I just love when I get the steam coming of a dish when I snap a shot!

So, what is your go to meal when you are in a rush? In my opinion, there is nothing easier than a nice pasta and sauce dish. I usually make my own sauce, but when you are knee deep in baseball, blogging, science projects and deadlines, you tend to reach for the convenience foods. I always have a jar of pasta sauce on my shelf. You can take a few extra yet simple steps to make it your own. Add some spices, meat and cheese. You can instantly make it taste homemade. And they best part is you don’t have to simmer your sauce for hours.

Yep, this is another $10 EASY family friendly meal!
It’s basically a deconstructed lasagna. It’s quite delicious I tell ya.

We are a chicken house. We eat it A LOT. So you have to have a huge chicken recipe arsenal. I love this cheesy chicken and so did everyone else in the house..even the kids..shocking, I know.
For my $10 meals, I served it with green beans and pre-packaged rice and vermicelli mix. Its a nice balanced, quick and easy meal!

When I was developing my $10 meal recipes for Sweetbay Supermarket, they gave me the idea of developing a different type of Shepherds Pie. While my Guinness Shepherds Pie is wildly popular, I didn’t want to use beer in their recipe and wanted to take the step of making mashed potatoes out of the equation. So I made an easy Shepherd Pie Filling and put it over baked potatoes and topped it with cheese! YUM!

I love serving “different” meals to my family. And yep, it’s only $10 to make this dinner.
It might come in under if you run to Sweetbay Supermarket this week because 80% lean ground chuck is $2.79 lb.

I think I professed my love for hamburgers in my last Favorite Things Thursday Post.

There is nothing better than a big fat juicy hamburger. A big fat juice hamburger on a toasted bun, slathered with aioli sauce, melty cheese and a creamy avocado…..oh pinch me now!

Like I said last week, I like my hamburgers with lots of coarse Kosher salt and lots and lot of freshly ground pepper. And I like them on the rare side of medium- rare! If there is juice dripping off my elbow when I am eating it, well then  I know my work as the master hamburger griller is done!

You get this delicious hamburger and a side of homemade sweet potato fries all for $10! Yup.

Please don’t let the bad photo deter you from making this dinner!

I was asked by Sweetbay Supermarket to develop a savory strawberry Heart Healthy Recipe for National Heart Month, and pork and strawberry immediately come to mind.

Let me tell you how amazing this recipe is…Really REALLY amazing! Once you slather the pork chop with the strawberry sauce, it is pure heaven.

I cooked these on 2 Tv Segments.

One on Daytime  (aired on 2/24)and on on Fox 4 Blend in Cape Coral (airs on 2/28) . I will try to get the videos up on my site soon.

Here is the Daytime set.

Here is what a set kitchen looks like from behind the scene

And me and Carley Wegner on set on Fox 4 Morning Blend

Happy Valentines Day lovers!

If you have already not planned your dinner for tonight, I have have a quick and easy, oh and $10 meal for you.  You get chicken, pesto pasta, green beans and bread for all under $10 for a family of 4. Yeah, that’s a deal!

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Are you loving the $10 meals?

I had such a great time creating them for Sweetbay Supermarket. All the recipes needed to be tasty, easy, family friendly AND $10 or under. And this Beef and Flatbread Pizza is no exception.
Don’t get sucked into the freezer department to pick up a frozen pizza. Those are so boring.
I love using Naan Flatbread as my pizza crust base. There is no messing around with pizza dough, it tastes delicious and it gets nice and crunch on the bottom. It’s a win win situation.
If you ask me, pasta is the perfect side for pizza. My tomato garlic pasta is not only easy but it is packed with flavor.
Are you sensing a theme here?
Easy and delicious!

Sweetbay Supermarkets Butchers have a tip to cut out some of the fat from ground beef….
“Cook without seasoning. Rinse briefly with hot water in a colander and blot dry. Return to the pan for a minute and add the seasonings to taste.”

You can find Sweetbay Supermarket on Facebook.

Here is this weeks installment of $10 meals.

Italian Meatball Stromboli with salad.

This is a huge hit with kids. Kids love anything rolled up.

You can even make the meatballs ahead of time to save you some time the night you want to prepare this delicious dinner. And using pre made refrigerated  pizza dough saves a huge amount of time!

Recipe created for Sweetbay Supermarket.

When Sweetbay Supermarket came to me to develop recipes for them for a new program they were launching I was so excited.

They wanted to launch a challenge to all of their shoppers. What is the challenge you may ask?

Feed a family of 4 for $10 or less.

I was up for it, ohhhh, yes I was.
You see I am not much of a bargain shopper, coupon cutter or price watcher. Ha, I don’t even meal plan. Shocking I know, coming form a food blogger, you would think I was super organized in the grocery shopping department. But sadly, I am not. Well, that is until now.

Having to develop recipes, and price specific recipes at that, forced me to get organized and count every penny. Normally I would go to the grocery store about 4 times a week because I would always change my mind on what I was cooking or I had forgotten something.
Having a recipe prepared ahead of time not only saved me HUGE amounts of money at the grocery store, it also saved me time.

So why did Sweetbay Supermarket want to come up with this challenge, $10 Meals?
They believe you can feed a family of four a delicious, nutritious and quick meal for $10 or less.
I am here to tell you that you can!
Over the next 13 weeks, I will be sharing the $10 meals I created for Sweetbay Supermarket.
The trick to getting a delicious meal for under $10 is to purchase things that are on sale, to use store brand whenever possible, to take some shortcuts(using prepared items, such as the stuffing) and to make it simple!
You will notice that all of the recipes are very easy to cook and have minimal ingredients. Let’s face it, we are all busy and most of the time we don’t have 2 hours to devote to preparing dinner.

Oh and lookie here… I am now known as the “$10 Meal Expert”! Isn’t The way they did the $10 meal website super cute?
Sweetbay Supermarkets are located throughout West Central Florida. Click here if you would like to find one in your area.