I'd make a big pot of chicken soup and use leftovers to make chicken and dumplings. I can usually get at least three dinners out of like $8. Also shop at Aldi's.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you need a gallon of milk unless you're cooking meals with it.

They have a teenager! We go through 4-5 gallons a week with 3 teens.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mix canned tuna with an egg and bread crumbs. Season with a little pepper or garlic. Add minced onions.

Form into patties.

Coat with seasoned flour (salt, pepper, etc)

Fry in an oil coated pan at medium heat until crispy on the edges and hot in the center.

Serve on grilled bread with a little mayo, or eat as a meat entree.

You said you had canned salmon and this is much better with salmon. I like to mix in some chopped scallion and curry powder. If you have anything you can mix into the mayo like some sriracha sauce or if you have any Peri peri sauce that is particularly good on salmon cakes. You could do that with the roasted potatos.

Yes!

I misread that she had one can of tuna and multiple cans of salmon.

With that list, I guess I'd get bread for sandwiches, and then a lot more vegetables. But that's pretty much it.

Yeah I don’t think you need to buy much! Eggs and milk and bread—and toilet paper!

Anonymous wrote:Mix canned tuna with an egg and bread crumbs. Season with a little pepper or garlic. Add minced onions.

Form into patties.

Coat with seasoned flour (salt, pepper, etc)

Fry in an oil coated pan at medium heat until crispy on the edges and hot in the center.

Serve on grilled bread with a little mayo, or eat as a meat entree.

You said you had canned salmon and this is much better with salmon. I like to mix in some chopped scallion and curry powder. If you have anything you can mix into the mayo like some sriracha sauce or if you have any Peri peri sauce that is particularly good on salmon cakes. You could do that with the roasted potatos.

That seems like a lot of food that you already have!

I would do something like—
Pork chops with mashed potato and roasted carrots
Garlicky shrimp on grits — buy a block of cheddar to grate some on the grits
Spaghetti with tomato sauce — use your canned tomato’s and more of the garlic to have, plus buy a pound of ground beef to saute in
Fried rice with eggs, peas, more carrot, garlic and ginger, scallions
Beans and rice bowls with chopped tomatos, scallions, lime, cheddar
That’s five dinners — do you need seven?

For lunch I would do pb and I for the teens, spinach salad and tuna/chickpea salad for myself. Maybe also get some lunch meet for kids.

So the shopping list is:
Sandwich bread
Milk
Eggs
Frozen peas
Scallions
Cheddar cheese
Can of beans
Pound of ground beef
Berries for your hreakdast
Lunch meat

I think you could do all that for less than $100.

Here's what I would do, assuming eggs, granola, oatmeal, and grits for breakfasts. If lunches need to be covered would likely do rice and eggs or rice and canned fish with soy sauce each day. Could make some bisquick biscuits or cranberry walnut or apple muffins, too.
Buy - 1 lb. ground beef, 1 head cabbage, rice, frozen peas, butter

Friday - Shrimp scampi pasta with spinach
Saturday - Pork chops with roasted potatoes, apple cranberry cobbler for dessert
Sunday - pasta and sauce
Monday - Chili with cornbread
Tuesday - leftover chili and cornbread
Wednesday - cabbage fried rice with eggs or pasta with chickpeas
Thursday - Haluski
Friday -tuna noodle casserole

Best of luck!

Giant has old bagged bananas you can buy at a discount

Don’t buy bread crumbs; if you have old crackers, crush those.

Right now, Giant has whole turkeys on sale for $4. I have bought two in the last week, cooked them both, then boiled the bones to make about 3 gallons of stock. I roasted Russet potatoes ($6 for a 10 lb bag) under each turkey (put some stock or even water in the roasting pan to keep them from burning and to make gravy). We have eaten some of the turkey and potatoes and I have made turkey soup with some of the stock but most has gone into the freezer.

I will buy at least two more $4 turkeys before Thanksgiving. It is a great way to fill your freezer with food. Turkey soup with frozen veggies, cut up potatoes, and homemade bone broth is delicious and very health for you. It takes very little money to make in November!

Mix canned tuna with an egg and bread crumbs. Season with a little pepper or garlic. Add minced onions.

Form into patties.

Coat with seasoned flour (salt, pepper, etc)

Fry in an oil coated pan at medium heat until crispy on the edges and hot in the center.

Serve on grilled bread with a little mayo, or eat as a meat entree.

Get a head of cabbage.

Make stir fried cabbage mixed with some of your otger veggies with rice or fried spaghetti one day.

That will take around half of the cabbage head, giving you leftovers.


Chop the other half of the cabbage. Chop an onion. Using the chicken broth, make cabbage egg drop soup

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you need a gallon of milk unless you're cooking meals with it.

She has a teenager

Teen boys go through a gallon of milk every few days.

My teens like tuna (canned) and rice for a quick dinner.