DINNER MENU PLAN FOR THE WEEK!

 

 This post is for one of our avid readers, Andria S.  She has suggested this for a long time and I am just now posting it!!  Yippee!

 I am trying to get a little more organized and bring down our grocery budget so I decided to start planning a weekly menu with a breakdown of the cost of each meal.  This is only an estimate for now. Also we are going to try to go two days a week eating a vegetarian meal,  just trying  to save money on meat. The prices have gone up so much recently!!

 Here's what next week may look like:

SUNDAY- Steve's Famous Beans with Gluten free Cornbread (our first vegetarian meal for the week.)  Salad

MONDAY-Baked Lemon Chicken with Green beans and onions (rice or pasta. I will just eat an extra serving of vegetables instead of pasta)


TUESDAY-Green Onion Turkey Burgers with Baked Potato Wedges (Simply Ore Ida) Fresh sliced tomato

WEDNESDAY-This is usually our leftover night

THURSDAY-Ground Turkey Taco Salad W/Tortilla Chips

FRIDAY-Vegetarian Gluten free Pot Pie!! with Salad

SATURDAY-Chicken Strips (non breaded) with Baked Beans Fresh tomato Wedges

WEEKLY AMOUNT SPENT ON DINNERS

Total Spent: $15.75 (for two people a week)
$2.62 a meal or $62.88 a month (24 meals)

Fresh Tomato $1.39 4 pk

Turkey Meat 16oz (cut in half use twice!) $1.69 lb

Chicken breast (4) $2.00  (I got two bags for $3.5 2.5lb. Use coupons. Kinda of an unusual deal)

Rice and Pasta-FREE

FREE-16oz of beans

Other vegetables including lettuce: $2.50

Flour-$3.00 (gluten free is expensive)

Chips for Salad $1.19

Eggs $.16

Salsa-$.25

Cheese-6oz $1.08

Potato: $1.00

Simply Ore Ida-$1.89

Baked Beans-$.60

Savings Tip

This is just an estimate.  I am planning to keep track of items a little better.  But this is really close.  This does not include breakfast and lunch.  But having two vegetarian meals a week will save me $17 a month!!!