Weekly Meal Deal: Spanish Rice Dinner

Sorry I am late today! This is going to be the usual for the next few weeks.  Don’t expect your meal deals until Thursday night.  There is one perk though.  All the meals for the next few weeks will be quickies!  I am going to try for the fastest meals, with the easiest preparation.

We have soccer practice on Thursday nights and I thought that it would be a great challenge for me.   No drive through!  No chicken nuggets! If I have time to do a home cooked meal on soccer practice night with 3 kids under foot, You can too!

This week the Ground Chuck is on sale for $1.99/lb at Publix.  So I knew right away what my main ingredient would be.  Plus, there are such good coupon match-ups.  I will give you guys a shopping list at the end of the post with coupon match-ups for the greatest savings!

Here is what we had tonight!

Spanish Rice Dinner

Printable Version Here

Price Breakdown

This week is tricky.  Well, not really.  I never just buy the items for the meal.  I buy the deals.  I stockpile, and I usually cook from my stockpile all the time.

So, I will give you the price if you had to go purchase just these items, then I will give you a Grocery Scenario for deal items.  Some of the items are not in this recipe, but work together with the items in this recipe to give you enough groceries for several meals!

As always a big THANK YOU goes out to I Heart Publix for the sales, and coupon match-ups!

• 1 lb Ground Chuck $1.99
• Pillsbury Crescent Roll $1

-$1/1 Crescents PRINT-$1/2 Honey Butter Grands – Better at Home Booklet
-$1/3 from 8-09-09 GM
-$1/3; $.35/1 from07-12-09 SS
-$1/1 PRINT
-$1/2 PRINT
-$1/2 biscuit PRINT
-$.50/2; $.55/2 Crescent from 09-13-09 GM
-$1/2 Crescent PRINT
-$1/2 Sweet roll PRINT & PRINT
-$1/2 Italian Roll PRINT

• 1 Bag Frozen Bell Pepper $1.19
• 1 Onion $.50
  
• 1 Can Diced Tomato $1.25 (estimate)
  
• Publix Bagged Salad $1.99
• Small bag rice $1.25 (estimate)

Grand Total $8.17

Divide by 4

$2.04 Per Person

That total is if you were to go out and buy the ingredients for only this meal today.  Now, your cost SHOULD be less!  We are here for deals people!  Here is my Scenario below on how to save big bucks for the ingredients for this meal!

Grocery List