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Apr. 14, 2008

Grocery Budgeting Part 3

Dinners: we have set menu nights:

Monday- Pasta night
Tuesday- Soup
Wednesday- homemade pizza night (and salad)
Thursday- Potato, meat and veggie night
Friday- Rice dish
Saturday- Soup
Sunday- egg night

We will have meat about 3xs per week which helps to keep costs lower, and is better for your health. According to the NZ Heart Foundation we should only eat red meat 2-3 x per week at the most.

We have homemade yoghurt for desserts 5 nights per week and in the weekends we make our own desserts and have ice cream with them usually.

I try to keep our dinner (and dessert) meals to $5-7 per time depending on the meat costs, but over the course of the week the cheaper meals will balance out the more expensive ones.

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Apr. 27, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

What kind of toppings do you put on your pizza? I love your menu plan. I need to revamp mine - and I think I am going to borrow ideas from yours ;) - Naomi

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Apr. 28, 2008 - Pizza Toppings

Posted by happyathome

We use a tin/can of spaghetti as the base, or tomato paste ( which I sometimes add a little water too and it goes further, enough for two LARGE pizzas instead of one). I then add grated cheese, pineapple, sliced meat ( bought on special), sliced tomatoes ( free from our garden), finely chopped onion, peppers( bought on special, chopped up and popped in the freezer). Someone gave us some mushrooms the other day and I used some on our pizzas and froze the rest.I try and keep it as frugal as I can. I just use 1/2 tin of pineapple ( tin size 400gr). I slice the pineapple pieces thinner- goes a l...o...n...g way!! The other 1/2 tin goes in the freezer for next time. Hope this helps.

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