Meatloaf is another one you can make easily that is easy and filling and you can freeze or store all the ingredients for a long time.
A bag of chopped onions, which are a dollar one sweet onion, which is also about a dollar
Worcestershire sauce
Tomato paste (I buy the little packets, a jar or a can is cheaper though, but you don't need much)
1 pound of ground beef
1 pound of ground pork, or turkey
2 eggs
1 bottle of a spicy ketchup. I am a fan of one that is called "Buffalo Ketchup" and also a jalapeno one
Bread crumbs, I do gluten free
Spices to your taste. I like Montreal Steak Seasoning for meat loaf.
Preheat oven to 350 or so.
Line a pan with foil, like your little turkey pan or roaster, if you don't have one, you can use an aluminum pan from the store or a cookie sheet. Investing in pans is not that big of a deal if you have Goodwill :)
Saute onions in olive oil, add your Worcestershire sauce and tomato paste or even some of the ketchup until it looks like the onions are fully cooked. Let that cool. I put the whole pan in the freezer or out on my balcony in the winter time.
Mix with hands, two beaten eggs, bread crumbs, meat and spices, add the cooled onion tomato mixture. Form a loaf that is not thicker in the middle in your foiled pan and cover in ketchup. Let it bake about an hour.
You can add potatoes to make mashed potatoes, potato wedges, whatever in the oven at the same time. White potatoes take about an hour to bake, sweet ones do not, but they smell sweet when they are done, so that should help you.
I also will make veggie pasta to serve as a bed for the meat loaf --it's tasty and the grease from the meat loaf absorbs into it. The veggie pastas are much more resilient and "harder". You can add a little grated cheese to it, and once it's all microwaved at lunch time or dinner time at work, it's all delicious together. You can also add any type of green veggie, even just frozen, in with the macaroni. I like the little leaf ball, called Brussel sprouts with this one!
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