Money Crashers: 10 Nutritious Family Dinners You Can Make for Under $10

For my latest Money Crashers article, the editors asked me to update a piece on inexpensive family dinners. I thought this would be a breeze, since as you know, I have tons of recipes for those — and, indeed, many of the dishes in the article have previously appeared here on the blog, particularly in my post on the One Harvest challenge. But as it turned out, I had to adapt my recipes quite a bit to make them fit Money Crashers' preferred recipe style, which requires everything — the size and weight of ingredients, the size of pans and bowls, the heat level, the amount of time something should be cooked, how it should look when it's done — to be spelled out in as much detail as possible.

So if you choose to make any of these dishes, please know that you have my permission to deviate from these highly precise instructions if necessary. If you want to use a large potato instead of a medium one, or use a pan that isn't the exact size specified in the article, I promise you can do so without ruining the dish. With the exception of the two baking recipes (cornbread and biscuits), these recipes are really much more flexible than the article makes them sound.

10 Nutritious Family Dinners You Can Make for Under $10 – Recipes