Healthy Meals for Less: Great-Tasting Simple Recipes Under $1 a Serving

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Then I brown a pound or two of hamburger and mince it up really well and drain. I just add whatever I want to taste. I simmer until the broth is evaporated. It comes out with a real deep flavor, and is yummy. Not sure how it comes out for price, you could certainly mix in veggies or even beans to stretch it further. Kids like cheese and ketchup on the buns too. I also make Ramen stir fry. I buy the oriental ramen noodles and a bag of stir-fry veggies.

I cook the noodles in the skillet, reserving some dried sections for crunches on top, then stir fry the veggies. The price really varies with how many veggies you add.

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Usually the 16 oz. I also add cooked chicken or even turkey to this if I have it around. Just a few pieces makes a big difference. Brown the potatoes, add the meat and veggies and cover till heated Top with sour cream, cheese, homemade salsa or eat plain!! Oh, these are fantastic ideas!!!

Serve with sliced tomatoes and cornbread. It does not make it hot just flavorful. If you have Aldi black beans are 59 cents a can there. This is one of our favorite meals. I often make this when I have leftover bits of ham from baking a ham and those little bits and ends are the ones no one wants on a sandwich etc. You can also leave out the ham. Simply add diced cooked turkey or chicken and green peas drain if using canned to a basic white sauce. Heat through and serve over toast. Sounds odd, but tastes so good.

I love reading your blog pages, but I have Type 2 Diabetes, so many of the noodle recipes have too many carbohydrates for me. We have substituted brown rice and Quinoa for all other types of pasta. We eat meats with 2 vegetables for dinner, often add a salad too. I eat lots of almonds and cashews too especially for snacks. Fortunately we live near a Costco and can buy Quinoa in a 5 pound bag. We are growing our own tomatoes, lots of dill, and Swiss Chard a staple vegetable at our home along with green beans and yellow squash..

Yes, I am a believer of butter over any substitutes.. I am a believer of real foods as much as possible. No Cool Whip has touched my lips.. Keep on blogging and feeding your family with real food.. I really enjoy reading your blogs.. We love stir fried rice for a quick and cheap meal- add leftover chicken or diced ham and frozen mixed vegetables with the usual green onion and egg and you have a satisfying one dish meal. My parents divorced when I was 14 and I had to learn to cook to avoid spending huge amounts of money eating out.

My mom and I did fine until my mom went to some religious extremist church sect and went batshit insane quoting scriptures every moment of the day. That cost her her job and naturally the income fell to zero when the douche of my elder brother decided to abandon my mom and I to our fates.

I used a lot of wartime inspiration to get by those dark days. I made my own garbage stews by dumping whatever was in the kitchen into a pot and stir frying the mess with plain white rice. Some of these wierd recipes like sardines and fried rice were super because the tomato sauce in a single small can of sardines could cover a huge serving of rice. Same for Chinese fried fish which were inexpensive; some had black beans and salted, others had vegetables in oil. The oil was great at flavouring rice and I could use the excess for cooking other things too. When food ran out or there was no money to buy -anything- we got by with lentils and plain rice with a little bit of soy sauce and pepper for taste.

How about when the lentils ran out? Oh, no problems, Vietnamese soldiers could survive forever on boiled rice alone, and so could we. Oops, I read and replied to your uplifting story before It dawned on me that Les may be a fellas name! I want you to know I read through your entire comment. Maybe you vented your life story so that someone like me would reach out and tell you what I am about to say. Please realize this is coming from the heart. Everyone makes choices in life. I realize it is probably hard to forgive your brother, but I hope there is a spot somewhere inside of yourself that recognizes he had to save himself.

As much as we all wish everyone would suffer and sacrifice their own sacrifice to help us, sometimes people really can only do as much as they can do and then they try to find a better, less painful life for themselves. I am not a religious nutjob trust me on this! There must be a lot of bitterness inside of you for you to still be spouting about it to complete strangers this many years later. These are my go to lunch if I happen to be out and about instead of stopping for fast food.

We have a large variety of bean soups from minestrone style, ham and white bean, or chili. White bean and Chicken Chili: Seasoned white beans, chicken thighs, canned seasoned tomatoes cooked together in a crockpot. Plus a bit of sour cream and cheese. I love this served with tortilla chips! Layer corn tortillas smeared with refried beans, seasoned black beans, and red beans. Add in whatever you have found on sale: Corn tortillas skillet cooked with refried beans and optional toppings: I use whole wheat pasta, soup stock, carrots, onions, chicken thighs and some seasoning.

