Tera is such an awesome girl! Two healthy dinners in a row. Here's the breakdown on this meal.
Easy to prepare. Tastes great. Incredibly inexpensive. Easy to clean. Home-grown food!
So last night was the chicken salad with barbecued chicken. With some proper planning, we managed to make some extra chicken. Tera cut that up into some small pieces while making the spaghetti. In the refrigerator was acorn squash that we got out of the garden in November and has kept quite well. Whole wheat spaghetti is bought in the bulk foods section at WinCo. Twenty minutes later, we have our chicken sphaghetti.
Chicken = free, put into last night's meal cost.
Spaghetti = not sure. Probably $1.00/meal at the most. Can't think that it's much higher. Calories unknown, but lets call it 500.
Sauce = $2.39 for a jar (guessing). I used 1/10 of a jar probably, so 25 cents for that. Maybe 100 calories.
Water is free.
Dessert is not shown. Three pieces of halloween candy (chocolate coin, twix, 3 musketeer) for 240 calories? 10 cents each?
Total cost = $1.85 or so. I ate an extra serving equivalent to the spaghetti shown, so let's say it was $3.05 total.
Calories = about 1200 - 1400 calories.
Tera cooked it in about twenty minutes. I cleaned it in five minutes.
I'm quite full and my sweet tooth is satisfied about thirty minutes later as I write this.
I would like to keep my dinner calories at about 800, but that is clearly quite difficult.
I think this meal is clearly a good way to go.
I have a couple of favorite healthy meals that can get expensive, but this is clearly a healthy meal that is easy and inexpensive.
What are some of the ways you eat healthy yet inexpensive?
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