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I do add side dishes. A meal i make either has rice,
or potatoes. It always has a meat too. I am just
trying make sure I can manage the amount of food on myincome.
— herberkids3 <herberkids3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Add in side dishes- veggies, salads, fruit, cottage> cheese, etc, along
> with a light dessert. Don’t buy the dessert ready
> made, but get like a> package of jello or pudding, and pre-make several
> “cups” to use as a
> snack and as dessert.>
> Meat doesn’t have to be served at every meal. Add
> oatmeal to any> hamburger you use for a meal- burgers, hamburger
> helper, spaghetti,
> meatloaf, etc. It takes the flavor of the meat, and> you can’t taste it
> or even tell it’s there when you are eating the
> meat.>
> Plan several “cheap” meals, and buy enough to have 3
> or 4 extra “meals”> on hand each month, just in case. Spaghetti is our
> family’s cheap meal.
> We buy a big box of rotini noodles (less messy than> spaghetti noodles
> with little kids) which makes 2 meals of spaghetti,
> then 2 jars of> sauce, 2 cans of tomato sauce (small ones), and we
> have 2 meals for
> under $5 total. It goes along ways, and it’s> filling.
>
> Add in a can of peas or beans, and a light salad,> and it goes a long
> ways towards filling a person up.
>> Shop farmer’s markets, especially this time of year,
> and stock up on
> fresh fruits & veggies that are in season, and thus-> cheaper. Right
> now, Strawberries are in season (at least here in
> MI). I pick up a few> packs each week, slice em and mash em, and serve
> that as dessert.
> Grapes are dirt cheap right now for us, too, so
> again, I grab grapes
> and serve those as a light dessert or mid-day snack.
>
>
> Basically, don’t concentrate so heavily on a main
> meal that will fill
> everyone up or have left overs. Focus more on having
> side’s that will
> fill everyone and compliment the main meal. Left
> overs are nice, but
> can sometimes go to waste, and the main meal often
> costs much more than
> the little sides.
>
> — In Budget101_@yahoogroups.com, “mkroom4trble”
>
> wrote:
> >
> > I don’t know what i am doing wrong. I had spent
> all the moneys i had
> > for food already. I have food but my meal planning
> seems to use the
> lot
> > of it? How do you minimize the amount of the main
> dishes but still
> have
> > a complete meal to feed six hungery people. Since
> my last request we
> > had taken in my boysfriends son for two weeks so
> my food supply is
> > less. Please help. This child will not eat bread
> products. Thanks
> >
>
>
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