Breakfast:
1c Raisin Bran for each person.
This costs about $.60 for all 4 people.
Lunch:
Leftovers from the week or PB and J for everyone and any leftover fruit or applesauce.
Dinner: Cheese Toast and Tomato Soup
1/2 loaf bread
1/2lb cheese cut into slices enough for your bread
2 cans tomato sauce
4c milk
1T basil
Make cheese toast by broiling the cheese on the bread in the oven. Make the soup by stirring the tomato sauce, milk and basil in a saucepan on medium until warmed through--but not quite boiling.
This costs about $3.61 to feed all 4.
Total cost for the day: $4.21 to feed everyone.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Week One, Day Six
Breakfast:
Homemade Pancakes with bananas and syrup.
Syrup is made by mixing 1c sugar with 1/2c water in a glass 2c measuring cup. Microwave until boiling and dissolved. Stir in 1/4t of mapeline. This will not be artificially thick syrup like you buy at the store, but it will taste better and my family prefers it greatly over storebought. We did, however, buy one of the microwavable syrups once and saved the container. We keep our extra homemade syrup in that for easy warm-up.
Homemade pancakes--use your favorite recipe or try this one:
1 1/4 c flour
2T baking powder
1/2t salt
1 egg
1c milk
1T oil
Stir until just mixed and cook as usual in a frying pan with a little oil. Electric frying pans work best for pancakes. Mine will cook 6 pancakes at once. Serve with thinly sliced bananas (however many bananas you have left) and warm maple syrup.
This meal costs about $.90 and will make you feel like royalty on Saturday morning!
Lunch for all 4: Hamburger Stew
1/2lb hamburger
2T flour
1T dried onions
1 can mixed veggies(drained)
4 bouillion cubes
4 cups water.
Brown hamburger with onions. Add flour and stir well. Add veggies, bouillion, and water. Boil until bouillion is all dissolved and stew is slightly thickened. Serve with bread and butter.
This meal costs about $2.21 to serve all four.
Dinner: Beef Stroganoff and Spinach
1/2lb hamburger
1T dried onion
2T flour
1 can tomato sauce
1 can mushrooms
2T worcestershire sauce
1c or 1/2 tub sour cream
1 pkg. cooked egg noodles
2 cans spinach
1/2 loaf bread
1/2 stick margarine
garlic powder
Brown hamburger with onions and add flour. Add tomato sauce, mushrooms, worcestershire sauce, and sour cream. Simmer until thick and bubbly. Serve over warm egg noodles with a side of spinach and garlic bread (broiled in the oven like on day 2)
This meal costs about $4.73 for the whole meal.
Total cost for the day: $7.84
Homemade Pancakes with bananas and syrup.
Syrup is made by mixing 1c sugar with 1/2c water in a glass 2c measuring cup. Microwave until boiling and dissolved. Stir in 1/4t of mapeline. This will not be artificially thick syrup like you buy at the store, but it will taste better and my family prefers it greatly over storebought. We did, however, buy one of the microwavable syrups once and saved the container. We keep our extra homemade syrup in that for easy warm-up.
Homemade pancakes--use your favorite recipe or try this one:
1 1/4 c flour
2T baking powder
1/2t salt
1 egg
1c milk
1T oil
Stir until just mixed and cook as usual in a frying pan with a little oil. Electric frying pans work best for pancakes. Mine will cook 6 pancakes at once. Serve with thinly sliced bananas (however many bananas you have left) and warm maple syrup.
This meal costs about $.90 and will make you feel like royalty on Saturday morning!
Lunch for all 4: Hamburger Stew
1/2lb hamburger
2T flour
1T dried onions
1 can mixed veggies(drained)
4 bouillion cubes
4 cups water.
Brown hamburger with onions. Add flour and stir well. Add veggies, bouillion, and water. Boil until bouillion is all dissolved and stew is slightly thickened. Serve with bread and butter.
This meal costs about $2.21 to serve all four.
Dinner: Beef Stroganoff and Spinach
1/2lb hamburger
1T dried onion
2T flour
1 can tomato sauce
1 can mushrooms
2T worcestershire sauce
1c or 1/2 tub sour cream
1 pkg. cooked egg noodles
2 cans spinach
1/2 loaf bread
1/2 stick margarine
garlic powder
Brown hamburger with onions and add flour. Add tomato sauce, mushrooms, worcestershire sauce, and sour cream. Simmer until thick and bubbly. Serve over warm egg noodles with a side of spinach and garlic bread (broiled in the oven like on day 2)
This meal costs about $4.73 for the whole meal.
