Sunday, January 31, 2010

Dinner on the Cheap...

We've been snowed in here in Central Carolina but found it safe enough to make a trip to Kroger today. There's a great mega event going on now through this coming Saturday that makes multiple trips worthwhile- check out www.southernsavers.com for some great match-ups!

I'm fixing dinner right now for all 6 of us...

Baked chicken with wild rice & steamed asparagus

I used a $1 off produce winetag for some split chicken breast on sale @ Kroger today bringing total cost for 3 breasts down to $1.24

The wild rice is some Uncle Ben's we got for free AC during a previous Kroger mega event

The asparagus was on sale for $2.99/lb at Kroger this week also.

Total cost for a yummy chicken dinner: $4.23 - that's just 70 cents per person!

We went out to celebrate my husband's birthday at Rudino's earlier today with his folks. One of our girls ordered pasta for lunch and this meal itself cost $4.00! I joked that I probably could have bought 25 boxes of pasta for that price!

2 comments:

  1. I know how you feela bout ordering a kids meal!! we orderd a pasta dish for my daughter whjiel out of town and it was $5.49. Pasta and sauce. No veggies and no drink and no meat. I was spluttering!! Telling the waitress that I could make this same dish athome for my WHOLE family for about 1.25 MAX. makes eating out harder to do these days!! :)

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  2. It's ridiculous the prices at restaurants. I think one of our kids got a mac & cheese which looked very much like the Kraft variety and this was over $4 as well. This is one of the big reasons why we don't eat out very often- dining out is reserved for very special occasions.

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