In this episode of Poorboys, I’ll be showing you how to save big money by making your own Granola.

Ingredients

Instructions

- First, preheat your oven to 275 degrees F (135 C)
- Mix the oats, flax, sunflower seeds, walnuts and cinnamon in a medium mixing bowl. Once mixed, add
  the honey and stir until all of the oats and nuts are thoroughly coated with the honey.
- Spread the mixture on to a cookie sheet, patting it down until it is about 3/4 of an inch thick (2 cm).
- Place the cookie sheet with the granola mixture into the oven for 30-35 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow 15-20 minutes for the mixture to cool.
- Break up the mixture with a spatula, add to a bowl and mix in the raisins.
- Store in an airtight container.

Feel free to omit or add any type of nuts, but try to keep the oat to nut ratio somewhat similar, or the mixture may have a tough time sticking together. Additionally, this would go great with some dried cranberries or chopped up dried apricots, but those would cost much more than raisins. Enjoy the recipe, and feel free to send me feedback to derek@poorboys.tv or hit me up on twitter @ddahlen

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In this episode of Poorboys, I show you how to make some delicious Huevos Rancheros, and as always it’s cheap. You can see the list of ingredients and prices below.

Cooking Instructions

Combine the tomatoes, onions, pepper, garlic, cumin, salt and vinegar into a blender and mix until all the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated. Set this mixture aside.

Combine black beans, cumin, salt, cayenne and 1/4 cup of water into a microwave-safe bowl and cook for 2-3 minutes. Once done, mash the beans to create a paste. These should look similar to refried beans. If the mixture is too thick, just add a bit of water.

Add approximately half of the tomato mixture to a saucepan and cook until until it reaches a thick consistency, approximately 3-5 minutes. Set this aside.

Cook the eggs to their desired style; over-easy, sunny-side up, etc. At the same time, heat up two corn tortillas.

Add about half of the bean mixture to a plate and spread it out, place the two heated corn tortillas on top, add the two eggs on top of that, and then cover the eggs with the reduced sauce.

Add cheese, hot sauce or jalapenos if you want. For a truly authentic taste, try some Cotija cheese on top. Enjoy!

Ingredients

As you can see, its an ultra-cheap meal and is pretty healthy for you as well. Feel free to send some feedback to derek@poorboys.tv

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Since I haven’t done an episode in a while, I decided I would try and get some content out there to appease those visiting the site. Today I made a bit of Pico using some canned tomatoes, and it turned out pretty darn well. Here are the ingredients and approximate prices.

Just dice the onion and peppers, chop the cilantro and stir in tomatoes, vinegar and spices

Also, the juice of 1 lime can be used instead of vinegar.

Chill overnight for best flavor )

Yields about 5-6 cups.

Last night, I needed a quick meal before I went to work and saw some eggs and tortillas in the fridge and figured, what better to make than a breakfast burrito.

This is probably one of the quickest and easiest meals you could ever make. First take the eggs crack em all and put em in a bowl. I used 4 eggs and 2 whites to make it just a tiny bit healthier. You could use all full eggs or all whites, it will work either way. Mix up the eggs in the bowl with a few ounces of milk. I like to add a bit of diced onion and pepperoncini (banana peppers) to the eggs. Put em in a pan and get to scrambling (medium heat).

Once they are pretty much done, I like to toss in some velveeta (fake cheese) or you can use cheddar. After you put the cheese on, cover the pan with a tortilla (this will heat/steam the tortilla and make it soft and pliable). Once the cheese is melted, toss it all on the warm tortilla, top with some salsa and you’re done!

If you want to make it a bit more hearty, you can get yourself some chorizo (mexican sausage), and cook that up on the side and add it to the burrito at the end.

Happy eating!

So this weekend, I kinda felt under the weather and it was a Friday night, so I decided to make some cookies. I got this recipe out of an old Lutheran Church Cookbook from Dahlen, North Dakota. Its a cheap cookie recipe because it has all the ingredients you probably already have, but supplements those with quick oatmeal, which will yield you more cookies in the end. So here is the recipe and instructions:

Cream shortening, sugars, and vanilla.  Add eggs and beat well.
Combine flour, soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture. Stir in
oatmeal, chips, and nuts. Roll into balls and press down.
Bake at 350 for about 10 min or until golden brown.

These are pretty much the best cookies ever, they are a mix between a monster cookie and chocolate chip, I highly recommend trying them out.