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Budget Recipes, Meal Plans, Freezer Meals and Cooking Tutorials for the Busy Home Chef

Save on Groceries in 2025

Homemade Salsa Verde Recipe

May 19, 2025 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

Authentic Homemade Salsa Verde Recipe – Fresh, Zesty, and Easy to Make This homemade salsa verde recipe delivers bold, vibrant flavor with just a handful of simple, FRESH ingredients. Made with tomatillos, jalapeños, garlic, and cilantro, it’s the perfect dip, taco topper, or enchilada sauce. Whether you're entertaining guests or spicing up weeknight meals, this zesty … [Read more...]

Freezer Friendly Slow Cooker Steakhouse Soup

April 23, 2025 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

freezer friendly slow cooker steakhouse soup recipe

Freezer Friendly Slow Cooker Steakhouse Soup Slow Cooker Steakhouse Soup This budget friendly gourmet soup calls for the best steak house flavors, all in one scrumptious bowl of soup. Enjoy! 2 lb stew beef (s stew beef)Salt and pepper2 lb baby potatoes (s baby potatoes)12 oz. frozen carrots3 cups beef broth1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce2 Tbsp balsamic … [Read more...]

Slow Cooker Gold BBQ Shredded Beef

March 22, 2025 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

This seasonal product from Trader Joes makes the best ever beef roast and shredded beef - look for it in the late spring, early summer months and stock up! If this isn't a cult favorite yet at Trader Joe's, I'm going to help it become one.  This Gold BBQ from the specialty grocer is a seasonal product available just ahead of the summer months. The minute I see it in … [Read more...]

Erin’s 12 Days of Christmas Deals

December 4, 2024 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

The BEST deals for you to SPEND LESS money on groceries and feed your family EASY home-cooked meals! Tap the links below to get started, and use code HOLLY at checkout for 20% off!   … [Read more...]

Halloween Finger Foods

October 16, 2024 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

These Halloween Finger Foods are Perfect for Trick-or-Treat Night!     … [Read more...]

Deck the Freezer Party – Recipes & RSVP HERE!!

October 12, 2024 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

Holiday To-Do List Already Starting to Stress You Out?! What if you could prep SIX 5-Ingredient freezer meals in 30 minutes...before the holiday chaos begins?!? I'm Erin Chase and I'm here to show you how...   Join me the week of NOVEMBER 1st for a few days of tips and tricks that will help you breeze through this meal prep! Each day throughout the Deck … [Read more...]

You Can Drive!! Happy 16th Birthday to $5 Dinners!

August 20, 2024 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

"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...]

Use Crust from Making Freezer PBJs to Make French Toast Muffins

August 17, 2024 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

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...]

Amazon Big Spring Sale 2024

March 21, 2024 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

amazon big spring sale

Get the best Amazon Big Spring Sale deals on kitchen, home and more!     … [Read more...]

$5 Dinners x Top Google Searched Recipes in 2022

December 29, 2022 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

top 10 google searched recipes of 2022

Find The $5 Dinners Budget Friendly Versions of the Top Google Searched Recipes in 2022 Below is a list of the budget friendly $5 Dinners recipes that best align with the overall top searched google recipes in 2022 - get these added to your an upcoming meal plan in 2023!  #1 Sugo Sugo means sauce in Italian. And there is some debate over whether or not this is a … [Read more...]

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