Another Delicious Inexpensive Dinner

Another Delicious Inexpensive Dinner

I love coming up with meals that are low-cost but healthy.  So tonight I came up with another delicious inexpensive dinner for hubby and me.

The grocery store had $12.99 per pound New York strip steak on sale for $6.99!  I hit it lucky as they were just packaging the cut steaks so I stocked up on a few packages. There were two steaks in each package that totaled just under a pound, but plenty for the two of us.

Along with the steak, I prepared stir fry with onions, peppers, summer squash and carrots.  It was so colorful and delicious!  This is one of my favorite vegetable dishes.  What made it even better, the pepper and squash came from the garden.  To finish the meal, I planned on baked potatoes. I made hubby a sweet potato, his favorite but of course I couldn’t make just a plain baked potato for me, I had to doctor it up.  While I grilled the steaks, I added two strips of bacon to the grill.

After baking the potato, I cut it in half and mashed the potato in the skin.  Next I added butter, some crumbled bacon bits and mixed that all together.  I then added shredded cheese with more bacon on top, put back in the oven just long enough to melt the cheese.

The entire meal of  strip steak, loaded baked potato and stir fry for the two of us was less than a total of $8.00.  It was just another delicious inexpensive dinner that enjoyed preparing.  I love making healthy meals and this one was healthy, colorful and inexpensive.

What are some of the ways you prepare meals that are healthy but low-cost? With the price of groceries, I try to stretch what we buy to make the best delicious meals.