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