Menu Sunday

Our suggestions for what to eat during the week- based on sales in the weekly circulars.  For more information on sales this week see our posts on ShopRite and A&P. Monday:  Pan Fried Flounder with Rice and a Vegetable Dip flounder in egg and cover with bread crumbs. Pan fry in butter. Flounder is on [...]

Menu Monday: Cabbage

Everyone knows that cabbage is one of the cheapest foods you can get and sauerkraut is one of the cheapest meals to serve. Why not consider this interesting take on sauerkraut for a bit of a different meal: Sauerkraut Strudel 1 package of frozen phyllo dough, thawed 1 lb prepared sauerkraut 1 egg 3 oz [...]

Menu Monday – Rethinking potato

Cooking on a budget means making the most of cheap ingredients. The potato is king in this regard. Consider some of these potato recipes: Potato Pizza Instead of topping your homemade pizza with tomato sauce and mozzarella, make it a potato pizza. Thinly slice potato (food processor works great) and then blanch by dropping it [...]

Menu Monday – March 2

My mom grew up in Germany during WWII and so she cooked for us plenty of cheap meals when I was a child. Many of the meals I view as breakfast food, but she ate them for lunch or dinner, usually after a soup appetizer. I’ve posted a week’s worth of ideas that you can [...]

Menu Monday – Feb 23

Since I’m a working mom who comes home after 7pm several nights a week, it is a challenge putting a home cooked meal on the table every night. I am always on the look-out for easy to make meals for the days I work late or those days where I just don’t feel like cooking. [...]

Menu Plan for the Week of Feb 16

This week my grocery purchases ended up being pretty much fruit, veggies, eggs & milk, and boxes of cereal (ok and some mac n cheese for the kids and raviolis on clearance). It used to be so much easier planning meals and then buying ingredients. It is much harder planning meals around what I have [...]