Meal Plans for week of April 9th

Meal Plans are a way to keep organized and make best use of your time.   Add a quick hour of kitchen management and your kitchen is clean and you cut your time in the kitchen during the busy dinner hour.

• Sweet and Sour chicken , rice. 
• Pizza 
• Lemon pepper chicken pasta 
• Chicken chimichangas , lettuce and tomato 
• Meatballs subs 
• Salmon, seasoned rice, broccolli 
• Breakfast for Dinner 

Notes: 

• Sweet and sour chicken is from chicken tenders I cut from the breasts I bought in bulk. 
• Pizza is a good go to and everyone likes it.  Homemade Pizza cost about a dollar for cheese.  
• Lemon pepper chicken pasta is a Betty Crocker recipe.  
• Chicken chimichangas are easy and use bits of planned over chicken.  (Chicken from sweet and sour chicken ) 
• Meatball subs are meatballs purchased at Winco and rolls purchased at the DT. 
• Salmon is frozen, seasoned rice is a mix that I made, Broccolli is fresh. 
• Breakfast for Dinner is a family affair....everyone cooks.   

• Our average weekly grocery expense was 55.05 a week last year.   So far, we are at or below that including a bulk chicken purchase.   We are hoping the bulk hamburger purchase will be absorbed into april and may budgets.   That puts us on a less than 4 dollars a person budget and we supplement a granddaughter and build a small stock.   It is a good idea to work on a 4-6. week rotation so there is always food in the house.  
• We eat a balanced diet of good food.   We eat real food.  We try to avoid a lot of salt,sugar, saturated fat, hydroginated oils, and HFCS. (Sugar).  
• The trick is to avoid the impulse buys that the retailers bombard you with every time you walk into the stores, and buy good food cheap, not cheap food.  
• I set out to do that many years ago.   It took time to develop a plan that doesn’t take a lot of time, yet maximizes savings.    I’m sharing this because there are people that need to feed their families well and dont have a lot of money.   We haven’t seen a real raise in Social Security in years.  They give it to you and take it back.   Many are living in poverty because mnimum wage has not kept up with rising housing costs .  For whatever reason, I am hoping that my information can help.   I don’t advertise on this blog, my blog is solely to help people.    
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• Thank you for reading.