How to Make a Cheap Dollar Tree Meal With Just $5
I’m doing more cheap Dollar Tree meals for when you’re broke. This time, my budget is $5. It’s totally doable. Here’s what I bought and made even though the day I went shopping, they seemed to have been out of everything, even bread! It must have been the day before the truck made deliveries.
So I had a lot of Dollar Tree meal ideas but the shopping trip made that very challenging. What I came up with is good and so simple.
I bought a box of spaghetti, cream cheese, Hunt’s spaghetti sauce (Four Cheese), and Texas Toast garlic bread. I got the last box! We are going to make creamy pasta. Here are the super simple steps:
1. Make pasta
Put a pinch of salt in a pot of water. Boil the water. Put in the spaghetti. I only used about ¾ of the 20-ounce box. Drain the water out of the pasta. Keep a cup of water.
2. Add sauce
Put the pasta sauce in the spaghetti.
3. Add cream cheese
Use ¾ of the box of cream cheese and put it in the spaghetti. Mix the ingredients until the cream cheese melts. Add salt and pepper to taste.
4. Make the garlic bread and serve
Here’s the result! What a filling dinner for $5.
Cheap Dollar Tree meals
I wish Dollar Tree had a cheap produce section. That would be awesome. That would help me make more cheap Dollar Tree meals on a tight budget.
Let me know what you think of this simple dinner for $5. What cheap meals from Dollar Tree? Share with us in the comments.
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You said to keep a cup of water from when you boiled the pasta, but for WHAT? I never mentions if you add it back in or not, but I can't think of any other reason to keep it. Can you clarify, please?
We make several Dollar Tree meals. A box of mac-n-cheese with a can of tuna added in and canned veggies of your choice, on the side. Have also done egg noodles with a can of cream of chicken soup and a can of chicken. We also like making breakfast burritos with Dollar Tree eggs, a bag of the frozen onion/pepper mix and cheese. They even sell flour tortillas, or you can bake it in the oven, and put it on an english muffin, which they also sell. Sometimes, you can still find the little cartons of dehydrated hashbrowns (just add water to hydrate, then fry in a skillet) too.