8-16-2010 Monday - FHE $2.00 Dinner!

When Jeff was young, his family had a fun family night where they did a $1.00 Dinner. Each person got a dollar to buy whatever they wanted to contribute! He bought french fries, his brother bought a can of olives, and so on...

So we decided to have a $2.00 Dinner
(times have changed a bit!)

There were 11 of us (with all the friends) at the 99 Cent Store searching for what we could get for such a small amount of cash. Carissa, Noel and Aubry collaborated (aka cheated) and pooled their money to buy 6 Top Ramens, a pack of flour tortillas, shredded cheese, a head of lettuce and Italian dressing!

Sophie got mac & cheese and 4 cans of orange soda, Shera got cookies and lemon-lime soda, Luke got cheese puffs and cookies.

They all got to make their own purchases. But when Shera checked out her bill was $2.20! She looked at me completely surprised - we forgot about tax on soda! I chuckled and made her go back and find something else - she was so bummed!!! But she replaced it with fettuccine alfredo and it came to $2.00 even!

Robyn bought chicken nuggets and Holly bought 2 mini cheese pizzas. Jeff bought 3 cans of corn and I got a can of re-fried beans and a pack of corn tortillas.

Once we got home, each person had to prepare their part of the meal. Here is Drew with his four bags of shell pasta! Ooops... he forgot about the sauce!!!

Here is our gourmet $2.00 meal!
And it was pretty good too!

The kids had such a fun family night and I'm sure it was one they will talk about for a long long time!