All of us have a favorite recipe or meal that we make on special occasions or as a splurge. Maybe you like a good steak dinner or maybe you have a favorite lasagna that calls for really expensive imported cheeses. Here at my house we do what we call a low country boil–it is so delicious but it can be quite pricey! We put crab or lobster, shrimp, crawfish, sausage, potatoes, carrots and corn in our boil. Oh my it is so good but we can easily spend $50 to make that one meal.
While I can’t come over and cook for you I can cover the cost of your meal 🙂 I am going to give one reader a $50 Publix gift card so you can make YOUR favorite splurge meal!!
To enter just tell me your favorite splurge meal 🙂
I will choose a winner on Friday 3/19 around 11pm via Random.org. You must comment on this post–emailed entries will not be accepted!
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Our favorite is a great steak and homemade potato soup. The soup recipe makes a stockpot full so its pretty pricey but its definitely our favorite!
Favorite splurge meal would be bacon wrapped filet, potatoes, and salad. Can’t go wrong with that. Yum! That may be what I’m making for my 8th anniversary at the end of the month.
Once a month we have Filet mignon and baked potatoes. I marinade the steaks in terriaky sauce, soy sauce, pineapple juice, minced garlic, and cummin powder for a couple hours. Its fantastic and we somehow always end up with company when I make them.
we love to do a HUGE shrimp boil in the summer with fresh shrimp, potatoes, and corn on the cob!! YUMMY, would love to win and enjoy this dinner sometime soon.
My family is large and Irish. Whenever we can, we go for nice steaks and potatoes!
Some beautiful rubeye steaks cooked medium on the grill with grilled white asparagus and fresh ceasar salad. Then top off the meal with some fresh berries and cream.
We love to splurge on Crab cakes. Lowcountry Boil is another fav!!!
My favorite meal would be grilled delmonico steaks with baked potatoes! YUMMO! 🙂
I Love to make Beef Tenderloin with balsamic reduction and gorgonzola, steamed garlic spinach… A nice glass of red wine.
So many generous giveaways! 🙂 I would LOVE to be able to use the gift card to buy all the needed ingredients for 2 dishes with many of the same ingredients that we absolutely love! Incidentally my husband actually makes both of them! One is homemade from scratch shrimp alfredo, the other is also from scratch shrimp scampii. In addition to the delicious fresh shrimp dinners we also would probably make fresh coconut shrimp w/our homemade batter. Oh yummy I’m getting hungry just thinking about it!
Baked ribs
chez mash potatoes
large stuff portabello mushrooms
oreo/cream cheese balls
We make steak with onions and mushrooms, shrimp cocktail, baked potatoes and ceaser salad. 🙂 Laura
We love to splurge on crab legs and scallops. Would love to win.
I like to make meatball subs. Basically I make parmesan meatballs and put them in hot dog buns with spaghetti sauce, them melt mozzarella cheese on top of them.
Filet mignon for me!!
I love to have a bbq/Fish fry with my extended family. 50 bucks at publix can go a long way. Just in time for spring. Great for fish frys. Thanks
Crab Cakes are a favorite here!
My husband makes the best marinated skirt steak, potatoes and whatever else he cooks up. It is so yummy but we dont have it that often b/c of the price of the meat 🙁
Breaded Veal Cutlets. Yum!
Ribeye, asparagus, garlic mashed potatoes and a good bottle of red wine – yum!
Our favorite splurge is Tuna (not the canned stuff, the beautiful dark brown filets in the Seafood case). Love to make it with asparagus and hollandaise and a mixed salad with baked almond-crusted slices of goat cheese on top. Can’t you just hear the cha-ching of the cash register on this one? LOL. Thanks, Michelle!
Steak, baked potatoes, and salad is an all time favorite that we rarely have.
My splurge meal would be grilled tuna steaks or grilled salmon with a fresh salad. Can’t wait for warm weather to start the grill up.
My husband’s favorite meal is steak. He (and I, too) love red meat, but we don’t eat it very often, because the cuts he likes are so expensive! He really likes a huge tri tip. I like to serve it with roasted potatoes and corn on the cob… and maybe an artichoke for me (he hates them!)
We’re a vegan family, so aside from tons of fresh produce, most of our meals are pretty reasonable in cost. I do like dabbling in raw cooking though, which can get pricey. Many of the snacks I like to keep on-hand for the kids – from our favorite Lara(like) bar snacks to raw “cheese” logs – seem to require large quantities of expensive nuts.
My most favorite splurge meal is rib-eye steaks done up with garlic powder, Worcestershire sauce, season salt, salt and pepper, with potatoes, onions, carrots and butter in a foil pack on the grill. Add some garlic bread – MMMMMM. Steaks are expensive these days though so this is something we don’t get very much.
Thanks for the giveaways!
Lobsters from the tank in the seafood dept and fresh asparagus!
