Sunday Dinner - Under $5!

My girls love pasta and their favorite dish is spaghetti.  Several years ago I posted my easy go-to recipe that I use a lot to make this meal.  Not only is it an easy recipe to prepare but very thrifty as well.

It can be even thriftier when I find the ingredients on sale and use coupons to lower the price even more.  Lately I've been really focused on lowering our grocery bill and getting items at the lowest possible price to make my dollars stretch as far as possible.

Definitely Whoohoo!  This was a great bargain 😊

This meal is a perfect example of how my efforts are paying off.  The main ingredient, the sausage, I found marked down at $1.99.  I sliced it up and cooked it in a little bit of olive oil, then added a jar of pasta sauce I bought for 99¢ and a can of Italian style diced tomatoes for 45¢.  The pasta was on sale a couple weeks ago and I used a coupon I received in the mail to shave even more off the price making it only 32¢ a package.  Total spent on this pot of pasta came in at $3,75.

I made a simple salad out of a bag of lettuce mix I picked up for 98¢.  For less than $5 I was able to feed my family a delicious meal.  Plus, there were plenty of leftovers to enjoy for another supper as well as lunches the next two days.

Surprisingly, it doesn't have to cost a lot to create a really good meal.  And this was a supper I'd be perfectly fine serving to guests as well.  With a little creativity in shopping, taking advantage of sales items and pairing coupons with those items whenever possible to lower prices even more I'm able to make a lot of thrifty meals like this.