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All of us at some point in our life had to go on a budget for dinner.. So my question to you is.. If you were given $30 to shop for one dinner only what meal would you be putting on for dinner?
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$30 for one meal really isn't a budget. I was spending $50 a month on food living in a dorm
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All of us at some point in our life had to go on a budget for dinner.. So my question to you is.. If you were given $30 to shop for one dinner only what meal would you be putting on for dinner?
Shrimp Linguinne. I could buy the best brands o cheese. Largest shrimp and finest noodles. Fresh spinach and whipping cream. Best butter and garlic. Of course top it off with a great wine. Yummy
BMaston12
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Uh. Yeah right. $30 on one meal?? That is my budget for a week for both my daughter and I.
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Meh.. I actually meant to say $20 budget.. but i didn't preview it so.. That's messed up Bahaha the one time i don't preview and i mess up -_-
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I never spent $30 on a home cooked meal. I usually only spend about $10 bucks to make a meal and usually my husband and I can eat off the for two days. I couldn't afford groceries if I was $30 on each meal for two. I don't even spend that when I make a shrimp dinner.
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I would go with tuna casserole. A box of frozen spinach is one dollar, a box of small bowtie past is one dollar. A can of cream of mushroom soup is one dollar. Two cans of tuna fish is one dollar. and a can of black olives is one dollar and this will feed a family of four with left overs for less than five dollars. That leave me twenty five dollars. I would add a salad: two dollars for a head of lettuce, one dollar for a cucumber, one dollar for a tomato still leaves me with twenty one dollars. How about a gallon of milk for three dollars-eighteen dollars left? Half a gallon of ice cream for three dollars and I can bank the last fifteen dollars for the kid's college education!
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With $30, I would be getting a steak dinner.
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BBQ Ribs.
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The best in whatever you like beef - steak or seafood - lobster or scallops or whatever dessert -cheesecake or sparkling wine you like
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I would invest a good portion of the $30 if I was given this for a single dinner on seafood - particularly shrimp and calamri. Just thinking of this now is making me drool.
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i would invite my friends over for a meal with a budget that high for just one meal :thumbsup:
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A steak with a salad and baked potato or chicken, rice/mashed potatoes with gravy, corn on the cob, collard greens & jiffy cornbread.
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wow...20.00..that's a few days meals there..i spend about 90 a week in groceries for me and my husband and sometimes my 2 granddaughters..we usually eat just a meat and a vegetable(or not) for supper.and some sort of sandwich or pot pie for lunch..
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I would make spaghetti. I would spend $10 on ground beef. $3 on fresh vegetables to make the sauce (for instance carrots, celery and onion blended down with garlic, salt and pepper sauted until it turns brown. I would spend $2 on spaghetti noodles and the rest on tomato puree and tinned tomatoes (there are more antioxidants in cooked down tomatoes than fresh ones!).
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I would make large pot of spaghetti with ground turkey and you will have enough to buy some garlic bread. You my had some for leftovers.
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hamburgers for dinner and fries ;D
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All of us at some point in our life had to go on a budget for dinner.. So my question to you is.. If you were given $30 to shop for one dinner only what meal would you be putting on for dinner?
i always pick up spare pennies
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i would make lasagna because not only is my homemade lasagna tasty but it makes plenty so i can freeze left overs that will last for about a week.
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For one dinner I could easily have hamburger for sure but I would probably buy a roll of breakfast sausage or a lb of bacon and have a big breakfast meal cause that should leave enough money for eggs, bread for toast, even potato's or grits and maybe even a jar of preserves for the toast.
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Honestly, there's a lot you could make for $30. I normally go for bulk items. Casseroles, spaghetti, and stuff like that. That way, the main part of the meal is relatively cheap to make, and it gives you some to spend on side dishes. Plus, since you're almost guaranteed to have left overs, it helps stretch that $30 over a few other nights.
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Depends, does this meal have to stretch in to more than one.
I like to cook and have leftovers when I am really stretching the dollars for food.
Chili is affordable and good warmed up, that is my go to meal. Won't need 30 bucks for that one.
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I would go to buffet restaurant, we can eat anything we want that they have :)
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I think Lasagna with garlic bread and a tossed salad...heck with 30. add dessert too.
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i could probably get about 4-5 meals out of 20. All simple low cost and delicious. Home made is the best & the cheapest
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30$ is awfully alot for a meal a pizza and a pop costs like 12-15$ now if you said 5$ then thats a something to ponder on.
if i had 30$ for a meal i wouldn't cook at all it would be chinese or stake @ a restaurant but if i was just getting by then i would think more on it then just a meal (basically i would stretch it out for a month)
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Lasagna. I love lasagna with some lettuce. Some garlic bread for me too. I don't think the amount will add up to be 30 but I'll save the change. :)