu, I support. We, too, can eat soup 2 times a day, and if my husband does not come for lunch, he eats it for dinner. It's all about how you cook. It looks like you are cooking very tasty and with love :) Now I am leaving the menu from the nutritionist for the whole family - it differs from the usual, but quietly both the husband and son are switching to it. Good luck, keep up the good work, you're doing great!

Answer: thanks for the support!

Irina: | February 6th, 2012 | 8:32 pm

A very strange menu, it's not just saving, it's some kind of hunger strike, to be honest ...
Eating soup twice a day is something new. I wouldn’t even eat it myself, unless there’s nothing else, but here everything seems to be thought out in advance. Secondly, for some reason there is only soup for lunch, but there is no second course (meat/fish/chicken + side dish) or salad. For dinner, there is somehow clearly not enough of a normal side dish, because the salad is only an addition, but not a side dish. That is, if a woman is on a diet, then yes, a salad without anything perfect option, but this is clearly not enough and uninteresting for the children and the husband.
What a depressing menu you got, sorry.

Answer: we have enough. Soup we eat not twice, but once. At lunch - me and my daughter, and my husband for dinner. Since my daughter and I are at home, we can afford to eat four times a day in small portions. We are quite full. My husband, in connection with the work schedule, the main meal is for dinner, for which he eats the first, second and salad. A side dish for cutlets already consisting of rice is not needed. This is enough for me, my husband and child.

Natalia: | February 6th, 2012 | 5:57 pm

Dasha! I have a few questions for you. For dinner, rice patties with mushrooms are designed for three servings (for you, husband and daughter), and the daughter is less than three years old. But experts in baby food it is not recommended to feed mushrooms to children under three years of age. Secondly, based on own experience, my family (husband and children) will never eat anything for dinner that was for lunch. Yes, and food should be varied. Does your daughter eat soup for the second time in a day without squeaking? And thirdly, if neither the husband nor the daughter wants either soup or meatballs, have they already sat down at the table? You have a full freezer of semi-finished products, but it takes at least 10 minutes to warm up and defrost them, right? Will they just sit and wait?

Answer: for 8 servings, 50 grams of mushrooms is not even food, but just seasoning for taste. In addition, these mushrooms are already boiled and even ground in a blender, so I don’t see any problems for the body, even for children. I just don’t give her mushrooms as food, but in such small quantities you can. In my family, it’s customary to make a menu for a week together, and then not be capricious if they serve what is chosen in advance :) An exception, of course, is made for my daughter: she wants soup, she wants cutlets, but if she doesn’t want, she can not eat. Well, I don’t see any problems in 10 minutes of waiting until the table is set. In general, we manage :)