Sunday, March 23, 2014

5 Cheap And Delicious Dinners To Cook This Week

4 people, 5 nights, $50. It doesn’t get any cheaper than that.

Graphic by Chris Ritter / Photos by Macey Foronda

Your safest bet is to make them all within a week of grocery shopping to ensure that the ingredients stay fresh. It's not the biggest deal if you do it over the course of 10 days or so. If you don't plan on making the arugula salad right away, consider not buying your arugula until a day or two before, since the greens might start to wilt after four or five days in the fridge, even in an sealed bag. Also, the parsley probably won't keep for ten days (though if you store it with the stems in water, like flowers, in the fridge, it might). Keep your meat and fish in the freezer whether you cook this over a week or 10 days, but put it in the fridge two days before you plan to use it.

Also, though the recipes call for lots of the same ingredients, no recipe calls for leftovers from another. So, you can cook them in any order.