Cheap Ground Beef Dinner Meals Under $5

This cheap dinner meal plan is based on purchasing ready made meatballs, canned ravioli (large can), ground beef and items needed to fill out the meal. This cheap dinner plan is based on feeding a family of four in northern Florida in 2008. Your prices may vary and your family size may require upward adjustment of the quantities. The recipes and cheap ground beef meal ideas should still give you a meal plan that is lower in cost than most. You may not choose to eat cheap ground beef meals on back to back days. If not, other than the cooked pasta, the items in this dinner meal plan will keep in their original state, or frozen after cooking, in the case of the beef. While these meals may not be the healthiest and may not totally fill your family up, they provide the basis for low cost feeding if you are in a bind and need a cheap dinner meal.

Purchase the following items for your Cheap Ground Beef Meal Plan

Bag Armour meat balls $3.00

Hot Dog Buns $1.25

Ground beef 2 pounds $6.00

Ravioli $2.50

Spaghetti $1.00

Spaghetti Sauce $1.00

Canned tomatoes .80

Canned peas .80

Bag of Fries $2.00

Total Grocery Cost for this Cheap Dinner meal plan: $16.85

Dinner Meal Plan Preparation Step One: Cook the bag of meatballs; there are 32 in the bag. Add the can of sauce and heat thoroughly.

Dinner Meal Plan Preparation Step Two: Brown the ground beef and separate into three containers.

Cheap Dinner Meal Plan Item One: Meatball subs and Fries. For a family of four, assuming you each have two subs, you will use the entire pack of meat balls and the entire pack of hot dog buns (2 per person). If each person does not eat two you will have left over meatballs which can be lunch, or can be used in Meal two. Cook half of the pack of fries to serve with the meatball subs. When making the subs, reserve the extra sauce, you will use it for Meal 2.