Most of us likely have a few generational recipes passed down from our grandparents that have become staples at our holiday dinners and family potlucks. Some of us may even have ones that have become part of our weekly rotation.
While many of the recipes we love to share are delicious pound cakes or homemade spaghetti sauce, sometimes we can forget about the ridiculously simple ones that were just meant to get dinner on the table—like my grandmother's three-ingredient recipe, made with some pretty unlikely household staples.
Raising eight kids on a farm, my grandma had a lot of hungry mouths to feed, which meant sometimes the simple, cheap meal was the way to go. In this case, however, the simple, cheap meal was actually delicious, and I still make it to this day when I don't feel like cooking or don't have many ingredients in my house.
The combo? Egg noodles, a can of tomato soup, and bacon. I'm not sure if you'd call it a stew or just a runny "pasta sauce," but noodles smothered in bacon-packed soup is the budget-friendly meal of dreams.
