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I didn’t hold back on buying food to make our high-quality Sunday roast dinner. Still, the total cost per plate was only $1.62!

On a recent trip to Sam’s, I picked up a high-quality beef roast. I hesitated at the $17 price tag, but I knew it would feed a lot of people, so I took a deep breath and grabbed it. I also splurged on a package of Hawaiian rolls, which I don’t do very often. I got two meals out of this roast and the rolls, feeding 13 people (7 adults, 3 kids, 3 toddlers) the first meal and 10 people (4 adults, 3 kids, 3 toddlers) the second meal. (Details below!)

Here’s what I love about doing the price breakdown on meals like this:

If I can splurge on a big roast, mashed potatoes, grapes, green beans, and Hawaiian rolls and still get away with feeding everyone for just $1.62 per plate – how much less will I be spending when I make more frugal-minded meals?? I am so excited to challenge myself with this to see what other great meals we can all make for this much or less per person!

Sunday Roast Dinner: $1.62/person

This meal was super easy to put together before church. (As easy as it is to put a meal together while trying to get six littles dressed and out the door, ha!)

I put this Over-Night Beef Roast in the crock pot on Saturday night before bed. Sunday morning I shredded the meat and turned the crock to “keep warm.” SO EASY.
Sunday morning, I washed and cut potatoes and put them into my Instant Pot like this. They were cooked and ready to mash when we got home.
I steamed green beans to rewarm when we got home from church.
I rinsed a container of grapes.
I got out paper plates, forks, rolls, and butter.

We hollered at a few college students to join us, and three took us up on our offer. We feasted on this:

Want to see what I did with the roast leftovers?

While putting away leftovers of our meal, I cut the remaining 16 Hawaiian rolls in half and spread the saucy roast over the bottom halves of the rolls.

I put cheese slices on top.

Then put the top halves of the rolls on. I covered and refrigerated the “sliders” I’d built and baked them for lunch a few days later!

This was a great way to use leftovers and to have a work-free lunch ready for my family!

Worth Noting:

We fed 10 people this meal, but we only ate 8 salmon burgers. :) Our adults and our 8-year old ate full burgers but our littlest five kids shared halves and quarters of burgers we’d prepared. Then they ate their weight in sweet potato fries, veggies, and berries.

Here’s one of our babies’ plates. She ate this then ate some more, then ate some more. :)

Make an Amazing Costco Salmon Meal for just $2.20/person

Have you tried the Salmon Burgers from Costco? They are so delicious!

By the way, Costco doesn’t pay me anything to share their goodness with you. ;) I just love Costco and know that a lot of you do too. I’m excited to share these ways we can eat so well for such little money!

If you don’t have a Costco membership, I’m sure you can eat similarly wonderful meals at low cost. :)

I smoked our Salmon Burgers on our Traeger smoker, which makes them taste incredible. (Cooking them on the stove top also turns out delicious burgers!) While they cooked, I washed berries, steamed veggies, and air fried sweet potato fries.

The meal was easy and we love the fun variation these salmon burgers provide compared to our normal chicken or beef meals!

What are some of your favorite Costco meals to make? Have you ever done the math to see the cost breakdown? I think you’ll be encouraged!