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Whole Chicken with Potato Wedges Recipe – $0.99/person!

January 4, 2023 by Laura 2 Comments

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It seems like a good idea to kick off our 30 Days of Dollar Dinners series with this Whole Chicken with Potato Wedges recipe. Check out this amazing meal for just $0.99 per person!

Did you sign up for our 30 Days of Dollar Dinners series yet? We have these freebies for you, detailing how to make 30 entire meals for just $1.00 per person! Sign up here and we’ll send these to you.

One chicken makes three meals

Here’s what makes this Whole Chicken recipe so great – well besides the fact that it’s easy and tastes really good. :) Your effort to bake a chicken is going to produce three meals!

  1. Whole Chicken with Potato Wedges
  2. Parmesan Chicken and Rice
  3. Creamy Potato Soup (made with broth from the chicken bones we’ll save after de-boning this chicken)

Intentionally only serve half the meat from this baked chicken at your first meal. Save the leftover meat to make the Parmesan Chicken and Rice (recipe coming soon!). Once the meat has been removed, use the bones from this chicken to make broth like this. You’ll save that to make Creamy Potato Soup!

How much does a whole chicken cost?

You can buy a pre-cooked rotisserie chicken for $5 at Sam’s or Costco. If you want to skip the baking part of this recipe idea, buy the cooked chicken for $5, divide the meat into two portions – one for this meal and one for the Parmesan Chicken and Rice. Then, make broth with the bones. This gives you three meals from one $5 chicken, making each chicken portion cost only $1.67. AMAZING!!!

OR, if you want to follow this recipe and bake a chicken at home, a whole chicken at Walmart is around $7. Then you can season it the way you like!

Here’s the recipe:

Whole Chicken with Potato Wedges

Whole Chicken with Potato Wedges Recipe - $0.99/person!
 
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Author: Laura
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 1 whole chicken with the innards removed
  • 2 Tablespoons melted butter
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 teaspoon onion powder
  • ¼ teaspoon sea salt
  • ⅛ teaspoon ground pepper
  • 3 large yukon gold potatoes
  • 2 Tablespoons olive oil
  • Sea salt
Instructions
  1. Place chicken in a 9x13 inch baking dish.
  2. Remove gizzards from the cavity. (Save them to make broth later!)
  3. Spread or brush butter over the chicken.
  4. Mix spices in a bowl, then rub them all over the chicken.
  5. Bake, uncovered, in a 300 degree oven for 2½ hours.
  6. Scrub potatoes and slice into eight wedges each.
  7. Toss them in a bowl large bowl with olive oil until they are evenly coated.
  8. Lay wedges singularly on a cookie sheet.
  9. Sprinkle with salt.
  10. Bake at 400 degrees for 35-40 minutes.
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Be sure to save half the meat for our Parmesan Chicken and Rice and save the bones to make broth.

Can’t wait to share more in this 30 Days of Dollar Dinners series. We’re working hard to complete our cookbook that goes along with all the freebies, so be watching for that!

 

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Sam’s Smoked Sausage Meal: $1.48/person

September 18, 2022 by Laura Leave a Comment

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This super tasty Sam’s Smoked Sausage Meal cost just $1.48/person. Here’s how!

Are you finding this as interesting as I am, or am I just a little on the geeky side as I break down the cost of our meals and discover that we really are eating well for quite a low cost!

If nothing else, perhaps you’re getting some good meal ideas. :) I just love that even with the big rise in grocery costs, we are all still able to eat for very little money overall. We can all be so encouraged!

Sam’s Smoked Sausage Meal: $1.48/person

I’d picked up a nice package of beef smoked sausage on a recent Sam’s trip. Cost for a 4-pack of beef smoked sausage was: $11.28. I like having items like this in my freezer because they offer a very quick meal I know my family will like!

One day when I was planning a meal around the leftover mashed potatoes and green beans in my fridge, I spotted the sausages and knew they’d be perfect! We had guests eating with us that night, so we fed six adults, three kids (who’d been swimming and were hungry!!), and three toddlers.

Total cost for this meal with smoked sausage, mashed potatoes, green beans, and watermelon was $17.78. Divided by 12 people, this cost just $1.48 per person!


Let’s keep looking for ways to cut back and save as we buy groceries. But let’s also recognize that eating high-quality, well-balanced meals is very doable on a budget!

 

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$5 Family Supper Club – Join Us!

May 11, 2022 by Laura 3 Comments

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Now introducing: our $5 Family Supper Club!

Grocery prices are on the rise. But we don’t have to despair!

We did some research, we did the math, and we came up with 10 entire tasty meals you can make for your family that will only cost $5 (or maybe even less)*.

*prices as of May 2022

Join our $5 Family Supper Club!

