1. Use a crock pot. Make some kind of chicken or beef one day, and re-serve it a day or two later in disguise. Like, chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy one day. Then, chicken chopped up and served with cilantro, tomatoes, cheese in tortillas another day. This is cheap and also easy because you can put a frozen hunk of meat in a crock pot. Today I'm doing a pot roast in the crock pot. I'll serve it with baked potatoes and carrots tonight. Then I will serve it as barbeque beef sandwiches tomorrow night.
2. Make breakfasts for dinners. We love omelettes, french toast, eggs, breakfast casseroles, pancakes, waffles, eggs and bacon and toast, cereal, etc. Eggs and bread are cheap so it makes a good dinner.
3. Buy in bulk but only when it's on a killer sale. I get tons of bread for example, and freeze it, when they have the good kind on sale. Same with cereal, oatmeal, soups, toothpaste, etc.
4. Rice is cheap. Make your main thing rice and have the meat and veggies almost like a condiment with good sauce (soy, teriyaki, salsa, etc.)
5. Have "Smorgasbord night" once in a while. You put out the leftovers from the week, cut up fruit and veggies, put out bread and jam and cheese, and let everyone just make whatever they feel like. Then you throw away the leftovers and feel less guilty.
6. Don't make recipes that use more than five ingredients. They just cost more. (The five is not including salt, sugar, oil, etc.)
7. Beans are cheap and one of the healthiest foods on earth. Make taco soup without the meat. Make beans and kielbasa. Make bean and cheese enchiladas, meatless. You can even substitute refried beans for oil in brownie mixes, and it comes out less oily, more cakey, less fattening, and super delicious. But do not tell anyone! It will gross them out. I made that mistake. The people who didn't know, loved it.
8. If you like oatmeal, eat it almost every morning. We do. We add a little salt, some brown sugar, honey, jam or cinnamon, or bananas. It is very cheap and we just put it with water in the micro for 1 or 1 and 1/2 minutes. So fast and so good. It is way cheaper than buying cereal.
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2. Make breakfasts for dinners. We love omelettes, french toast, eggs, breakfast casseroles, pancakes, waffles, eggs and bacon and toast, cereal, etc. Eggs and bread are cheap so it makes a good dinner.
3. Buy in bulk but only when it's on a killer sale. I get tons of bread for example, and freeze it, when they have the good kind on sale. Same with cereal, oatmeal, soups, toothpaste, etc.
4. Rice is cheap. Make your main thing rice and have the meat and veggies almost like a condiment with good sauce (soy, teriyaki, salsa, etc.)
5. Have "Smorgasbord night" once in a while. You put out the leftovers from the week, cut up fruit and veggies, put out bread and jam and cheese, and let everyone just make whatever they feel like. Then you throw away the leftovers and feel less guilty.
6. Don't make recipes that use more than five ingredients. They just cost more. (The five is not including salt, sugar, oil, etc.)
7. Beans are cheap and one of the healthiest foods on earth. Make taco soup without the meat. Make beans and kielbasa. Make bean and cheese enchiladas, meatless. You can even substitute refried beans for oil in brownie mixes, and it comes out less oily, more cakey, less fattening, and super delicious. But do not tell anyone! It will gross them out. I made that mistake. The people who didn't know, loved it.
8. If you like oatmeal, eat it almost every morning. We do. We add a little salt, some brown sugar, honey, jam or cinnamon, or bananas. It is very cheap and we just put it with water in the micro for 1 or 1 and 1/2 minutes. So fast and so good. It is way cheaper than buying cereal.
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