Part of feeding a family on four dollars a day or less is not wasting. When there are two or three members of a family, that sometimes means leftovers or planned overs. Having leftovers for lunch helps.
Spaghetti and meatballs can use the rest of the batch of meatballs on meatball subs. It helps to skip a day and serve a leftover the next day. Morphing it into another dish helps.
Eggs are cheap and a good way to stretch your food dollar. A vegetabke omelette, toast or an English muffin, and fruit makes a good breakfast for dinner. If your breakfast for dinner has pancakes or another dish that is short on protein, try adding a yogurt parfait with yogurt, fruit, and granola.
Soup and bread is a good hearty meal and can be really easy and inexpensive.
Peasant bread is .25 to make and takes two sessions of ten minutes or less to make hands on.
A loaf of sourdough bread costs upwards of two dollars.
A twenty five pound bag of flour from Costco can give you many times it’s cost in savings.
A recipe for muffin mix is on the Internet, I don’t think I can resist it without violating copyright laws. It’s from taste of home and it’s the one that takes a egg, I stick of butter, and a cup of milk in addition to the mix. It goes together quickly, and it only takes about five minutes hands on time to make muffins, you add the extra you want, Last time I washed and cut up an apple and added cinnamon. Blueberries can be frozen or fresh. There are many possibilities.
Pancakes are very expensive the frozen food section of the grocery store. They take minutes. And having an electric grill helps.
Bread is the biggest savings . Yeast is a bit over three dollars a jar . It goes a long ways. Some recipes call for a quarter teaspoon. There are breads that take little time. And, quick breads Re a big savings too.
Finding recipes that you family likes that are inexpensive to cook and don’t take all your time on the kitchen is key to making a four dollar a day budget work.
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