Our anniversary isn't for 19 days but we had the time and food so we decided to have a nice dinner tonight for our anniversary. I have more family coming to town in a couple weeks so we don't have to try and squeeze in a nice dinner then.

We had 2 delicious ribeye steaks, 1 pound of large shrimp, zucchini, fried red potatoes and strawberry shortcake. You want to know the best part? The whole dinner cost less then $10. If we had something comparable at a restaurant it would have cost more like $40. Instant savings of $30 on dinner.

The ribeye's were marked down at Target to $6.60 a lb so I bought 2 steaks that were about 3/4 a pound and used 2 $2 off Sutton & Dodge Steak coupons from the target website. I got the shrimp a few weeks ago at Sweetbay, it was one of the specials for the grand opening the shrimp after coupon was $2.99 a pound. I got a big bag of potatoes at the flea/farmer's market for $1 and 2 huge zucchini's for $1. I still have 1/2 lb of shrimp, 1 1/2 zucchini and several potatoes left for tomorrow night.

See with a little work you can have a great meal at home for very little money. $10 is high for me to spend on one meal but it was a special occassion so I could see splurging. We usually get some money from a relative to go out to dinner but that money will be put in the grocery budget and go towards a nice bottle of wine for our actual anniversary.