Monday meal prep day

Last night we had rice and leftover vegetable bean soup.   So, tonight we are having pork chops and
Acorn squash.

Going  over the meal plans is the first step.   It makes. I sense to me to clean the kitchen before I mess it up.

• Make a green salad.  Put a paper towel on the bottom of the container. 
•  Clean and cut veggie sticks. Having the same sides more than one day saves prep time.
• Cook from frozen the chicken breast for Mexican lasagna and BLT chicken salad sandwiches.  They will need to be eaten close to the same day.
• Cook black beans 

The rest of the work this week has to be done the day of.   We can eat chicken BLT and Mexican lasagna skipping a day for variety.    

I got veggies and fruit at Costco this weekend, so I will clean them .  

Easy day today!    

We are trying two new recipes this week.    I usually only try one every now and then.  

New recipes spice things up and help when you are cooking on the che

Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from  a diferent perspectives.

The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food  for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until they goes on sale again or to keep a controlled non-perishable stock of the things you  use  on a weekly basis.

This means that instead of shopping daily or weekly for just the things you need to cook your

meals for the week. You go to two stores and buy :

1) a protein that is a RBP - enough to make that meal for x number of days. (I.e.: if you eat it once a week, buy enough for 4 meals.)

2) produce and dairy you will need to fill in the meals for the week.

3) a stock item, if you need to and it is on a RBP - enough to fill in to your self imposed stock level.

You often are paying 1/2 price for your food.   This allows you to put well-balanced meals on the table consistently on a four dollar a day per person budget.   You spend more time on the

locomotive ( planning and shopping ) end of the train, and less time in the caboose ( kitchen )by

cooking more efficiently.

Four dollars a day is the target amount of snap.  My premise is that f you can do it for four dollars a day, spending more is no difficult.