Meal plans

Meal plans are a tool that saves time and money and a lot of frustration.  Anything that takes a little to,e and saves a lot of time and frustration during the hectic dinner hour is a good thing.

Starting with a good stash if basic food helps the creative process.  Having a matrix is a good start.   Everything on life starts with a foundation and an outline.

• Chicken pot pie 
• Pizza
• Pork roast, mashed potatoes and carrots 
• Sliders , salad 
• Tacos, refried beans Spanish rice 
• Vegetable bean soup , rolls 
• Breakfast for dinner 

Notes :

We bought a dozen rolls formsloders because they were a good price.   Besides sliders, I plan to add them to any meal that seems to work. 

Chicken was .88 a pound at QGC (Kroger) .  I cooked it on the insta pot.   It didn’t turn out with a crispy crust, but it was thirialky cooked and we have already had a chicken salad and fajitas with it, 

I still have enough for a couple of lunches and a pot pie or two.    All from about 4.50. 

Pork roast is from a pork loin purchased for . $.99 a pound. 

Re fried beans are cooked in the insta pot.   The price comes out to about the same as the cans on the cheap, but this has more food value and no fat.  

Vegetable bean soup is a recipe I made up years ago.   It weighs in at a couple of dollars for enough to feed an army and it too, has no preservatives or fat. 

Breakfast for dinner is always a winner.   Everyone cooks and it’s good quality family time. 

This week, the new crop of food must be coming on because the canned goods are starting to show good sale prices.   We got Nalleys chili for .75 and Campbell’s soup for a dollar less coupons made it .88.   

I expect the diced tomatoes I am running short of should be cheaper soon.   Replenishing stock only when things are on sale drastically reduces you food bill.   Some things I buy when the price is low, id We run out, , oh well, we can get by with something else.   I have “buy” prices.  If so,etching isn’t my buy price or less, we have to really need it, or we don’t buy it.   

A little planning goes a long ways to cutting your food bill.    We are still averaging at or below four dollars a day, supplement grandchild, and have grown a stock.   Having a stock of food isn’t hoarding, it is saving money and having the security of knowing, on a disaster, you will always have food.   We can’t predict the future, but we can do something to make us better prepared .