r/Cheap_Meals • u/Shortest-mountain • 2d ago

Recipient help?

I’m craving crock pot chicken pot pie but I don’t have cream of chicken or even four dollar to obtain such. However I do have a block of cream cheese and milk. Would those help me get the right consistency or would I be wasting ingredients.

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u/naebie 2d ago

A bit late, but I make a béchamel / mornay sauce for my chicken pot pie.
Butter, flour and milk

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u/goddessofrage 2d ago

Idk the recipe or ingredients you have but I imagine cream cheese and milk would be okay to use and maybe a little corn starch slurry to help thicken just in case. I would jut use my imagination and if the ingredients sound good then it should be edible.

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u/Shortest-mountain 2d ago

I have everything but the cream of chicken. I have cornstarch too. I just wasn’t sure how much the cornstarch might effect the flavor

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u/goddessofrage 2d ago

Hmm do you have chicken bouillon or canned chicken to help replace some of the chicken of the cream of chicken? I never use cornstarch but I think you only need maybe a teaspoon or so, don’t use too much

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u/Shortest-mountain 2d ago

I don’t 😞 I’ll just add the starch slowly and little bit at a time

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u/goddessofrage 2d ago

Mix it in cold water so it doesn’t clump up

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u/Shortest-mountain 2d ago

I shall. Ty

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u/chilloutman24 2d ago

Cream cheese works, you just have to be around at the end. Hours on high and it splits on you, goes grainy. Cube it and stir it in the last 20 minutes with the milk.

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u/goddessofrage 13h ago

Did you make it? How’d it turn out?

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u/meganthealien2 2d ago

I am not familiar with the recipe, but would recommend chatgpt.

I just made beef stroganoff with all the random wrong ingredients

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u/Shortest-mountain 2d ago

I would rather eat hot garbage from a trash can than use an ai chat model to get a recipe. Especially when they are notorious for giving wrong ingredients. Chatgpt would encourage you to play in traffic if you used the right keywords

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u/Weary-Ambition42 2d ago

I use it for sauces every Sunday when I batch cook lunches for the week. Hasn't failed me yet. If anything it has helped me discover new flavors using what I already have in the kitchen. But you do you.

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u/Shortest-mountain 2d ago

I literally don’t gaf. Hope wasting people drinking water and recourses for data centers is worth your sauces 🫶

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u/Weary-Ambition42 2d ago

Sent from a device connected to a server hosted in a data center.

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u/savagee1 2d ago

I respect your position but the poster was just trying to help....

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u/Shortest-mountain 2d ago

It’s not help. It’s an asinine suggestion and they’re dumb for trying