Frugal Healthy Delicious Meals 10/18-24

I haven't updated our meals for a LONG TIME. Not because we weren't eating any! =) Just a little more work and I decided to put the time elsewhere (afterall, who's reading this anyway, possibly just me humoring myself and having a little fun ;P)

Ok, so here's our meal plan for the week. No pics, no count.

Sat: Lunch we made sandwiches for our day out
Dinner - the best Cranberry Slow Cooked Pork Loin (Pork Loin, a can of cranberry sauce and a packet of dried onion soup mix...WONDER!)

Sun: Dad's treat

Other meals of the week:
Chicken with celery, Stir Fry Chinese Broccoli, Rice
Pasta with Kielbasa, mushroom, Broccoli
Noodle with fried sauce (Zha Jiang Mian)
Minced pork with tofu, fried cabbage or broccoli, Rice
Pizza night (we had the amazing Mystic in the freezer waiting for a movie night!)

All these on our $40 grocery (or less) We spent close to $70 this week for a 2 week meal plan cos next week we'll be spending a couple days on vacation.

FHD Menu 9/6 - 9/12

This was a great week, since I got back to cooking "better" (last week I had some slack due to anniversary)

No more time to calculate costs per meal, but with our grocery lately, you can tell they are not expensive! =)

Sat

Breakfast: French Toast Bake.

(Bread, Cream cheese, Syrup, eggs, milk, raisins)

This is a GREAT dish when you have left over cream cheese (which we had from Panera bread).

Lunch:

Sweet Sour Fish (another yum!)

Steamed eggs

Rice

Dessert

Apple Crumble

This dessert, with cheap apples, only cost me $1.84 to make (right, with gas, $2)

Dinner

Sauerkraut with Kielbasa slow-cook

Home-made rolls

Sun

Anniversary dinner treat by parents

Mon

Stir-fry diced tofu with minced pork, carrots and beans

Rice

Tue

Pasta Salad

(our dear old $0.20 Suddenly pasta Salad can be real pretty)

Wed

Chicken Thighs, peas, mushroom and majoram

Stir fry Cabbage and carrots

Rice

Thu

Baked Pasta with Cream of Chicken soup

Rolls

(this made with our $0.50 Ronzoni Smart Pasta)

Fri

Fried Rice

FHD Menu Aug 30-Sep 7

FHD Menu on hold this week, because it's our 5th Anniversary!! =) We tried to do simple meals (like store-bought pizza, GOTTA have Mystic, it's SO good!) so that we can spend more time together.

FHD Menu: Aug 16-22

Forgot all about taking photos of my meals. And had no time to update our menu for last week...here goes a quick one (no time to calculate costs either, but I'm sure they're not too bad)

1. The pic above is of Black Beans and Quinoa. And salad. Very good stuff!

2. Hot Dogs and Sauerkraut, soup

3. Fried Rice (Super simple and mighty cheap)

4. Pork with spring beans. Stir fry Cabbage and carrots. Rice.

5. Chicken with broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and spring beans. Rice

6. Leftover Thai pork, Stir Fry Chinese Vegetables, Fried Eggs with mixed vegetables. Rice

7. Homemade Pizza

8. Slow-cooked chicken thighs, potatoes, carrots and onions, with bread.

FHD Menu: 8/9-8/15

We had a "Try It New" week.

Sat

Hummus
Home-Made Pita Bread
Tomato Soup
Salad
$0.75 per serving

Sun Lunch

Thai Pork(A dish learnt from R & N)
Minced pork, garlic, tomato and red curry paste (that's the main ingredient!)
Rice
Fresh greens
$1.08 per serving

Sun Dinner

Buffalo Wings
Homemade Vegetable Soup
(Broccoli, carrots, celery, corn in chicken stock)
$1.19 per serving

Mon














Stir Fry Diced Chicken, mushrooms and tofu
Stir Fry bok-choy in oyster sauce
Rice
$1.44 per serving (I cannot believe this is the most expensive meal of the week)

Tue














Corned Beef Hash Casserole

My own concoction: Stir Corn beef, julienned potatoes, cream of celery soup, corn, frozen mixed veg, eggs, milk together. Bake at 375 deg, top with cheese and corn flakes.

$1.14 per serving


Wed














Sardines with onions and fresh cucumber
Slow Cook Bitter melon with pork rib, fermented black beans and tofu (a real yum)
Rice
$1.14 per serving


Thu














Cabbage Soup with Quinoa
(Cabbage, celery, carrots, bacon, corn, chicken stock, quinoa all boil together, simmer for 1 h)

Home made Foccacia
$0.63 per serving

Fri (Dinner at the park)


BBQ Pork sandwiches
Steamed Corn
$1.44 per serving (So expensive because we got expensive rolls)

Meal Plan 8/2-8/8

I thought of putting up my FHD Menu so you can see we are not starving while cutting costs! But I kept forgetting to take pictures. Will remember next week.

Sat
Cornflaked Chicken (Chicken breasts coated with cornflakes and baked)
Oven Fried Fries
Steamed Peas/Carrots
$1.33 per serving

Sun
Cold Noodles (with grated cucumber, carrots and peanut sauce)
$0.45 per serving

Mon
Celery Chicken
Stir Fry Shanghai You Cai 油菜
Rice
$0.84 per serving

Tue
Thai Gourmet (by R)

Wed
Chicken Broccoli
Mixed Vegetables Omelet
Rice
$0.90 per serving

Thu
Mashed Tofu with pork, carrots and zucchini
Rice
$0.96 per serving

Fri
Eat Out