What I Made for Dinner While Cooking with My Family

As summer approaches and we’re faced with another season of determining what's for dinner, we're sharing a glimpse at how BHG readers gather for a meal. Welcome to our new series, Dinner Diaries, where we're asking readers to anonymously share how they get dinner on the table including grocery shopping, budgeting, cooking, and their favorite family recipes. Here, a family of three in Georgia works together to get dinner on the table. Read on to see how they shop, prep, and cook to get dinner, and weekend breakfasts, on the table.

Weekly.

$100 to $150.

Yes.

Aldi and Walmart.

I do most of the dinner prep and cooking. If we are grilling, my husband is the grill master, and my granddaughter often bakes with me.

Illustration: Grace Canaan

We always have coffee, tea, eggs, milk, flour, rice, pasta, cheeses, potatoes, and canned tomatoes.

I do most of the dinner cooking. Everyone makes their own breakfast and lunch during the week. Weekend meals are a mixture of shared cooking, going out to eat, and potlucks with family and friends. Clean up is shared. I do most of the grocery shopping.

Illustration: Grace Canaan

Fresh produce when our garden is producing, pasta dishes, meat and veggie dinners, and huge breakfasts with homemade biscuits on the weekends.

We cook daily. We all have varied tastes and likes and just don’t do well with meal planning.

Pan-grilled chicken breast with fried potatoes and onions and broccoli.

Yes, we eat all these ingredients weekly.

Not usually, however there are almost always homemade baked treats and other sweet items available.

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