Making a creative dinner for two nights

Feeding a family our size has it's challenges. Buying our groceries on a tight budget is the biggest challenge. This week we only budgeted for dinner at home a couple of nights, due to kids activities and other things. So I tried to keep our grocery bill even tighter this week. So I decided to make the same meal for two nights, but who wants left overs all the time? This is where you have to get creative. Maybe there is a meal that your family loves that is easy on your wallet, try fixing it two different ways. Here is what I did this week; three pound roll of hamburger $9.00, French Bread $1.00, Extra large bottle of spaghetti sauce $5.00, bag of salad $2.50.

 First night spaghetti, salad, french bread. With plans for tomorrow night as follows; baked spaghetti, salad, french bread. Dessert cupcakes left over from the football cookout! Not totally different but enough different that the kids aren't complaining.

Two meals, two nights for 7 people totaling $17.50/2.50 per person is good enough for us!