Our favorite splurge meal is surf & turf! That usually includes some nice steaks and/or big delicious shrimp as the main course. Those things can get pretty pricey! We mix up the sides but one option is just mashed or baked potatoes and a side salad.
Pernil with homemade cilantro salsa and red beans and rice! Yummmm!!
My favorite splurge meal is a date-night dinner out! But if I win the $50 Publix gift card I’m sure I can find something nice to make too. 😉
Porterhouse steaks,shrimp,baked potato and strawberry cheesecake.
I like to make a fruit appetizer with lots of fresh blueberries which gets pricey (at least by our IheartPublix/Saving Money standards!).
Once a month my family loves to get crab legs and shrimp. have a steak with it as well. Makes for a great treat.
OH, our favorite ‘splurge’ meal would definitely be steak (filet is our fave!), baked potatoes, salad, rolls and dessert.
I can’t tell you the last time we bought a really good steak. So hard to spend that $$!
We LOVE making steak, asparagus, and potatoes au gratin from scratch…definitely expensive, but SO good!
I would LOVE this!!! It would be a juge blessing!!!! My favorite meal is steak and potaotes!!! We raise our own beef, so that is not in with the price…..but I SEE TURF and SURF!!!! We have “splurged” and have gotten the Seapack Shrimp when BOGO and with coupons of course!!! But I have never tried LOBSTER!!!! WOW that would be awesome!!!
Happy Saving
Stacey
Crab boils are definitely our favorite…same as your with shrimp and corn and sometimes crawfish. But we love to have all kinds of sides, shrimp and grits, fried fish and baked beans.
Steak and Potatoes!
Our favorite splurge meal is grilled steaks, shrimp, baked potato, salad and french bread. We only have this meal on New Years Eve because it is so pricey.
When I splurge, I usually buy a couple of filet mignon’s or ribeyes and a few big shrimp for grilling. There also has to be a yummy dessert – something chocolate, of course!
Kabobs with tenderloin and fresh vegetables!
we really enjoy a nice thick filet mignon…..angus beef preferred with some huge grilled shripm….yum!
we splurge on baby back ribs, 2 sides and all the trimmings can easily add up to $40+
My husband loves me making homemade sushi! The cost of all those fresh veggies and fish add up fast.
My favorite splurge meal is real stroganoff! Steak, mushrooms, garlic, onions, wheat noodles, red wine and sour cream, served with salad and good bread and of course the rest of the wine, lol. Thanks girl, I heart you!
Steak, shrimp and a good salad:)
My favorite is Lasagna!
I just read some of the comments…I have to agree with quite a few of them, my favorite splurge meal is ribeye steak, baked sweet potatoe, and asparagus. Yummy. We are so frugal right now if I had ribeye it would get cut up to make several meals from it. So to just eat a steak would be so splurge!
We absolutely love cuban boliche, but it just costs so much to make we only have it once or twice a year.
Our favorite splurge meal is grilled steaks, shrimp, baked potato, salad and french bread. We only have this meal on New Years Eve because it is so pricey. I would love to have your receipe for the low country boil. Thanks.
Love to splurge on Filet Mignon!!!! With baked potatoes and asparagus on the grill! Yummy!!
My favorite splurge meal is muffaletas! Olive salad, provolone, capicola, salami, mortadella, emmentaler–so expensive!
Filet mignon with a cabernet wine sauce and a bottle of red.
Steak, asparagus and bernaise sauce with french fries! YUM!
Smoked Ribs and or Ribeye, wine, any side!!! 🙂
Steak, shrimp and baked potatoes is a favorite, but one we don’t do very often.
Ok, our favorite “slurg” meal is marinated ribeye grilled steak, bacon wrapped buttered grilled jumbo shrimp, green salad with all the extras (romaine lettuce, croutons, bacon bits, cheese, fresh muchrooms, purple onion, sunflower seeds, radish and fresh cauliflower and brocoli) and garlic french bread. Yum! Hungry just thinking about it! We don’t get to do this very often because it is rather expensive for a family of four, so hope I win! Thanks for another great give-a-way!
My splurge is seafood – depending on what I can get at the market. lump crabmeat, tuna, wahoo, shrimp are some of my favorites. And, for dessert, banana pudding. Makes me hungry just thinking about it!
Love to do Ribeye steaks (the big thick ones) in the cast iron skillet in the oven – cover them with kosher salt and cracked pepper. Serve it with corn on the cob and a baked potato – yum!
Filet mignon on the grill, hands down! With asparagus risotto and broccoli souffle. Yum!
Ours is simple, but good! A good ribeye steak with A1 and blue cheese, twice baked potatoes with Colby Jack cheese, a big caeser salad and freshly baked potato rolls, followed by chewy brownie sundaes. Makes my mouth watering just thinking about it!
Our splurge is a mixed seafood alfredo (crab, crayfish, shrimp, and scallops) over squid ink pasta. We splurge on this every New Year’s Eve for dinner. I order the pasta and make the sauce from scratch. Yummo!!