Homemade mashed potatoes, canned corn, Grilled chicken thighs sliced thin, and brown gravy. Whole wheat pasta, olives, tomatoes, chopped onions, Italian dressing, maybe a bit of feta cheese. I buy whole wheat pasta in bulk and we serve it with white or red sauce or both! This is our easy go to after a long day hiking or at the lake. We often add a side of eggs. I use romaine noodles and add in some frozen Asian veg or if the kale is going gangbusters in the garden, a big batch of kale.

This is literally the only way I can get my kids to eat kale! Grilled Peanut Butter Sandwiches: I add a bit of honey and sometimes sliced banana. This is a camping favorite. I use refried beans or black beans and some cheese in jumbo tortillas with salsa and cook them on the grill. Most Friday nights our family fun night I make batch after batch of popcorn in our air popper and we eat while we play games or watch a movie. This is most of our go-to meals. Adding a few more low-cost meals that are easy and healthy will keep your food bill low without constant fretting.

Each week we stock up on fresh produce that happens to be on sale that week to add to these dishes. For example, when avocados go on sale for. But none of the dishes are dependent on items that might not be affordable that given week. Instead, they are based on foods that are always affordable or easy to stock up on and store. Ahh I love cheap and yummy meal ideas.

We eat super similarly to this — lots of beans and veggies, plus rice or potatoes. We make a game out of creatively using leftovers — can it be turned into a quesadilla? On top of rice? Stirred into a potato hash? My go to for cheap chicken is to buy a whole chicken way cheaper than parts! It is SO EASY and flavorful and can be dinner with a veg on night 1, then shredded into something on night two, put in soup on night 3, etc. This is great, Jillian! Spices makes SUCH a difference! We have an herb garden too and plant a few news ones each year. And we can do a whole chicken for two meals, but probably not three.

I have no idea why grilled pb is so good! Oh, and put a little cinnamon in that too! This recent CBS story also includes a 50 minute investigative special on Hunger in America from there are some tough scenes to watch. I try to base the meals around things that are mostly unprocessed. Things that I can at least remember where they came from. Like apples from trees. Or carrots from the garden. Instead of Doritos from…. We love tostadas, but are the only people I know who eat them. Oh, those are my fav! So filling and yummy, plus they only take a few minutes.

And your right these are all super kid friendly! I have so many recipes, I get overwhelmed easily. I copied and pasted this into a word document to hang in my fridge, but may I be so bold to suggest making it pretty and a PDF? We have several similar recipes in our rotation. Can you say beans?!! Cheap, healthy, easily spiced, you can do a million things with them. I tracked the prices up and down each week in a little notebook at my favorite stores for a number of months to see what the rock bottom price actually was, and then and only then, would I buy.

This was the number one behavior change that saved me so much money. I have a stand alone freezer and buy fresh fruits and veggies in season to freeze and have through out the year. Maybe we need to take the challenge and track the grocery shopping in detail for a couple of months. I ended up with oatmeal, two big jars of spaghetti sauce, and spaghetti noodles. When I got home, my Mom served spaghetti for my welcome home dinner. Only this time, I was more interested in health, and over the course of the PhD I developed a great repertoire of healthy, inexpensive meals.

And I always have on hand the makings for Indian daal spicy lentil soup , which I love, is very healthy, and is crazy cheap to make. The good bread helps me to feel satisfied, and is not very labor-intensive once you have your routines down.

I learned to make a whole chicken go very far, thanks to my new-found love of homemade soup. Back in the world of the gainfully employed, I now live in one of the most expensive cities in the US, but my graduate-student experience in healthy, frugal eating has been a lasting gift. I eat better than I ever have — both in terms of taste and health — now that I have all these go-to recipes that are healthy and relatively quick, now that I have the skills.

