Family Meals That Cost Less

Breakfast was becoming one of the most expensive meals in our house. With the price of milk and cereal these days, I had to get creative and come up with some family meals for breakfast that cost less but yet still simple and appealing to my kids. Here are a few breakfast tips from a mom who needs simple morning meals that fit in a frugal family budget.

 

Cheap Family Meals Ideas For Breakfast

  • Instant oatmeal, pears and a glass of milk
  • 2 slices of toast, a can of mandarin oranges and a glass of milk
  • Leftover waffles from dinner, I toast these in the toaster, banana and a glass of milk
  • Pancakes (I buy muffin mixes that you add water to and make pancake batter with them) fruit and milk
  • Muffins (if time permits), peaches and milk
  • French toast leftovers (see dinner menu) I toast in the toaster, strawberries and glass of milk

And for those days when nothing is going right, I still break out the bowl and spoon and pour a good ‘ole bowl of cereal with milk.
If you have any cheap and easy breakfast ideas I would love to hear from you. Leave me a comment or shoot me an e-mail.

Need some easy lunch ideas? Check This Out: Easy Freezer Lunch ideas

September 26th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Cooking Tricks & Tips, Kids Recipes Made easy | 5 comments

Super Easy Family Meals for Less Than $5

My house gets pretty crazy during the week so I have to plan super easy family meals my husband can help prepare.

He is not the best cook, as a matter of fact I think my children will grow up remembering two things about Dad’s cooking – COLD or BURNT!!

I can’t complain though, he gets up every morning and prepares the kids a warm (okay semi-warm) breakfast and he never complains about having to fix dinner.

I always make sure we have sandwich fixing’s on hand just in case I’m running late and Dad covers dinner duty.

Here is our favorite dinner sandwich from the $5 dinner meals.

 

Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato Sandwiches or BLT’s

(Leave the tomato off and my kid’s are in heaven.)

Quick Easy Dinner Ideas

Quick Easy Dinner Ideas

1 pkg. bacon ($1.50 at associated stores, the Big Buy brand)

1 head lettuce ($0.97 at Wal-Mart, save the remaining for another meal)

1 tomato ($.75 this depends on store and sale price)

1 loaf bread ($.97 at Wal-Mart)

1 can peaches ($0.69 at Wal-Mart)

Fry bacon until fully cooked. Wash lettuce and pull off enough large pieces to make your sandwiches. Was and slice tomato. Toast bread they add 1 tsp of mayonnaise to each slice. Add 3 slices of bacon, 1 piece of lettuce and 2 pieces of tomato. Make a sandwich, cut in half and serve with diced up peaches. Now that’s quick and easy. Feeds 4-5.

Want to try another Kid Friendly Meal? Look at this simple recipe: Chicken Pasta

September 26th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Dinner Recipes | 2 comments
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