Total cost for the day: $7.84
Week One, Day Five
Breakfast:
Oatmeal with brown sugar and 1/4c raisins.
This meal should cost about $.43 for all 4 people.
Lunches for kids:
Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich, cookies, and applesauce.
This meal should cost about $ 1.46 for both lunches.
Lunches for adults: Leftover chicken casserole. Cost is nothing.
Dinner: Easy Layered Enchiladas
1/2lb hamburger
3/4 sweet onion (from yesterday) chopped and divided in half
2 T flour
1 can stewed tomatoes
1 can tomato sauce
1 T cumin
1 T chili powder
1 T oregano
1/2 head lettuce-shredded
2 cups shredded cheese (about 1/2 of your 1lb chunks)
1/4 tub sour cream
8-12 corn tortillas
Brown hamburger in large pot with 1/2 of the chopped onions. Do not drain off all of the fat, if you drain any. Add the flour and stir to make sure the flour is mixed in well. Add the stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, cumin, chili powder, and oregano. Then add 2-4 cups of water. When this mixture is boiling and thickened (because of the flour) add one tortilla at a time and let it cook on top of the boiling mixure. It only takes about 30 seconds of boiling for each one to be done. On 4 plates (we use pie plates,) stack the cooked tortillas alternately with layers of cheese, onions (the rest of them), and lettuce. It helps to have two people--one cooking the tortillas, and the other adding toppings in between tortillas. 2-3 tortillas per person is plenty. After the tortillas are all stacked, the extra meat mixture is poured over the top of each plate and dollops of sour cream are added.
This meal costs about $5.15 to feed 4 people. There will not be leftovers unless you make some extra plates to put in the refrigerator--this meal can easily be stretched by cooking more tortillas and stacking them with less toppings in between.
Total cost for the day: $7.04
Oatmeal with brown sugar and 1/4c raisins.
This meal should cost about $.43 for all 4 people.
Lunches for kids:
Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich, cookies, and applesauce.
This meal should cost about $ 1.46 for both lunches.
Lunches for adults: Leftover chicken casserole. Cost is nothing.
Dinner: Easy Layered Enchiladas
1/2lb hamburger
3/4 sweet onion (from yesterday) chopped and divided in half
2 T flour
1 can stewed tomatoes
1 can tomato sauce
1 T cumin
1 T chili powder
1 T oregano
1/2 head lettuce-shredded
2 cups shredded cheese (about 1/2 of your 1lb chunks)
1/4 tub sour cream
8-12 corn tortillas
Brown hamburger in large pot with 1/2 of the chopped onions. Do not drain off all of the fat, if you drain any. Add the flour and stir to make sure the flour is mixed in well. Add the stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, cumin, chili powder, and oregano. Then add 2-4 cups of water. When this mixture is boiling and thickened (because of the flour) add one tortilla at a time and let it cook on top of the boiling mixure. It only takes about 30 seconds of boiling for each one to be done. On 4 plates (we use pie plates,) stack the cooked tortillas alternately with layers of cheese, onions (the rest of them), and lettuce. It helps to have two people--one cooking the tortillas, and the other adding toppings in between tortillas. 2-3 tortillas per person is plenty. After the tortillas are all stacked, the extra meat mixture is poured over the top of each plate and dollops of sour cream are added.
This meal costs about $5.15 to feed 4 people. There will not be leftovers unless you make some extra plates to put in the refrigerator--this meal can easily be stretched by cooking more tortillas and stacking them with less toppings in between.
Total cost for the day: $7.04
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Week One, Day Four
Breakfast:
4 cups Peaches and Cream Oatmeal. Make peach syrup by adding 1/2 c sugar to the rest of the canned peaches from Monday's lunches. You can mash the peaches up or leave them in slices. Heat over stove until all the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is boiling. Serve over oatmeal with milk.
4 cups Peaches and Cream Oatmeal. Make peach syrup by adding 1/2 c sugar to the rest of the canned peaches from Monday's lunches. You can mash the peaches up or leave them in slices. Heat over stove until all the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is boiling. Serve over oatmeal with milk.
This meal costs about $.98 to feed all 4 people.
Lunches for kids:
Ham Sandwiches (1/2 oz. ham each sandwich,) cookies, pineapple chunks.
This meal costs about $1.46 for both lunches.
Lunches for adults: Leftover Chicken Noodle Soup. Cost is nothing.
