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.
“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.”
That used to be the case; now in my area the tamales & hot sauce would have to go up to get any reaction...