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Step 1
An easy substitution to make is quesadillas instead of grilled cheese. Corn tortillas are much cheaper than bread freeze well and work well for a lot of warm sandwiches. Philly cheese steak queasadilla's are great and much cheaper than springing for the rolls. It doesn't seem like much but you'll save a couple a dollars. And it all adds up.
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Step 2
Stretch a meat meal like sloppy joes or taco meat or meat spaghetti sauce by adding a potato or zucchini chopped or shredded into very small pieces 1/2" cubed works well. No one will notice a change in flavor and you'll have added an extra serving at fraction of the cost. I find you can add a potato or zucchini for every 4 servings ( now there is 5) with no alteration in flavor. Frozen zucchini works fine for this as long as you chop it small first.
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Step 3
Take whatever vegetables you have left at the end of the week and through it into chicken broth or bouillon add garlic onions carrots ( all cheap) Toss in some pasta and if you have any left over chicken shred it in. Cheap delicious and no unused vegetable wasted.
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Step 4
Make chili with 1/4 of the meat and add beans to make up the rest.
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Step 5
If you like roast beef do a pot roast instead. There is minimal work involved. 1/2 the cost in meat and so very delicious. Great for slow cookers or whenever you have time to let something cook in the oven.
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Step 6
Try a twice baked pasta make a extra pasta the next time you cook it. Put it in a baking dish add marinara sauce and mushrooms carrots zucchini any cheap vegetable will hide in there and stretch those servings out. Add cheese mix it up add a little cheese to the top. Bake another day when you have time until it's bubbly. This is delicious. If you have a confirmed meat eater, One browned Italian sausage crumbled on top beneath the cheese will do the trick.
