Okay, so here is the next night of our weekly menu, bear with me as I try to figure out the best format to share this with all of you! I am sure I will be able to have a once a week post (with posting a recipe or two throughout the week!) with the details of the price breakdown! But, for this first week, I am just kinda mincing things all together! At any rate….. hang in there with me!
So here’s a recap of our dinner menu this week! To catch up on what is going on here….. see our previous post!
Dinner Menu:
- Monday: Sweet and Sour Meatballs over rice, Grapefruit and Avocado Salad (see previous post for recipe!)
- Tuesday: Sloppy Joe Pot Pie with ground Turkey (see recipe tomorrow), corn and green salad
- Wednesday: Crockpot Chicken, pasta salad, steamed broccoli, rolls
- Thursday: beef stroganoff, steamed veggies, fresh fruit
- Friday: out for family Valentine’s Date
- Saturday: couple Valentines Date in
- Sunday: ?
Cost breakdown of each meal!
Tuesday: Sloppy Joe Pot Pie with ground Turkey, corn and green salad (see recipe in post tomorrow!)
- 1 lb. ground turkey – $2.29
- 1 can Manwich .50
- 1 onion .20
- 1 package of shredded cheese (we used a mexican blend) .90
- 1 cup Bisquick mix .05 worth
- 1/2 cup milk about .10 worth
- 1 egg .17
- 2 Cans corn (.20 each) .40
- Lettuce from our Sam’s Club organic Mescalin Mix about $1.21 (this meal)
- Salad dressings approximately .20
Total Cost: $6.02 for the whole meal for 6 (PLUS leftovers for lunch the next day) = about $1 per serving!
Wednesday: Crockpot Chicken, pasta salad, steamed broccoli, rolls EMERGENCY back-up plan!!! I fumbled as this was suppossed to be tonights dinner. I was looking forward to eating it! What happened? Something that has not happened in over 3-years occurred in our house today! I headed to The Thrifty Store (our basement filled with shelves of food and 2 full chest freezers!), and began rummaging through the meat freezer, the chicken was not to be found!!! WHAT – NO CHICKEN! I tore through BOTH freezers! With nearly frostbitten hands (not really but trying to gain sympathy:)) and 30 minutes later – I turned up no chicken! I realized that I was off on my inventory, I had a menu with chicken on it for tonight and none to be found!
This really has not happened for quite some time, beef and chicken are the 2 main protein staples in our house and I let the chicken run out! I tried to remember why we didn’t have any, one thought came to mind….. remember the .25 packs of Gold n’ Plump chicken, well I had 7 packs on my list, but when I got to the store, they were out and I forgot to go back! So while I figure what I am going to do to get cheap chicken fast, I spotted the Stouffer’s Family Size lasagna! Thankful for the convenience meals in a bind!
Wednesday modified: Lasagna, steamed broccoli, rolls
- Stouffer’s Family Size Lasagna $6.49
- 1 lb. fresh Steamed broccoli .51
- Rhodes rolls $1.46
- Keebler Cheesecake middles cookies FREE
Total Cost: $8.46 = $1.41 each serving. We have 2/3 of this huge pan of lasagna left!!!
Thursday: beef stroganoff, steamed veggies, fresh fruit Change of plan yet again, I am telling ya, this chicken thing really messed us up this week! So why the change? Well, we have a big Coupon Class for Clinton City in Clinton, UT tomorrow night AND we literally have 2/3 of a lasgana left! So a quick re-heat dinner and we are all out of the door for a fun Coupon Class!
- Leftover Lasgana $0.00
- Leftover rolls $0.00
- Salad $1.21
- Dressing approximately .20
Total Cost: $1.41 = .24 each serving!
We have open plans for Friday and Saturday, one night due to the holiday for a date (probably date night in with steaks in our freezer, but we haven’t figured for sure yet 😉 ) and the second for our usual family dinner out!
All-in-all our dinners (other than eating out and the holiday dinner this week) cost us $22.44 this week! Yay!
Well, I am a little embarrassed that I decided to start sharing this and it was a week with missing food and holidays! But hey, thankfully with full shelves and freezers, we were able to come up with something! Better try next week!
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