Meal Plans

Meal plans are a tool that saves time and money.  It totally saves answeringnthe what’s for dinner question.   If you are organized, you are less stressed.   We re still on a no soend, which means we are on a 30.00 or less week budget.  It’s to,e to reduce the pantry to make room for the new bulk sales that should be appearing at your local chain store soon.

• Movie night- nachos or taco soup 
• Pizza
• Pork chops, mashed potatoes, honey ginger glazed carrots 
• Ranch Mac and cheese 
• SASON chicken pasta 
• Vegetable bean soup 
• Breakfast for dinner 

Notes 

1. New Year’s Eve is a good time to have a family movie.   Simple dinner fare , especially finger foods  is festive and easy.
2. Pizza is a mainstay around here.  The cost of a cheese pizza is a dollar when ingredients are purchased at RBP and it is made from scratch.  
3. Pork chops are from a pork loin purchased at .99 a pound.   The insta pot makes it with mushroom gravy on a matter of minutes.   Glazed carrots 🥕 are simple and tasty.  Carrots at Winco are 2.28 for five pounds as opposed  to baby carrots for a dollar or more a pound.  Inventing baby carrots  was a way for a farmer to sell his misshapen carrots instead of having to sell the, for animal feed.   
4. Ranch Mac and cheese lowers the amount of flour in the cheese sauce.   Boxed Mac and cheese has soap in it.   TSP was a soap that we used to sell at the paint store to wash the walls so the grease etc was off the walls and the paint would adhere better.   You needed to wear rubber gloves so it didn’t eat your hands up.   Another sink in moment. Lol 
5. SASON chicken pasta.   Uses a chicken breast that we got for a dollar a  pound. SASON is a spice blend that isn’t spicy hot , but has Tex mex flavors.   
6. Vegetable bean soup is full of protein, but doesn’t have meat in it,   It’s really healthy and a good contrast to the two pasta dishes this week.    
7. Breakfast for dinner is a family meal. Everyone cooks.  It can be French Toast. Waffles, pancakes. Or egg omelette, or a quiche.  Fruit or yogurt parfaits round out the meal.   

None of these meals are over five dollars.   None of them are extra time consuming.  J