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For great meals for less you can purchase at your local store visit $5 Dinner’s new feature, Bargain Meal of the Week. Bloggers around the country create a bargain meal based on their local store sales.

If you shop at the commissary you probably know their prices change every two weeks. Not only do sales run on a two week basis, but many of their everyday low prices change as well.

Commissaries.com is a website that lists every item on sale at your local commissary. You have to be eligible to shop at the commissary and log in with your last name, social security number and birth date to view the sales. The best part of this site is that you can view your local manager specials which vary from store to store.

Military Shoppers is a site which publishes the commissary sale fliers every two weeks. It is a great way to get a quick look at the weekly specials.

As I mentioned in a previous picky eater post, I am not a fan of mushrooms. I can eat them, but when given the choice I prefer to skip the fungus and move on.

My husband loves Beef Stroganoff, so I finally found a recipe that tastes pretty good without the mushrooms.

Beef Stroganoff – No Mushrooms

• 3 Tablespoons of butter
• 1 Tablespoon garlic
• 1 teas salt
• pepper to taste
• 2 pounds sirloin tip, cut into thin slices (I use top round cut into thin strips)
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 (16 ounce) container sour cream (do not use fat free)

Slice steak into thin strips, and chop onion.

Melt butter in skillet (or wok). Add beef and cook until brown.

About 3 minutes after starting the beef add onion, salt, pepper, and garlic. I added too much butter, you should not have this much liquid in your pan.

When the beef is browned turn down the heat and add sour cream.

Do not let the sour cream boil, just heat through and serve over noodles.

If you want mushrooms in your recipe add sliced mushrooms when you add the onion.

Cost breakdown for 8 servings purchased at your local commissary.

• Butter $.25
• Salt $.05
• Pepper $.05
• Garlic $.10
• Steak $3.80 @ $1.90lb
• Sour Cream $1.35 (cheaper with coupon)
• Noodles $1.19

Total Cost $6.79 or $0.84 a serving. For more $5 Dinners visit the $5 Dinner Challenge.