I buy as little processed food as possible — Diet Pepsi habit was one of the first things to go, when faced with the reality of my grad-school budget. What connects all three of these stories: Good memories, really, of these times of frugality. Last week, I went to dinner with a friend at one of the high-end chain restaurants burgers, craft beer, flatbread pizzas, etc here. On the way home, I thought: I used to eat like that all the time. Love this comment, Kay. I had a high-stress, let-it-demand-long-grueling-hours kind of job for the better part of 5. As I let the job take over my life, my eating habits grew increasingly atrocious lots of fast food and higher end restaurant food, those shockingly bad Homestyle Bakes meals at And in the years that followed, at first I maintained my old bad habits…but gradually, out of budgetary needs and honestly sheer boredom, I began cooking.

When we moved to a smaller city with a much lower cost of living, the difference between eating in and eating out became more pronounced, plus there were fewer tempting dining-out options, etc. And I was discovering that not only did I like to cook when energy allowed I have fatigue and pain issues , but my husband, who started out life in the kitchen setting papertowels on fire, making burgers raw in the middle and burned outside, etc. And in the past five or six years, I discovered gasp menu planning, and realized that I love making menus and lists for us almost as much as I love making them for ficitonal characters when I write.

We still have a long way to go on budget shopping and cooking, and scratch cooking, etc. Making our own spaghetti sauce from scratch instead of relying only on Prego.

Making teriyaki chicken with a homemade rather than bottled sauce. Even a bowl of cereal and milk is not something I can do every day safely. Sooooooo yummy and so much more satisfying. I go easy on the cheese and heavy on peppers and mushrooms. I credit my improvements, past and ongoing, to several things. Granted, the collapse of my health was an awful way to get the time. But since it happened, I figured I might as well use it to give us better food sometimes. My health issues have forced changes which have turned out to be better for our wallet and our tastebuds and eating experiences.

This lady could cook year-old cardboard and make you beg for thirds. And she cooked all kinds of things, and gave us the recipes, showed us how to make pizza dough and had little circles ready for us to dress our own pizzas, etc. And these were very balanced meals. There were always nonstachy veggies and nice starches involved.

No canned cream of soup here. For the last meeting, we were invited to a lovely formal dinner with our spouses, and they taught us the tricks of how to make that showy company dinner the week before they did it for us. I like spaghetti but not garlic, wink wink giggle nudge. And I really wish everyone could have the kind of teacher I did. I started going to extension office freebie classes and learned to make homemade soups. Then I started making up my own recipes for soup. Having good training was like a gateway drug for me.

It led to so much more. Got some promising recipes and think I might have to try them this winter. My slow cooker is my buddy. Dan, thank you for sharing! As a recovered vegan ; I do find myself doing mostly vegetarian for my husband and I. It is easy for me obviously, and I am lucky that my husband has an open mind to meals without meat. My advice to anyone wanting to try this but convinced their family will complain… is to just try it without calling out there is no meat. I add rice and quinoa and honestly rarely even add cheese. My husband will eat the filling on its own! I have had only one person ever notice my meatless meals… but he is just a picky eater determined to be picky.

I have 4 dogs that I make all of their food for… so I buy whole chickens from Costco to do that with. They act as kind of my garbage disposals for veggies about to turn as I grind veggies up into their food. I rarely have items go bad unless I forget them hidden under a bag of kale. This includes no eating out unless it comes from our allocated spending budget we each get.

The hardest part for me is having a lot of single or married friends with no kids who only like to go out for dinners. God the happy hours. Hence most of my other spending budget for me typically gets allocated to network type events. Braden, thank you for your wit and hysterical note in sparking this debate. I giggled the whole way through. I think the biggest savings come from not going out to eat and not eating meat. Your location definitely helps too, as milk and other goods are not nearly that cheap here on the East coast! There is always some additional room to optimize.

I have really enjoyed this discussion. It has given me a lot of food for thought about our grocery costs. By myself I ate a lot of pasta, eggs and veggies. They were eating a lot of prepared foods and feel veggies should be the smallest part of their diet. After a year we moved to more home cooked food and meal planning. We also cut way down on take out. I love all of the ideas! Glad to hear Lynn: I rarely talk about food, haha…. Some may wonder if that is possible. I could do that with no.

However, I tend to crave more during this time. LOL Instead of getting it in the market. My family tries very hard not to eat out, buy when things are on sale, etc. On the subject of budgeting for food: Sub categories are pantry, school and work snacks and lunches , coffee, restaurants, date night, celebration meals, and alcohol which is zero most of the time but a budget buster when it shows up. For one thing now I can see what we actually spend eating and what the trade off is for packing lunches and groceries.

