Meal plans

Meal plans take away the anxiety.of answering the question:  What’s for dinner?   It just makes things more organized and when you add a kitchen management hour, life is a whole less hectic during the dinner hour.  

• Pork chops, bread stuffing with craisens and apple, broccolli 
• Pizza 
• Salmon, seasoned rice, peas and carrots 
• Chicken Parmesan, salad 
• Meatballs and gravy, mashed Potatoes, mixed veggies 
• Stir fry chicken , rice, mandarin oranges 
• Breakfast for dinner.   

Notes:  

1. Pork chops are from a pork loin bought for a dollar a pound.   Bread stuffing is from day old bread.   Appples were bought in a bag with a discount from qfc.   They are lunch box apples, that is, they are small enough to put in a lunchbox and with children, there is less waste.   
2. Pizza is one of the least expensive meals you can make if made from scratch.    
3. I purchased salmon from winco.  It is peppercorn salmon and was five dollars a pound package.   
4. Rice can be double duty so you cook once, eat twice. It is purchased in bulk at costco.  Thecost is two cents a serving.    Chicken was purchased for 1.77 a lb for boneless, skinless breast.   However, my next purchase is .99 a lb at Zaycon .   
5. Chicken parm and meatballs are part of our freeezer eat down program.   Both easy meals. 
6. Breakfast for dinner is a favorite here.   Its a sunday everyone cooks family event.   

This blog is written on the premise of a four dollar a day budget.   That is supposedly the amount of snap money.   We live in one of the seven highest COL cities in the nation.    There is always a way to cut costs and still keep within a budget.   The premise is that if you can do it on four dollars a day, spending more is not hard.   I have fifty years of experience, having lived through double digit inflation and no raises for three years as a single mother.    I have been published in Woman’s Day and Taste of Home  magazines.   My husband and I raised three children.