I don’t know about in your home but Budget Cooking: or Cook Once, Eat Twice (Kid-Friendly, Mom Approved) meals happen more than once or twice in my home when I find sales that allows me to purchase a Pork Roast for 99 cents a pound which turned out to be less than $7.
I wanted to let you know that $7 Kroger roast turned into exactly what I love most in real life cooking…Budget meals that stretch, make sense, and actually feed people more than once. Which not only save me time but my sanity.
I made the Pork Roast into pot roast first with potatoes and carrots, and that already gave us a full meal for the day. Now that roast is still working for us. Saving us time and money and allowing David to not cook for a day or two.
There’s enough roast left to make Gerald a sandwich for lunch, and if there are potatoes and carrots left in the pot, I’ll probably grab those for my lunch before we even get to the hot roast beef sandwiches with brown gravy and mashed potatoes later.
This is what I call:
Cook once, eat twice. Is kid friendly. Its mom approved. And it works when life is busy, messy, and not going exactly as planned.
These types of meals are nothing fancy. Nothing wasted. Just food that keeps showing up in different ways. That’s real budget cooking and with groceries being as high as they are a true Godsend to someone on a budget like my family is.
Tell me — do you plan meals like this, or just let leftovers decide the next round??
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
