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Main Dishes

Frugal main dish recipes submitted by the ThriftyFun community.

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A creamy ranch flavored chicken and rice main dish. Homecooking that is loved by my family.

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This is a easy dinner to make and it is easy on your stomach. I had some canned white chicken in the pantry and thought it might add protein and flavor. Result was delicious

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This page contains chicken biscuit stew recipes. A hearty dinner to enjoy on a cold day.

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This is a great one-dish meal! Inexpensive to make!

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Meatballs seem to go with anything. They are fun to eat and kids love these, at least most of them do around here.

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This is a great cold weather meal that is very hearty and filling.

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This is a super tasty, quick-to-fix meal the whole family will enjoy!

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This page contains creamed chicken recipes. Creamed chicken is a hearty meal the whole family will love.

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This is a great cold weather meal! Very good served on hot biscuits or over potatoes or rice.

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This makes a great brunch dish! Very attractive looking dish for guests and very good.

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This page contains onion pie recipes. Make a delicious onion pie with a side salad for dinner soon.

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This page contains skillet dinner recipes. Skillet dinners are generally quick and easy to make; just what you need at the end of a busy day.

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Onion lovers will love this recipe!

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The apple juice gives this recipe a great flavor!

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Do I blanch them first? How long? Then do I let them freeze and stuff them or do I blanch, then stuff them, and then freeze? I'm sorry about this; it is my first time.

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Great hearty cold weather meal!

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This is a great hearty dish the whole family will love!

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This is a great-tasting, hearty, one-dish meal.

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This is a great, hearty stew that will fill up your family and help warm them up this winter.

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The sauce this meat cooks in is extra delicious!

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Large portabello mushroom stuffed with chicken and sauces. It's delicious, healthy, and a bit exotic.

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This is super simple and tasty! The pork chops come out very tender.

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I prefer green bell peppers but the sweeter red or orange bell peppers work well, too.

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This one of my favorite dishes!

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Great old recipe! Makes a very hearty meal.

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I grew up with these. We had a great vegetable garden and this was a treat all fall.

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This is a great dish for the meat and potatoes lover!

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This is a great way to spice up your hotdogs. Everyone will love them.

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This recipe is so easy to make and can be a delicious meal or snack for the family at a low cost.

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This is so very good! I love the Italian dressing and the vegetables in this as well as the French fried onions.

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this recipe looks good and taste great. this is a confort food we use to eat.

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My mother in-law got me started on these years ago. Our family really enjoys them!

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This page contains recipes using Jiffy mixes. Jiffy mixes can be used in recipes calling for baking and cornbread mixes.

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I like this recipe because it is fast, easy, inexpensive and versatile. Instead of boiling a chicken breast, you can use 2 cans of chicken or 2 cans of tuna in water. If you use canned

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This is a great tasting, hearty, kid-friendly recipe that the whole family will enjoy!

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When I spring clean, it even includes going through the pantry and freezer searching for foods coming close to the stale date and making sure they get used up soon or are

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My parents and I really enjoy kielbasa. We have very limited ways of preparing it. Normally we fry or grill them and eat them on hotdog buns or bagels. We would really appreciate

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My parents and I really enjoy sweet Italian sausage. We have very limited ways of preparing it. Normally we fry or grill them and eat them on hotdog buns or bagels. We would

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We got this recipe from British friends who were camping with us one year. It is filling, healthy, and makes a great one-pot dinner for potlucks or camping. It is as easy as can

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This is a super easy, tasty and hearty recipe. It doesn't actually call for it, but if you want to make it a one-dish meal, all you have to do is add a can of vegetables

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Love this because it's very easy to make and relatively quick to fix. This is also very kid friendly and tastes great!

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These are incredibly yummy and easy to make.

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I need a easy and few ingredient recipe for fixing chicken and rice in a pressure cooker. And I'd like to use bone in thighs. Thanks!

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Another favorite of my husband. We love fresh peppers and this recipe is great!

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This is really good, my sons really liked it.

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I am looking for a recipe that was on the back of the Heinz 57 bottle in the 80s. You made meatballs with Parmesan cheese. The sauce was Heinz 57, canned tomatoes, and sugar. You served

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This is my basic recipe for something I call "dump-stir" stew. The items you dump into the crock pot can be altered depending on what you have available. Frugal cooks aren't

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I love this Oriental style dish. You can use green peppers only, if you wish, but I like to use one green and one red. Red peppers are sweeter than green.

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This is an easy and kid-friendly recipe.

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Good, hearty main dish meal.

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Great Oriental type dish. The mandarin oranges in this are very tasty!

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Great fresh asparagus recipe!

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Very good stew. The meat gets very tender.

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A great recipe with an oriental flavor.

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This recipe is really good, especially on cold days.

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This is a good, inexpensive, and hearty meal.

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This is one of my favorite recipes. It's a real change of pace from the usual. The meatballs are tender and flavorful, and the sauce is to die for. I usually double or even triple

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This recipe has great citrus flavor!

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Love the mandarin oranges/pineapple bits in this recipe.

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Easy and yummy to make!

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Does anyone have a website where I can find some recipes that accommodate cooking small entree servings within a muffin tin?

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Love the sweet taste of the sauce on these meatballs!

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Got this recipe from my daughter. I think it's pretty clever and it's very good!

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Since Thanksgiving is coming, thought I would start offering some good leftover turkey recipes. This one is very good!

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What's nice about a veggie stir fry is that you can choose your own favorite combination of veggies such as bell pepper, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, mushrooms,

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This recipe is fast, easy to make and delicious, especially great for those of you who have young children to feed and are pressed for time. The adults in our family like

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