I am looking for some ideas to reduce costs on my daycare expenses. I spend on average $150 a week on food for these kids. I'm a pretty good shopper but I know I could save more. My program is all homemade and unprocessed food (not organic). I have decreased the amount of meat I serve so we usually have 1-2 vegetarian meals a week. I have also let myself off the hook a bit and usually make one of those veggie meals an easy/cheap meal like pancakes, grilled cheese or veggie omelettes. I have also started to decrease the amount of snack I serve e.g. now I'll serve yogurt and fruit whereas before it might have been yogurt, fruit and a muffin. Lastly, I've decreased the fruit I serve. The kids were having fruit 3x's a day with me so I decreased it to usually 2 x's a day.

Any inexpensive meal ideas?