Dinner: Chicken Rice Casserole and Salad
Chunked chicken from yesterday
4 cups cooked rice (make according to package directions)
1/2 pkg. frozen broccoli
1 c milk
2 T flour
1 T margarine
2 chicken bouillion cubes
1/2 head lettuce
1/2 cuke
1 tomato
1/4 sweet onion
1/8 bottle of salad dressing
Microwave milk and bouillion cubes for 1-2 minutes until hot and bouillion is dissolved. In a saucepan, melt margarine and stir in flour. When this becomes a thick paste, add hot milk mixture and whisk heartily until boiling and thick. This is your homemade cream of chicken soup. Microwave or cook broccoli according to package directions. Add chicken and broccoli to your cream of chicken soup mix. Add more milk if it seems to thick. Then stir it all into a casserole dish with the rice and bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees.
Make salad and enjoy.
This meal costs about $4.01 to make and will have lots of extra casserole.
Total cost for the day: $6.45
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Week One, Day Three
Breakfast:
4 eggs (cooked the way you like them) on toast. Give more toast to the hungriest ones.
This meal costs about $.77 for all 4 people.
Lunches for kids:
Cheese Toast, (use about 1/2oz. cheese on each of 4 slices of bread. Toast under the broiler, let cool slightly and put in baggies.) cookies, 1/2C applesauce in reusable containers.
This meal costs about $.95 for both lunches.
Lunches for adults:
Leftover spaghetti and green beans. No cost.
Dinner: Chicken Soup with Veggies and bread.
1 whole chicken
1 can mixed veggies (drained)
1/2 pkg. egg noodles
4 chicken bouillion cubes.
Boil chicken (you can even start with it frozen if there isn't a package of giblets inside) in a pan with water barely covering the surface, sometime during the day. Remove from broth, debone chicken, and chop into bitesize pieces. Save about 1/2 of this chicken meat for tomorrow. Skim the top of the broth and add the bitesize pieces of chicken, the mixed veggies, the egg noodles, and the bouillioin cubes. Cook about 15 minutes until the egg noodles are nice and soft. Serve with bread and butter. (Not more than 1/2 loaf bread or 1/2 stick butter)
This meal costs about $3.20 and is very hearty! This will easily feed lunches the next day and maybe another meal on the weekend.
Total cost for the day: $4.92
4 eggs (cooked the way you like them) on toast. Give more toast to the hungriest ones.
This meal costs about $.77 for all 4 people.
Lunches for kids:
Cheese Toast, (use about 1/2oz. cheese on each of 4 slices of bread. Toast under the broiler, let cool slightly and put in baggies.) cookies, 1/2C applesauce in reusable containers.
This meal costs about $.95 for both lunches.
Lunches for adults:
Leftover spaghetti and green beans. No cost.
Dinner: Chicken Soup with Veggies and bread.
1 whole chicken
1 can mixed veggies (drained)
1/2 pkg. egg noodles
4 chicken bouillion cubes.
Boil chicken (you can even start with it frozen if there isn't a package of giblets inside) in a pan with water barely covering the surface, sometime during the day. Remove from broth, debone chicken, and chop into bitesize pieces. Save about 1/2 of this chicken meat for tomorrow. Skim the top of the broth and add the bitesize pieces of chicken, the mixed veggies, the egg noodles, and the bouillioin cubes. Cook about 15 minutes until the egg noodles are nice and soft. Serve with bread and butter. (Not more than 1/2 loaf bread or 1/2 stick butter)
This meal costs about $3.20 and is very hearty! This will easily feed lunches the next day and maybe another meal on the weekend.
Total cost for the day: $4.92
Monday, November 10, 2008
Week One, Day Two
Breakfast:
1c cornflakes with 1/2 banana and a sprinkle of sugar.
This meal costs $.61 for all 4 people
Lunches for kids:
Tunafish sandwiches, cookies, banana (if your bananas aren't ripe yet, switch with another lunch's fruit for the week. If they look overripe, cut up and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and put in their fruit cups--that way they never know!)
This costs $1.47 for both lunches.
Lunch for adults:
Leftover chili and cornbread. Costs nothing extra.
Dinner: Spaghetti, green beans, garlic bread
Brown hamburger with dried onions. Add spaghetti sauce and doctor it up with oregano and basil to taste. Cheaper spaghetti sauces still have the main ingredients, they just need a little help with the flavor. Eyeball what a 1/4 of the big box of spaghetti would be and cook this according to package directions. This would be the same as a 12oz package of spaghetti.
Drain 2 cans of greenbeans and microwave them in a bowl for about 3 minutes. Dot with butter(margarine) if desired.
