Food Pantry Meal - taste tested and delicious
It's the end of the month, our food stamps ran out on the 17th, and I've been living off of ramen again.
But we finally found a decent food pantry! After going to a Catholic church pantry and being told we were allowed to go once a month and receive one bag of food for our family of seven, I was really discouraged. But I'm glad we didn't give up because there are some decent pantries out there!
Everything (except the curry powder) that I made this meal with came from the food pantry and it's actually really freaking tasty.
Ingredients:
1 beef patty 1/3rd can of chickpeas 2 handfuls of frozen spinach 1 packet of creamy chicken ramen 2 tbsp of butter Salt Curry powder
So I just cooked up the patty with a little butter and curry powder melted in the pan. Once the patty was cooked I put it aside on a warm plate and added a little more butter and curry powder to the pan. Then I tossed in my frozen spinach and chickpeas, stirred them around until they were good and coated, and covered the pan for about 5 minutes. I chopped up the beef patty and tossed it back in with the spinach. Then I put the ramen into some boiling water for about 2 minutes. You don't want to overcook the ramen because then it won't crisp up the right way. I drained it and added it to the pan with the spinach and beef and fried it all up together. Then I fried two eggs in the rest of my 2 tbsp of butter and put them on top. The runny egg yolk really pulled it all together. 😋
The only thing that could have made it better was an onion 😭
It's the end of the month, our food stamps ran out on the 17th, and I've been living off of ramen again.
But we finally found a decent food pantry! After going to a Catholic church pantry and being told we were allowed to go once a month and receive one bag of food for our family of seven, I was really discouraged. But I'm glad we didn't give up because there are some decent pantries out there!
Everything (except the curry powder) that I made this meal with came from the food pantry and it's actually really freaking tasty.
Ingredients:
1 beef patty 1/3rd can of chickpeas 2 handfuls of frozen spinach 1 packet of creamy chicken ramen 2 tbsp of butter Salt Curry powder
So I just cooked up the patty with a little butter and curry powder melted in the pan. Once the patty was cooked I put it aside on a warm plate and added a little more butter and curry powder to the pan. Then I tossed in my frozen spinach and chickpeas, stirred them around until they were good and coated, and covered the pan for about 5 minutes. I chopped up the beef patty and tossed it back in with the spinach. Then I put the ramen into some boiling water for about 2 minutes. You don't want to overcook the ramen because then it won't crisp up the right way. I drained it and added it to the pan with the spinach and beef and fried it all up together. Then I fried two eggs in the rest of my 2 tbsp of butter and put them on top. The runny egg yolk really pulled it all together. 😋
The only thing that could have made it better was an onion 😭