My favorite is your favorite! Low country boil is awesome. We also really like to get down on crab legs and artichokes. I know it’s a weird combo, but it’s a tradition.
That splurge meal is actually for my husband because I am not a fan of seafood. Crab legs, shrimp and lobster!
Alaskan Salmon… so nice, so exspensive.
Our favorite splurge meal is seafood… low country boil, jambalya, lobster, we love it all
Hmmm….it’s so hard to pick just one!!
We love to make pot roast!
My favorite splurge meal is a quiche that is referred to as cheesecake because it is so decadent! There are so many different types of expensive cheeses in it that I only make it on very special occasions, but it is so heavenly!!
For this time of the year is a Crawfish boil. While the potatoes and corn aren’t too pricey, buying all of that crawfish means big bucks.
It depends what we are in the mood for but we will do steak or my favorite….lobster OR scallops wrapped in bacon and shrimp YUM!!!
Steak and potatoes for my family!
My husband loves steak and seafood and it is so expensive that we don’t do it often.
Definitely grilled white fish with crabmeat tomato sauce on top. It is pricey b/c of all of the Fresh lump crab meat, but so delicious! Would love to have this!!!!!!!
Our favorite mael is a country boil as well! We’ve never added lobster, though, and put tons of Old Bay!
We love a good ribeye baked potatoe and salad.
Oh you are just awesome today 🙂 I do have two fav. meals that I hardly make cause to my standarts they are expensive; one is Rouladen; I’m german and rouladen is just my fav; the gravy packs are only avialable online and are about $3 each adn we need about 3 of them, so with a Publix GC we could buy the stuff we usually need and save enough so I could take some of my savings and order the gravy packs to go with the breakfast steak and Potato Dumplings…yummo my second meal is Pizza bread, nothing fancy but you use fresh french bread, cut up mushrooms, and ham and add heavy cream mix it all up, add gouda cheese ( that’s where the expense comes in, it has to be the big chunk one….) bake it in the oven..ohh soo yummy… but we splerge only if I HAVE to have it …. I love gouda my fav, just can’t understand why it’s so expensive here….
Would love to have the money to bring a little bit from home back…:-)
Thanks
King crab legs with loaded baked potatoes and roasted asparagus- yum!
Thanks for the fantastic giveaway 🙂
Definitely an Italian meal. Lasagna is the best, and you are right, it is not cheap to make. Thanks!
Beautiful rib-eye steaks that we put an espresso rub on and grill to perfection. Maybe some manchengo cheddar mashed potatoes and a big gourmet salad with veggies galore. In a dream world, my hubby would make his famous s’more brownies for dessert (but those are easily made with coupon-friendly ingredients).
This would be great! Money is tight at my house.
Favorite Splurge Meal:
Steak, My specialty potatoes, Broccoli, & Cheesecake
hmmmmm. my favorite splurge meal would have to be shrimp & scallop fetucini with scratch made alfredo, fresh garlic bread, & ceasar salad with scratch made ceasar dressing! yum, yum, yum!!!
Our splurge would be steaks….we just don’t buy them that often; once I won a whole case of them from a local butcher when we lived in another town and it was GREAT! We rationed them out, though!!!!
Baked brie…. lobster pasta… mac & cheese with tomatoes and prosciutto… there’s just too darn many to pick one. 🙂
Our favorite would be boiled crab legs and shrimp!
We’ve been trying to pay off our debt since last year, so I haven’t splurged on a meal in a LONG time! But if I could, I would probably make some kind of pasta dish…or I might buy some steaks and let my husband cook them on the grill.
MMM… we are students right now so anything is a splurge, but I would say steak is always our splurge.
We love Filet Mignon with twiced baked potatoes,asparagus with a wonderful hollandaise sauce and a triple layer chocolate homemade cake.
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Our splurge meal is king crab and t-bone steak with chocolate lava cakes.
Hmm… favorite splurge… Would have to be my husband’s chicken au poivre. It’s sooooo good! He learned how to make it when he worked in a French restaurant. We cook it together now. It’s not super expensive, but it’s definitely a splurge in calories! 😮 LOL
One of our favorite things to splurge on would be filet mignon with homemade mac & cheese. We grill the filets with bacon wrapped around them, and my hubby makes the mac & cheese with mascarpone, which is usually a little too expensive for a cheapskate like me to buy!
Fresh Maine lobster baked and stuffed with shrimp, crab and scallops!
We LOVE shrimp!!! Even the kids think its the greatest thing ever. When I’m really splurging I’ll get some filets for DH & I.
My favorite splurge meal is a nice ribeye steak with cracked pepper hunters sauce, twice baked potato, asparagus, garlic bread, and a bottle of Shiraz for the hubby!
Steak and shrimp.
i guess the splurge would be steaks cooked on a grill…
My favorite splurge is filet mignon and twice baked potatoes.
Steak, shrimp, veggie kabobs!
