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Challenges about Budgeting and Grocery Shopping

Budgeting and grocery shopping is one of the best ways to trim down your monthly expenses and daily spending- but there are dozens of challenges out there- especially the advice that is ultimately unrealistic. Here is a list of budgeting and grocery shopping challenges and how you can make them realistic strategies to save on grocery shopping! Challenges about Budgeting and Grocery Shopping Challenge #1- Unrealistic Research I've spent a lot of time scouring Pinterest and have not felt entirely satisfied with the results. Some articles seem too unreasonable to be applicable. More often than not, it comes down to unrealistic costs of groceries . For example, I cannot find 1 gallon of milk at my local Walmart for $1. And our Dollar Tree out in Montana doesn't have a grocery section- we do have a freezer section, but it is only 2-3 doors of frozen dinners. And our bread and produce is not as cheap as the other articles. What I have done to get around this challeng
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Chicken Alfredo

Chicken Alfredo is an easy dinner to do- especially easy if you already have chicken laid out/defrosted and ready to go. You can make this dish with easy pieces of chicken like pre-cut tenderloins, chicken breasts or even chicken thighs. You can add a variety of things to the pasta, chicken and sauce recipe and you can even turn it into a casserole dish sprinkled with parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs and baked! Here is the $5 recipe that complete with "fixings" (i.e oven roasted or stovetop veggies).

Chicken Alfredo

Chicken Alfredo Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1/2 pkg Chicken Tenderloins
  • Alfredo Sauce
  • Pasta
  • Onion
  • Garlic salt, pepper and Italian Seasoning
  • Optional Ad-on: Bacon and peas
  • Olive oil

Instructions

  • Chop onion, mince garlic and season the chicken strips
  • Drizzle olive oil on a hot, large pan and place the entire package of chicken strips (use half for leftover meals)
  • Turn the heat down and cover the pan, frequently check the chicken and flip the strips over to cook on both sides
  • Bring a pot of water to boil and then add the fettuccini pasta, drain when pasta is tender
  • Add Alfredo sauce to the now empty pot and heat
  • Remove chicken strips and let rest. After a couple minutes, chop into bite size pieces
  • Optional Steps- heat peas and/or cook bacon and set to the side
  • Mix all the ingredients together with the sauce
  • Optional: Make oven roasted vegetables- bake 4 chopped carrots with the usual garlic, onion, salt, pepper, and paprika seasoning

Make any one of these Affordable Side Dishes, and you have a $5 Dinner!

Pre-cut Chicken Tenderloins

Cost at a Glance for Chicken Alfredo

This will make more than 1 night’s dinner- estimate 3-4 meals? Ingredients cost $10 for 4 servings: so totally a $5 Dinner

  1. Chicken Tenderloins 1 “package” $6 estimate- used half for dinner $3
  2. Alfredo Sauce (half jar) $1
  3. Bag of frozen peas $0.48 
  4. Pasta $2 (already had it)
  5. Onion $0.50 (guess-stimate)
  6. Garlic, salt, pepper and Italian Seasoning 

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