Week #2 of Meals for $350

Here are some dinner ideas for another week.  Lunch and breakfast ideas can be found on Week #1, found here.  Hope you can use some of these meal ideas!

Groceries:
Pork Tenderloin (4 for $20 at Costco, HUGE!)
Corn (keep using from previous week)
Beans (keep using from previous week if purchased large bag from Costco)
Potatoes (bag for $5 at No Frills)
Califlower ($1.49 at No Frills)
Pillsbury Cresants (4 of them $1.29 each at No Frills)
Onions (bag for $2.49)
Cheese ($5.99-$9)
Can of Salsa
Rice (bag from previous week)
Green Onion ($1.29)
Red or Green Peppers ($2 at No Frills)
Chicken (box from Costco previous week)
Lemon Pix Filling ($2)
Delissio Pizza ($6 at No Frills)
Pasta ($2 at No Frills)
Turkey Sausage (10 for $2.99 at No Frills)
Ground Turkey (8lbs at Costco for $20 or $3-$6 for a pack)
Buns ($2 at Sobeys)
Black Beans ($.99 no name No Frills)
White Beans ($.99 no name No Frills)
Green Chilis ($2.79 at Sobeys)
Avacodo ($.98 each)
Bag of Salad (3 hearts for $2.98 at No Frills)
Bread Crumbs (can be made by breaking bread into clumbs, and putting into the oven at 400 for 15 mins)
Beef Gravy Pack ($1.50 No Frills)

Meal #1
Beef Wellington
I'm sure you have heard of these if you watch "Hell's Kitchen" so good!!  This is my version.

• Onions
• Pork Tenderloin
• 2 Pillsbury 
• Corn or Beans
• Flour
• Potatoes & Califlower
• Green Onion
• Beef Gravy 

Open the Pillsburys and make all the triangles into squares, 2 squares on the bottom and 2 for the top.  Chop and cook the onions with a tablespoon of sugar until carmalized.  Place the tenderloin onto the pillsbury dough, then cover with top and sides with the carmalized onions.  Then wrap the tenderloin with the dough.  Place on cookie sheet and cover with foil and cook at 350 for 50 mins in the oven.  Take foil off and cook for another 10 mins.  While that is cooking, boil some potatoes and steam some califlower.  As well, make your gravy package.  Once soft, mash potatoes and califlower together and add green onion and a bit of butter (by decreasing potatoes and increasing califlower you decrease your calories!)  When the meat is done, cut into 2 inch slices, pour some gravy on top!

Meal #2
Lemon Chicken

• Chicken Breasts
• Lemon Pie Filling
• Rice
• Carrots
• Brown Sugar
• Honey

Make your lemon pie filling, then take your chicken out and salt both sides.  Then place the chicken in a cassorole dish and pour the lemon pie filling on top.  (I also like to score the chicken slightly and place the filling in those areas as well).  Bake at 400 for 40 mins or till chicken is cooked through.  Serve with rice and carrots.  To make carrots, boil till soft, add some brown sugar and honey!

Meal #3
Delissio Pizza
Speaks for it's self!

Meal #4
Turkey Cassorole (HC)

• 1 cup pasta of your choice
• 5 pieces of turkey sausage
• cheese
• breadcrumbs (small small)
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• broccoli and califlower
• white beans

Steam broccoli and califlower, when done at to large mixing bowl and add a can of white beans.  Open the turkey sausage and cook contents.  Add those to mixing bowl along with some cheese.  After mixing together add to cassorole dish.  Add chicken broth, top with breadcrumbs and cheese.  Serve with a veggie and salad of choice.

Meal #5
Turkey Burgers

• Ground turkey 
• turkey sausage
• green chilis
• buns
• avacodo
• Burger toppings of choice
• mango salsa (recipe found here)

In a bowl mix ground turkey, turkey sausage, and a small can of green chilis.  Don't over mix!!  Just mix enough so things are even and form into burgers.  Cook on oven grill or BBQ (I find an oven grill pan is easiest).  If you want to be healthy, take your bun and take out some of the bread in the top bun and bottom.  Use the avacodo as mayo.

Meal #6
Cafe Rio

• Pork Tenderloin
• Salsa
• Brown Sugar
• Coke or Pepsi (optional)
• Rice
• Milk & Sugar
• Black Beans
• Salad of Choice (Ceaser at my house)
• Large taco wraps
• Sour Cream
• Cheese

Get out the crock pot, place in tenderloin and cover 3/4 with water.  Cook on high for 5 hours.  Then empty water, shred pork, add jar of salsa, cup of brown sugar, coke or pepsi (optional), and mix around.  Cook on high for 3 more hours).  Make rice, once done add 1/4 cup milk and 1/2 cup sugar. We like the sweet rice at our house!  Make can of black beans and salad.  Heat up a large skillet, add a tiny bit of oil or butter and heat both sides of the wrap.  Now place wrap on plate, put down some rice, then beans, then meat then sour cream and cheese.  Serve with salad, YUMMY!

Meal #7
Chicken Pockets

• Pillsbury Dough (we use 2- 8 packs at our house, makes 8)
• 2 canned chicken flakes
• green onion
• red pepper
• onion
• mayo

In a mixing bowl, add canned chicken, diced green onion (3 T), diced red or pepper, diced onion, and mayo just to make everything moist.  Take your dough out and make 4 squares with each pack (pinching 2 triangles together).   Cook at 350 for 12 mins, or till they are nice and golden brown on top, making sure the dough is cooked.  (At our house we each have 2, Riley maybe 3 and then he has 2 for lunch and I have some for lunch so 2 packs would be perfect for a fam of 4 or 5).

This weeks total comes to about $75!  A little more then last week but great food!  When you add breakfast and lunch dinners, the total comes to $100.  If you have any questions about any of the recipes please let me know!!