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    $5 Dinners | Budget Recipes, Meal Plans, Freezer Meals

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

    Rolled Pizza Bread

    January 26, 2011 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 23 Comments

    When you can't have pizza on a regular basis, you have to get creative when you get those pizza cravings! I've got some dairy free and soy free mozzarella cheese and I figured there would be no way that I could cover an entire pizza with it, and keep it under $5! I recalled a Sausage bread that I made years ago...it's basically homemade pizza crust dough with sausage and … [Read more...]

    Rigatoni with Italian Sausage and Red Peppers

    September 8, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 13 Comments

    Super Simple Supper! This is a one dish dinner. (That brings up an important question...when you hear one dish dinner, do you think of it being a dinner that is SERVED in one dish, or COOKED in one dish?!) So this is technically a one dish served dinner...as the whole meal is in one bowl. But it was cooked in 2 pots...a pot for the pasta, and a skillet for the sausage, … [Read more...]

    Green Pepper Chili

    September 6, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 10 Comments

    Simple. Take your basic chili...and add 2 green peppers. Diced, of course! (I made this on the Dayton Fox News morning show this week! So if you've been looking for the recipe, here it is!) Remember those crazy wicked cheap green peppers I scored!?! That's what inspired the green pepper addition. I think I'll be adding green peppers to everything from now until … [Read more...]

    Beef and Mushroom Kebabs

    July 26, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 17 Comments

    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 food when I'm getting food for news segments, but I couldn't … [Read more...]

    How to Cut a Green Pepper {Video}

    July 23, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 13 Comments

    how to cut green peppers

    Or perhaps the wrong way to cut a green pepper?!? I am a total green pepper cutting rebel and do my own thing when it comes to dicing, slicing and cutting green peppers. I am not, however, a rebel without a cause. I definitely cut with a cause.  In this case, freezing all these green peppers!  In the end, I wound up with the following meal size portions: 6 … [Read more...]

    Sweet and Sour Chicken

    October 15, 2009 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 12 Comments

    I had every intention of serving this over brown rice. But I got a little distracted by the Balloon Boy story this afternoon (so glad he was found...but boy I wasted a bunch of "what if that was my kid" emotional energy because of the whole ordeal). By the time I realized that the dinner hour was fast approaching, it was too late to get the brown rice going! So white rice it … [Read more...]

    Tomato Black Bean Barley Soup

    September 24, 2009 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 10 Comments

    Tomato Black Bean Barley Soup Quick and easy! 1 small yellow onion, chopped2 cloves garlic, crushed 1/2 cup Italian salad dressing 4 cups water15 oz can black beans, drained 15 oz can diced tomatoes, undrained1/2 cup quick-cooking barleyHandful fresh basil, chopped (or use 1 tsp dried basil)Salt and pepper to taste1 medium green pepper, choppedDollops of sour … [Read more...]

    Chicken Soft Tacos with Kickin’ Corn

    August 14, 2009 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 1 Comment

    Using up the leftover chicken from last week, with some peppers I sliced and froze before BlogHer...Yum!  Having frozen the veggies and used leftover cooked chicken, this meal was an easy throw together!!! Chicken Soft Tacos with Kickin' Corn An easy and filling weeknight dinner recipe! 1 tsp canola or vegetable oil 2 cups leftover chicken1/2 green … [Read more...]

    Garden Marinara Sauce

    August 7, 2009 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 9 Comments

    Ingredients 1 onion 1 green pepper 5-6 medium ripe tomatoes 2 garlic cloves 10 basil leaves 4 parsley sprigs 1-2 Tbsp EVOO Salt/Pepper Directions 1. Blend all ingredients in blender until chunky or pureed. I found that running the blender for about 15 seconds and then a few pulses did the trick. 2. Pour sauce from the blender into a saucepan or large skillet. Turn … [Read more...]

    Chicken Fajita Pizza

    July 28, 2009 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 4 Comments

    No photo tonight...because I have no Internet at my home at the moment. If you follow me on Twitter, you know I was none to happy with amount of time I spent on the phone trying to order a new modem. But at least they threw in free overnight shipping and a month of free service for the 4, yes 4, hours I spent calling around and finally ordering the new modem. So I'm posting … [Read more...]

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