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Didn't I Just Feed You

What Are the Best $10 Dinners to Feed a Family?

Didn't I Just Feed You

Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn

Arts, Food, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Can you feed a family on $10 a night? We talk about strategies that help you do so successfully — or at least come close — and also share our favorite $10 dinners that will help you get everyone fed on a budget.  

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0:00.0

When you're like trying to eat very cheaply for a long time, you get into this like pasta, rice, pasta, rice. And like just having a different texture of that carbohydrate is a game changer for keeping your stamina up for cooking this way.

0:23.0

Welcome to Didn't I Just Feed You, a weekly podcast about feeding families. Hey, I'm Megan. And I'm Stacy. You guys,

0:31.0

this week we are putting our best meal planning and grocery budget advice to the test to see how

0:37.3

many budget dinner ideas we can come up with.

0:39.6

The goal here is to kind of talk through some parameters and then give you a list of dinner

0:43.5

ideas that are delicious, satisfying, and easy on the wallet. We're hoping that they actually

0:48.1

come in at $10 about or maybe a little less. Can we do it? You're jumping ahead a little bit. Listen, I need this

0:56.4

episode. You know I've talked about this in the grocery budget episode earlier this month,

1:01.1

but we're really watching our food spending right now because we're doing a bunch of housework

1:05.7

and we're saving for a big trip this fall. But Billis, we got to get to the parameters here because, like, we originally

1:12.4

said $10 dinners, but like, is that for each serving? Is that per meal? Oh, no, I was thinking

1:18.8

all of the ingredients. And I want to make a little bit of a joke here and say, is the new $10 dinner actually like the $20 dinner with inflation?

1:33.8

The $15 dinner.

1:35.2

$10 dinner sounds better, but is it realistic?

1:38.3

I don't know.

1:38.9

I think this is a really great question.

1:40.6

And I think that we're predict that we're going to have different perspectives

1:45.5

based on, if nothing else, the appetites that we're feeding. So I think there's a lot of variables

1:55.2

here and I hope that people hit play with grace today, right? Because we're going to try to come in, at least this is what I

2:03.6

thought the charge was. $10 or less for the meal. I was thinking average family of four. Okay, $10 for

2:10.4

everything that you need to feed your family of four. But of course, not everyone has a family of

2:15.4

four. So it's still $10 if you're trying to feed three people.

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