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Rather than a month of inexpensive meals...........I aim to serve a soup for dinner once a week, in addition to a breakfast for dinner and a vegetarian entree each week.
If I do one night with a big roast (or other large piece of some sort of animal), that pretty much takes me through the week then. The meat can be turned into dozens of other meals or packaged for the freezer.
A roast seems expensive when you look at the price tag, but if you look at how much you can get from it, often it turns into quite a frugal plan.