On a large cookie sheet, spread bread slices (up to 1/2 loaf) with butter and sprinkle with garlic powder. Broil on the top rack in the oven until toasty brown. Watch them carefully, as it only takes a minute or two and they can go from pale to burnt in 10 seconds!
Do not use more than 1/2 stick margarine for this meal.
This meal costs about $3.65 for all 4 people and lunch leftovers the next day.
Total cost for the day: $5.73
1c cornflakes with 1/2 banana and a sprinkle of sugar.
This meal costs $.61 for all 4 people
Lunches for kids:
Tunafish sandwiches, cookies, banana (if your bananas aren't ripe yet, switch with another lunch's fruit for the week. If they look overripe, cut up and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and put in their fruit cups--that way they never know!)
This costs $1.47 for both lunches.
Lunch for adults:
Leftover chili and cornbread. Costs nothing extra.
Dinner: Spaghetti, green beans, garlic bread
Brown hamburger with dried onions. Add spaghetti sauce and doctor it up with oregano and basil to taste. Cheaper spaghetti sauces still have the main ingredients, they just need a little help with the flavor. Eyeball what a 1/4 of the big box of spaghetti would be and cook this according to package directions. This would be the same as a 12oz package of spaghetti.
Drain 2 cans of greenbeans and microwave them in a bowl for about 3 minutes. Dot with butter(margarine) if desired.
On a large cookie sheet, spread bread slices (up to 1/2 loaf) with butter and sprinkle with garlic powder. Broil on the top rack in the oven until toasty brown. Watch them carefully, as it only takes a minute or two and they can go from pale to burnt in 10 seconds!
Do not use more than 1/2 stick margarine for this meal.
This meal costs about $3.65 for all 4 people and lunch leftovers the next day.
Total cost for the day: $5.73
Week One, Day One
Today's Tasks:
Bake a batch of Oatmeal Raisin Cookies and put enough in baggies in the freezer for the kid's lunches for the week. My kids like 2 cookies each day. Let the rest be snacks throughout the week.
1 c brown sugar
3/4c shortening
1/2c sugar
1 egg
1/4c water
1t vanilla (if you have it. I forgot to put it on the grocery list)
3c oatmeal
1c flour
1t salt
1/2t baking soda
1c raisins
Beat sugars and shortening together until creamy. Add eggs, water, and vanilla and beat well. Add combined oats, flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix well. Stir in raisins. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 for 11-13 minutes. Makes 5 dozen small or 2 1/2 dozen large.
$1.84 for the whole batch
Today's Meals:
Bake a batch of Oatmeal Raisin Cookies and put enough in baggies in the freezer for the kid's lunches for the week. My kids like 2 cookies each day. Let the rest be snacks throughout the week.
1 c brown sugar
3/4c shortening
1/2c sugar
1 egg
1/4c water
1t vanilla (if you have it. I forgot to put it on the grocery list)
3c oatmeal
1c flour
1t salt
1/2t baking soda
1c raisins
Beat sugars and shortening together until creamy. Add eggs, water, and vanilla and beat well. Add combined oats, flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix well. Stir in raisins. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 for 11-13 minutes. Makes 5 dozen small or 2 1/2 dozen large.
$1.84 for the whole batch
Today's Meals:
Breakfast: 1 cup raisin bran for each person. (All milk is calculated separately from meals. I just buy as much milk as my family ought to drink in a week and let them have as much as they want. We don't run out with 6 gallons a week.)
This breakfast costs about $0.61 to feed all four people.
Lunches for kids: 2 PB and J's, 2 oatmeal cookies each, 2 reusable containers with peaches (save extra peaches for peach syrup later in the week) 
These lunches cost about $1.29 for both kids
Parent Lunches: fend for yourself this first day. If you have leftovers, eat them. If not, have a peanut butter sandwich, too. The rest of the week, you will have yummy leftovers.
Dinner: Chili and Cornbread
1/2lb hamburger
1 T dried onions
1 can stewed tomatoes
2 cans tomato sauce
3 cans kidney beans (drained)
1 T chili powder
1 T cumin
1 pkg. cornbread mix
1 egg
milk
Defrost 1/2lb of hamburger. Brown in a large saucepan or spaghetti pot with the dried onions.
Add stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, and drained kidney beans. Add spices to taste--we might like it spicier than you do. Simmer for a few minutes and serve with the cornbread, made according to directions on package. Use up to 1/4 stick of margarine with your cornbread.
This meal costs about $4.06 and should feed everyone well, also providing for 2 hearty lunches the next day.
Total cost for the day: $7.80
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