Stretching Your Budget – 16 Meals for $25

Today I want to share one my my most frugal tips for meal planning and getting meat into your menu for super cheap! I always watch my local meat sales and stock up at rock bottom prices. Beyond that I have a little trick that gets my family of 6 about 16 meals for just under $25 or$1.56 a meal! Add in I do a breakfast meal and meatless meal a night this is almost 3 weeks worth of dinners for us for $25!

// ]]>
So what is this trick to save you money? Think out side the box when it comes to meat. Recently Our chicken sales cycles circled around and at my local store I was able to get chicken Drumsticks for 59¢ a pound and chicken leg quarters for 49¢ a pound. Both had a 10 pound minimum to buy to get this price BUT we bought 20 pounds of each. this got us 9 meals of drumsticks and 7 meals from the leg quarters.

Now many people pass this deal over not sure what to do with the meat besides BBQ grilled drumsticks. A quick browse of Pinterest show some great drumstick recipes such as Cheesy Ranch Chicken Drumsticks, Oven Fried Parmesan Drumsticks,  and Crock Pot Root Beer BBQ Chicken Drumsticks. There are so many more!

For the chicken leg quarters, I like to cook these in the crock pot in chicken broth until the meat fall of the bone, I then take the meat and shred it. This makes great BBQ sandwiches. The shredded meat is also great for mixing with beans and rice. There are also some great recipes like Spice Roasted Chicken Leg Quarters, and Garlic Roasted Chicken Leg Quarters. 

What frugal tips do you have to stretch your budget and meals?

Photo Credit (c) Can Stock Photo

The post Stretching Your Budget – 16 Meals for $25 appeared first on The Frugal Navy Wife.