Also no mind games about entertainment, which for us is limited. The total blows my mind. I have really enjoyed both of the email and rebuttal! The comments have all been great too! I do have a question about supplementing your meals with beans. I will be upfront with this… It causes terrible gas so I stay away from them. Does no one else have this problem? Is there something about the preparation that can decrease this? He really enjoyed that one — my wife did not ;. First, avoid using canned beans. Second, start eating just a few beans every day, or nearly every day.

After a few weeks or maybe even sooner your gut will adjust and be able to digest them easier.

Keep eating beans a few times a week after that. The meal plan is awful. This is more about mental neuroses than saving money. My husband and older boys hunt, so we eat deer meat and chicken bought in bulk from Zaycon. We go through lots of spinach and frozen fruit in green smoothies. There are always apples and carrots to eat, and usually celery, broccoli, and other veggies. I also buy canned veggies in bulk when they go on sale. We can usually glean enough potatoes and onions for most of the year and lots of peaches, applesauce,.

We eat LOTS of eggs for cheap protein. I buy whole wheat and grind it and make my own bread, cookies, etc. Cooked down, bagged and frozen, those go a long ways. All of the above! And we rarely eat out, maybe 3 times a year. We pack our food when we go out, every time. Wow the comments are fascinating. Even though we spend a lot we managed to cut thousands off our food budget in the last 3 years even while our kids got older and eat more by sticking to a year long menu plan I developed http: It saves so much time and money!

We end up with weird combinations of food like taco meat with a side of pasta, but it works. Last week I used half a container of spinach that was slightly wilty to make green smoothies for everyone. I have some dietary restrictions gluten and dairy free and we avoid sugar aside from special occasions and we eat mostly organic foods. The things we spend the most on are organic meats we serve it at one meal a day and find it necessary for our family , organic, grass-fed milk and butter from local farmers , and organic fruits and veggies.

In the end you have to find what works for not only your budget but for the amount of time you have to plan, prep, shop, cook, and clean up after meals. Love this post, it shows that with a little bit of planning, great strides can be made to reduce costs. I had to do a complete overhaul of my food budget after I noticed my expanding waistline was causing my wallet to shrink.

I employ many of the methods mentioned in the post and in the comments. Meal planning has become crucial element to saving, especially on busy days. There are days when I work late and I have to get home and shuttle the kiddo off to soccer, before I would just run by the drive thru. Now having a plan for dinner before I get home keeps me out of that cycle. Check out local farmers markets and Ethnic grocery stores. We also have a few Asian grocers that have great produce deals.

Another plus is that they have produce not found in the big chain stores. The ethnic grocery stores may not be convenient, grab the ad and take them to any store that does price matching. No, not extreme couponer style. Like Dan I used to be one but it was a pain, used up too much time. I use those and I print them from sites like coupons. I primarily coupon for non food items like toiletries and household products. I spend at most 30 mins a week on coupons. Generally once I have my grocery list put together I check in online to see if there are any coupons for what I need, print them, and go.

See if you can find a local coupon blog, I have one check in on to tell me if there are any great deals. Plant a garden or find someone that does. Grow you own veggies if you can, or at least an herb garden. Having fresh basil on hand at all times is awesome. I looooove the garden idea!! And also the idea of raising chickens which I know absolutely nothing about but would be elated to have fresh eggs every morning!!! Not having the time to read all of the comments here, I did read the first and these girls commented on the unhealthy choices your buck menus are getting you.

Without getting too judgy, my mom fed an army of 9, I get it my main thought to opine here is that the super cheap food choices in this country are downright dangerous! Dollar meals in this country are laden with sugar and sodium and GMOs. Being a rockstar with your food budget is awesome, but only when it factors in the hidden costs. A diet like this leads you on the road to diabetes and the like, which leads to very expensive regimes down the road, prescription drugs, dr visits, etc.

In this country, we have a very distorted view of how much food we actually need, yes even kids. We are a family of 10 and we include pets in our totals.

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I stay home so we are also working on one income. I have a different dietary philosophy than the authors wife so honestly, their dinners look a lot like our lunch menus. This is a run down of our dinners: Spaghetti sauce with noodles or spaghetti squash. Broccoli and homemade bread. There is homemade bread on our table in some form every night. Tacos made with ground turkey. Homemade guac and pico and bulk purchased cheese and sour cream on the side. This will give leftovers for lunches. There will be leftover chicken.

