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Seeking to live out Proverbs 31
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I married in 1990, became a full-time mom and homemaker in December 1993 and am still constantly learning ways to cook on a budget, stretch food or cook better for my family. On this page, I'll post some of the tips that I'll be sharing with my daughter as she learns how to manage a kitchen!
I sometimes double or triple recipes and freeze the rest. If I did this several times a week, then I usually had a week or so at the end of the month when I didn't have to cook at all! I just pulled food out of the freezer, thawed it out and warmed it up for dinner. So, I plan on trying to do this. It also usually saved me money because there would be one week when I wasn't in the store. If some food items are on sale and I double a recipe made with those items, then my budget for the month doesn't go up any ... I hope that makes sense!
To help ease the food budget, learn how to S-T-R-E-T-C-H the meat! ... buy ONE cut of meat and stretching it out into several meals during the following 5-7 days. Here are some examples:
ROASTING CHICKEN - A nice-sized roasting chicken is around $.99/lb. where I live (and rarely goes on sale!) and I usually buy a 7-9 lb. chicken. I will use my sticky chicken recipe or roast it on Monday. After we eat the main meal, I strip off the rest of the chicken and divide it up to be used in several recipes. A stir-fry will go for 2 meals and chicken noodle soup will make at least 2 meals and maybe even a couple of lunches. The rest of the chicken goes into a pot pie or maybe tacos/fajitas, etc. We like chicken so it's not a big deal for us to eat it all week long.
BEEF ROAST - I will cook it as a roast with carrots and potatoes the first night. I will then make BBQ beef sandwiches with the leftovers and this will go for 2 nights usually. The rest of the roast goes into a beef stew recipe which, of course, we can eat for several more nights.
HAM - Around Christmas and Easter, those wonderful spiral-sliced glazed hams are on sale. We'll heat them up for a regular ham dinner and then take all of the meat off the bone for leftovers. I will save the bone and attached ham to put in a pot of pinto beans and make some cornbread to go with it. The pinto beans will make at least 2 meals and a few lunches. I also like to make bean soups with the leftover ham and I have lots of good recipes in my cookbooks using ham as a main soup ingredient.
SPAGHETTI SAUCE & FRESH-BAKED BREAD - I make a loaf of bread with my bread machine at least once weekly. I need to start doing something that I used to do all of the time - I used to cut off the sides and freeze them. They make great pizza crusts, french-bread ones! I also have a herb recipe that makes a tasty crust. What I usually do is make spaghetti or lasagna for one meal. I make sure that I have a lot of sauce leftover. Once the bread is cooled out of the bread machine, I cut off the fluffy top and set it aside for dinner that night. Then I cut off the other 5 sides and freeze them. We'll eat the "inside bread" during the week. A few days later, we'll make pizzas with the bread crusts and leftover pizza sauce, adding pepperoni and cheese and maybe some vegetables and then baking them, broiling for the last few moments to brown the cheese. YUM!
Here are some of our favorite, but inexpensive, meals:
- I always double or triple a pancake recipe and we'll sometimes eat pancakes for dinner
- hash browns are a favorite when potatoes are on sale. We'll make a big batch and eat them for breakfast, lunch or dinner!
- make chili and then use it as a topping on baked potatoes for another dinner that week
- salmon patties (when canned salmon is on sale, I stock up!)
- grilled cheese and soup (again, when I've stocked up on sale soup and cheese slices!)
- potato soup (when potatoes are on sale)
- chicken leg quarters (used to make Chicken & Dumplings or any other favorite recipe)
- tacos or meatloaf (when I find sale hamburger)
It is my hope that you will find something useful here on my site!
I currently enjoy the privilege of being able to stay at home
to homeschool my children and I am always striving to be
the best caretaker for my precious family.
"I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me."
~ Philippians 4:13 ~
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