Who Needs Restaurants

My husband and I often go home to Michigan to visit my family, and when we do, we spend far too much on food and gas. So, when we're home in Pittsburgh, we try to keep our food costs low by avoiding eating out, packing a lunch and what not. A lot of times this results in us eating delicious meals that are much healthier and cheaper than eating out.

The following are some of the dinners that we've had the past few nights:

1.) Taco Salad (Lettuce topped with taco meat, cheese, salsa, red pepper, and whatever else you happen to have on hand)

2.) Chicken Tortilla Soup (recipes taken from Allrecipes.com: Chicken Tortilla Soup V, with added black beans and leftover taco shells)

3.) Pan-Fried Tilapia, Rice, and Spinach (Tilapia was prepared according to recipe on Allrecipes.com: Ranch Tilapia ) Next time I might avoid using a ranch mix, as I believe it contains a lot of sodium, but pan-frying the fish was so delicious. It has to be healthier than that battered fried stuff at restaurants? Right? Well, maybe...  We added lemon on top of the fish too.

4.) Chicken Parmesean with whole wheat pasta and salad. I found the recipe for the chicken parmesean on Pinterest. Post a comment if you would like me to direct you to it.

5.) Slow Cooker Roast (Shoulder roast with some Steak seasoning, onion soup packet, garlic, water, on low for 8 hours) with mashed red potatoes (with most of the skins left on) and peas

My husband probably thinks I'm insane because I've been taking pictures of our food everyday, but he loves me anyway :)