Money Saving Meals 12/10

Here's my menu for the upcoming week.   A lot of the ingredients for these items you can find on sale at Food Lion  or Giant this week.

*Tips* 

• Buy Ragu Sauce at Food Lion, get free pasta - get pasta for the chicken noodle soup.
• The cheeses and Roast Beef(Oscar Mayer) are part of a deal where you buy 10, Save $5 instantly.
• Use the email coupon to get your meats & Cheese
• Use the email coupons for your My Essentials items
• Rolls for Sandwiches, ravioli, etc.
• Use the produce coupon for produce needed
• For the Balsamic Braised Chicken, if you don't have a lot of those spices, instead of buying each one, buy the can of tomatoes that already have basil & oregano in them!  

Monday

• Roast Beef Sandwiches
• Put Pepperjack cheese slice on hoagie bun with sweet & spicy mustard and toast it in oven.
• After cheese is melted add roast beef and toast a little more
• Top with Arugula or any lettuce
• Simple Chicken Noodle Soup
• Put Chicken and Broth into stockpot, cook until chicken is done
• Cut chicken into chunks and return to pot
• Add celery, carrots, fresh parsley, salt and pepper to taste
• Simmer on low until celery and carrots are soft.
• About 30 minutes before serving add noodles (any- whatever you have on hand)

Tuesday

•  Weeknight Ravioli Bake, 
• Salad 
• Parmesan Cheese Bread 
• Use leftover hoagie buns, add butter and parmesan cheese and bake in oven until toasted

Wednesday

• Hamburger Steaks (Hamburgers w/out buns) 
• Betty Crocker Scalloped Potatoes
• Salad

Thursday - Leftovers

Friday

• Balsamic Braised Chicken

Saturday

• Pork Roast 
• Mashed Potatoes 
• Butter Beans

Sunday - Dinner at Friends

Money Saving Meals: Menu Plan 12/3-12/9

This week I have really been trying again to use things that I already have.  I really want to see my couponing and stocking up paying off this month.  I know it's not much help to you since I'm not eating around this week's sales, but hopefully some of the simple and limited ingredient recipes below can help you with your meal planning and grocery budget this week.

My goal for each week in December is to only spend $25 on my weekly groceries.  Shouldn't be too terribly hard considering it's the holiday's and we'll be eating a lot with our families.

Here's this week's menu plans.

Money Saving Meals: Meal Plan Week of 11/25

This week at Food Lion(thru Tuesday) they have ham on sale for a great stock up price.  They also have a 93% ground beef value pack on sale(freeze leftovers).  So, I've planned my meals around those items.  If you've signed up for Food Lions emails then you have a $2 off a meat purchase you can use with those two meat items.  I will make a ham, with all the trimmings on Monday, and then use the leftovers for homemade Ham, Broccoli & Cheese Crescent Pockets later in the week.  Same type "leftover" deal with the meatballs.  I'm going to use them two different ways.  Most of the side items I have already in my cabinets, but I will post coupons at the bottom and they are pretty easily found on sale this time of year. 


Monday:  Ham, Betty Crocker Scalloped Potatoes, corn & rolls

Tuesday: Jumbo Meatballs, vegetable and salad (Make extra meatballs for Thursday)

Ham, Broccoli & Cheese Crescent Pockets

Ham, Broccoli & Cheese Crescent Pockets (my version of a "HotPocket")

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups cooked broccoli florets (Recommend: BirdsEye Steamfresh, just steam in microwave according to bag directions)

2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese

1/2 cup cubed fully cooked ham

1/4 cup sliced green onions

1 Tbsp. fresh parsley, minced (optional)

Salt and pepper to taste

8 Large Crescent Roll Triangles

 

 

On a greased cookie sheet lay out 4 of your Crescent Roll Triangles. 

 

Combine remainder of ingredients in a large bowl.  Spoon the mixture onto each of the triangles. 

 

Top each one with the remaining triangles and pinch the edges to seal. 

 

Bake at 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until they're golden brown. 

If they're is leftover filling, you can fill some more triangles and bake and freeze them for a quick dinner later.  The amount of filling left will depend on how much you would like to put in each!

 

 

Money Saving Meals: Jumbo Meatballs

Here's another recipe that uses a lot of the items that are one sale this week at a bunch of different stores.  Stovetop stuffing, Kraft Ranch dressing, and Kraft shredded cheese!  I have tried this recipe before and they are really good.  Serve them with some canned beans, which you can also find on sale at some of the dollar stores, Kroger, Harris Teeter, Giant, and Lowe's foods.  Even if you're not going to make them this week, get the items while they're on sale and save them for next week!

Jumbo Meatballs recipe

Brushetta Chicken Bake

Here's a money saving meal for this weeks sales!  This week there's a lot of stores (Kroger, Giant, Harris Teeter) that have Stove-Top stuffing mix on sale for 50 cents a box.  Kroger also has a deal on canned Muir Glen tomatoes which end up being free and Kraft shredded cheese on sale.  Stock up on a few extra so you can make it in the future also!  Find printable coupons for some of these items at the bottom of the recipe.

Here's the recipe: