Easy Cheap Morning Meals for a Crwd

Crock Pot Breakfast Casserole

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Wake up to a hearty and nutritious morning meal with this easy, cheesy crock pot breakfast casserole that cooks to perfection while you sleep and serves a family of six. Simply load up the appliance with packaged hash brown potatoes, eggs, and a few other simple ingredients and leave to cook overnight.

Slow Cooker Navy Bean Soup With Ham

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Use your crockpot for a satisfying hearty bean soup that makes a comforting lunch or dinner with crusty bread or cornbread. It's inexpensive to prepare with dry legumes, a ham bone or ham hocks, and simple seasonings. It also freezes well for making ahead.

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Egg Roll in a Bowl

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Delight your family with this fun lunch or dinner recipe that takes your favorite egg roll ingredients, including ground pork, cabbage, ginger, and garlic, and serves them up in a bowl instead of a fried wrapper. It's a healthy spin on a favorite Chinese takeout, including the super crave-able creamy and spicy dressing.

Chicken, Cheese, and Penne Pasta Bake

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Easy, inexpensive chicken pasta bake is the ultimate one-dish meal. Chicken breasts are combined with mushrooms, artichokes, and pasta and coated in a creamy sauce before being topped with cheese and baked. You can also use leftover white or dark meat chicken for this recipe.

Easy Pizza Pockets

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Watch kids' eyes light up when you serve these delicious pizza pockets for lunch or a hearty snack. They look and taste like the popular pizzeria treat and are a snap to make at home with a can of refrigerated biscuits, jarred or fresh tomato sauce, and your favorite pizza ingredients.

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Stuffed Peppers With Ground Beef and Rice

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Stuffed with a flavorful mixture of beef, rice, and pantry staples, these hearty stuffed peppers make a satisfying main dish. They look pretty on a plate, making a tasty lunch or dinner that won't stretch your budget and will please even picky eaters.

Chuck Steak Dinner Baked in Foil

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Start with a single, thick, budget-friendly chuck steak to create a complete, delicious dinner that will satisfy a family of four. The beef bakes to perfection in a foil packet along with potatoes, carrots, celery, and dry onion soup seasoning for a flavorful, filling dish with little effort and minimal clean-up.

Basic French Toast

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French toast tastes like a special treat at breakfast or brunch, but is really a simple matter of frying bread slices that you have dunked in a mixture of eggs and milk. It's also a great way to use up excess food (stale bread) that might otherwise be thrown away.

Pork Fried Rice

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Use up leftover rice in the fridge with this easy, nutritious, takeout-style fried rice dish that your family will ask you to make again and again. It's a snap to assemble the ingredients, including diced, cooked ham or pork and any fresh (or thawed frozen) vegetables you have on hand.

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Black Bean and Rice Salad

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Wake up your family's tastebuds with this bright-tasting rice salad. It includes plenty of healthy plant protein from canned black beans and great crunch from chopped bell peppers. The zingy lime juice dressing is enhanced with smoky cumin and mustard for fabulous flavor without extra calories.

One Pan Beef Stroganoff

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Here's a great way to use budget-friendly ground beef to create an ultra-flavorful and filling family meal. You cook the meat and noodles in one pan along with a mouth-watering sauce made from mushrooms, sour cream, and a few other ingredients, for an easy beef stroganoff that leaves you with little mess to clean up.

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Freezer Breakfast Burritos

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All it takes to prepare two dozen delicious, make-ahead breakfast burritos to stash in your freezer is a dozen eggs, a few pork sausages, cheese, flour tortillas, and a scoop of salsa. They heat up easily in the microwave and make a great help yourself breakfast for kids or house guests.

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