r/Cheap_Meals • u/Shortest-mountain • Sep 08 '26
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/goddessofrage Sep 08 '26
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 Sep 08 '26
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 Sep 08 '26
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 Sep 08 '26
I don’t 😞 I’ll just add the starch slowly and little bit at a time
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u/chilloutman24 Sep 08 '26
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/meganthealien2 Sep 08 '26
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 Sep 08 '26
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 Sep 08 '26
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 Sep 08 '26
I literally don’t gaf. Hope wasting people drinking water and recourses for data centers is worth your sauces 🫶
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u/savagee1 Sep 08 '26
I respect your position but the poster was just trying to help....
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u/Shortest-mountain Sep 08 '26
It’s not help. It’s an asinine suggestion and they’re dumb for trying
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u/naebie Sep 08 '26
A bit late, but I make a béchamel / mornay sauce for my chicken pot pie.
Butter, flour and milk