Cooking Meals For A Month

As we prepare for a New Year to approach during a recession that is starting to affect everyone, we have to focus on preparing Family Meals For Less with more determination that ever before.  I am preparing to launch a new section of Cheap Family Meals that will focus on cooking meals for a month.  Here’s what it will include:

  1. Make ahead freezer meals that will be prepared for 2 weeks at a time using the most popular viewed recipes from right here at Cheap Family Meals.
  2. A complete printable shopping list, with prices, that will allow you to go right into the grocery store and shop and know  exactly what you are going to spend.
  3. A complete supply list including freezable Ziploc bags, freezable containers and more so that as you start cooking, you will have all the necessary supplies at your fingertips.
  4. 14 days of recipes including:
  • Quick One Dish Meals
  • Easy Ground Beef Meals
  • Crockpot Meals
  • And of course Viewer Choice Meals (see below for details)

The launched is planned for the first week of January 2009 as I find this is a critical time to budget right after Christmas.  Please bookmark this site, add it to your feeder or send me an e-mail and I will notify you the day it goes live. This is going to be an excellent resource you do not want to miss!

I need you help, even though I have access to the most popular recipes viewed on Cheap Family Meals, I would like to know what your meal preferences are. Please take the viewer Poll’s below, it’s simple and sweet and will allow me to focus on the 14 best recipes with simple preparation for my viewers.

How Do You Cook:

What Do You Like Cooking?

Thanks for all your support and stay tuned THIS IS GOING TO ROCK!

December 3rd, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Best Crockpot Recipes, Casserole Cooking, Dream Dinners Made Cheap, easy ground beef meals, freezer meals recipes | 2 comments

Easy Ground Beef Casserole

I love easy dinner recipes that call for ground beef and it gets an A+ from me if it’s also cheap and simple to prepare.

This easy dinner recipe for Hamburger Casserole has been a family favorite since I can remember. 

My mom prepared it often and as the mom now I follow in her footsteps.

Not only is it delicious but it truly is one of the best cheap meals for under 5 dollars to prepare.

Easy Dinner Recipes – Hamburger Casserole

My Personal Cookbook

Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 45 minutes

Easy Dinner Recipes

Easy Dinner Recipes

Meal Preparation Ingredients:

  • 1 ½ lbs. hamburger
  • 1 small onion
  • 1 can tomato soup
  • 1 can chicken gumbo soup
  • 5-6 medium potatoes

Meal Preparation Directions:

  1. Peel potatoes, dice and boil
  2. Why potatoes boil, fry hamburger and onion until browned.
  3. Add soups(no water) to browned hamburger and simmer over low.
  4. Mashed cooked potatoes with a little butter and milk.
  5. Pour hamburger mix into dish, spoon on potatoes, top with cheese.
  6. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes or until cheese melts.

Meal Assembly:

Serves 6 – Dish up a side of steamed broccoli and you have  cheap meals to fit any budget.

Tip: Double the batch for a make ahead freezer meal

Looking for something different? Another Easy Dinner Recipes Ideas: Chicken Pasta

November 26th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Dinner Recipes, Casserole Cooking, easy ground beef meals, freezer meals recipes | Leave a comment

Easy Ground Beef Meals

Creating cheap meal ideas/recipes with ground beef is so easy and inexpensive. 

I tend to buy more ground beef right now than any other meat from the butcher block as it is cheaper to buy and can be a great substitution in just about every recipe.

If you are looking for easy ground beef meals then look no further. 

If I’m having on of those lazy, I don’t want to cook nights and take out isn’t an option.

I add 1lb of ground beef to 2 boxes of Mac-n-Cheese and mix then add a vegetable from the pantry and something yummy for dessert and whola dinner is done in about 15 minutes, cost less than $3.00 to make.

The kids are in heaven as any meal that includes Mac-n-Cheese is a winner in our house.

I also substitute ground beef for steak in enchiladas, Chile Verde and most of the Mexican dishes I prepare as steak is just too expensive right now.

So if your on a budget but need some fresh cheap meal ideas/recipes, you can use ground beef as a substitution and create easy delicious meals in minutes at a fraction of the cost.

November 5th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: easy ground beef meals | 2 comments
Page 4 of 41234