$7 Tuna Pasta: Savory Savings

Dive into a hearty bowl of our $7 Tuna Pasta and discover how simple ingredients can lead to bold flavors. This episode of Struggle Meals is all about stretching your dollar without compromising on taste.
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[@kaseyfarmer8232]

I like to use cream of mushroom soup... but i make it just like that for 40 years now

[@MothGirl007]

Definitely cream of mushroom soup!

[@Junzar56]

Yes! Comfort food.

[@HTNPSullivan]

I am imagining different versions of this dish based on whatever you have on hand. I receive what's called a Senior Supplemental Nutrition Box once a month from the local soup kitchen. It always has tuna, canned chicken, pasta and/or rice, canned veggies and fruit, bread and shelf stable milk. And sometimes something sweet. I currently have a surplus of canned green beans. I could use those. I'd have to buy cheese. The oily orange government surplus "cheese" that doesn't even melt! is undigestable to me. Instead of potato chips, maybe some old bread toasted, crumbled on top, and sprinkle with garlic salt and shredded cheese. No cheese? I have been told that some kinds of nutritional yeast taste like cheese. I have a large, unopened container. Hmmm. I'd love to find a way to make the canned vegetable soup from the food pantry into something else. It's tomato based and that's all you can taste. And it's a weird combo of too sweet and too bitter.

[@eatsipkrave]

Rice broth. Try a Mexican rice. Or braise some beef or pork with it and layer in some roasted onion or garlic. Compound butter perhaps. Dry it and turn it into tomato powder and use it in smaller increments. A tomato rice soup is also good. Thin it out with broth and season. Add other veggies.

[@HTNPSullivan]

@@eatsipkrave Thank you, those are some good suggestions. How do you dry soup, though?

[@mitchellthompson3025]

Only the folks in Minnesota call it "hot dish", signed a lifelong Midwestern boy

[@megwillnot4815]

Never called it a hot dish in my life .... :)

[@dru2506]

Pretty sure only people in Minnesota call anything hot dish. We sure don't in the Chicago area.

[@Junzar56]

Minnesota Tuna hot dish!

[@t6mhu6]

I love it so much.

[@hello-vs4me]

Can make that for free have everything to make it

[@HappyCat3096]

I'd add some mushrooms too. Canned or frozen.

[@cosmicbrambleclawv2]

Leave put the peas, swap the celery for scream of chicken, and swap the tuna for chicken and Im in!

[@karleedu]

Hate tuna, BUT...I have canned chicken! This will be so good!

[@nickdoro6142]

What if you only have canned peas ?!😮

[@LaundryFaerie]

Looks like nooda toonle casserole to me

[@antonlowe5370]

"hot dish" is a rust belt thing. You're not in the Midwest if you border another country.

[@ulyssesmelendres504]

Soo expensive…lol

[@MercurialAU]

Where i live cheese is expensive now.