Sometimes you just have to eat cheap.
Maybe your hours were cut this week, or you didn’t have as many clients. For whatever the reason, money was tight and there wasn’t enough to spend on your usual grocery tab.
You can eat cheap and still fill up your family.
Pancakes, hotcakes, and waffles are a great morning meal. They are very cheap to make. That is IF you don’t buy those mixes at the store. All you need are flour, milk, an egg, a pinch of sugar and baking powder. Even if you had to go buy these items, you’d eat for a week or more on less than what you’d spend for a pre-made breakfast.
I’ve a homemade faux maple syrup recipe in the archives and pancake recipes abound.
Know what my mother fed us instead of pancakes? I too, used to feed these to my kids, and then grandkids! We called them popovers, but in reality were really a kind of crepe.
To make these, you need an oiled skillet (or griddle), a cup of flour, a cup of milk and one egg.
ingredients
That’s it. Just three ingredients. AND it can be mixed up in just a measuring cup. Less mess!
Mix it all up and pour into the skillet, about a 1/3 cup at a time (depending upon how big you want them and how big the skillet is). Cook until lightly browned, then flip over.
popover
Serve with syrup.
Because these have no leavening in them, they don’t rise. This means it takes LESS syrup to enjoy them.
popover and maple syrup
Try it!
It’s a CHEAP meal!
