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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you bought chickpeas lately? Or lentils. A few bucks for huge servings.  Risotto is available at Trader Joe's.  Chocolate mousse is made with chocolate, cream, eggs, sugar -- all ingredients easily found at Safeway or Giant.  Vanilla ice cream is not budget friendly?  Since when did cheese and apples become rich man's fare?  Cilantro -- Giant, endive -- Giant, oranges -- Giant.  If you caramelize peantus and popcorn it is cheap cheap cheap.  Brownies require butter, flour, eggs, baking soda, salt, and Baker's chocolate -- let me rush to Whole Foods right away!  Lemon mouse is made with heavy cream, six lemons, eggs, and sugar.  For ginger cookies you need 2 tbs fresh ginger -- OMG two dollars! -- molasses, brown and white sugar, flour, cinnamon, eggs, butter, nutmeg, powdered ginger and pepper.

It is not my fault that PPs don't know the first thing about cooking good food.

More suggestions: bacon wrapped prunes roasted in the oven as a starter.  Wait -- prunes must be imported by air, far too costly to consider!

Onion soup -- beef stock, butter, onions.  Throw in meat or a veg for extra flavor.[/quote]

I am sitting here thinking about how to explain to you in writing that these things aren't cheap due to the # of ingredients, relatively large variety of ingredients, need to purchase lots of new things because these aren't items most people have sitting around, etc...

...but it's clear you just don't get it.

The original poster needs cheap, meaning: short ingredient list, bang for the buck, and lots of staples she won't have to go out to buy. Am I right?

OP, try:

Chili (two pots - one veggie, one meat)
Fixings (cheese, cilantro, onion, chopped tomato, jalapenos, sour cream, shredded lettuce)
Cornbread (jiffy boxes + creamed corn + can of green chilis)
Fritos
Make guac if that's not too much $
Fruit salad with cheap and seasonal fresh fruit like grapes/nectarines/watermelon/pineapple

Your grocery list will be:
onion, garlic, peppers, jalapeno, cilantro, tomatoes, iceberg for shredding ($12 maybe)
cans of tomatoes, rotel, chili powder, chilis, jiffy mix, creamed corn ($15 maybe)
meat ($5 maybe)
sour cream, cheese ($7 maybe)
fruit ($15 if you're conservative, $25 if you're not)
if you choose extras like avocado, fritos, salsa ingredients, chicken broth for a base for the chili ($12-$15)
That's $50-$75 to feed 25.

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