Does anyone have a frugal recipe for egg salad?  

I also love egg salad. I like to make mine the same way my mom makes deviled eggs, since I love those so much too.
I make egg salad the standard way, hard-boiled eggs, mayo (I use Helmans...it's what I like the best, but any brand will do). Then I add salt, pepper, and ....the secret ingredient, a bit of powered mustard. This is probably best done to taste.
I found found that you really need to use powdered mustard. The stanard condiment kind makes the egg salad a bit too soupy. I also add a touch of papricka if I have it around.
I hope you like this!

I was going to suggest the same recipe basically as the other person. I think hard boiled eggs and mayo is the most common way and the cheapest way (becuase who doesn't always have eggs and mayo on hand!) to make egg salad. I usually also had a little mustard (Very little as I don't really like it) and some paprika because it gives it that deviled egg taste.

Two great places to find recipes also is www.allrecipes.com as they have many many versions of different types of meals and www.kraftfoods.com.

As you like frugal living I don't know if I've suggested it to you before but Kraft foods is great. They have this thing called "Express Checkout" where you can basically have a weeks (5-day week) worth of food with only ONE bag of groceries. I'd call that frugal living. One week, One Bag! Technically it's only 4 days as the last day is always a suggestion of Pizza, but still even 4 meals with one bag of groceries I think is pretty good.

I'd suggest checking that out.

http://www.kraftfoods.com...

Have you ever tried a bit of chopped green olives in it? Green olives are also good when added to cream cheese, like to have on bagels. You could also try adding pickles, sweet or dill depending on your taste, pickles are also good when mixed in tuna. I hope you give these a try, that's how I like them.

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I dont like egg salad or deviled eggs or anything eggy really so I can't help with recipes. But I do buy eggs for baking and things. Do you have an Aldi store near you? They have really cheap prices so just buying your supplies there could cut down on the overall cost. I buy all my baking supplies at Aldi and the quality is good and the prices are dirt cheap.

I eat my egg salad the standard way with the hard boiled eggs and mayo, but I add chopped green olives to mine. They add such a nice flavor, I also like onions in mine but my husband doesnt want them in there, so I usually leave them out.

Yes, my family recipe (I prefer the traditional american way) is make you're egg salad (eggs, mayo, mustard, s&P) then add copped onions, parsely and black olives AND potatoes! It's like egg and potatoe salad. You kind of pick each bite the way you want it. It's actually good (except I think the black olives are a bit harsh personally...) You can buy canned sliced black olives for just pennies. My mother also adds eggs finely chopped to her tuna salad and it's quite good. Best of luck to you - I'm there myself.

I have also made it similar to the other posts. I also like to add curry or paprika and onions to give it some zip.

I love egg salad. thanks for your discussion as I have learned some recipe from this discussion and probably I will try them within two days. This sounds so lovely I feel hungry reading all this recipe. I have almost everything at home so i can try it right away but I am kind of tired now so will try tomorrow

Make your egg salad the regular way and add any of these items, as many as you wish:
Onions chopped
celery minced
carret shredded
olives sliced
pimento diced
Also, you can add a little mustard to the mayo and eggs.
You can whip the eggs until it is like a spread too.