One of the things I have found interesting about this thread @roamer_1 is how no matter where we live, the cheap recipes are very similar. (I did have to look up bannock bread, lol)
Bannock bread is a hillbilly term, or at least it is out west - y'all may know it (in its variations) as indian fry bread or Navaho fry bread... But for all its variation (see pemmican as being the same way), it's all pretty much the same. Pretty much biscuit dough...
The other thing is, when I was thinking about economical recipes from my youth and "lean days" of early marriage...they really aren't cheap anymore. For instance, salmon patties (heck a can of salmon is 4 bucks) and a roast that could be 3 meals at least. Roast is crazy expensive! When we first married, I worked at a fried chicken joint and got to take the left over chicken home every night. Wouldn't work today. We were in our teens and very active so cholesterol was not even a thought.
Yeah... With my malady keeping me nailed down to the cabin, I am finding that out. It's truly an amazement to me how much I got for free when I could just go out and get it. It's coming on morels right now up in here, and that's something I should ought to just wander out in the woods and pick, but I won't have any this year, unless the kids think to bring me some by. Eggs... I am so used to just getting 4 dozen any old time I want, And now they are moved across town with my son and I am mostly eating store-bought, as it is a chore for them to bring em over. Salmon is another one of them... I ain't made salmon from a can in a coon's age. I just catch a mess of kokanee every year, and make it from that, frozen, or from smoked. We ain't even gonna talk about no beef, elk, moose, venison, and upland birds... That and fishin is what I have always done for fun, And my freezers have always been full - 3 of em... Now I have 1 freezer left, and it half full, and Instacart bringing me my groceries (and that at an enormous extra cost).
It is a bother. I cannot wait for my feet to come back (If Yah provides) . Hopefully this summer sees it come. I would much prefer to go back to taking care of myself. I sure ate better - If that in the more rustic manner to which I am accustomed.
But the weather is a little cooler today (not cold by any means) so I made lentil soup for dinner. Yum!!
We got it coming on.... Ain't no snow left down here in the valley - Even the snow berms from plowing are gone... But no crocus yet, no lilacs in the bud, and the willows ain't coming yet (all sure signs of that 's' word)