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Win-It Wednesday: The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook (7 Winners!)

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Join me every week for Win-It Wednesday. I’ll be posting several 24-hour giveaways throughout the day to give you plenty of chances to win!

Today is also the last day to enter to win $250 from Lottay.com!

Many of you have probably already heard of $5 Dinners, the blog written by my good bloggy friend, Erin Chase, that shares healthy, delicious, and affordable meals. And by “affordable,” I mean ultra-frugal — every recipe can feed a family for $5 or less!

If you’re already a fan of Erin’s or are now intrigued and interested to find out how you can prepare meals in your own home for $5 and under, you’ll be thrilled to find out that she recently published her own cookbook, The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook.

This cookbook is jam-packed with not only recipes that can be prepared for $5 or less but also step-by-step instructions and tips on how you can pare down your grocery bill and feed your family for less. This is a must-read for those of you trying to stretch your budgets right now or anyone just trying to save in some areas so you can spend in others!

And Erin’s hooked me up with a special treat for my readers:

7 lucky Deal Seeking Mom readers will each win a copy of The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook! To enter, share your favorite inexpensive meal (links to recipes welcome!).

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Every reader has four methods available to enter this contest. Choose one each of any combination of method one, two, three, or four for up to a total of 4 entries!!!

If you are reading this in your email or feed reader, please CLICK HERE to visit the original blog post to enter. Email entries will not be counted.

Methods of entry:

1. Leave a comment. Tell me what your favorite inexpensive meals are. How do you balance saving money and still providing making healthy dinners?

2. Add Deal Seeking Mom to your blogroll or add my badge to your sidebar. Make sure to come back and leave the link to your site in a separate comment!

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Prize:
(7) copies of The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook

This giveaway ends at 5 p.m. EST on Thursday, 1/7 and is open to all U.S. residents 18 years or older. I’ll use Random.org to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Good luck!

While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!

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Comments

  3. Nila P.

    Creamy Chicken and Rotini Primavera
    Ingredients
    1/2 pound dry rotini
    2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
    1 pound boneless skinless chicken breast – cubed
    1 pound frozen vegetable mix – thawed
    4 ounces Neufchatel cheese (reduced fat cream cheese)
    1/2 cup lite Italian dressing
    1/2 cup 2% fat milk

    Directions

    Cook rotini per package directions to desired doneness. Drain well and keep warm.
    Heat oil in a heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken cubes and cook until no longer pink.
    Combine cream cheese, dressing and milk and whisk until smooth.
    Add thawed frozen vegetables to chicken along with sauce mixture. Stir well and heat through – about 5 minutes.

  4. melissa moore

    I have you on email and fb :)
    my fav recipe is simple spaghetti made with cheap sauce (meat if it was on sale) and italian seasoned popovers.

  9. Sherri

    I think my family’s favorite is cheap spaghetti night! I do add ground turkey to sauce to make it a little better:)

  14. Danielle Hendricks

    I get Talapia and make fish fries. My kids love them and talapia is a real inexpensive fish. And they are good for you.

  16. Annie

    I came up with this cheap recipe for Swiss Steak with tomato gravy when my kids were young. Everything was less expensive then, but it’s still great comfort food for very little $$$. Buy whatever beef is on sale or marked down (about 1 1/2 pounds)…… swiss steak, round steak, chuck, sirloin, etc. Cut it into serving sized pieces. For the gravy use 1 can of tomato soup, 1 soup can of water, 1 package of brown gravy mix and 1 package of onion soup mix. Mix well, pour over beef and cover with a lid or foil. Bake at 350 for about 2 hours or until meat is tender. Serve with mashed potatoes, rice or noodles. Use generics, of course. Back in the day, I used to be able to feed 5 of us for about $3 with thie dinner.

  17. revathy

    One Of my favorites is Vegetable stirfry served on brown rice.
    you can use all kinds of veg for stir fry .Add leftover chicken or shrimp to make it interesting .Add soysauce and spicy sriracha sauce. serve with brown rice .
    Revathy

  18. Sheena

    It’s not the healthiest thing but it is the easiest for me…spam (or some canned luncheon meat) with white jasmine rice…or an egg and rice.

    It got me through my childhood and it’s good enough for my husband and I =)

  19. kate burne

    this would be perfect for me. ive been looking for new meals for cheap for us. we need to save bad!!!

  20. alh1203

    crockpot + chicken + rice + cream of mushroom or chicken soup = what we’re having for dinner tonight!

  25. Amy

    Well, I have a gazillion ways that I save money in the kitchen! But here’s just one…..I clip coupons and watch the sales. I plan my meals by what I have in my pantry and what’s on sale. I do once a month cooking, so my freezer is stocked with TONS of healthy, homemade meals.

    I would love to win this book. I’ve been following Erin’s blog for a real long time. :)

  28. Elsa

    I’m not good a making inexpensive meals while keeping them healthy. I would love this book to help me out!

  30. Missy

    I boil a package of penne pasta. While that’s cooking, I add about 2 tbsp. each of olive oil and butter to a pan, saute 1-2 cloves of garlic, then add a can of diced tomatoes. Pour this onto drained pasta and add some parmesan cheese.

    This is made often when the 3 older kids all have sports in different places on the same night!