$5 Frugal Dinner Plan Week 49 of 2012

December 3, 2012 by Cricket

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!

Here’s what we’ll be cooking/eating this week:

Blueberry Pancakes and Bacon from the freezer, Scrambled Eggs and Orange Slices

Chicken Nuggets, cheesy garlic mashed potatoes, pineapples and green beans

Little Caesar’s Pizza and Apple Slices (would it be my menu plan without a pizza??)

Chargrilled Chicken Salads

For 2012, I will no longer be showing the cost breakdown for our meals. If you’d like to see some $5 menu ideas with cost breakdown, please browse my pages for $5 Dinner Plans.

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

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