- Mac and cheese
- Speghetti or other pasta with a sauce. Meat or meatless
- Cheeseburger macaroni
- Tuna melts
- Cesear salad with chicken, or salmon
- BBQ chicken thighs or drumsticks
- Sloppy joes
- Hot dogs
- Sausage and sauerkraut or peppers
- Quesadilla with soup
- Tacos or nachos
- Baked potato bar - - good way to use uombots amd pieces of leftovers.
- Tuna or salmon casserole.
- Any solid precooked meat with oven roasted veggies ( chicken parts, sausage)
- Salmon burgers
- Eggs, toast, and fruit
- Quiche with veggies
- Impossible pie
- Chicken pot pie - Scratch
- chicken noodle soup
- Stew with just about anything - depression stew is potatoes, carrots, amd any vegetable or meat that you have a little of. *
I found salmon burgers at Winco yesterday. I didn't buy them because our freezer is full. But , four burgers were 3.00. Not bad considering the cost of a can of salmon at Costco. Certainly a treat to cost average your meals.
*. I learned depression stew from my mother, My dad had been hurt in the jib, labor and industries took until the week before he went back to work to send the disability check. We lived off savings and my mother got really creative.woth meals, We had liver and depression stew , that I'm sure she learned from her mother during the Great Depression, We had other things, too, but that was the remarkable things I remember. I think it's a lesson in there is always something good that can come out of adversity. Moms had a little bacon, a few baby meatballs. Potatoes, carrots. Celery.
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from a different perspective.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until it 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 j) by cooking more efficiently.
Four dollars a day is the target amount for people on snap. My premise is that of you can do it on 4 dollars a day, spending more is not difficult and you still get more nutrition for your buck.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until it 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 j) by cooking more efficiently.
Four dollars a day is the target amount for people on snap. My premise is that of you can do it on 4 dollars a day, spending more is not difficult and you still get more nutrition for your buck.
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