- 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:
- 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.
- Pizza is one of the least expensive meals you can make if made from scratch.
- I purchased salmon from winco. It is peppercorn salmon and was five dollars a pound package.
- 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 .
- Chicken parm and meatballs are part of our freeezer eat down program. Both easy meals.
- 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.