Oh I’m with you Michelle! Shrimp, crawfish, potatoes and corn…boil it all up nice and spicy!
filet mignon would be mine and my husband would say lobster :0)
My favorite splurge meal isn’t a meal per se as much as splurging on indiviual ingredients such as Brie.
I’m going to agree with steaks as a splurge, with lobster bisque soup to start the meal!
Our favorite splurge meal would have to be steaks!
Our spluge would be steak on the drill, baked taters, corn on the cob, and an huge salad! But since we both work in law enforcement we don’t get to splurge on that very often!
Steak and Shrimp kabobs on the grill!!! Love to have a great dinner all made on the grill.
Gotta have Surf ‘n Turf with lobster tails and steak! Add some baked potato & salad. Perfect!
Grilled ribeyes, mushroom risotto, tomato, cucumber and feta salad, peanut butter pie.
in our house.. southern food wins every time.. country fried steak with mashed potatoes and corn on the cob =D
Inviting friends over and enjoy wine & cheese followed by filets, twice baked potatoes, summer salad & a fresh berry dessert! Yum! So fun to enjoy a wonderful meal with good friends on a summer evening.
Shrimp Boil: We put shrimp, corn, sausage, and sometimes red potatoes.
Inviting friends over and enjoy wine & grilled brie w/ french bread, followed by filets, twice baked potatoes, summer salad & a fresh berry dessert! Yum! So fun to enjoy a wonderful meal with good friends on a summer evening.
I would skip a meal and buy a Cassata Cake and Brown Derby Cake and enjoy!!!! Publix Bakery is amazing
my splurge menu consists of crab legs and/or salmon…..mmmmm
Filet mignon and lobster or crabcakes for hubby. Money’s tight so we don’t buy these very often. Would love to have a special dinner. THANKS!
definitely a tender, juicy NY strip steak with grilled asparagus, baked sweet potatoes, and a lovely salad with cranberries, strawberries, walnuts, and feta. Yum. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!
Favorite splurge meal has got to be picking up the phone, and ordering New York Pizza delivered!!! I live in Tennessee!!!
Appetizer – Fried Calamari
Main Course – Herbed Ribeye with rosemary roasted potatoes and garden vegetables
Desert – Brownie with maple butter and vanilla ice cream
Yummie!
My favorite splurge meal is standing rib roast. I have a wonderful recipe and we usually try to have this at Christmas. It would be nice to be able to have it when it is just my family with 2x baked potatoes and a bottle of my favorite red wine.
I would love to splurge on my famous spinach dip. Contains, shrimp, crawfish tales, feta cheese. These items are pricey and can’t usually make enough to fill up the family. $50.00 worth of this stuff would make my kids very happy.
Steak! Yum. That is a rare dinner for a family of our size!
ohhh I’ll have to go with the shrimp boil too! Very expensive but soooo good!
Baby back ribs, started in the oven and finished on the grill!
Goat cheese and veggie Risotto with white truffle oil! it’s divine, but take a lot of TLC to make as we all know Risotta is high maintenance!
a crown roast for Easter would be awesome!
My husband is a vegetarian and my son is picky about meat, so for me a splurge is definitely on steak and some wine to go with it. He eats a lot of Morningstar Farm and Boca products, which aren’t cheap when you buy a lot, so his favorite meal at home is chicken enchilada casserole made with veggie chicken products.
I would buy some Greenwise organic meat and fresh veggies and grill out with my family–and we’d split a yummy Ice Cream Cake for dessert!
a good steak, baked potatoes and corn on the cob, all cooked on the grill!
steak with baby veggies and a great chocolate cake to finish the meal
LOVE! making homemade crabcakes with genuine lump crap meat.
Love seafood !!
We load up the grill with barbecue ribs and grill some corn. It isnt REALLY that expensive, but the splurge is taking the time to prepare it & the clean-up afterwards…so we save it for special occassions.
Favorite Splurge: Steak-Kabobs. YUM! We use high quality steak, so it doesn’t fall apart on the skewer. Add in Red/yellow/green peppers. Onions. Mushrooms. Baste in Jerk Sauce. YUM! 🙂
My spluge meal would be a red fish sauce that I make that takes mussels, clams, shrimp, fettucine with a side of garlic bread!
My favorite splurge meal is a giant pork tenderloin cooked with saurkraut and served over mashed potatoes. We dont make it often because of the price of the meat required.
My favorite splure meal is crab cakes…its very expensive, so its a once or twice a year type of meal…but the whole family loves it!
Ribeye steaks!!!
My family’s splurge meal would be from scratch Chicken Parmigan with Linguinie, fresh italian bread with Pub Cheese herb and cheese spread, salad with all fresh ingredients including olive oil, plum tomatoes and buffalo mozorella cheese from the deli.
Our big splurging meal would be fresh seafood and steak. We throw in a baking potato, salad and bread.. Expensive for 5 ppl but soooo yummy!
