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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!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Andra Pittman

    My cheap meal is to buy butterball turkey kielbasa when it is buy one get one free, a head of cabbage and new potatoes. Put 2 cups of water in soup size pot, turn on high, cut potatoes in half, put cut side down in water, bring water to boil, cut cabbage in quarters, layer on top of potatoes, cut kielbasa into eight pieces, and layer on top of cabbage. Once you get a good boil, cover and boil 15 min. serves 4. for sauce, mix some dijon or spicy mustard with some melted butter. start with 2 TBS of butter and add mustard till it is the consistency that you like. I got this from Desperation Dinners and it has been a staple every since. Fast and cheap

  6. jill

    My favorite cheap meal is chili, made in the crock pot. I don’t have an exact recipe… just use whatever beans, tomato “stuff” (juice, canned, etc) is on sale, etc. with some ground meat (chicken, turkey or beef).

  9. Samantha Witt

    My favorite, in-expensive meal to make is Spaghetti. It is my favorite meal, costs only about $10 to make (unless I have coupons!) and I can freeze 1/2 the sauce for a 2nd dinner or 2! Would LOVE to win one of these cookbooks!

  20. Anie

    My super easy, cheap and fast meal (perfect for those of us who really don’t know how to cook but keep trying nonetheless) is: tortilla, eggs and ham mix!
    add a little bit of olive oil in a frying pan, add the tortillas, when they’re a little bit brown, add the ham , mix for a couple of mins, then add the eggs and voila!!… great meal.

  21. Melissa

    Anything with rice or beans in it will stretch the budget. Then just add chicken or ham or beef and whatever else you have around. Luckily my kids aren’t very picky!

  23. renee

    my favorite meal is just chicken or turkey salad (diced turkey with mayo and relish) wrapped in a tortilla. We dont have kids, so this does it for us (we might squeeze in a veggie hehe!

  24. Tiffany W.

    My favorite affordable meal is hamburger gravy. I like open faced sandwiches :) If I want to be a little more “healthful” I use ground turkey and whole wheat flour and bread when I have it available. I also like grilled chicken with tomatoes and artichokes and rice.

  26. Heather

    I love cooking up a pound of hamburger and covering it with mushroom soup and serving it over quick rice. Flavor with a little soy sauce and you are good to go.

  30. Katherine

    Chili or beef and bean enchiladas. Really anything with beans – they are filling and full of fiber.