Back when my kiddos were still in the house, I had a meager food budget. I’m talking about when the kiddos got a little bigger… I would buy groceries with a limit of $5 for the meat for any particular night.
We ate a lot of chicken (as you can tell from an earlier post ) and ground beef and an occasional round steak. The meal had to stretch for all of us including a hungry man, AND I needed leftovers for lunches for the adults for the next day.
I managed just fine.
Course today, food costs have skyrocketed, but you can still stretch a meal by making casserole type dishes. These incorporate rice or pasta and just make the meat stretch that much further.
Course, weekend lunches were frequently tuna casserole, which to this day, my girls no longer want! Me, I still love tuna casserole sometimes…
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