I will serve rolls or cinnamon buns also. Often a casserole or meatloaf depending on the schedule. Sometimes a fast meal of fish with mac and cheese on the side. Salad with toppings or fruit salad. Chicken sandwiches on english muffins, grilled ham and cheese are some ideas. Some sort of veggie just so we can say we did. Refried beans with tortilla chips my teens get a little junk and tortilla chips are a favorite. I spend more on Tide because it works on greasy restaurant clothes.

I feed 4 cats and a golden retriever puppy that EATS. I also feed a few kids that appear around dinner time because my kids know there will be homemade food and plenty of it. We drink lots of coffee and I actually buy produce by the case from the restaurant supply house. I also let myself have one can of diet coke at dinner every night. The authors meals would seem very skimpy to us. My kids are all long and lean and they go to school and play sports so they are very active. Dh and I could drop a few but…. I probably would have drenched myself in that if it were around when I was a teen too….

Besides coupons, join Checkout51 and Savings Star. This is really sad, man. Buy them some actual food, man. To clarify, we give a friend who has a membership money for our items to be purchased, so it is not costing us a full membership. I like the accounting tricks. One of ours is when we have people over for dinner that percent of the meal goes to giving.

I guess it depends on what you consider to be the most important use of your money. Feeding my family the healthiest food available is my top priority of my dollar. I really try to be positive and not judge others, but reading the grocery receipts and meal plans all I can think is how poor their diet is. While I prefer to have more protein in my diet I realize that is a personal choice and one can eat very healthy without eating much meat. Evidently some was for a party, but there was a lot of pasta, crackers and other packaged food that I would not feed my kids every day.

The big issue I have is with the lack of produce. There is very little some, like apples, strawberries and bananas but not nearly enough. The only vegetables I could see were baby carrots and iceburg lettuce, which has virtually no nutritional value. I could be wrong, I did see other comment where people missed things because of abbreviations.

Maybe I did, too. Three types of fruit and some carrots will not provide an entire family of 8 with 5 to 6 servings of vegetables and fruit a day. Its true that they may have some frozen veggies, canned veggies or leftovers at home but enough for 8 people, 3 or 4 more servings per day for 7 days? And if so, how is that factored into the budget? It had to have been paid for at some point.

And I do believe we can learn something from everyone, even if we disagree with them. Thank you and your friend for being so open about your food budgets, I know it leaves you open to all sorts of nastiness, especially because it is only a snapshot…If some one looked at my shopping receipt this week they would see: They can either come to the conclusion that all my family eats is homemade cupcakes, or they can realize that we had a special occasion and the only shopping I needed to do was to get ingredients for a cake which was delicious!

I did not realize that every time I purchase fresh kale and purple carrots I am that much closer to being canonized upon my death I am assuming that because kale and purple carrots sound snobbier I get more moral points for them. I am going to try this food budget thing and see how far well we do. Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking when I was reading all of these comments! I just have to say, people have become so rude! This man was just offering what he does to save money on food. Who cares what he feeds his family?! Why did they even read this post if they only eat expensive organic food?

And then to take the time to comment to tell everyone what they eat??? As if anyone cares! It seems to me that everyone needs to get off their high horse. I have just started to really track our money, and food is the easiest to control or not control. We are comfortable, but with my retirement coming up, the plan is to do away with all nonessential bills so that my retirement — which is going to equal what I currently make on an annual basis of net — will be even more comfortable.

We eat meat almost every day, but love breakfast for dinner.

Budget Friendly Meals Under $1

We seldom eat out. We buy meat in bulk about every 2 months from Costco and parcel it out. Chicken breasts from Trader Joe are a weekly standard.

We make our own bacon. Food where we live can vary in price.

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Out of town, a large local ethnic grocery with great prices — and it is on the way home from work, which is a great thing to have. To me, eating out falls in the area of entertainment. Freezing, bulk purchases, and so on, do add to savings. You would think it nuts that a couple will buy tri tip in bulk, but we do — and save a lot. There are times we come home with lbs of meat, in the form of chicken, ground turkey, pork, and beef. Anyway, to me, the key to saving on food is bulk purchases and cooking at home. But, what I do have, is the discipline to know what things cost, and know what we are going to use and need as staples.

