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!
Yesterday my husband came across a great clearance sale on center cut pork chops and beef. He bought quite a bit and spent a couple of hours grilling it all up yesterday. Now we’ve got several different flavors of pork and hamburgers in our freezer to enjoy over the next few weeks with minimal effort.
This week we’ll be cooking (in no particular order)
Grilled Pork Chops, Pork n Beans, Strawberries and Toast
Grilled Chicken Salads
Nacho Pie, Pineapple
Hamburgers and Hot Dogs, Green Beans, Chips and Cheese Dip
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.
This post in being linked up to Menu Plan Monday over at OrgJunkie.
I’m so impressed with MPM participants. Creating $5 dinners is very frugal; especially during these rough years.
MPM definitely keeps me on track. I actually look forward to Mondays!
Your menu plan looks delicious.
Have a wonderful week!
Thanks for stopping by Berry. You’re right- MPM really does help keep us on track.