How to Feed Your Family Cheap!

Depending on the size of your family and how much they eat, these meals could last you an entire week, if you save and use your leftovers. You can stretch them a bit if you have a salad with them or a side dish.

This is you grocery list, assuming you already have flour, salt and pepper, milk and butter or margarine in your house: I shop at Save-a-Lot so the prices are Save-a-Lot prices, if you don't have a Save-a-Lot in your area you will need to find an equivalent bag-your-own groceries type store or buy store brand, in which case your total may be slightly higher.

1 Whole Chicken - $4.50 or $4.90 for ten lbs. of chicken legs and thighs at Wal-Mart
1 bag rice - 99 cents
2 cans mushrooms - 49 cents each = .98 cents
3 cans mixed vegetables - 39 cents each = $1.17
1 can peas 39 cents
1 can tuna - 79 cents
5 cans mushroom soup - 49 cents each = $2.45
1 package of tortillas - 79 cents
1 bottle ranch dressing - 99 cents
1 dozen eggs - 79 cents
1 package egg noodles - 79 cents
1 box Velveeta or So Cheesy - $3.99
2 boxes of Macaroni - 89 cents each = $1.78
4 cans diced tomatoes - 49 cents each = $1.96

If it is in your budget, here are additional ingredients for an additional meal:

1 pkg. of 8 burritos $2.49
1 can of chili $1.79 (or ingredients to make your own are cheap and you can have chili once and save the leftover chili to use in this recipe.)
1 can of diced tomatoes with or without garlic and basil - 49 cents
1 pkg. shredded Mexican cheese $2.49
Optional Salsa $1.39 and Sour Cream $1.39 for topping

Chicken should be cooked first as follows:

You will boil the chicken until it is falling off the bones, adding water as needed and dumping broth into separate container and adding more water to get plenty of broth.

You will set aside 2 portions of broth, a larger portion for the soup and a smaller portion for the Rivels. When you tear the chicken up you will put some nice pieces aside for the chicken tortilla recipe, some decent pieces for the soup, and the lesser pieces with fat and such for the Rivels.

Rice, Mushroom Soup, and Chicken