Okay, so everyone eats..What's for dinner?

I am suppose to be going to my fiances house today. So what ever they are having for dinner is most likely what i will be eating. Other wise there is a tv dinner at home waiting for me. Bluh!

I have heard of a few great ideas just reading the responses!!! Last night was our leftover night. I made a big pot of white rice. The kids had chicken nuggets with mac and cheese. My husband and I had leftover chili that I had in the freezer with the rice and some leftover salad from the night before. Tonight I am making baked chicken and rice with the rice left over from last night. This is a good night because it is something that we will all eat (the kids get picky). We have been trying to teach the kids that for now this is what we have so you have to eat what is made. Tomorrow I plan on cutting up the leftover roast from a few nights ago, add the gravy, chop some carrots and potatoes and par boil them...mix all together and put in a pie crust for homemade beef pot pie. My husband and son LOVE this!!! Happy eat8ing and thanks again for the ideas.

Mexican for me. Frijoles, arroz, salsa de verde y salsa de rojo, tacos con carne asada, I love Mexican food.

Hi moondancer, Tonight, I have to work through the supper hour, so hubby will probably do leftovers or a frozen dinner. I enjoy cooking, but like everyone else, I feel the budget crunch in my kitchen. I don't know about you, but a big concern for me is that some of the time and money saving meals are also worse for us nutritionally. Last night we had a tasty, inexpensive meal that consisted of one box of au gratin potatoes, one pound of smoked sausage, (sliced), and baby peas. I added the sliced sausage, some onion and parsley to the potatoes before they went into the oven, then baked according to the directions. I served it with some yummy sweet baby peas. Now this was a simple, tasty and inexpensive meal, (we bought the potatoes when they were on sale @ 10 for $10, and the sausage and frozen peas on sale in bulk- repackaged and frozen). The trouble is, when you look at the amount of fat and salt in that meal, you realize that you can't have it often or your health will suffer. You have initiated a very interesting discussion, moondancer. As I see it, there are lots of ways to save money on the grocery bill, (sales, coupons, bulk buying, etc.), but with the cost of fresh fruit, fresh veggies, meat and fish-- jeez! To me, eating cheap is easy---eating cheap and healthy is really difficult. Thanks for giving me some "food for thought", moondancer. smiles, ink

I think tonight I will have some leftover rotisserie chicken for dinner with maybe some kind of vegggie. I think tomorrow we will have some kind of manwhich or sloppy Joe I have been craving it lately. I have been making alot of inexpensive meals also usually a variation of chicken, hot dogs or spaghetti. It depends what's available.

tonight i had ramen, last night i had pancakes and fruit, and the night before a stone soup kind of concoction with veggie burgers, pasta, broccoli and some other stuff. can you tell i need to go grocery shopping?

Today its my turn to prepare dinner. I am preparing tortellini. I am not much of a great cook but I can prepare simple dishes. It only involves boiling water and throwing tortellini in it. I have to cut mushrooms, ham and garlic as a dressing. Saturday is my boss's day off from the kitchen.

I think Me and my kids will make pizza tonight - My kids love doing that plus it helps me cook all the cheese, veggies and mushrooms I need to cook. I have some hotlinks I can use for "peperoni". I have some tomato to make the sauce with. Life is good!

I had stirfried veggies/chicken on top of curried rice mmm

Well... I made chicken fried steaks for dinner... extremely yummy. Made country gravy, mashed potatoes, and corn with it.

Today I am baking chicken with Potatoes, it shall be nice and we will have leftovers for tomorrow. I like how you plan your meals, it is nice and makes sense to me.

We are eating home made split pea soup with toasted cheese sandwiches. WE are using a lot of dryed peas and beans, they take a while but if you soak them and put them in a slow cooker to cook all day they will be ready when you get home. I usually make with some kind of smoked pork bone, hocks or neck which are cheap, canned tomatoes, onions, garlic and sometimes chilli powder. Of course they are also good made meatless. You get lots of good eating for very little $$ Fot pea soup the directions are on the package or the internet, they are very easy.

We cook at home most of the time. If I am off, I will make something that took more effort then normal. We do a lot of creative things with leftovers as well, and sometimes buy things in bulk to store and use when we have not shopped in awhile. We freeze left overs if we are not intending on eating them in the next day or so.

i'm in a diet now so i only have soups for dinners. not something heavy but soups will do. maybe in it i'd put chunks of chicken and lots and lots of vegetables.

Tonight we ate dinner at home. My husband and I both cooked the meal together. We had pork chops, sauteed squash and onions, and corn. It was really good. I think we might have tacos tomorrow night. Then I've made a list to buy some stuff at the grocery store tomorrow for us to eat the next night because I want to make some homeade mac/cheese and I need to buy the ingredients for it. That night we'll probably have chicken, the homeade mac/cheese, and some kind of veggie. We have leftovers sometimes and we usually eat them for lunch the next day.

well tonight i have went to kentucky fried chicken and since iam a lone and everyone is out i got me some wings and coldslaw and a small pices of corn and a biscuit and a pepsi and i couldn,t eat it all.i have been on line and enjoying the peace and quite.

Here in the Netherlands the money issues aren't as bad as in the USA, I guess, I hope. But I also feel the need to save some extra money out of our budget to get through really bad times. We do that too. We are having prepared plates of cheap but healthy food at the discountstore here. We were having those meals for about three times a week. Just to save money. And the taste is ok. Not flourishing different and nothing special. So in the weekend and about two other days of the wee, we will have a day of a junkfood meal and a day of really cooking stuff. If you see what you have to pay for the groceries out here to get the same food, but then homemade, instead of the ready prepared platters in the discountstore, its really bad. I try more items from the discountstore. I have tried their coffee, I didn't like it. So I get my grounded coffee from another, normal, shop. I stepped over from drinking coffee from coffeepads back to just grounded coffee and make coffee with a filter, a filterpaper and a thermoscan. That way you can earn a lot of money back, and to be honest, it does taste a lot better than coffeepads too, but, you need to take about 8 tot 10 minutes to make a can of coffee, instead of being just quickly and put in a coffeepad. And I have put up something I have read a long time ago: EVERY TIME you are getting money IN to your account, skip off 10% of it and sent it to your savingsaccount. You will see you would hardly miss out the 10% after a while, you will see you can also live the life you want at the 90% marge! And you can save that money to build up a really strong buffer for unknown times. They recommend having a 3 month salary on your savingsaccount just for you know when. I must say I just started it at January this year, and I already took it out to buy some cheap shoes at Ebay for myself. But......see that money not only for building a buffer for the future but also as MY MONEY where you can do with what you want. I think I will do it in a different way next month. 5% for the buffering, and the other 5% for spending money for me. That way my buffer will build up steady but slowly AND I have money to spent for MYSELF, without feeling guilty about it.

Hi there moondancer!I actually just had my dinner. Tonight, my dad cooked fish for dinner. It was really tasty! Very delicious I should say. I don't usually eat dinner at home because of my schedule at work and I am glad that each time I eat at home, dad cooks great dishes.

Made a cherry cheesecake last night and had some of that today....Tonight I'll grill steak.Last night we had big pot of dirty rice with burgers.I cook or the hubby cooks,we only eat out on trips.I hate fast food so we eat in nice restaurants,BUT we eat out on trips which we take 3 times a year.

I'm Chinese so we usually have rice for dinner, and I'm quite bored of it. But tonight, I had some cheong fun with some garlic and balsamic vinegar. =D