Crockpot Chicken Cacciatore $1.48 per serving

Who says eating healthy is too expensive? Sometimes it can be time-consuming to make healthy meals from scratch but you can cheat sometimes and use your crockpot. You can do all your food prep the night before, cutting up vegetables and meat, keep it in the refrigerator overnight. When you wake up in the morning just put all your ingredients in the crockpot, turn it on and go. This is a delicious recipe and it fits right in with our other $5 Meal Ideas. I’ll show you how I made Crockpot Chicken Cacciatore for $1.48 per serving.

 

 

My favorite section in the meat department is the “Discount Meat” section. In most cases, the meat is near expiration and the store is looking to get rid of it. As long as you cook or freeze this meat right away it is perfectly safe and tastes great! I stock up every time they’re selling what we like. I recently found 1.5lbs of Foster Farms Boneless skinless chicken breasts at my local Safeway store. They were regularly $8.21 or $5.39 per lb YIKES!!! . I grabbed them for $5.29 which still is high for me considering that’s still over $3 per lb.

I found an easy crockpot recipe for Chicken Cacciatore on allrecipes.com.  Here’s how I made crockpot chicken cacciatore for $1.48 per serving to serve 6 people.

 

Boneless skinless chicken breast $5.29

Onion – $.25

Green Bell Pepper – $.68

Red Bell Pepper – $98

Mushrooms – $1.00

Spaghetti Sauce – $.69 (I grabbed Hunts Spaghetti sauces at Fred Meyer, used a store coupon and a manufacturer’s coupon to get 10 cans. Great find!)

$8.89 is the total and this recipe feeds 6 people.

 

 

 

Throw it all in the crockpot. I put the peppers on the top so they didn’t lose their color. Leave it for 7-9hours!  Serve it up over your favorite pasta or at our house it’s brown rice.