Last night my wife and I started thinking about going out for a steak dinner-- it would have cost about $75 for the two of us, at our favorite old standby.  However, we came up with another idea-- a frugal feast.

We decided to make it at home on the grill.  We went to the supermarket picked up two steaks, a pound of shrimp, a pint of fresh mushrooms, a vidalia onion, two large Idaho potatoes, and two pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream-- total $26.  Add the wine we had and we had the makings of an awesome dinner.  I prepped everything in about ten minutes.

We did it all on the grill:

• Baked potatoes wrapped in foil on the coals
• Vidalia onion with salt, pepper, butter, and olive oil wrapped in foil on the coals
• Mushrooms with salt, pepper, butter, olive oil, and sherry wrapped in foil on the grill
• Shrimp with lemon, salt, pepper, butter, olive oil, and sherry wrapped in foil on the grill
• Steaks seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic salt on the grill

While all this cooked (about 45 minutes) we enjoyed wine in the peace and quiet of our backyard and saved $50 while having more food than we would have gotten eating out . . . 

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