King crab legs and fresh salad, with cornbread and mac and cheese on the side…sort of an odd combo but really good
Filet mignon, lobster, a fabulous salad and some good wine!
Steak is our splurge meal! We normally buy steak only twice a year, once at our anniversary and once during the summer. With four kids – it gets pricey!
What a wonderful idea! In the past, my family has been lucky to enjoy life in a few states where fresh live crawfish was the norm. We have also lived where we could drive a block or two to the dock and buy fresh shrimp straight from the boats as they arrived to the shore for about $2.00 a pound and these were large shrimp! So we miss the flavor of FRESH not frozen shrimp and it is quite expensive where we live now (just below the Mason-Dixon Line – so still in the South – but no where near a coast!) We would love to be able to purchase the fresh never frozen shrimp and have a huge feast!
Wow, some of these meals sound sooo good. I would make a steak dinner with all of the fixings: salad, baked potatoes, vegetables and a great grilled steak!!!
If I was to Splurge on a meal made at home, it would be Filet Mignon, Baked Potato and Salad!
When I make my spinach and artichoke dip, it’s a splurge:
Canned Artichokes: $2
Havarti Cheese: $4
Cream cheese: $1.50
Frozen creamed spinach: $1.50
Tostito chips for serving: $4
Approx: $13 for an appetizer 🙂
Thanks for the opportunity!
Jodi
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Steaks for hubby, Crab cakes for me. Surf & Turf baby!!
I would LOVE to make my very much missed Crabmeat Ceviche. Since I had learned how to cook with lemon and lime juice, I have always enjoyed that healthy and non-traditional cuisine. Unfortunately, its a big time SPLURGE in my family. 🙂
My favorite is anything that includes seafood.
I think that I would have to splurge on a dessert! We love banana cream pudding made with condensed milk, pepperidge farm chess cookies, bananas, milk, pudding, etc. The cost of that dessert adds up fast so we don’t make it very often!
Fancy cheese plate, gruyere puffs, steak, mushroom risotto, and chocolate raspberry torte. Yum!
Filet Mignon, we have it less than once a year!
Surf and Turf and a great wine
Our favorite meal is a chicken salad with grapes and bacon and mayo, seasoned with Bragg’s liquid amino acids, fresh ginger, lemon juice, parsley, and onion powder. This is a splurge for us.
sea scallops and king crab legs… is there any food more perfect?! lucky charms cereal USED to be our splurge before I discovered this website!
My favorite expensive meal to make is Shrimp and Chicken Jambalya. Lots of yummy shrimp on top of spinach fettuncine.
would have to agree with some others, steak or shrimp
Favorite splurge is:
Hubby grills one filet for us to split and we top it off with a creamy bleu cheese butter mixture that i whip up. Then for side dishes, fresh brussels sprouts sauteed up in garlic and butter and drizzled with balsamic vinegar salt and pepper. Roasted mixed veggies – white and sweet potatoes, onion and asparagus tossed in olive oil. For dessert – fresh mixed berries with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar reduction and then topped with a dollop of mascarpone mixed with honey. TO DIE FOR! and it’s all super easy to make too… yum!
Ours is low country boil too!! And it’s usually once a year on Fourth of July.
I am going to have to go with your meal! My family LOVES low country boil!! We make it a few times in the spring and summer! LOVE IT!!
Sesame Seared Ahi Tuna Steaks!
You guessed it! LASAGNA! With fabulous, imported cheeses and tomato sauce made from fresh, premium tomatoes and a veal/pork mixture. Always followed by angel food cake and strawberries!! YUMM.
I love to make my version of Smoky Mountain Chicken from Crockett’s Restaurant with bacon cheddar fries and strawberry pretzel salad for dessert! Yum!
definitely a steak dinner
2″ thick filet, red wine, maybe some lobster or shrimp!
We normally only eat our favorite meal on Christmas Eve!!! Our favorite meal is chicken stuffed with burgundy seared mushroom, italian spices, asiago and Romano cheeses, served on top of pasta with sundried tomatoes, feta cheese, and parsley. But my goodness it gets expensive to make!!
FIlet Mignon, shrimp, baked potatoe and salad 🙂
Definitely crab legs or filet mignon with grilled shrimp. Yummy!
Fondue!! We usually do cheese and chocolate fondue (not together!). It makes for good family time because it usually involves me, my 2 sisters, mom, aunt, and grandma!!
I dont cook, but love when my hubby makes steak and a baked potatoe:) YUMMY!
My very favorite splurge meal is Surf and Turf with a very good Filet and big shrimp. YUM!
my favorite would be steamed blue crabs… YUMMY !!!!
Coconut shrimp and artichokes!!!
We love steaks, and we don’t have them often; but our favorite splurge is “asado”, which is smoked barbecued back ribs. The best way to cook it is outside, next to the fire, over hot coals, that’s how it gets the smoked flavor. You accompany that with chorizos, baked potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, “ensalada rusa”, tomato and lettuce salad, and cheesesticks. And for dessert, fruit salad with ice-cream, and a chocolate pie. We love it, but it is very expensive, so we usually reserve it for Christmas. We would love to have it now. Thanks.
