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
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)
Crappie Fish, Hush Puppies, Homemade Fried Mozzarella Sticks and Homemade French Fries
Grilled Hamburgers, Bananas, Carrot Sticks with Ranch, Chips
Dairy Queen (Kids meals so we can get the free dilly bars- yum!)
Beanie Weenies, Toast, Orange Slices
Little Caesar’s Pizza and Apple Slices
Can you tell last week was rough and I’m making things easier this week? Hubby does all grilling and since he catches the fish he also cooks them. I think I can handle throwing some Beanie Weenies together LOL
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.
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This post is being linked up to Menu Plan Monday at OrgJunkie.
Looking forward to browsing your $5 meals. My family is twice the size, but I’m sure I’ll pick up some tips.
Hush Puppies – yummy! my children have requested I learn how to make them. Thanks for the reminder.
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