What's for dinner? Was it "budget"?

[Sorsha]

Tonight is chicken fried steak and all the fixings!!

YUM!! Now that sounds good! maybe I will pick up the ingredients for this today.... chicken fried steak, mashed taters, yummy gravy, maybe some southern greens on the side... hmmm... Thanks for the inspiration!

 

[marcyinPA]

Tonight we'll have lite keilbasi and leftover potatoes from last night. I'll whip up a green salad too. Not exciting, but it's food!

 

[babytrees]

YUM!! Now that sounds good! maybe I will pick up the ingredients for this today.... chicken fried steak, mashed taters, yummy gravy, maybe some southern greens on the side... hmmm... Thanks for the inspiration!

it was good last night I did baked potatoes instead of mashed....but all in all for $5, 3 dinners and leftovers for my lunch today...yummy, yummy!!

 

[babytrees]

We are having beautiful weather today...and predicted back to nasty tomorrow...so I think I will figure something for the grill. It's either that or tuna melts..because I love tuna melts.

 

[albertamommyof4]

today is organic pasta with meatsauce
pasta 1.99
sauce 3.00
3/4 of a pound of ground beef 1.00
buns toasted .30
Total $6.29 for 6 plus left overs

 

[Priorityonecb]

Tonight is:

Hot chicken sandwiches (chicken and gravy free from other night)
Bread .25 worth
Mashed potatoes (leftover from roasted chicken night)
1/2 bag of veggie stir fry, plus some fresh I have to use up before we left on vacation) 1.00

1.25 for dinner...not bad!!

 

[K&KsMom]

Sirloin Steak on the grill ($5.50)
Fresh Broccoli ($1.99)
Apples ($1.00)
$8.49 for the four us......not too bad!

 

[Grendalynn]

Left over Chicken breasts - cut up into bite size pieces...
small bits (about 1/2+ cup each)of frozen corn, carrots and peas....
3 tbs Butter, a small onion chopped up and some milk and flour...
add some spices, a box of frozen roll-out pie crusts and we are good to go!

 

[grlpwrd]

Tonight we are having orange chicken (one batch made with chicken breast and the other batch made with soy chicken from dixiediner.com), brown rice mixed with some white rice, and broccoli.

marcyinPA, that Greek chicken sounds good. I made mine using the Fix It and Forget It cookbook. Yum.

 

[worldismine]

pork chops scallop pototoes apple sauce and gravy,, total $1.69 for the gravy, had everything else already from food shopping last week!!!!

 

[marcyinPA]

Tonight we are having orange chicken (one batch made with chicken breast and the other batch made with soy chicken from dixiediner.com), brown rice mixed with some white rice, and broccoli.

marcyinPA, that Greek chicken sounds good. I made mine using the Fix It and Forget It cookbook. Yum.

That's the cookbook I used too! I bet we used the same recipe, because there was only one for Greek Chicken! I added the lemon juice, and it was pretty good! My picky eater 8 year old ate it, so it couldn't have been bad! LOL

 

[tweedlemom]

Pot of boiling water (10 cups), 10 beef bouillon cubes, 4 large diced onions thrown in, small slices of french bread cut up and put into crocks with soup (finally done) poured in, sprinkling of mozzarella cheese. Super cheap!

 

[Deweysgirl]

We had 3 FREE chicken sandwhiches McD's is giving away today with the purchase of a medium drink. The cost was 3 medium drinks (4.20) and I made a box of mac and cheese (.50) Actualy were very tasty, a spinoff of Chick-Fil-A's chicken sandwhiches served with just the chicken breast, bun and 2 pickles.

 

[babytrees]

We had hot dogs, hamburgers and fruit...yummy!! and fairly inexpensive.

Tomorrow gotta think of something warm for the cold, snowy day we are supposed to have.

 

[OceanAnnie]

Tonight we had BLTs and I heated up some left over FF from last night. We also had some yellow cake with lite strawberry cool whip (I added the pureed strawberrys) and vanilla ice cream. Yum!

 

[marcyinPA]

Tonight is steaks (free...my mom has us on auto-delivery from QVC!), a can of Bush's Grillin' Beans (I don't know why, but I had to try these!), and a veggie. I also have some frozen french fries in the toaster oven for DS8, who wouldn't eat a bean if his life depended on it.

 

[babytrees]

Tonight is steaks (free...my mom has us on auto-delivery from QVC!), a can of Bush's Grillin' Beans (I don't know why, but I had to try these!), and a veggie. I also have some frozen french fries in the toaster oven for DS8, who wouldn't eat a bean if his life depended on it.

I can't wait to hear how you like the beans (or don't like).

We had tuna melts and watermelon....that $1 watermelon went a long way!!

 

[Adi12982]

Orange Chicken ($6)
Fried Rice (rice $0.25; ham $0.50; eggs $0.50; soy sauce $0.25)
365 Asian Stir Fry Veggies ($0.70)
Drinks ($0.25)
$8.45 (It is at least 5 servings - so $1.69 a serving)

 

[marcyinPA]

I can't wait to hear how you like the beans (or don't like).

We had tuna melts and watermelon....that $1 watermelon went a long way!!

We liked the beans! They were pretty good. I can't remember exactly what flavor I got...they were bbq I think. I'd buy'em again...with a coupon! LOL

 

[NorweJenNY]

Dh had some leftover carrots and onions (already used up the celery though... doh!) from some chicken soup made as part of a church dinner, so that was technically free (they would've just been thrown out if left at church... perish the thought!). I through them into a pot of water with some close-to the date boneless chicken breast that had been marked down... $3.44 for the meat. That made enough chicken for about six meal's worth, though I like to take some of the chicken out and make chicken salad out of the boiled chicken so that the leftovers used for next day lunch seem different. Still, a little mayo, onion powder, salt, and poultry seasoning does not exactly add a lot of cost. I can safely say that each meal came to less $1, probably closer to about 65-70 cents. Since I eat low-carb, I don't add rice/pasta to the soup or bread for my chicken salad. Just meat and veggies are good enough for my body and my wallet!