Stretch Your Food Dollar Menu XIV (June 2011)

Stretch Your Food Dollar Menu XIV

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 ground chuck, flour, white bread and bagged salad mix. To obtain actual recipes for the “Stretch Your Food Dollar Menu XIV” go to www.fillyourplate.org and click on the recipe tab. Most of recipes for menu XIV are from Arizona producers.

Menu for the Week:

Sunday: Meatloaf

Tossed Salad

Baked potatoes

Milk or Iced Tea

Monday: Chili

Corn Bread

Milk or Iced Tea

Tuesday: Beef Tacos

Refried beans

Milk or Iced Tea

Wednesday: Seven Layer Salad

Crust bread or baggette

Milk or Iced Tea

Thursday: Meatball subs

Waldorf salad

Milk or iced Tea

Friday: Grilled Hamburgers

Baked beans

Milk or Iced Tea

Saturday: Meatless spaghetti

Tossed salad

Garlic Bread

Milk or Iced Tea

***You may adjust this suggested menu to your family’s likes and needs.

Shopping list

Dry goods:

1 loaf crusty bread or baggette

1 dozen corn tortillas

1 package hoagie rolls

1 package hamburger buns

1 package spaghetti pasta

Produce:

2 heads iceberg lettuce

1 bag American salad mix

5 medium apples

2- large tomatoes

1 bunch Celery

1-bunch green onions

4- baking potatoes

Dairy:

2- gallons milk

4 cup bag of shredded cheese

1 dozen eggs

Pantry items you might have on hand:

Bread crumbs Vegetable oil

Mayo Ketchup

Chili powder Mustard

Seasonings

Salad dressing

Meats:

6 -pounds ground chuck

Misc:

1 jar salsa

1 can refried beans

1 can baked beans

1 can kidney beans

2- 8 oz cans tomato sauce

1 jar spaghetti sauce

1 pack frozen peas

1 can diced tomatoes

1 package corn bread mix

Raisins

Cool whip

The cost of all the items on the “Stretch Your Food Dollar Menu XIII” is about $83.26. Note that at least half of the shopping list items for this quarters menu are non-processed…keeping costs down.