Menu Plans

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I wanted to post menu's everyone once in a while where I share what we're eating for dinner for 1 week, while trying to stay within a $50 per week budget (this includes items we buy for breakfasts and lunches). This will hopefully help others (especially on a budget) come up with some ideas for their own menus.

There are rules to our home menus:
1) HOME MAKE!! It's fresh, it's REAL, and it's healthy. There are of course some exceptions. For instance, I don't always make our own pasta, or corn tortillas (working on that). But try to make as much as you can from scratch.
2) Believe in Left Over night(s)! It gives you a break, saves money, and some things are so delicious they need to be eaten twice :) Have at least 1 left over night a week.
3) Embrace fruit for a dessert. Again, it's healthy, and delicious. When I lived in France, my french family would have fruit for dessert every night, except Sundays; Sundays were the our special night, where we would have mousse or some other kind of dessert. I sure miss their mousse! So I've tried to adopt that into our family.

Last weeks menu:
(You can click on the menu item name for a link to the recipe we used, or got inspiration from)

Sunday: Spaghetti with Quick Tomato sauce, Green Beans
Monday: Fish Tacos with brown rice
Tuesday: Leftover Night
Wednesday: Coconut Ginger Veggies over Rice
Thursday: Summer Vegetable Pasta & Tomato Soup
Friday: Vegetarian Lettuce Wraps
Saturday: Pancit

Total spent: $59.00 - $9.00 over. Not to worry though, many things we bought are being carried over, which will save us on what we buy this week :) Things like pasta, some veggies and fruit.

We always buy in bulk for rice, butter, or the frozen Tilapia/Salmon from Costco, which costs a bit more, but lasts for quite a while. So every so often we might have a month that we go over because of the 'big' purchases, but obviously it means we go a few months W/O having to buy that stuff. So it all works out :)

Comments

  1. jeff and alli4/20/2012

    Oh, I'm really looking forward to future posts like this. Thanks for sharing.

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