What is your most frugal meal you serve?

[peaches312004]

So let's list here....what are your most frugal meals you serve your family?

[peaches312004]

Spaghetti and garlic bread.
Breakfast for dinner (waffles, pancakes, eggs)

[finzel]

Boy, you can't bet breakfast-for-dinner with the cheapyness!!

I would say anything cooked at home would be frugal. But what I've been doing lately is to make my pizza from scratch (homemade crust and all). We used to do it when I was growing up and fell out of habit over the years...and it's been fun making pizza crusts again. Found a whole-wheat recipe online, and since then have made it more of a half-whole/wheat, half-all purpose flour crust, since the whole-wheat crust always seemed to be too dense.

Cheese is cheap. And with the pizza sauce, since not all of it fits onto a pizza, I freeze smaller portions of it to use for a "dipping sauce" for pizza crusts and strombolis (Libby LOVES 'bolis!!).

**So, homemade pizza...frugal.
**Mac'n'cheese is pretty cheap to make, especially since I get the pasta on sale at $0.80 a box.
**We get a steer butchered each winter (Rich's parents & sister's family and us all go in on it together) and that really helps cut the costs of meat.
**bologna & cheese, or PB&J sandwiches, with fruit, is sometimes the supper of choice!
**local fire departments and their various food fund-raisers. They're an excellent way to support the local groups, and you can usually score two meals out of one take-out container. (we just did it last weekend, and that's why it's on my mind)
**whatever's on sale (with an added coupon) is cheapy for me!!! *grin*

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