We love shrimp & steak with rice and veggies. So yummy! Thanks!!!
My favorite splurge meal is steak and shrimp mixed with onions, squash, mushrooms, potatos and other inseason veges with a mix of steak sauce and butter.
Chicken Parmesan hand done, homemade bread crumbs and all
Shrimp and scallops on the grill…with a baked potato and salad!
Lasagna
Sesame Seared Ahi Tuna Steaks! would be a splurge for us! YUMMY!!!
Surf and Turf is our splurge. We love Publix meat and seafood department. We usually get a couple Porterhouse steaks and crab legs or lobster tails. My husband cooks that on the grill and I’ll make baked sweet potatoes, asparagus and Publix tiramisu for dessert. <3 <3 <3
I love standing rib roast–prime rib. Delicious and leftovers make a great soup.
Steak, baked potato and broccoli – with some wine of course!
Steaks,ribs an all the fixings..
My favorite meal is Rib Eye Steaks, baked potatoes, and fresh artichokes! While this is my favorite, we rarely eat it for three reasons….first, my kids aren’t real big fans of any meal that doesn’t have noodles and cheese in it, and second, rib eyes are not the cheapest thing in the meat department. Third, since we moved from California (where artichokes were in abundance for very cheap!) I just can’t bring myself to pay almost $3 for an artichoke.
So….this is a big time splurge meal for us. 🙂
Thanks for the chance to win!
Jambalaya with two kinds of sausage, shrimp, and ham…Love it. Love it…Love it. What makes it taste even better is that my husband can actually cook this lol. Thanks for the giveaway.
Lasagna…and my hubby likes it with lots of meat and cheese!
My favorite meal is SNOW CRAB!!
Filet mignon for the hubby. He loves some good steak.
our favorite splurge meal is prime rib – yum!
Our favorite splurge is seafood extravaganza! We get crablegs and lobster and shrimp. Yum!
Our favorite splurge meal is anything that includes a real salad, an entree, a dessert, and wine. We’d love to win!
Our splurge would be fresh seafood.. Little Necks for starters, followed by shrimp scampi and a nice bottle of wine… Yummo!!!!
Definitely would love some lobster and steak!
A t-bone, baked potato w/ all the toppings, salad, and texas toast! yum!!
Publix is by far my favorite store. With coupons and staking I can get groceries as low as 15 cents an item.I hope I win!!!!!!!!!!
Steak, Cesar Salad, baked potatos, and wine.
Publix is the store to shop at.It would help me to win this giftcard
Our favorite meal to splurge on is filet mignon wrapped in bacon, homemade cheese grits, spring mix salad with candied walnuts, feta, pear slices, and a homemade italian dressing, yeast rolls, and peanut butter pie!! YUMM!!!
A thick, juicy steak. The sides would be these yummy roasted potatoes my husband makes and a salad. My mouth is watering thinking about it!
My all time favorite splurge is definitely steak!!! I love a good home grilled steak!
I would have to say steak with mushroom sauce, twice baked potatoe, melodey of fresh steamed vegtables, and a home made cake.
Yummy, yummy! Definitely steak and crab legs! I would add hollandaise to the steak, also loaded (and I mean LOADED) baked potatoes! yummy! Thanks for getting me thinking about dinner!
Homemade Japanese hibachi meal – steak and chicken complete with homemeade shrimp sauce! 🙂
My favorite splurge meal would be shrimp marinated in buttermilk then floured and fried. A large stuffed baked potato with butter, sour cream , chives, bacon bits & shredded cheese. A nice romaine salad with strawberries with lite raspberry vinaigrette dressing. And warm garlic cheese biscuits. And for dessert a strawberry cheesecake.
Delmonico Ribeyes. Yumm!
definitely a steak dinner with fried shrimp.
My fav. meal to make is actually a “Thanksgiving” meal, except not on Thanksgiving! LoL
I love making turkey, homemade mashed potatoes, stuffing, all the fixing’s etc. for any random day of the week, its just too expensive to make too often besides holidays!
I love making a good ribeye steak, marinate for 2 days, baked potatoes, spinach salad, strawberry shortcake for dessert! Yummy!!
Thanks!
Maggie M.
Salmon on the grill…delicious!
I love to make homemade Sweet and Sour Chicken, homemade egg rolls, rice, some hot tea, yummy! Hope I win!
Thanks!
Jen A.
Steak with a sushi appetizer!
We like tilapia and a great steak. YUM!!
We love to grill steaks using a combination of herbs and store bought marinade with asparagus and the best mashed potatoes using cheddar and cream cheese. Of course, you have to follow it up with dessert, too!
