Protein sources and what they make

Obviously, what protein sources you use will be your personal preference.....within reason.  

I am going to try and identify common ones and what can be made from them.  Variety of good when cooking on the cheap. It keeps things fresh and not boring.   That being said, I don't know a child that wouldn't just love speghetti and meatballs or pizza  every night.    lol.  

• Chicken.  Target price 1.00 or less a pound.    I only want Foster farms.    Whole chicken is your Best Buy unless you get split breasts for .98 like I did  last week.    Sometimes Winco has thighs for .58; they come out of Idaho.    I roast a whole chicken or cook it on the crockpot and divide it into t breast portions, the dark meet and the bones and broth for soup.    Thighs can be roasted off and either cooked with BBQ sauce or shredded for tacos of pulled chicken sandwiches.   

Chicken pot pie

Roast chicken dinner 

BBQ dark meat , fries , salad 

Chicken and noodles 

Chicken soup.  

Buffalo chicken pizza 

Chicken and bacon Mac and cheese 

Chicken taco

 Chicken enchiladas  

Chicken burritos.    

Chicken Quesedas 

Chicken impossible pie 

Pork loin roast or pork  sirloin,   

Slice off pork chops 

Section off a roast and roast on the oven.    

Slice off thin sliced for BBQ pork sandwiches.   

Cut some into cubes for stew, soup, tacos. Pork hero.   

Cheese : white and cheddar.    Grated cheese is cheaper and gives you more bang for your buck.    When  I grated a block of cheese, we went through four pounds in a week.   The finer grate stretches the cheese.    Target price 2.00 a pound.   Usually at Costco, but you sometimes can do better at grocery outlet.   

Mac and cheese

Pizza

Cheeseburger macaroni. (scratch) 

Ground beef - 7 percent fat.   Best price o see these days s 3.18 a pound at Winco.    Keep your eyes peeled, it's not always advertised.    I buy between three and six pounds.    I make meatloaf. Meatballs, taco meat and crumbles.   Defat the taco meat and crumbles.    Meat balls are baked on the oven on a sheet pan that has a metal screen on top to wick away the fat.    Meatloaf is cooked on
meatloaf pan  that wicks away the fat.    It's not healthy to cook meatloaf on its own juices.    

Tacos

Pizza

Red sauce 

Soup

Enchiladas

Burritos.   

Meatloaf with baked potatoes 

Meatballs with spaghetti. (Red sauce) 

Meatballs over noodles ( white sauce ) 

Meatballs over rice ( sour cream sauce) 

BBQ meatball sub 

Meatballs with brown gravy.   

Tomato basil, Gorgonzola soup and toasted cheese sandwichesn

Pepperoni pizza ( pepperoni is 1/2 price at .50 with coupons at dollar store) 

Sausage, potatoes, peppers.   

Beans and rice 

Eggs 

Breakfast for dinner 

Quiche 

Cobb salad