Most of us realize the big cost of food, especially for families of 4 people or more. One important thing to saving money on food for families is to avoid eating out. If you have ever taken your family of 4+ out to eat, you know what I am talking about. Earlier, I told you have you can eat out for free. On the days when you can not eat out for free, making dinners from scratch is the key to saving money.
These meals will require some planning, but the time it takes to plan is worth what you save. Make sure that when you are buying the ingredients for the recipes, you buy when they are on sale. We stock up on meats & freeze them until we need them for a recipe. Now, to find these cool recipes for $5 and under meals, here is the link:
http://www.5dollardinners.com/recipe-index
Enjoy!
1 comment:
I've used that site before but the taste and nutrition is sometimes lacking, to my mind.
I do find it helps to make a month's menus at a time and shop for what you need all at once, though. And we buy clearanced meat and freeze it. I try not to pay more than $1.35/lb. for beef, $0.89/lb. for chicken, or $0.99/lb. for pork.
-Anne
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