You can mix it with Rice, Teriyaki or Soy sauce, butter, soups, stews, chop up meat into it (chicken, turkey, ground beef, etc), cook it with soup broth (instead of the salt/sauce packet), stir fry, casseroles, au grautin potatoes, bake it into a casserole, mix it into salads, etc...
It's boring, but filling, and you can buy an entire case of the stuff for $2~$3...
Rice, Potatoes, vegetable soup broth, whole chickens, & nearly anything you can buy in bulk from CostCo/Sam's Club style warehouse stores...
Rice can be used as "filler" for so many things. (EX: in burrito's so you don't need as much meat, or in soups so you can make it go further).
Potatoes can be used to make stews, soups, chopped up into burrito's, baked, fried, grilled, mashed, cream of potato soup, etc...
Vege broth can be used to cook rice in, which makes the rice flavourful without adding a bunch of salt.
You can use the broth to make soup stock, cook Ramen in, add it to pretty much any baked goods instead of water, etc...
A whole chicken can be cut up & cooked, dumped whole into a stew pot, turned into nuggets, picnic chicken, fried, baked, broiled, grilled, or what-ever tickles your fancy, and a whole chicken is usually cheaper than just getting chicken bits.
Veges, LOTS of veges...
You can add them to nearly anything to help stretch the dish & make it go farther.
Chopped celery adds a zesty !CRUNCH! to things, and the calories it forces you to burn helps you feel full faster.
Carrots, lettuce, squash, tomatoes, celery, corn, beans, et al - you can chop them all up and make tasty stews, soups, salads, shredded toppings for sammiches, soups, or baked into other things or over rice.
Rice + Vege broth + Chicken + Vege Medley, baked until it turns golden brown, makes a cheap n' tasty dish.
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