[ctdonath2]

Such topics are exactly why I started this:

$1 meals at http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/

[Buckeye McFrog]

Cool blog! I look forward to more cheap meal ideas!

I notice a lot of them are pasta. We grew up around a lot of Sicilian immigrants and their first generation kids. Despite the romantic imagery, life there was intensely poverty-stricken for most people. Hence the heavy reliance on herbs and pasta.

Now I hear many complaints that the local supermarkets jack up the price of pasta sauce every time the economy goes into recession. They know what people will be eating.

[HungarianGypsy]

Thank you for that post about your blog. I have been wanting to do an experiment on my blog about the kinds of food people ate in the 50-70 years ago, when people were in better shape. Not the same as your blog, but it is for the same reason. Always looking for cheap and nutritious ways to feed the family.