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$5 Dinner Challenge

Roasted Garden Ratatouille – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 30, 2010

A delicious roasted ratatouille…that when you take the first bite, you’ll soon forget the 20 minutes you spent chopping the veggies! It was worth every second…

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Cheesy Green Chicken Enchiladas – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 23, 2010

I had every intention of sharing my Summer Garden Ratatouille recipe tonight, but in an effort to maintain my sanity and keep myself out of the asylum… I leave you with this recipe from Rebecca.

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Blueberry Lemon Pancakes – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 16, 2010

Breakfast for dinner…a smart way to reduce your grocery budget…simply incorporate 1 of these meals into your weekly meal plan and be on your way to spending less!
Making pancakes from scratch has been something I have done for many years!  I had lots of fun coming up with (and tasting) a bunch of different pancakes [...]

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Link Up Your Recipes – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 9, 2010

No recipe from me.  I spent the day in rental cars, buses, trains, planes and automobiles. There is nothing happening in my kitchen tonight!
(But it’s nice to be home.)
What budget recipes do you have to share this week?!?!
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Have a Frugal and Healthy Recipe to share?
Post the recipe on your blog and then add the link [...]

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Beef and Mushroom Kebabs – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on July 26, 2010

I made these the other night…I made an extra trip to the store to get the ingredients needed for this morning’s news segment…and spotted some $.99 whole mushrooms.  I see them often for $.99 in the mark down basket in the produce section. I found more this morning…sliced this time. I don’t typically buy extra [...]

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Grilled Red Potato Salad – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on July 19, 2010

A grilled spin-off of the Roasted Red Potato Salad that I made this past winter.

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All Green Salad with Grilled Chicken – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on July 5, 2010

On Friday night we grilled chicken and kebabs and there was quite a bit leftover chicken. So I sliced it and added it to a salad, as I still had some of the $1 lettuce bags from last week’s trip. (We are now waiting for more lettuce leaves to grow in the garden after the [...]

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Smokehouse Maple Chicken

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on June 28, 2010

While foraging yesterday, I found some Smokehouse Maple grill seasoning hanging out amongst the other spices in the spice cabinet. Hmmm….let’s try this with some chicken. And I just so happened to have picked up a few packages of chicken at the store this morning.
This could not have been an easier chicken to make. It [...]

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Impromptu Italian Dinner Party – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on June 21, 2010

Tonight we are having this Eggplant Focaccia bread, among other things, at an impromptu “Italian Dinner Party” with the Once A Month Family. Tricia is bringing a Mozzarella Tomato Salad, some chicken pot pie..and I’ll throw some grilled chicken into the mix too.  Nothing fancy…a free for all dinner with friends!
I’m sorry I don’t have [...]

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The Deadline Edition – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on June 14, 2010

No recipe from me tonight.
My head is buried in the sand on the beaches of Manuscript Deadline.
I have no idea what we’re having for dinner tonight. And I’m OK with that.
Please leave your links for us. After a week of gritting sand between my teeth and dreaming about Tyler crawling around in my editor’s office [...]

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