Meal plans

It’s Sunday, it must be meal plans .  Meal plans are a necessary part of groceries in the cheap.  Being organized and planning to incorporate food that is in abundance in the house and things that may be ready to expire is a good plan. Also, incorporating your schedule into the plan to accommodate appointments and meetings.

• Chicken pot pie 
• Pizza
• Potato soup, cheesy drop biscuits 
• Tuna patties, oven fries, fruit salad 
• Spaghetti and meatballs, salad 
• Fajitas 
• Breakfast for dinner 

A form  makes it easy to take inventory and do meal plans.   

A matrix makes meal planing quick and easy and affords variety. 

Notes :  we eat on less than four dollars a day and keep a stock.   Keep on mind we are “old” and are not  feeding a 17yo linebacker. Lol Washington SNAP averages 4.25 a day,  you can still feed growing children and keep a 4-6 week supply of food.  

1. Chicken pot pie is easy and uses chicken already cooked.  We use one crust to curb the carbs. 
2. Pizza is a mainstay. A cheese pizza costs about a dollar of made from scratch.  Pizza dough can be made in the  Food processor  or by hand , or a batch can be made in the kitchen aid and frozen.  This makes 4 pizza crusts and it is a thicker crust. 
3. Potato soup is an inexpensive meal and uses a small mount of milk or cream.  Having an inexpensive meal means you can have a more expensive meal every now and then and still stay on budget.   
4. Tuna melt used solid albacore tuna from Costco and oven fries that are low in fat.   
5. Soafhetti and meatballs use 1/2 a package of spaghetti (4 servings) and meatballs from the freezer.  Pasta sauce on a jar.   8 minutes in the insta pot. 
6. Fajitas use peppers  that sprouts had on sale for .50.   Taco shells on sale from cinco de Mayo. 
7. Breakfast for dinner is a mainstay.  Everyone cooks— a family affair .