It’s got to be a standing rib roast smoked in the outdoor smoker over mesquite. With a wonderful salad of mixed baby greens, grape tomatoes, purple onions, topped with some bacon bits and extra sharp NY or Wisconsin Cheddar. For a side twice baked potatoes with the potatoes mixed with sour cream, bacon, and some more cheddar. For bread some good rolls either from the Publix deli or some Sister Schubert’s rolls.
Perfect for a holiday or just the two of us.
My favorite splurge meal is Porterhouse steak with sweet potatoes and wine.
Seafood, for sure!!!
Filet Mignon. OMG. I love it!
gotta love a surf & turf meal of any kind 🙂 mmm…
Filet Mignon and crab legs…The ultimate meal!!!
My favorite splurge meal is definitely my homemade vegetable lasagne. You wouldn’t think it would be all that expensive, but 12 different veggies and 6 different cheeses really add up!
FILETS!! yummo, i hardly ever buy even regular steak way too pricey.
Meat and Potatoes here… Nothing can compare to my PRECIOUS husband SLAVING over a grill, while I handle the twice baked potatoes! GREAT… NOW I WANT ONE!!!!
Ribeye steaks, twice baked potatoes, green salad, and cheesecake.
I love to grill a great steak(you know the big thick ones with great marbling..not the thin ones)and have a nice green salad and a baked potato with ALL the fixings….ohhh yummy
I have to agree with the Surf and Turf posts! MMMM…. my mouth is watering just thinking about some steak and lobster!!
chicken and shrimp alfredo!
Beef noodle soup.
fajitas w/ steak/chicken/shrimp! yummy!
Pizza…I’m simple :o)
Filet and Cajun steamed shrimp! YUM!!
Our favorite meal is a great salad (structured like Olive Garden’s), Ribeys (medium rare for me and well done for the hubby), baked potatoes, and then for desert a nice dish of Purity Vanilla ice cream!
Do you know what? The Thanksgiving meal is my favorite! I LOVE roasting a turkey, and I really love roasting a turkey “out of season!” I love the leftovers, and I do not mind eating turkey everything for the next few weeks! It’s fun to pull out frozen turkey and make turkey pilaf, turkey chili, turkey jerky! So yeah…I’m gonna’ say turkey. 🙂
Steak is our splurge.
Lasagna and homemade cheesecake
Steak and shrimp with a great bottle of wine! My mouth is watering just thinking about it!!
Generally a splurge meal would either be Chicken Parmesan with awesome fresh mozzarella and lots of it! or steak and seafood. But if I won, I might have to make your meal! That sounds great, and easy too.
Our favorite meal to splurge on is Steak on the grill, baked potatoes, corn on the cobb, and garlic toast! Thanks for the chance to win!!:)
I would get my husband to grill a steak for me and he could have a piece of salmon. We would also have some veggies on the side, a nice bottle of wine and one of those yummy looking raspberry cakes at the Publix bakery.
I love boiled shrimp seasoned with Old Bay!
Grilled salmon, asparagus, baked potato, and salad with a glass of wine. Yummo!
$50.00 I can eat for 2 weeks
Thank you
We love crawfish and corn chowder! It is so simple to make, but too expensive to be a regular dish! Add a poppy seed salad and cheesecake for dessert! My mouth is watering!!!
My favorite splurge meal is Chicken Marsala (my daughter’s recipe)! Next favorite splurge is low country boil with lots of crab legs!!
Big juicy rib-eye steaks with either shrimp or lobster, loaded baked potatoes, salad, garlic bread, grilled corn, and chocolate cake.
my fav is grilled shrimp, a nice ribeye steak, baked potato (loaded), salad and garlic bread. yummy!!!!
My husband’s tacos!!!
Our favorite splurge meal is pork tenderloin with a sweet barbeque sauce, smoked gouda grits, asparagus and a spinach/strawberry/pecan salad. It’s so yummy! I would love to treat my family to that dinner!
Steak on the grill!!
Grilled Sea Bass with mango salsa
Our favorite splurge mill is Ribeyes, Crab legs and crab stuffed mushrooms with a baked potatoe and ceasar salad…yum.
Love to splurge on surf and turf!!
Our meal would def be grilled steaks with twice baked potatoes!! 🙂
I do a family style italian dinner. I LOVE baked gnocci among other things…but jeeez…good italian cheese is EXPENSIVE!!
filet minion and yummy potatoes and “Not Yo Momma’s Banana Pudding” for dessert 🙂
Our favorite splurge meal is crab legs with my famous butter/old bay dipping sauce. Also scallop-stuffed flounder would be on the side! Thanks for the opportunity.
Our meal would be our gourmet lasagna with basil squares as the appetizer! Yum!
What are basil squares? Sounds yummy!
A favorite at my house is a salad to start with Steak & Ribs, loaded Baked Potatoes and brownies with ice cream for dessert! OooooH, now I am hungry just thinking about it!
We love to splurge on STEAK LOL anything on the side but big huge steaks we love em lol!
Our favorite splurge meal is definitely Filet Mignon, baked potatoes, roasted asparagus, fresh romaine and spinach leaf salad with hot bacon dressing and chocolate fondue!
