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Take and Make Menu Plan: Recession Recipes


Our menu plan this week features recession recipes from $5 Dinners, a great site for frugal moms and budget conscious cooks like myself!  Recession recipes use a lot of our favorite frugal cooking ingredients, which help you feed you family more on less money.

Print out the free printable Take and Make Menu Plans each Sunday, which include:

  • A printable grocery shopping list of ingredients.  Print out the list, check off what you already have on hand, then take your shopping list to the store.
  • A dinner meal for each day. Click the name of the meal to print the recipes and directions.

Take And Make Menu Plan:

Recession Recipes

Menu is planned for a family of 4.  Please adjust ingredients and recipes up to accommodate extra people.

Printable Grocery Shopping List:

Click the button below to view, download or print the shopping list. Grocery shopping checklist is divided into sections by type of food to make your shopping trip faster.

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Meals with Recipes:

Monday

Dinner: Broccoli Tuna Casserole. This recession recipe costs under $5 for most USA shoppers.

 

Tuesday

Dinner: Ham and Swiss Roll-Ups.  This recession recipe cost the creator only $4.29 to make!

Wednesday

Dinner: Impossible Cheeseburger Pie, a recession recipe that calls for ground beef.  You all know ground meat is one of my favorite ingredients to stretch your grocery dollars.

Thursday

Dinner: Mini Meatloaves and Mashed Potatoes.

 

Friday

Dinner: Pizza Boats.  Tell me your kids won’t love this recession recipe! Mini homemade pizzas – made with custom toppings for your little guys’ taste buds.

Saturday

Dinner: Taco Macaroni and Cheese.

Sunday

 

Dinner: Leftover Love. Spread out a buffet table of all the leftovers from the week’s meals.  This means a day-off for the chef!


Print out our other Take and Make Menu Plans or check out other menu plans at Menu Plan Monday.

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  1. The ham and swiss roll ups sound wonderful, but then the whole menu does. Great plan!

  2. Impossible Cheesburger Pie is one of our favorite recipes around here! The Ham & Swiss roll-ups look delicious too, we’ll be trying them soon.

  3. Sound Delicious!

  4. great recipes for hamburger recipes

  5. Great menu plan! Thank you for posting these “take and make” lists! I love $5 Dinners too! I’ve been reading the site quite frequently trying to cut our grocery bill.

  6. Great plan! Thanks for sharing!
    ~Liz

  7. Love the menu… I am always looking for new recipes. I came through Org Junkie’s Menu Plan Monday Linky. I can’t wait to see what next week brings.
    Kelli
    FREE = FRUGAL! Come see what I am giving away


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