Dinner. My daughter made dinner in a flash. She had macaroni already cooked. Added a recipe starter, some milk and sour cream and topped it with cheese and parsley. Total about a buck OOP.
Several,dinners/lunches on that buck!
Recipe starter is 2.59 cents at SAFEWAYS. It is 2/1.00 at Dollar Tree. I would not pay 2.59 because I could make it from scratch cheaper. At .50, it's hardly worth the time, a good in dinner in a pinch, and all on the cheap!
SAFEWAYS had a lot of meat on sale . A lot of ready- made, not usually the kind of thing I buy. But as predicted, ready made beef is cheaper than scratch-- at least with a coupon. I got sloppy joe filling for .67 with a coupon. That's two sandwiches for .67 . French fries are cheaper at the dollar store than they were at QFC on sale-- a little bit, not much. Buns were 8/1.00. That makes dinner
2.98 plus some vegetable sticks or fruit-- and almost no effort.
Lloyd's BBQ Beef was on coupon for 3.99 from 4.99. Add another manufacturers coupon for a buck and it was 2.99. Probably enough to fill 8 buns. 2.99 plus 1.00 for buns makes 3.99 for 8 servings or .50 a serving. Add a starch and a vegetable. Cucumbers were .69 at QFC. Add a mixed vegetable salad. About a buck a plate.
I bought a chicken at QFC for a buck a pound and a tray of pork steaks at SAFEWAYS. Sometimes it helps to look at the meat and break it down as to how many meals you can get out of the package.
Think out of the box. Just because the meat is in steak form, doesn't mean you can't make BBQ skewers out of it, or pork cubes to use in foil packages. Or braised over rice for sweet and sour pork.
Almost any recipe you have for chicken can be used for pork. How about cubed small to add to a bean and rice burrito?
My granddaughter has found she really likes chicken quesida . Does anyone know how to make a good chicken quesida?
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