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.

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