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
As I mentioned in my Simple Homemaking Plan for this week, Little One
and I were sick for a couple days last week. Needless to say our menu
plan took a complete derailment with the exception of Little Caesar’s.
So this week we’ll actually be eating last week’s menu. The meals I’m
including here were what we ate last week. A girl’s gotta do what a
girl’s gotta do right? 
Come link up your chicken recipes in our March Dishing it Up recipe hop!
Each month we have a theme for the recipes in our hop. We’d love to have you come join us.
Plus this month we’re giving away 40 lbs. of chicken!
This week we’ll be cooking (in no particular order)
Chick-fil-A for kids night (kid’s meals are free with an adult meal)
Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausage with Fruit Cocktail, Toast and Corn
Grilled Chicken Salad with Bananas, Sliced Tomatoes
Breakfast for Dinner : Eggs, Sausage, Grits, and Toast with Grapefruit Marmalade (thanks Julie!)
Homemade Pizza, Sliced Peaches
Little Caesar’s Pizza and Apple Slices
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 with cost breakdowns, please browse my pages for $5 Dinner Plans.
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 with cost breakdowns, please browse my pages for $5 Dinner Plans.
This post is being linked up to Menu Plan Monday at OrgJunkie.