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