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!
I think we’ve cleared enough freezer space so I can collect the things I put in a friend’s deep freeze before Thanksgiving. Now the task is to not add to the freezer before I can collect our food!
This week we’ll be cooking (in no particular order):
Rainbow Pasta and Garlic Chicken, Pineapple and Sweet Peas
Mesquite Grilled Chicken, Broccoli and Corn
BBQ Pulled Pork, Green Beans, Honey Toast, Orange Slices
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 breakdowns, 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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