Here is our menu for this upcoming week.
As a recap of how our menu works:
- We don’t necessarily have a day-by-day plan for our lunches and breakfasts or snacks, just our dinners. We have a list of ideas for those meals that week, and so we wake up eating selections from the list. For lunches, we also have a list of possible lunch ideas for that week, but most lunches end up being leftovers, which is why we have a loose plan!
- Our Sunday dinner plans are varied, we try to have guests from church over every other week, if we know in advance, we usually put a roast in the crockpot, or prepare a casserole. If it is planned last minute (as many are) we have homemade chilis and stews in the freezer to heat up, frozen entrees and sides to heat up, or lots of pastas to quickly feed a crowd! Thank goodness for a full pantry! Anyway, if it is just us, we usually have leftovers, lunch or snack items, or simple prepared meals! So on our menu, you will find Sunday’s marked with a “?”
- Our goal for this site is to share the deals, freebies, hot finds; but we also want to share how we live as a larger family on a tight budget everyday and ways that we try to live thriftily in every area of life….. so this would be one of them!
Here are the ideas for breakfasts this week:
- Cheerios with Bananas
- Breakfast Cake
- Quick Oats with applesauce
- Turkey Bacon, Toast and Eggs
Here are the ideas for lunches this week for us:
- Chicken Nuggets
- Soups with Chips and fruit
- Sandwiches
- Leftovers
Here are the snack ideas for this week:
- Apples
- Baked Veggies Fries
- Yogurt
- Cottage Cheese and pineapple
- Cheese sticks
Here are the dessert ideas this week:
Dinner Menu:
- Saturday: Church event and potluck dinner
- Sunday: Low-key leftovers, soups, sandwiches, salad, etc.!
- Monday: Asian Beef and Broccoli over brown rice, Butternut Squash, salad
- Tuesday: Chicken Basil Pesto Penne Pasta, Steamed Broccoli and Salad
- Wednesday: Beef Enchiladas, Mexican Candy Salad, refried beans
- Thursday: Sloppy Joe Pot Pie with Ground Turkey, Butternut Squash and Salad
- Friday: Hawaiian Haystacks with brown rice
Monday: Asian Beef and Broccoli over brown rice, Butternut Squash, Salad
- 1 lb. Beef $1.00
- Broccoli around $1.00
- Lawry’s Seasoning Packet (FREE from Lawry’s to try – enter the giveaway so you can have a set of Lawry’s for FREE!)
- Brown Rice around .80 worth
- Green Salad with homemade oil and vinegar dressing $1.00
- Butternut Squash (FREE from a reader)
Total Cost: $3.80 for the whole meal for 6 = about .63 per serving
Tuesday: Chicken Basil Pesto Penne Pasta, Steamed Broccoli and Salad
- 1 large chicken breast diced $1.10
- Basil Pesto Sauce $1.50
- Ronzoni Healthy Harvest Penne Pasta .13
- Steamed Broccoli $1.25
- Salad with homemade oil and vinegar dressing $1.00
Total Cost: $4.98 for the whole meal for 6 = about .83 per serving
Wednesday: Beef Enchiladas, Mexican Candy Salad, Refried Beans
- 2 lb. ground beef $2.00
- Wheat tortilla shells .88
- Family size enchilada sauce $2.18
- 1 can of diced chilies .25
- 1 Package of shredded cheese $1.00
- Dehydrated refried beans about .15 worth? This is from a large can of dehydrated beans!)
- 1 Cans corn .33
- 1 can black beans .50
- Red onion, mint and squeeze of lemon – maybe .15?
Total Cost: $7.44 for the whole meal for 6 = about $1.24 per serving
Thursday: Sloppy Joe Pot Pie with Ground Turkey, Butternut Squash and Salad
- 1 lb. ground turkey – $1.50
- 1 can Manwich .50
- 1 onion .20
- 1 package of shredded cheese (we used a mexican blend) $1.00
- 1 cup Bisquick mix .05 worth
- 1/2 cup milk about .10 worth
- 1 egg .17
- Butternut Squash (FREE from a reader!)
- Salad with homemade oil and vinegar dressing $1.00
Total Cost: $4.52 for the whole meal for 6 = about .75 per serving
Friday: Hawaiian Haystacks with brown rice
- 8 Cups cooked brown rice about $1.29
- 2 cans chicken $1.36
- 2 cans cream of chicken soup .46
- green onions .25
- 2 stalks celery .30
- 1 can chunk pineapple .50
- Toppings such as: coconut & chow mein noodles est. .50
Total Cost: $4.66 for the whole meal for 6 = about .78 per serving
Saturday: Family dinner out
Our family dinners out do not count towards our weekly grocery budget, but our eating out budget.
Sunday: Low key – leftovers, soups, sandwiches and salads = CHEAP
COST SUMMARY FOR THIS WEEK’S DINNERS: Cost for the dinners this week $25.40 for the 6 of us.
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