Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Easy, budget friendly meals.

I am honestly writing this post so I can "pin it" as a "go-to" for when I make my Sunday night meal planning list.  Sometimes I feel like...I know I cook, but for the life I of me I can't remember what I cook.  I wrack my brain for meal ideas and I can't come up with anything besides toast and cereal.  So I am writing down 20+ "go-to" meals that are SUPER easy, SUPER fast, and SUPER budget friendly so that come Sunday night, I can head over to my "dinner recipes" board and come up with a budget friendly meal plan for the week.

PASTA
* Spaghetti with tomato & basil sauce, salad, & garlic bread
*Penne pasta tossed with sun dried tomato pesto, (or basil pesto) and pea's.  Serve with salad and garlic bread
* Spaghetti Pie, salad & garlic bread
*Mac N' Cheese (homemade & boxed)

PIZZA
*Home made pizza (with tomato pizza sauce, or pesto)
*Pizza bagels
*pizza English muffins
*Pizza muffins

"Mexican"
*Quesadilla's
*Vegetarian Taco's
*Mexican beans & rice
*Vegetarian Enchilada's
*Vegetarian Fajita's

Breakfast for Dinner
*Pancakes (sweet potato, chocolate chip, blueberry etc...)
*French Toast 

Eggs
*Egg frittata's
*Egg & Sausage sandwiches on home made biscuits
*scrambled eggs
*Quiche (variations)

Soups & Stews
*Chili
*White chili
*Lasagna Soup
*Potato Soup
*Canned Soup & Grilled Cheese
*Canned Soup & french bread

Other
*Baked Potato
* Potato Casserole
*vegetarian chicken pot pie
Ham & Swiss pie

{I may be adding to this list in the future.  If you have ANY fast, cheap, and easy meals to add to this list (ideally they would be meat-free), then PLEASE share! :)