Then, a few spot purchases, and all is right with the eating world. A couple of things I do to cut grocery spending: Buy family packs of meat, divide it into servings, and freeze. Of course buy bulk when possible and buy seasonal.

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If I have grapes, strawberries, watermelon past their prime, I put it outside for my fur friends! I do spend a LOT on my cats! My husband always asks why they never have to cut back — LOL! Also, they now have a portable product that uses the resealable bags — just wonderful! I just wash the bags out, hang them up to dry, and reuse multiple times.

I also freeze left-over soup, spaghetti, beans in glass Mason jars. I use the pint jars for work and just pop in the microwave. No extra bowl required. Another thing, keep an inventory of your pantry. I use the app, Out of Milk. You can scan the barcode on a product, and even enter the quantity in your pantry and what you paid for it. There are also links for the stores you frequent and the items they have on sale. My parents were very frugal but we ate very well.

My mother made everything from scratch. I might be wrong, but when calculating a weekly budget, staple items flour, meal, sugar, rice, beans, etc. Same goes for oil, butter, etc. How literal do you get with this? We always have baskets out with fresh produce but we also use a lot of frozen too. We always have milk and soymilk on hand, my kids enjoys snacks regularly, and my husband is a big fan of potato chips. If you plan accordingly and pay attention to grocery ads, a reasonable, healthy, and enjoyable grocery budget can be had.

I thank the author for this post, I was actually looking up recipes when I came across this page and now I have a few more meals I can play around with. We also do not eat out, ever. I hope even the people posting to nasty and judgemental comments were able to at least take one small positive from this post, even if it was the funny emphasis on pizza Thursday, which at our house is Wednesday: Thanks so much for taking the time to share — I love it that you did: And oddly enough we now have weekly pizza night too!

I love that you are giving people ideas on eating cheaper! I have some additional ideas. I shop almost exclusively at the Hispanic and Asian markets for produce, chicken, beef, lentils, rice and beans. Ethnic markets go through these items much faster than mainstream chains. Produce goes on special every week as does many meats. There are always at least 5 yummy fruits and veggies on sale. Chicken legs are frequently 39 cents a pound. Both of these items can be made into sauces, soups, and stews. My last tidbit, use your crockpot to make stock for soups and stews, tomato sauces, beans, etc.

Anything prepared, that you buy canned, can be made in hours in a crockpot. Freeze it in portions to store it. I love reading stuff like this, its so encouraging. I just feed me and my husband, with moderate food prices. But we dont have an oven — we have a griddle, a coffee pot and a microwave. And our fridge is 2 feet high.

But i like a good challenge. If it works for you fine but honestly I would rather spend more on Non GMO and organic foods and grass fed meat because my health is more important to me. What good is having money if you are too sick to enjoy it? People are getting the strangest of diseases and ailments non cancerous tumors for ex for no known reasons. Preference cans and boxes to jars and frozen.

Buy from a grocery store, especially a hard discount grocer. Buy when on sale in bulk. Watch for coupons, loss-leaders, sales at other stores. Buy powdered drink mix which is artificially sweetened. Aldi is the cheapest for that. Kroger has the lowest cost store brand soda.

Take into account your gas cost. Just add a pinch salt to the beans.

Dollar Tree sets a price cap on items. This increases the variety of items you can consume. It seems the author is not taking full advantage of Aldi. I monitor six grocery stores including two hard discounters, four department stores, three dollar stores, three pharmacies, and one hardware store for food prices. CVS has also had some great food deals recently. Aldi is generally far cheaper than most, e.

How do you get 16oz pasta, 2 jars of Ragu gross btw , and a loaf of garlic bread to feed 8 people 2 meals? I need double the amount of pasta to feed 5 people 1 meal. We have to buy our water too because of iron content in the well. Both me and my bf have some major digestive issues and food allergies. Like the OP said he must have had certain items already on hand. Kudos to everyone who can reduce their food bill though. I do everything from scratch as well, the only pre-packaged food I buy is coffee grains and maybe some Panko. This causes problems like attention deficit and hyper activity.

If a child eats Cinnamon Toast Crunch or packaged mini muffins every day before school they will be full of jittery nervousness energy and unable to concentrate. How about a banana instead? Or oatmeal is much cheaper than the boxed stuff and it is much healthier! That would save u even more money:

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