Budget-friendly Family Dinner Recipe Ideas Even Kids Can Like
You have doubtless noticed that each time you go shopping, your bill is higher and the number of bags you leave with are fewer than just a month ago. The prices of staple items, such as sugar, bread, coffee and butter jump every week, to a new high. Last week, you might have said, “This is ridiculous!” This week, it’s just downright depressing. Nonetheless, you know that somehow, you’ve got to manage, but it’s getting harder. Here are some affordable, family dinner recipe ideas that will help you manage your food budget and not bore the family to tears. Even your children will find these recipe ideas tasty and fun.
Budget-friendly family dinner recipe ideas even children can like
Back in the 1950s, casseroles were a favorite family dinner recipe idea. Mom was very clever in disguising a couple of cans of tuna, cream of mushroom soup, noodles, a package of frozen peas and a few crushed potato chips as a topping. This was the famous tuna casserole, simple to make and very inexpensive. This dish deserves a revival in today’s kitchen. Perhaps it’s the chips, browned in the oven as a crispy garnish, that made it so popular with kids. This casseroles is so versatile, in that you can alternative any meat, soup and veggie. Just leave the noodles and potato chips intact and you’ve got a generic, budget-friendly and ever popular family dinner recipe.
Now the price of many meats has hit that benchmark of ridiculous. Fortunately, chicken is still something you can toss in the shopping cart without having a heart attack over the price. It’s also a happy fact that chicken is also one of those family dinner recipe ideas you can work and rework in so many ways. Most kids like chicken too. A whole chicken can be stuffed with a rice filling or conventional stuffing and baked. Fried chicken is cheap and easy. With one chicken, you can make a large pot of chicken soup. Leftover chicken becomes a taco, enchilada, chef’s salad, or tomorrow’s sandwich. Don’t forget that generic casserole we talked about.
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