Now you are really bringing back memories for me. We also had goulash often (which my family won’t touch) and creamed chipped beef on toast (the Friday version of which became creamed tuna on toast). If prices keep going up at the grocery store a lot more people may be making these budget friendly classics once again.
Tuna casserole can be made pretty cheaply if you watch the ads. I picked up 5 oz. cans of tuna again yesterday for 3/$1. There was a limit of 9 cans per coupon and only one coupon per transaction, but my local store seems to run that price about once a month or so, so I have been stocking up whenever they have it on sale. While canned soups have gone up considerably, I still find cream of mushroom, celery, and chicken on sale in discount and overstock stores for 79 - 89 cents a can, and a bag of pasta can usually be found on sale for $1 or less. At that rate you can feed a family of 5 or 6 for under $5 even at today’s prices if you watch for sales and stock up when it is cheap like our parents did.
I will keep you posted as to how the tuna casserole made from scratch turns out.
Yeah, I had thought about that after I posted it, that these were inexpensive meals and we probably had them often because our parents grew up on them because they had them a lot and probably during the depression. I know my step dad liked goulash, but it had to be with tomato juice because that was how his mom made it. I like it better with tomato sauce, its just a little thicker. He like the chipped beef on toast from his days in the Navy, but we couldn’t even mention beets around him for the same reason! lol