If this is your first visit, check out this post to see why posts like these exist. Otherwise, carry on. Tonight's dinner only uses 1 pot, 1 mixing spoon, 1 colander, 1small bowl, plus a couple other plates/bowls for holding ingredients along the way. As for the ingredients, I used a quarter carton of veggie broth ($0.40), a quarter box of Barilla Rotini ($0.50), a tablespoon of butter ($0.11), a can of chicken ($2.33), half a can of sweet peas ($0.50), half a can of sweet corn ($0.50), and a couple tablespoons of jarred garlic ($0.22) for a total of $4.56, and it only took a total of about 15 minutes to cook two servings of the whole dinner, so we're looking at $2.28 per serving. I started off by boiling the pasta in equal parts veggie broth and water. That helps dilute the salt from the broth (which, with the veggie broth, isn't too salty anyway, but still, gotta keep an eye on sodium when we're dealing with canned goods). Since watching water boil is a shitty past...
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