Here are some of our most recent, most frugal meals:
-pasta bake(whole wheat penne with cream cheese, mozz cheese, parm cheese and sauce)with cooked spinach and homemade French bread, cost about $.60 per serving
-chili(onion, sale green and red peppers, pintos from dried, canned tomatoes, my own spice mix, 6 ounces ground turkey)with cheese and sour cream, cornbread(scratch), cost about $.80 per serving
-onion soup(browned onions, homemade veggie broth, beef bouillon cube)with Swiss cheese and homemade bagels with cream cheese, cost about $.50 per serving
-Hubby makes homemade pizza every Friday. The kids like plain cheese but he usually throws some chopped peppers, olives or pineapple on ours. Costs about $.25 a slice.
-Some recent breakfasts: applesauce spice cake(scratch from homemade core applesauce), whole wheat waffles w/homemade brown sugar syrup and natural peanut butter, chocolate chip pancakes, French toast from leftover homemade French bread, leftover cornbread and bagels, all served with fruit(clementines, apples, strawberries or bananas)
-Lunches are usually leftovers, grilled cheese, pbj, homemade pizza from the freezer, Tyson nuggets if we have them(B1G1F sale)or sale Hebrew National hot dogs, cost anywhere from $.00-1.00 per serving. Hubby takes 2-4 plain natural pb sandwiches($.45) to work everyday along with fruit and any baked goods we have on hand. He drinks water and free coffee all day.
We usually have salads or some kind of raw veg appetizer with low veg meals but this week we we were out of salad fixins and the raw stuff. It's been three weeks since my last shopping trip so we get to that point at the end of the month, eating what I've bought before I go out and buy more. Waste not! Don't ask me to calculate the roast beef and all the fixings splurge meal we're having next week. ;) Anyway, the kids aren't salad eaters yet so that adds only about $.40 each to a meal for hubby and me when we have the fresh veggies available. As long as we average out to 5 servings a day of F&V over a week, I'm ok with having some low cost/low veg meals here and there.