Our family has loved the frugal recipe for Cheesy Hashbrown Potatoes as a side dish for many years. But we also love it as a main dish — it’s as simple as throwing in some leftover diced meat when you’re assembling it, and suddenly it becomes a yummy, kid-approved entrée!
I normally use some kind of ham or sausage as the meat in this recipe, but I’m sure those aren’t the only meat options that would work well. This time I used an 8-ounce package of chopped deli meat (ham) as I’ve gotten so many packages with coupons and rebates the last few weeks.
I served it with a simple relish plate and hummus, since I’d gotten several cartons of hummus for free a couple of weeks back. Cucumbers and carrots seem to provide the best bang for my buck, at least in my area of the country, but there are lots of other raw veggies that pair beautifully with hummus!
If you want this recipe to come together even faster, you can buy frozen shredded hashbrowns. It adds a couple of extra steps to mak...
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