Dinner on the cheap: 1/12/10
I am loving your ideas and tidbits on frugality ladies. Keep em’ comin’! 
Thought I’d break down today’s menu for ya, including our dinner on the cheap tonight!!
breakfast was spelt pancakes w/homemade (fake) maple syrup and chocolate ovaltine. I had all the ingredients on hand: whole wheat bread flour, spelt flour, baking powder, salt, sugar (ok, wait, I didnt have sugar, so I used powdered sugar), eggs, oil, milk, and of course, syrup.
Lunch was homemade whole wheat/spelt sourdough with turkey pepperoni and apples.
Dinner is more homemade sourdough w/homemade basil mayo (I have mayo leftover from dh making deviled eggs last night that needs to be used!), topped with butterflied chicken breasts breaded in italian breadcrumbs and panko breadcrumbs, pan fried in olive oil…mozzarella cheese, and topped w/a bit more basil mayo, then oven toasted, to make tasty sandwiches. I am going to serve this up with twice baked potatoes and freshly juiced beets, carrots, kale, broccoli, apples, tangerines that will be blended with ice and vanilla yogurt. I am realllly looking forward to dinner tonight, I must admit. I had everything in the pantry for all the meals today, and they were all things that I either bought on my last grocery trip (that was less than 100.00 you may remember) or things that were actually leftover from the trip before that.
How about you ladies? Whats for dinner?
January 12th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Wow! Sounds yummy!! For dinner, I drank a huge green smoothie (3 cups greens, banana, tomato, cucumber, grapes, raspberries and avocado) to fill me up, then had a tiny amount of salmon and pasta. I’m trying to break the late night snacking!
Wish I lived in CA - I’d come hang out with you and soak up the inspiration!!
January 12th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
My 11yod wanted to make dinner tonight. All on her own.
We had mashed potatoes and green salad. I ate a bowl of cereal an hour later
momtogirls
January 17th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
We had dinner out lol. We spent $32 including tip, but we do have leftovers for lunch tomorrow. We really had nothing to cook though, and we had to be in that area for sales deliveries (couple of wholesale orders) and it’s across the street from the grocery store. I figure we saved a couple of bucks there by not going hungry lol.