$5 Dinners Week of 10/30 $4.31 Average Cost

My goal is to provide dinner for my family for an average of $5 except on special occasions. We don’t have to eat beans and rice to accomplish this goal! I shop the grocery sales each week. Then I plan my menu based on the foods I have already at home (at a great price). I balance more expensive meals with less expensive ones. We typically only cook a main dish 4 or 5 times a week. Each main dish cooked will serve 4-6, and the leftovers will be for easy dinners on the weekend, or to freeze for another week. This cuts down on cleaning, cooking, and meal planning– saving us lots of time!

Since my daughter and I spent the better part of last week sick, we didn’t exactly stick to our menu plan. My husband and son ate a lot of food from the freezer, so it’s a good thing that we do plenty of cooking in advance. We’re still completing our menu plan from last week, so this menu is a mixture of meals that were eaten last week and that we’ll cook this week.

Spaghetti, Cheese Toast, Green Beans, Pineapple
4 servings spaghetti @ .50
1/2 jar sauce @ .34
1 can pineapple @ .93
1 can green beans @ .25
4 pieces of bread @ .16
4 slices of block mozzarella @ .24
garlic salt
Total Cost = $2.42

Lemon Pepper Pork Chops, Baked Potatoes, Sweet Peas and Corn, toast
1 lb. pork chops @ 1.47
3 potatoes @ .80
butter, cheese and bacon bits for the potatoes @ .20
1 can sweet peas @ .58
1 can corn @ .58

4 slices of bread for toast @ .16
total cost: $3.78

Frozen Pizzas and Apple Slices

2 Frozen pizzas @ 5 (mine was actually free using RRs)

2 apples @ .90

total cost: $5.90

Onion Garlic Pork Roast with Peaches, Baked Apples and Baked Beans, Toast
1 lb. Onion Garlic roast @ 2.00
2 peaches @ 1.05
2 apples @ .80
brown sugar @ .15
2 can pork and beans @ .98
4 slices of toast @ .16
total cost: $5.14

Average cost of the meals we’re cooking this week: $4.31

This post is part of Menu Plan Monday over at OrgJunkie.

$5 Dinners Week of 10/30 $4.31 Average Cost

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