Stretch Your Food Dollar Menu X

Stretch Your Food Dollar Menu X
Arizona Farm Bureau put together a menu to help you stretch your food dollar by utilizing items that have gone down in price. This quarter’s items down in price are shredded cheddar cheese, eggs, orange juice and white bread.  Arizona Farm Bureau recommends building menus around eggs as they are ideally priced. To obtain actual recipes for the “Stretch Your Food Dollar Menu X” go to www.fillyourplate.org and click on the recipe tab.  Most of  recipes for menu X are from Arizona producers.
 
 Menu for the Week:
 
Sunday:                   Lemon Chicken
                                Roasted Potatoes/with seasonings
                                Baked Apples
                                Milk or Iced Tea
 
 
Monday:                   Pulled Pork
                                Wedge Salad
                                Milk
 
 
Tuesday:                  Chicken Enchiladas
                                Bread or corn chips                
                                Milk
 
 
 
Wednesday:             Easy Mexican Casserole
                                Mixed green salad
        Milk or Iced Tea    
 
Thursday:                 Chicken Ala King over noodles or rice
                                Mixed vegetables
                                Milk or Iced Tea
 
               
Friday:                      Quesadillas (build your own)
                                Chips and Salsa
                                Fruit of the season salad
                                Milk or Iced Tea
 
                                                                                               
Saturday:                 Grilled hamburgers and hot dogs
        Grilled veggie kabobs
                                Carrot bread with orange juice glaze
                                Milk or Iced Tea
 
                                               
 ***You may adjust this suggested menu to your family’s likes and needs*
 
 
Shopping list 
 
 
Dry goods:
Hamburger buns
Hot Dog buns
1 dozen Flour tortillas
1 dozen corn tortillas
1 bag tortilla or corn chips
1 package egg noodles
 
 
Produce:
 5 lbs potatoes
4 ears fresh corn
2 heads iceberg lettuce
1 bag American salad mix
4 or 5 large apples
1 summer squash
1 bell pepper
2 oranges
1 bunch grapes
2 bananas
1 pint strawberries
1 medium yellow onion
 
 Meats:
 
5 lbs pork roast
2 lbs ground beef
1 package hot dogs
3- whole chickens
 
 
Dairy:
2- gallons milk
4-cup bag of shredded cheese
1 dozen eggs
 
Pantry items you might have on hand:
Minute rice                              Flour
Corn (canned)                          Brown sugar   
Bacon bits                                Baking soda
Vegetable oil                            Baking powder
Salad dressing                          Sugar
Cinnamon                   
                                   
Misc:
1 can mushroom soup
1 jar salsa
1 can Rotel tomatoes with chilis
 
 
The cost of all the items on the “Stretch Your Food Dollar Menu X” is about $72.25.  This is $22.50 less than the first quarter at $94.75.  Note that most of the shopping list items for this quarters menu are non-processed…keeping costs down.