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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!

3. Join the new Deal Seeking Mom Forums to chat about your great finds, special coupon codes, and chances to win exclusive giveaways. Leave a separate comment letting me know you’ve joined or that you’re already a registered user!

4. Subscribe to my feed via RSS or email. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry! Leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so. If you’re already a subscriber, simply leave a separate comment letting me know you’re already subscribed. Lovin’ my subscribers! You guys make this all possible.

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!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  3. Donna

    Pizza! We love making our own. I buy the crusts when they are on sale and freeze them so all I have to get is sauce, cheese, and pepperoni. It’s a quick meal that the kids love.

  4. Raelyn

    My favorite way to save money while providing healthy meals is to make things, like a full chicken, that I can use for two meals. I plan chicken one night, and then fajitas the next for instance.
    Thank you for the chance!

  10. Raelyn

    I put your botton on my blog! housefullofbeans.blogspot.com.
    I am a long time reader and I love your blog, and thank you so much for the wonderful information you send out everyday!

  11. Lynn

    One of our favorite inexpensive meals is a good rice jambalaya made with whatever leftover protein(s), vegetables, tomatoes, and of course, rice (leftover or fresh). It is a great way to use up all the leftovers in the refrigerator. I have even used seafood! Yummy!

  16. Dawn

    We love inexpensive ravioli in an “alfredo” sauce we make from sour cream and parmesan cheese, with salad or gree beans.

  19. Kelly

    I’m a subscriber. I like to have breakfast for supper. Eggs, pancakes, waffles, toast and fry up some deli ham or left over bone in ham or bacon or sausage.

  21. Gigi N

    One of our favorite inexpensive meals is a chicken alfredo pasta dish… it sounds and tastes more expensive than it is…I take this to pot lucks too and its always a HUGE hit. I can easily make enough for 30 people for way under $20!

  22. Samantha

    If I am in a hurry or just want to make an inexpensive meal, I make baked spaghetti using whole grain noodles, jarred sauce ( that is usually free or very cheap!) and then top it off with cheese ( I buy blocks on sale, stock up and shred my own!) and bake at 350 degrees until the cheese is melted.

    Sometimes I brown ground beef and mix in and/or add bell peppers or mushrooms if I have them on hand, but it’s not necessary. The cheese adds some extra expense, but really adds flavor when you are using premade sauce.

  26. Elizabeth K

    Our inexpensive meal is a “Russian-style” soup I make (not exactly traditional in the sense of borsch, but commonly found in households). It’s insanely cheap to make and the ingredients in our house are almost *always* on hand. I sautee cut-up hot dogs, grated carrots, onions and other things I have in the house, which are commonly red peppers and/or mushrooms. I add a little ketchup and salt and pepper. I then put some water in a pot: add cut-up potatoes and the sautee mixture and either chicken stock or I usually use bouillon cubes to taste. I typically add fresh chopped dill at the end. You really can get away making this soup with as little as two or three hot dogs and a few potatoes, a carrot and a two cubes of bouillon, which is really, really cheap. I know the hot dogs and the ketchup may throw people off, but *really* it’s not as bad as it sounds and for some reason you cannot taste the ketchup in the end and you wouldn’t even know it was in there, but it adds something to the soup that’s hard to explain!

  30. AmandaM

    My go to cheap meal is spaghetti. But we also do HB Helper, or hamburger gravy with biscuits.