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!
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!
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This week we’ll be cooking (in no particular order):
Breakfast for Dinner: Scrambled Eggs, Bacon, Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal
Stouffer’s Lasagna, Green Beans, Texas Cheese Toast
Grilled Chicken, Creamed Corn, Garlic Cheese Mashed Potatoes
Pork Nachos, Pineapple, Chips and Homemade Salsa
Chick-fil-a for kid’s night
Taco Salad
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.
This post is being linked up to Menu Plan Monday over at OrgJunkie.