healthy CHEAP dinner meal ideas.....
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Topic: healthy CHEAP dinner meal ideas.....
Posted By: charlotteandhuntersmummy
Subject: healthy CHEAP dinner meal ideas.....
Date Posted: 08 July 2009 at 8:54am
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i just need a little inspiration! i personally dont really like meat! hubby isnts fussed on pastas and every meal must mainly consist of meat and our son is dairy intolerant (still BF so means i am too) and our daughter is allergic to egg lol so...... we are a fussy bunch lol :P
anyway with the prices of everything going up was wondering what everyone else eat? im doing shopping today and wanted to drop our grocery bill! (doesnt everyone lol) thanks |
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Posted By: xLUCKYx
Date Posted: 08 July 2009 at 10:51am
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My fave meal is Thai Beef Salad. I make a salad using mesculun, cucumber, carrot, capsicum, avocado and a chopped chilli. I use lemon or lime juice and balsamic dressing and slice rump steak over the top - and sprinkle generously with corriander. When I have this, DP has a steak, potato and small salad.
There are heaps of things I like that he doesn't so we improvise. Wills ee if I can think of some more ideas..... |
Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 08 July 2009 at 12:37pm
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A nice easy one in our household. It looks expensive cause of the chicken but when you compare it to proper fish n chips it is CHEAP.
Chicken breasts, say 2? Depending on how big an eater DH is & how old DD is. Chop into square/nuggets dust in flour & plain salt (freshly ground rock salt is yum) & fry in about 2 Tb of oil. Cook some Pam chips as per packet. Pams are cheap & preservative/additive free 
Really yummy & really filling  ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 08 July 2009 at 12:54pm
| I meal plan, then put my ingredients in to foodtown online to work out how much everything is - then go shopping at pak n save. So far, I saved $50 over the regular grocery budget this week. |
Posted By: xLUCKYx
Date Posted: 08 July 2009 at 12:55pm
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Ooh that sounds yumo!
Other real cheap meals are soups and so so yummy in winter although your DH might want something more if he is a meat man as mine is. I usually just make sure we have some bacon and eggs in the house and if he isn't happy he can cook a second course :) Casseroles and stews are good too ;-) Do you have a slow cooker? |
Posted By: charlotteandhuntersmummy
Date Posted: 08 July 2009 at 9:29pm
yeah we do and i love stews/casseroles in it and the kids love how tender the meat are veges are BUT every time i make one hubby finds something in it he doesn't like lol like last night he didn't like the sauce yet he flippen picked it! it was a maggi rich beef cass one. 
yeah i love soups :) but your right he does like meat or will eat 6 bits of toast after lol thanks for your advice we actually had chicken tenderloins crumbed and roasted tonight but instead of chips had veges (DD must have veges or wont eat lol and with youngest he loves feeding himself veges) |