Five under 50

Several people have requested to see the 5 under $50 post again. These posts assume a couple of things
- You want relatively healthy meals for your family but don't have much time to cook.
- You don't have time to go to lots of stores.
- You probably have some coupons from previous Sunday papers (somewhere)
- You don't have a lot of time to cook
- You want to "stretch your buck" as far as it can go

5 people under $50 -week of January 18
Kroger is the featured store

Breakfasts

2 1/2 Gallon Kroger Milk 2.00
2 kroger bagels 2.00
1 Kroger cream cheese 1.00
1 box lucky charms 1.94
http://www.cellfire.com for .55 off
Bananas 5 lbs 2.56


Total breakfasts 10.50




Lunch

5 chef Boyardee pasta 4.00
$1 off 5 coupons was in your Smart source on 1/10
2 Kroger Brand cottage cheese 2.00
1 Kroger sour cream 1.00
5 Budding lunch meats .36
$1 off 5 was in your Red Plum insert in your Sunday paper on 12/13
2 Starkist tuna packets Free
http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=zalkabw15365329&bt=vi&o=61118&c=SK&p=ew1Gv4I5

Total 7.36



Dinner

15 Birds Eye or Freshlike veggies (various including brocolli) 7.50
Use .35 off one coupon from the Sunday Smart Source on 1/10
Kroger BBQ marinade 1.00
Pork loin (approx 8 lbs) 15.12
ask butcher to cut this into 3- a third for thin pork chops, a third as a whole pork loin and a third in chunks for stew
Onions - 3 lb bag .99
Creamette pasta 1.00
Hunts pasta sauce 1.00
2 Pillsbury rolls 1.00
use coupons.com to get $1 off 2
Use cellfire to get $1 off 2
rice (not minute) 2.42
potatoes 5lb .99

Total 31.02

TOTAL FOR WEEK 48.88

Breakfasts in many houses are a "grab quickly"

Breakfast can be bananas and cereal or a bagel

Lunches can obviously also include leftovers from the previous night dinner. Other lunch choices include: cottage cheese, last nights veggies, chef Boyardee, lunch meat.



Dinner


Night 1 Cook whole pork loin

If you have a crock pot, put pork loin in crock pot with onions (cut in half), and broccoli (or other veggie) for 8 hours. YUMMY and easy. Ready when you get home!

Save juices in bottom of crock pot

Night 2 Crock pot stew
In morning, add juices from whole pork loin back in crock pot. Add 3 potatoes (cut in half). Add 2 bags of favorite frozen veggies. Add half of stew meat. Add 3 cups water. Cook all day!

Night 3 Fried rice

Make rice according to package directions. Use small veggies or cut up veggies. Use 1/2 of cut up stew meat (cut very small). Fry meat first and then add in veggies and rice.

Night 4 Fun night
Clean out the fridge.

Night 5 Speghetti and pasta

Night 6 Thin pork chops
Cook thin pork chops for 3 minutes a side in a skillet. Serve with veggies.

Night 7 Potato bar
Bake potatoes for 1 hour in the oven or 15 minutes in microwave. Make sure you poke holes with a fork first!
Sour cream, broccoli as toppings

Alternative dinner:  Pork BBQ