This is for real – we’re going to tell you how you can feed a family of four for just $5! These meals aren’t fancy, but they are delicious and easy.

Have more than 4 people in your family? Me too, times a lot! ;) No worries! The more you stretch these meals, the more you’ll save! Simply adapt these plans and recipes to suit your family’s needs.

What about allergies?

Most of these meal plans and recipes are naturally gluten-free and dairy-free or can easily be adapted without increasing much in cost. I LOVE THIS!!!

Are you ready to join the club?

We want to save you some grocery money, and we want to bless you with a little pile of resources to make it fun and easy to save. So along with the meal plans and recipes, we’ll give you these too:

 

EVERYONE is affected by the increase in grocery costs right now. Please help us spread the word about these awesome free grocery-saving resources! Join us here:

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How $10 Worth of Meat Fed My LARGE Family 5 Meals!

April 4, 2019 by Laura 8 Comments

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No doubt, sometimes my family eats $10 worth of meat in 5-minutes {gulp}. But then there is the beautiful occasion that I see high quality, spiral cut hams marked down to just $0.99/pound for quick sale. Quick sale indeed. I don’t even give it a second thought before putting the ham quickly into my cart. Sold!

Ok, fine. Let’s be real. I quickly put three hams into my cart. How could I resist? They were each $10 or less, and I have learned the beauty of how delicious spiral cut ham is, how easy it is to prepare, and how far I can stretch this large piece of meat. $10 for 5 meals’ worth of meat? Yeah, baby. There are teenage boys and college men and all of their friends to feed, plus a 5-year old ham-loving Bonus Boy and a hungry hard-working husband. Somewhere in there, this mom likes to eat too.

Is Laura excited about her $10 hams? Why yes, I guess this fact cannot be denied.

How to Cook a Spiral Cut Ham

First, let’s discuss how easy a spiral cut ham is to bake. Make it difficult if you prefer, but as for me and my house, we will:

  1. Open the package.
  2. Throw away the glaze packet that comes with it, because why?
  3. Plop the ham into a roasting pan.
  4. Put the lid on the pan.
  5. Slide the pan into the oven and bake it in a 325-degree oven for 20-minutes per pound.

Truly, doing the math to figure out the baking time takes longer than actually preparing the ham for baking. (10 pounds of ham x 20 minutes of baking time = 200 minutes divided by 60 minutes in one hour = cook my 10-pound ham for approximately 3 1/2 hours.)

Once time is up, I set the cooked ham, roasting pan and all, onto my buffet to serve it. I use a large bread knife to cut it off the bone, which takes no effort because it falls off the bone anyway, and it has already been spiral cut.

How Delicious is a Spiral Cut Ham?

Oh my dears. There is not much better. And I don’t even add any fancy topping or glaze. Mmm, it is fantastic.

How a Spiral Cut Ham Feeds My LARGE Family 5 Meals

What’s beautiful about how easy it is to stretch one ham into at least 5 meals is that it’s not even a stretch. One 10-pound ham provides a LOT of meat. Amen and amen. Here is a typical way I can use one ham to provide my family (of 7) with 5 great meals!

  1. Bake it as directed above, and serve it as a Sunday meal after church with Cheesy Hashbrown Casserole, salad, and veggies on the side.
  2. Use small leftover pieces of ham the next morning to make Ham and Cheesy Eggs in a skillet. (This actually gets them out of bed in the morning because it smells so good!)
  3. Stir pieces of leftover ham into a big batch of Creamy Mac and Cheese. I can’t tell you how delicious.
  4. Stir pieces of leftover ham into a pan of Simple Ham and Hashbrown Casserole.
  5. Use larger slices of ham to make BLTs, or rather HLTs since we are using ham instead of bacon. Or better yet, make HLT Wraps. How can anything taste any better?

We’re talking about 5 meals filled with healthy portions of meat that tastes delicious. Happy, happy, happy.

Other meals to create with your leftover ham include adding ham to:

  • Regular cold ham sandwiches
  • Simple Hashbrown and Egg Nests
  • Simple Three Cheese Spaghetti
  • Simple Waffle Omelets
  • Last Minute Creamy Bacon Spaghetti (except use ham instead of bacon)
  • Use the ham bone to make broth – which takes your purchase even farther!

By the way, finding a $10 ham isn’t a regular occurrence for me, just an incredibly exciting one! But often at Christmas or Easter time I find them for $20ish. While a $10 ham gives us 5 meals for just $2 each (!!!), a $20 ham still provides us with 5 meals at only $4 each. It’s fun to think this through when considering a purchase like this. How far with this meat stretch? How many meals can I get out of my $20 (or $10!)? The same is often true of a holiday turkey. I love it when stretching meat is easy!

How do you like to use leftover ham?

 

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