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With the economy still struggling, families all over the world are looking for creative ways to stretch their food budgets further than ever.If food costs are getting you down, or if you're just looking for a few easy and cost-effective recipes, take heart: Casual Kitchen has you covered. What follows is an extensive list of the best and least expensive recipes ever posted on this site. The recipes below range from inexpensive to downright laughably cheap. Best of all, every single one of them is easy to make. Enjoy!*****************************A delicious, scalable soup recipe that costs just over $1.00 per serving.At a laughable cost of only $2-3 in total, this recipe will serve four as a main dish.Don't let a couple anchovies scare you away from one of the most interesting pasta sauces out there. This sauce is extremely inexpensive and it can be made in less than half an hour.At 65-70c per serving, this is one of the easiest and least expensive recipes in this entire blog.This contains a fully balanced meal, with protein, veggies and carbs, and it can be made for about $1.75 per serving.This recipe is easy to make and it costs a hysterically cheap 60c per serving.The first part of this post is a curmudgeonly diatribe against salt (you can skip that). But the second part is an easy split pea soup recipe that can feed you for days for only $3-4.A rich and delicious soup that can be made for under $1.00 per serving!A spicy, delicious and easy to make soup that costs just over $1.50 per serving.An unusual and original pasta salad that costs about $1.75 per serving.It will cost you just $4.00 and 25 minutes of your time to feed four with this easy dish.A simple and delicious pasta dish you can whip up in minutes. Cost: 75c per serving.A healthy and delicious soup recipe that involves a bit of chopping, but you'll love the price tag of under $1.00 per serving.A balanced and mild pasta salad that costs less than $1.50 per serving.This refreshing pasta dish can be made for around $1.50-$1.75 per servingOne of these burritos can make a light meal; two will make a heavy meal. If you scale this recipe up, you can make these for about $1.00 each.A house favorite here at Casual Kitchen--a delicious and original pasta sauce with a per-serving cost of around $1.50.Scroll down past the article about never using cooking wine, and you'll find a healthy and delicious recipe that costs about $1.50-$1.75 per serving.A house favorite, and the recipe that gets by far the most search traffic here at Casual Kitchen. Cost per serving: just $1.25-$1.50.This flexible and fancy-sounding dish is really quite easy. If you stick to basic ingredients, you can make this dish for under $1.00 a serving.Yet another filling and delicious soup that can be made for about $1.00 per serving.High in fiber, low in fat and easy on your wallet. This dish costs around $5-$6 to make and it will serve 4-5.A hearty, cool-weather dish that can be made in 45 minutes from start to finish, and costs a little over $1 per serving.This exotic vegetarian stew is made from easy to find ingredients, and it feeds 7-8 for less than $10 in total. A top favorite recipe here in our home.An old warhorse recipe that I've been making for nearly 20 years. You can whip this up in minutes at a cost of less than $1.00 per serving.