Monday meal plan

It's Monday and time to plan your frugal meals around what you already have in your pantry, fridge and freezer and what's on sale at the stores this week. This is a week of eating some tried and true dishes the whole family enjoys. I already have a number of the main ingredients in the freezer (like chicken breast, salmon burgers, veggie burgers and pierogies).  I purchased them in the last few weeks on sale so I will have very little to buy for this weeks meals other than fresh produce.  I have included a couple recipes at the bottom. If you have any frugal recipes to share, I would love to read them!

What's on your menu this week?

Grapes

Long grain Rice

Fruit - probably apples (.99/lb on sale at HT through 5/18) or grapes (.99/lb on sale at Food Lion through 5/18)

Broccoli (free Steamfresh with sale and coupons at Lowes Foods a while ago)

Salad

End of season soccer team cookout!

Rice

You can use beef, chicken, pork, or other meat in this very easy and delicious crockpot recipe.

1.5 - 2 pounds chicken breast, beef stew meat, London broil or lean pork

½ bottle of your favorite barbecue sauce

½ onion, chopped

Salt, pepper and garlic to taste

Put chicken in crockpot. Season with spices. Pour barbecue sauce over meat and then add onion. Cover and cook on low for 7 to 8 hours, until tender. If you don’t have 7 hours to cook the meat, cook on high for 3 – 4 hours until done. It won’t be quite as tender as cooking on low for a longer period but it is still very tasty! Once cooked, take out chicken and pull apart with 2 forks. Mix with sauce and serve on rolls. Enjoy!

This recipe is actually on the back of the Mrs. T's Pierogies box so I didn't come up with this one myself. I did change a couple things though. It’s a great weeknight recipe because it is so easy to put together, tastes great and is done in 35 minutes.

1 box frozen pierogies

1 jar pasta sauce

4 oz. shredded cheese

1 green pepper diced

1/2 vidalia onion diced

Garlic powder and Italian seasonings to taste

Garlic powder and Italian seasonings to taste = .05

Even if I added 1 lb of cooked chicken breast to the dish it would only be $5.63 for the whole meal!