Every Friday, I share what we ate for the week on our budget. Currently our monthly budget for my family of four is $500.
This Week’s Dinners:
Saturday: We were at a swim meet for most of the day, so it was leftover night.
Sunday: Day 2 of the swim meet and my sweet mother made lasagna for us for dinner.
Monday: Tortellini & Spinach Soup, homemade sugar-free applesauce
Tuesday: Roasted Pork Chops, Potatoes & Green beans.
Wednesday: Slowcooker Asian Orange chicken thighs and drumsticks, rice, broccoli. The chicken was in my freezer and is one of my 8 Freezer Recipes.
Thursday: Snow day! I was planning on making tacos with ground turkey, but when I went to make dinner, I realized that I didn’t have large leaf lettuce to wrap the tacos or any salsa. I had no desire to head out in the snow, so I searched my pantry and found that I had a box of spaghetti and a jar of marinara, so dinner was spaghetti, garden salad, homemade garlic bread.
Friday: The kids are back to school so I’ll head out to get the missing ingredients for our tacos.
This Week’s Breakfasts, Lunches & Snacks:
For breakfast, we ate eggs and toast, oatmeal, peanut butter & banana toast, green smoothies. For lunches and snacks, we ate pb & j sandwiches, turkey & cheese sandwiches, leftovers, apples, oranges, pretzels, tortilla chips & salsa.
Did you make a new dish for your family this week that they enjoyed? Share it in the comments.
Your slowcooker asian orange chicken thighs sounds really good! The link for it leads to tortellini soup, though. It sounds like something my family would like.
Thanks for alerting me. I updated the post, but here is the link: http://www.familybalancesheet.org/2011/06/slow-cooker-asian-orange-chicken-thighs-and-drumsticks.html
Thank you! I will try this.