Making a meal plan will help you through those times when you just can't cook... believe me I feel that way a lot, but realized that even if we eat out "cheap" it usually costs us around $20. (stick with me through the math here...) If we do that twice a week, thats $2080 a year on 96 dinners out... and that is a very low estimate! My grocery budget for all meals (that's 1,095 meals folks!) for the entire year is exactly that- $2080! If we just eat at home and save eating out for special occasions, we are saving around $2000 in a year that can be saved or used to pay down debt!
So make a meal plan and stick with it.. your wallet will thank you!!
Monday- Chicken Enchiladas, chips & salsa
Tuesday-Meatloaf, Okra, Corn
Wednesday- Grilled Salmon, potatoes, salad, peach cobbler & ice cream (yum!)
Thursday- Hot Wings (Frank's sauce and melted butter... the best wings!!!), Drumsticks for the kids, scalloped potatoes
Friday- Chicken Gyros, homemade pitas
I try to have 1-2 additional veggies at dinner each night.
Lunches- quesadillas, pb & j, cheese and crackers, watermelon, leftovers
Breakfasts- waffles, cereal, strawberry muffins
Okra? I never thought I would ever see one of my kids eating okra! haha
ReplyDeleteYou did this all for $10?
ReplyDeletehaha no, that was another post.. a week's challenge we did as a family. The challenge was to eat a weeks worth of dinners for $10.. if I had to estimate this weeks dinners it would be around $19 (the fish is $5 of that)
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