Cheap Meals For Your Family

Top 3 BBQ Sauce Recipes Used This Summer

machelle — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:08:33 +0000

Summer is winding down but we haven’t covered our BBQ grill just yet. Most of our summer family meals are prepared either in the crock pot or on the BBQ grill. So I thought I better get some last minute grilling recipes on so you get grilling while the grilling is still good! I have [...]

Crock Pot Chili With Turkey

machelle — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:40:32 +0000

I have many recipes for Crock Pot Chili, most with red beans and ground beef. In my attempt to try and prepare healthy meals for my family but still hang on to the cheap meals budget I tried this chili recipe with ground turkey and it was delicious. My family honestly thought this was better [...]

Edible Playdough – Recipes Kids Like

machelle — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:04:09 +0000

Calling all mom’s…if your looking for recipes kids like then might I suggest edible playdough. This is one of the easiest recipes to make and if your little one still likes eating dirt, rocks or the store bought playdough (like mine), then you have got to try it. I was watching on of the local [...]

Make Ahead Shrimp Salad Sandwich Recipe

machelle — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:57:50 +0000

This is a simple make ahead recipe for shrimp salad sandwiches. You can prepare the shrimp salad ahead of time to freeze for sandwiches, roll-ups or as a shrimp dip with crackers. After attending a family function the other night, I was given 5 leftover 40 count shrimp rings. Great I thought, I love shrimp [...]

A Pancake Recipe For A Cheap Meal

machelle — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:21:10 +0000

Creating cheap meals can be difficult and for my family boring. Having a good variety of menus to choose from is what this site is all about. Some cheap meal recipes lack in the WOW factor so you have to get creative with meal planning and offer choices. My family loves pancakes. The pancake is [...]

Quick Dinner Recipes

machelle — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:41:37 +0000

I have gone crazy with ordering all the latest cooking books or magazines lately and I must say there are some great Quick Dinner Recipes out there. The ideas popular food networks or famous chef’s come up with are amazing. I have to admit I do not have the talent to throw some ingredients into [...]

Recipe 101 – See How 1 Recipe Can Create So Many Variations!

machelle — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:03:28 +0000

There is a great new food blog worth checking out! It’s called Cooking Recipe Guide – the purpose of the site is to show people how to use 1 simple recipe and create so many different variations with it. I think this is such an important task to learn when you are trying to create [...]

Quick Tips For Make Ahead Meals

machelle — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:27:41 +0000

If your living paycheck to paycheck like me then you must know by now how important it is to prepare make ahead meals. If not then your food budget can be difficult to maintain and cheap cooking is no longer as simple as it needs to be. Having a selection of make ahead meals in [...]

Free Food Coupons For A Cheap Dinner Tonight!!

machelle — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:25:36 +0000

Okay who wants to cook tonight? Not me! I’m looking for an cheap dinner idea and I have found it. I love it when I can find free fast food coupons to print off. My sister-in-law gave me the heads up on this one. The free food coupon is for the new Arby’s Roastburger. Along [...]

Veggie Meals Made Easy – New Site Launch

machelle — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:37:16 +0000

To all the Cheap Meals readers and seekers I wanted to let you in a new resource available to you. I just finished a new section of Cheap Family Meals that is dedicated to the Veggie Diet. It’s called Veggie Meals Made Easy (see it’s permanent home in the tabs above). Now it’s not just [...]