Every Saturday morning I set out to plan the meals for the week. My goal is to keep it as cheap as possible, as healthy as possible and well, something everyone will eat. I don’t know about you, but I find it more and more difficult to plan meals on a budget these days.

Here in Canada food is more expensive. I don’t know why. And we don’t have the same selection as you do in the states. That’s why whenever we make it down to the states the grocery stores for me are like a day at the mall for others.

Planning for a family of 5 with 3 almost all teenagers is tough. On top of that, I’m trying to make our meals healthier which, as I’m sure any mom would understand, is greeted with all kinds of attitude.

Lunches are pretty easy, but I’m trying to add more variety. Breakfast is always on the fly and usually a peanut butter on rye with fruit of some sort. But dinners, they are scary! They need to be quick or well planned in advance and they MUST be yummy!

In my search for cheap dinners I came across a few sites you might be interested in. I will often use these for ideas:

Family.com 15 Cheap Dinners (They also have some pretty good crock pot ideas)
Recipe.com
Netmums.com
Betty Crocker
Kraft Canada

So while I sit here writing this with no real point to make, I just realized that I am stalling. Off I go to make my list….

~Toresa