From Breakfast to Desserts to "Baked" Things, Let Your Slow Cooker Take Care of These Recipes and Meals for You... … [Read more...]
Beef Taco Hashbrown Bake
The Popular Hashbrown Beef Bake Recipe with a Taco & Spicy Twist – this dinner perfect for the meat and potato lovers in your life! A taco-y twist on our most popular Hashbrown Beef Bake. For this dinner, I swapped the paprika for the taco seasoning in the original recipe. Also, I highly recommend using "Cream of Poblano soup" in place of the cream of mushroom, … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Holiday Recipes
Instant Pot Holiday Magic: 10 Easy Recipes for a Stress-Free Family Meal I adore the concept of an Instant Pot Holiday! Instant Pot recipes allow for a hands-off type of cooking, where the appliance does all the work. It doesn't heat up the kitchen, and you can get to work on other things while it cooks! Instant Pot Holiday Benefits: hands-off … [Read more...]
You Can Drive!! Happy 16th Birthday to $5 Dinners!
"MOM, when do I get my driver's license?" If the blog could talk... 16 short years ago I started this little blog thing here and named it $5 Dinners. I needed to lower our grocery budget and I needed to feed my people. So I started sharing all the recipes and things I was learning along the way. Here we are, 16 years later...in a similar economic climate as back … [Read more...]
Sheet Pan Chicken Bites with Veggies
Baked Chicken Ready in Under 30 Minutes?! Here's how... Baking chicken breasts in the oven can take upwards of an hour and sometimes my afternoons don't have the kind of wiggle room for getting dinner in the oven and waiting for it to bake...and for the hungry gremlins that NEED TO EAT RIGHT NOW. I love sheet pan dinners with cut up chicken bites because they bake up so … [Read more...]
Use Crust from Making Freezer PBJs to Make French Toast Muffins
See How Easy it is to Use the Crust from Making Homemade Freezer PBJs to Make French Toast Muffins You won't waste a single bit of bread doing this! How to Make Homemade Freezer PBJs VIDEO: How to Make French Toast Muffins from Freezer PBJ Crusts ORDER: Freezer PBJ Maker Tool French Toast Muffins (from Freezer PBJs) Use the … [Read more...]
ROUNDUP: Dump and Bake Recipes
You will love the ease and convenience of these "Dump and Bake" recipes for scrumptious and hearty casseroles! … [Read more...]
Cheap Crockpot Meals Under $10
Crockpot meals are a budget-friendly way to save on groceries while still enjoying delicious and nutritious meals. Using a slow cooker allows you to buy cheaper cuts of meat like chuck beef roasts, and they become so tender with slow cooking. You can also easily bulk up meals with affordable ingredients like beans, lentils, and root vegetables, which absorb the … [Read more...]
Rice & Beans Fajita Bake
Budget-Friendly Dump and Bake Rice and Beans: A One-Dish Wonder! VIDEO: How to Make "Dump and Bake" Fajita Rice & Bean Bake Rice & Beans Fajita Bake The most affordable, filling rice and bean bake that you and your family will love! 2 cups brown rice27 oz. can black beans (drained and rinsed)1 cup frozen corn1 cup frozen fajita blend veggies1 … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Back to School Recipes List
Freezer Friendly Dinners, Lunchbox Ideas, School Snacks, Make-Ahead Smoothies and On-the-Go Breakfasts! It's that time of year again. The craving for routines returns. The school supply shopping, shoe shopping and new clothes shopping takes over. You spend more money than you want to, even with braving the crowds on tax-free weekend. And you STILL HAVE TO FEED … [Read more...]