Cheap Recipes For A Great Dinner

Cheap recipes can get hard when days turn to weeks turn to months.  It's easy to get stuck on the same few meals.  Some families eat the same tired things while forgetting about some old favorites.  Random meal selection results in that situation.  Now that more people are more focused on other things like work, it's not easy to plan and execute a healthy menu.

When coming up with that menu, and the recipes to fill it, keep in mind that prior planning prevents future problems.  People who take some time to plan out menus can select a wider variety of recipes.  Meal time is as much about the overall experience as it is about taste and nutrition.  Even the same basic foods can be prepared a variety of different ways to make up meals everyone will enjoy a lot more.

Ground beef is one example.  With bread (buns) and some vegetables it can become a hamburger  A taco is pretty similar.  While very different in the eyes and taste buds of most people, hamburgers and tacos share many of the same basic ingredients.  A single food can result in a lot of different recipes.  Now for another one.  We'll consider chicken with potatoes.  French fries and fried chicken can be fattening and thus not healthy.  Roasting both will save the waist line.  Still chicken and potatoes.  Chicken salad and chips make a good lunch.  Chicken pot pie.  There may not be potatoes with Chicken Teriyaki but the rice is also a starch.  A few basic foods can lead to great variety.

Mixing meats can be fun too.  Delicious kebabs come from chicken and steak along with some vegetables.  Steak and lobster can be very elegant for a parents only dinner date, or pretty basic to include the kids too at a family meal.  The same deep fryer can cook both a fried turkey and some fish and chips for an early snack.

Where can more ideas be found?  There are a lot of food shows on television, even an entire channel dedicated to food.  Those give great ideas, and most have web sites where more information, including cheap recipes, can be found.  Speaking of on line, food ideas abound on web sites.  Try a Google or MSN search for dinner ideas.  Nobody could every get through all the available info online.

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