The picture: mashed potatoes and corporate meatloaf. Meatloaf was free.
Cost per person: $1.50
Of course the corporate meatloaf is just a side dish. The meal is mashed potatoes. My first “you are in charge of x” when growing up was to make the mashed potatoes. This served me well as a teen because I could make gigantic batches to insure that I wasn’t going to starve eating whatever the other course was even if it was extremely low calorie 90s recipes. Between my brother and I we could easily eat three or four pounds of potatoes in a single sitting. There were never any leftovers.
Thanks! Interesting to blend it with a hand mixer. I’ll give this a try next time I make mashed potatoes. I usually struggle with some lumps left in the mix. I’ve tried making it with a potato ricer and then stirring in butter/salt. It turns out really nice and fluffy, but it’s a pain to put so many pieces through the potato ricer lol.
Mixer makes it easy.