Almost anything you eat at home will be cheaper that eating out.

Never throw away leftovers. Cook only what you guys will eat that meal, or plan on having leftovers for the next meal.

Soup is cheap and good this time of the year. Try having veggies only meals two times a week. they will be lots cheaper than a meat meal.

Find two or three ground beef meals (Spaghetti, Ground beef stroganoff, Home cooked tacos or burritos, Ground beef casseroles like chili mac, hamburger steak and gravy)

Buy whole chickens and roast/bake them in oven. Harvest chicken broth and save for other dishes. Rotisserie chicken from Sam's may be cheaper than whole chickens anywhere else and is already cooked. We (wife and I) can get two meals and a pint of broth off of a single rotisserie chicken from Sam's.

Go back to the meals you had as a kid - Mac and cheese, spaghetti, fish sticks, casseroles.

Don't listen to us when we say that the only tomatoes worth buying are the $2.50 a can Italian variety. Hunts and store brands are a lot cheaper. So are canned or frozen store brand veggies. Fresh veggies are best, but may be more expensive with potentially more waste.

Fresh carrots, potatoes and onions may be three of the best food values at the grocery. Them and some hamburger meatballs (3/4 Beef 1/4 crushed crackers, egg, garlic, salt pepper) will made a fine meal cooked as a single dish meal in the oven. Nice and cheap if your meatball is seasoned ground beef only and not 1/3 beef 1/3 veal and 1/3 pork. They, with canned tomatoes are also the base for lots of good soups

I can take any meal anyone suggests and add expensive things to make it taste better, but that is not what you asked for. Cook at home and look for ways to make it cheaper.

This post was edited on 1/29/16 at 4:16 pm