Dinner Diary

This week.....

We had chili on Monday.   A new recipe that has corn in it as well as tomatoes and beans.

Tuesday we ate out with friends.  I had a chicken cordon blue with asparagus.

Wednesday we had stew,  a meal that wasn’t planned.  I happened on to a discounted package of stew meat at Safeways for 4.00 a pound.   I cooked it in the insta pot with veggies (potatoes ad carrots ) and it took 45 minutes.   I had leftovers on Thursday.

Thursday we had rice and planned  over chili.   I garnished it with sharp cheddar cheese.  

Tonight we are having roasted red pepper, tomato, and carrot soup and tuna melts.   We have extra English muffins that we paid 1.67 a dozen for.   I got both the tomatoes and the peppers for under my 1.00 target price.

Saturday we will have pizza.   I have some ham cubes we got for 2.00 a package.  We can also get a quiche and some flavor in a potato soup with the rest of the two dollars.    We will add the tops of the peppers that were cut from the peppers we got for .88.
We can add pineapple and plan for sweet and sour pork or chicken on Monday.

Sunday , we have sausage in the freezer.   A quiche of sausage and cheese sounds good.  We will still have English muffins left, and we have a cantaloupe.

Stretching a piece or package of meat and using all of a vegetable stretches your food dollar.   Every little thing you can do to stretch, and find food for a RBP helps.   Its the little things that add up to make your food bill 4.00 a day.  I have adapted my regular shopping/cooking habits to finally come down to four dollars a day per person.  The theory is that if you can do it for 4.00 a day, spending more isn’t hard.  We have salmon, pork loin, good hamburger, boneless, skinless chicken breast, and fresh fruit always.   I buy what vegetables I can that are 1.00 or nearly a dollar a pound or each, and supplement with frozen or canned.   We eat balanced, we eat well.   Four dollars a day also supplements granddaughter and grows a stock.


Simplify, buy at RBP, and always have food in the house.

4 plus 1 is FIVE.   Four people, 1 meal, 5 bucks.
Keeping guidelines in mind helps to keep you on track.

No food is going to do your family well if you are feeding it to the garage disposal.

Some people wouldn’t see a bargain if it got up and bit them in the butt, Don’t be that person.