Streching The $

[minioncookies]

All of us at some point in our life had to go on a budget for dinner.. So my question to you is.. If you were given $30 to shop for one dinner only what meal would you be putting on for dinner?

[ladavia89]

$30 for one meal really isn't a budget. I was spending $50 a month on food living in a dorm

[BMaston12]

All of us at some point in our life had to go on a budget for dinner.. So my question to you is.. If you were given $30 to shop for one dinner only what meal would you be putting on for dinner?

Shrimp Linguinne. I could buy the best brands o cheese. Largest shrimp and finest noodles. Fresh spinach and whipping cream. Best butter and garlic. Of course top it off with a great wine. Yummy
BMaston12

[squirrelgirl44]

Uh. Yeah right. $30 on one meal?? That is my budget for a week for both my daughter and I.

[minioncookies]

Meh.. I actually meant to say $20 budget.. but i didn't preview it so.. That's messed up Bahaha the one time i don't preview and i mess up -_-

[blondie71]

I never spent $30 on a home cooked meal.  I usually only spend about $10 bucks to make a meal and usually my husband and I can eat off the for two days. I couldn't afford groceries if I was $30 on each meal for two.  I don't even spend that when I make a shrimp dinner.

[Tresbn00]

I would go with tuna casserole. A box of frozen spinach is one dollar, a box of small bowtie past is one dollar. A can of cream of mushroom soup is one dollar.  Two cans of tuna fish is one dollar. and a can of black olives is one dollar and this will feed a family of four with left overs for less than five dollars. That leave me twenty five dollars. I would add a salad: two dollars for a head of lettuce, one dollar for a cucumber, one dollar for a tomato still leaves me with twenty one dollars. How about a gallon of milk for three dollars-eighteen dollars left? Half a gallon of ice cream for three dollars and I can bank the last fifteen dollars for the kid's college education!

[camellia0]

With $30, I would be getting a steak dinner.

[hawkeye3210]

BBQ Ribs.

[Forp]

The best in whatever you like beef - steak  or seafood - lobster or scallops or whatever dessert -cheesecake or sparkling wine you like

[davidh121]

I would invest a good portion of the $30 if I was given this for a single dinner on seafood - particularly shrimp and calamri. Just thinking of this now is making me drool.

[acurtsinger2]

i  would invite my friends over for a meal with a budget that high for just one meal

[poochee]

A steak with a salad and baked potato or chicken, rice/mashed potatoes with gravy, corn on the cob, collard greens & jiffy cornbread.

[bretay]

wow...20.00..that's a few days meals there..i spend about 90 a week in groceries for me and my husband and sometimes my 2 granddaughters..we usually eat just a meat and a vegetable(or not) for supper.and some sort of sandwich or pot pie for lunch..

[Penwoir]

I would make spaghetti. I would spend $10 on ground beef. $3 on fresh vegetables to make the sauce (for instance carrots, celery and onion blended down with garlic, salt and pepper sauted until it turns brown. I would spend $2 on spaghetti noodles and the rest on tomato puree and tinned tomatoes (there are more antioxidants in cooked down tomatoes than fresh ones!).