Frugal $5 Dinner Menu Week 9 of 2012

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 at us lots of time!

 

This week we’ll be cooking (in no particular order)

 

Chicken Noodle Soup with Carrot Sticks and Leftovers

Lemon Pepper Crockpot Chicken (thanks Bryany for the recipe book!) with Potatoes and Green Beans

Salmon Croquets with Pineapple and Sweet Peas

Grilled Pork Chops, Creamy Cheesy Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans and Oranges

Little Caesar’s Pizza and Apple Slices (twice this week because I’m not sure I’ll be feeling well enough to cook for a few days)

For 2012, I will no longer be showing
the cost breakdown for our meals.  This is very time consuming and for
little purpose since I’ve spent the past 18 months showing that a family
of 4 could eat for an average of $5 per dinner.  If you’d like to see
some $5 menu ideas, please browse my pages for $5 Dinner Plans. 

This post is being linked up to Menu Plan Monday at OrgJunkie.