Delicious Meal under $5

What do you get when you put a roast, four potatoes, and one onion covered with gravy in the oven? You get a delicious meal for two people with leftovers under $5!

BiLo had boneless chuck roast beef on sale for $5.99 per pound but the package also had a $4.00 off coupon attached! The regular price for meat was $9.02, after sale price was $7.73 but after I used the coupon, it only cost $3.73! It weighed about a 1 1/4 pounds which was plenty for hubby and I.

It took about 10 minutes tops to prepare the meal for the oven. I like leaving skin on the potatoes so I washed them good, then cut in chunks. I did the same to the onion and after I put the roast in the baking pan, I covered it with the potatoes and onion. Next I took a package of gravy mix, added a cup of water and poured that over the top of the meat and potatoes. I covered it with aluminum foil and baked at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hours.

About 20 minutes before it was done, I sliced up a fresh summer squash and sauteed it. While cooking up the squash, the roast was smelling so good and ready to serve when the squash was done cooking.

Generally I’m not a big fan of chuck roast but this one was cooked to perfection and by adding the gravy, the flavor went through the meat and potatoes while cooking. The roast was so tender we didn’t even need a knife to cut it and the flavor deliciously wonderful.

If you don’t have lots of time to prepare a meal, give this a try, I love coming up with quick, easy and inexpensive meals that are also delicious!

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Martha DeMeo

I started my blog on Christmas Day 2014 mainly to review products I received. Since then it has evolved into many other categories of lifestyles, family, money saving ideas, low cost, delicious and healthy meals plus other surprise posts. My granddaughter has her own category, Alex's Articles and the latest addition to my blog is my great granddaughter now has her category, Lia's Likings The Baby Blogger! Lia started blogger at 8 months old and she now has a Friday Story Time blog you won't want to miss! I welcome you to join the conversation, ask a question, give a suggestion or leave a comment on any blog post. I hope you enjoy Lia's Likings, she has some great posts that will make you smile!

6 Discussion to this post

  1. Sounds and smells delicious, Martha! Thanks for sharing!

  2. Brenda says:

    It looks so good, I can almost smell it cooking and taste it!!

  3. I love those $3 and $4 off coupons, too. But, given the small inventory of kosher food at Shoppers, one rarely finds them on a package. I have to rely on the $ 10 off on $50 spent coupons they provide instead.

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