Here’s how to make 5 meals with 1 pork roast!
This might be one of my favorite Dollar Dinner menu items – x5! If you take a look at our 30 Days of Dollar Dinners calendar, you’ll see that these pork roast meals break down into these:
- Pork Roast and Potatoes $3.74
- Shredded Pork Tacos $4.08
- Pork Roast Melts $3.90
- Cheesy Mac and Pork $4.05
- Pork Sandwiches $3.90
The recipes for these five meals feed four people, which as you can see, divides down to just over $1.00 or just under $1.00 per person!
In my case, I had a 5-pound pork roast in the freezer that I’d picked up marked down to just $1.79/pound. So my $8.95 purchase was divided into four full meals.
Wait, just four meals, Laura?
Yes indeed, we have way more than 4 people in our house. 10 to be exact. And for a couple of our pork roast meals, we had guests. So I most definitely made our pork roast stretch, as it fed a LOT of people four different meals! But I just couldn’t stretch it into five. ;)
First, I made the roast (recipe below) with cheesy potatoes, green beans, corn, pumpkin bread, and cookies. For this particular meal, we fed 6 adults and 6 kids.
Everyone ate until they were full, then we still had this much meat left over.
With these leftovers, we made Pork Roast Melts, Enchiladas like this (with leftover shredded pork roast instead of ground beef), and Cheesy Mac and Pork. The night we had enchiladas, we had company again so there were five adults and six kids. Fruit and veggie side dishes really help the meat stretch throughout a meal, which is a huge money saver!
How to Make 5 Meals with 1 Pork Roast
Here’s how to make a Pork Roast:
- 5-pound pork roast
- 1 chopped onion
- Sea salt to taste
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- Put all ingredients into a slow cooker and cook on low for 10 hours or until met shreds easily.
- Shred cooked meat and divide it into five equal portions.
- Serve one portion over baked potatoes.
- Save the remaining portions for four additional meals: Pork Roast Melts, Shredded Pork Tacos, Pork Sandwiches, and Cheesy Mac and Pork.
To make it stretch to last through five meals, you’ll eat one portion the night you cook it. Then you’ll save four portions to make other meals as detailed in our 30 Days of Dollar Dinners eCookbook. And hey, guess what?
The eCookbook is READY!!
We finished the cook a few weeks ahead of schedule, so we’re ready to offer it to you now!
This book contains all 30 days worth of recipes so you can make all of our delicious dollar meals! Here are the meals and recipes you’ll find in the book, as well as the dollar amount it takes to make each recipe for 4 people:
- Chili = $3.80
- Chili on Baked Potatoes $2.82
- Broth Rice with Veggies $3.77
- Grilled Cheese and Soup $4.59
- Pork Roast and Potatoes $3.74
- Shredded Pork Tacos $4.08
- Pork Roast Melts $3.90
- Cheesy Mac $3.09
- Cheesy Mac and Pork $4.05
- Pork Sandwiches $3.90
- Italian Honey’d Chicken Thighs $4.02
- Cottage Cheese and Pineapple Bowls with Toast $3.20
- Egg in a Nest $3.54
- Whole Chicken with Potato Wedges $3.99
- Parmesan Chicken and Rice $4.02
- Creamy Potato Soup $3.98
- Personal Cheese Pizzas $3.99
- Cheese Calzones $3.99
- Italian Chicken Legs $4.01
- Amazing Fried Chicken $4.32
- Crepes $3.44
- Biscuits and Gravy $3.32
- Lemon Garlic Chicken Thighs with Biscuits $4.19
- Seasoned Pork Loin with Roasted Broccoli $3.56
- Pork Loin Sandwiches $4.02
- Scrambled Egg Sandwiches $3.08
- Baked Spaghetti Nests $3.10
- Pancakes and Eggs $3.48
- Bean and Cheese Burritos $3.98
- Tex Mex Casserole $3.45
Amazing, right?!
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