Eat well for less By The Canadian Living Test Kitchen

Perfect for the cash-conscious, time-challenged gourmet: six budget-wise menus so scrumptious they'll pass for fancy fare.

Photo: Sweet-and-Sour Baked Chicken with Carrots
Photo by Yvonne Duivenvoorden

We bet like most of us, you want to feed your family healthy, tasty meals that deliver maximum value for your grocery dollar. With that eat-well-for-less concept as a guiding principle, we created six fabulous dinners, including side dishes, that make the most of priced-right cuts of meat and winter-worthy vegetables -- and a bonus: we’ve trimmed the fat but not the flavour!