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Budget meal site with low-cost recipes, meal plans and cooking lessons for families trying to spend little on dinner.
Low-cost family dinners, meal plans and lessons for cooks feeding a household on a limited budget.
The About page is the founder account of pricing every meal before she cooks it. It presents the site as a way to spend less on groceries, so the money can go to debt, savings or something special.
Visit linkThe recipe index sorts dishes by meal, by method (10-minute, 5-ingredient, dump, freezer friendly, slow cooker and one dish), and by main ingredient such as beans, potatoes and rice.
Visit linkThe home page lists the site workshops for grocery savings, freezer cooking and meal planning. It also links to MyFreezEasy, a set of freezer meals, kids cooking lessons and a weekly email with recipe ideas.
Visit linkThe rule is fixed: the whole meal has to cost $5 or less, and the recipes are written to it. Themed weeks shape the year, such as Rice and Beans Week and a Deck the Freezer Party. Roundups group budget staples, from rhubarb recipes and tortellini to sheet pan dinners and sloppy joes, and the site runs weekly meal plans. The kids cooking lessons and kitchen gadget pages show that it teaches cooking as well as shopping.
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