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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

  1. Christina

    My family loves beansprots, tofu, any left over meat stir fry with soy sauce and garlic powder put it on a plate with some rice and it is easy, cheap and YUMMY!

  3. holly

    My favorite money-saving meal is when a chuck roast goes on sale for $1.49 /lb. I cook it in my slow-cooker with whatever I feel like at that time. Maybe a potroast with carrots and potatoes. Or maybe I’ll add some red wine, worcheshire, a little grilling seasoning. Sides are mashed potatoes and a veggie, both already in my pantry, not costing me any extra. This easily feeds my family of five for way under $5!

  9. jan

    I have dealseekingmom in my email and $5mom on my reader. I love both of you! You make me feel more involved in frugality.
    :-D
    I’d love to win one of the cookbooks!

  12. wehave5sons

    at our local store I can find meat marked down pretty low, so its usually whatever we can find for cheap meat, and what I’ve stock piled in the pantry from sales/coupons/clearance, and mix it together, maybe some cheese and call it a meal, and since I cant ever seem to remember what I did the last time, I’m always making things differently with different sauces or dressings, etc…
    Anyway with 5 sons I cant usually please everyone for every meal, so there is always a good dose of ketchup or bbq sauce available : )

  17. Cheryl

    Favorite low priced dinner here is burritos…bag of tortillas, can chili, shredded cheese….into the microwave….30-40 secs…fast when time is short… add salsa,chopped tomato, leftover meat,avocado..whatever else you have…

  20. Ellen Lopes

    My favorite easy and inexpensive meal I have had since childhood when my mother would make it. Hamburger gravy on mashed potatoes ( or rice ). I fry up my hamburger meat with diced onions, drain, add flour and brown a little more, then add water to desired thickness.

  22. Heather

    email subsciber, and

    Fajita Crescent Braid

    Chicken (2 breasts) cooked and cubed
    onion
    bellpepper
    fajita seasoning, or mix your own
    cheese
    diced tomato (if you like)

    add fajita seasoning to chicken, add onion and bellpepper
    heat oven to 350
    lay out 1 can of crescent rolls with triangles opposite of each other, spoon in chicken mixture, bake for 10-15 min until golden!!

    Easy and SO good! This was a crowd pleaser, and surprisingly fed many!
    Would LOVE LOVE the cookbook please!! :) :)

  24. Brenda

    This looks like a GREAT cookbook to give some new thoughts on
    “What’s for dinner?” Thanks for the contest!

  26. Heather

    My favorite inexpensive “meal” is Chicken quesadillas. Just a few ingredients that we always have on hand and so easy. The kids also like to make their own version of “traveling tacos”. This consists of tortilla chips, cheese, meat and sour cream. Put a pile of each on their plate and let them make their own mini “tacos”.

  27. jody r

    i make baked spaghetti.
    i use hunts spaghetti sauce (usually on sale for a $1.00)
    angel hair pasta (cremette is pretty good and cheap)
    shredded mozeralla cheese (get on sale for $1.50/bag 4cups)
    boil noodles-drain, add a tad of butter to noodles and sauce and the cheese save a little for topping and bake. its prob somewhere around $5.00 for a casserole size meal.

  28. Jennifer

    I make soup. I put in frozen veggies, dried lentils & barley, beans, edamame, and some fresh veggies in a big pot.