I am new to your website and I absolutely love! You make everything so easy and I appreciate all that you do!!
We definitely have snow crab legs, baked potatoes, steamed broccoli and peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream!! Yum! Yum!
We love tenderloin steaks with blue cheese crust… grilled asparagus and loaded potatoes
I love portabello mushrooms for appetizer, yummy wine, steak with gorgonzola cheese, cesar salad and a chocolate dessert!!
We love salmon and sometimes it’s not on sale.
A favorite around here is to have a shrimp boil. My three year old absolutely loves shrimp! The potatoes and corn are my favorite.
We love low country boil too. I’ve never put lobster in, sounds great!
Delmonico ribeyes, mushroom and onions, loaded bake potato, and cheesecake for dessert!
Holiday dinners where we’ve been cooking all day and the house is filled with the aroma of everything that’s been in the oven: Slow roasted vegetables, freshly baked bread or rolls from scratch, potatoes or winter squash, gravies, whatever meat that is planned for the meal, many types of salads and fresh veggies, pie (or cake).
We love grilled Salmon and Shrimp!
My splurge meal is steaks with salad, twice baked potatoes, and homemade mac and cheese.
Steak & shrimp grilled plus potatoes!!! Yummy!
Thanks so much!
Our favorite meal is shrimp and steak with loaded mashed potatoes and green bean casserole. I am already hungry.
My fav meal is smoked buffalo chicken wings on the grill with blue cheese dip.
Did a prime rib roast one Easter a couple of years ago. OMG, it was incredible, but having to make it for 7 was a HUGE expense. Would love to do one this year. Thanks for the opportunity for this and all your GREAT give aways!!
We LOVE Shrimp Scampi! I make it for special occasions like birthdays and our anniversary! It is so yummy! I hope I win so we can have a big batch of it and have friends over for dinner and a movie!
Steak and potatoes 🙂 My boyfriend would want surf and turf.
Shrimp – We fry it, boil it, grill it.
I love to use the Bahama Breeze recipe to make a big batch of carribbean shrimp linguine with salad, red potatos, angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream, and some sort of delicious caribbean drink. Yum!
Our splurge meal would be steaks (the husband always wants a porterhouse) salad, baked potatoes with veggies and ice cream for dessert!!
OH yeah! This one is easy for us! We love to spurge on blue crab! Yumm!
thanks!!!
We would have Crab legs or lobster. and of course a bottle or two of wine!!
Surf & Turf – Steak and Seafood would be awesome!
Low-country boil is our favorite, too! 🙂
A family favorite would have to be homeade stuffed shells with a slow cooked sauce. On top I put fresh Mozzarella and parmasean cheese. Any of course you cant forget the garlic rolls. Yummy 🙂
we do a mexican buffett here for our splurges. Make everything from fijatas, burritos, quesidallas to sopallias
We LOVE crockpot meals so whenever I get the opprotunity to use a favorite recipe it has to include our crockpot!
Chicken; ribs; & a TON of veggies!
Also have to have dinner rolls!
YUM!
Our splurge is Smoked ribs, corn on cob, slaw, baked beans
rolls and a tall ice tea. For dessert—Chocolate Fudge Cake
Our family loves steaks, potatoes and salad, but we almost never have it because steaks are so pricey.
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Whole beef tenderloin marinated in teriyaki and jalepenos. Yummy!
Simple as it sounds… my answer would be steak. It used to not be so bad, when it was just hubby and myself. But now that our kids are older, THEY LOVE STEAK and want to eat it all the time!
we would make a pork stir fry. mmmmm, it is so good. one of the first meals my hubby and I cooked together when we were married. Special indeed.
I don’t have a splurge meal!! 🙁 I’ve been on a budget since birth 😛 the most expensive meal I make we call “Chicken Squares.” It’s just pillsbury cresent rolls, boiled chicken breast, cream cheese and green onions 😛 It’s delicious!
Not sure what you would call it cause it is one I made up. I like to get the large pasta shells and fill them with ricotta, mozzarella, spinach , and a little garlic.Stick these in oven for about 15 min on 300. Then saute some shrimp in garlic and butter, pour sundried tomato alfredo over the shrimp right before the shrimp are done. When shrimp is done, pour over the shells! This is an awesome meal!
My favorite splurge meal is snow crab legs, steamed with cajun seasoning and grilled shrimp, with potatoes, baked ala The Pioneer Woman, and seared Asaparagus, with olive oil, salt, and black pepper. And who can forget the crossoint rolls (so good, yet so bad for you!!!)
we love shrimp casserole. It is a splurge on the cost and the calories!!!!!
Crab Legs and Steak !!!!
filet mignon
We love steamed mussels as an appetizer and then shrimp, steak and scallops on the grill!
Easy one-crab legs!
Definitely “surf & turf” at our house! Steak & shrimp!
I guess my biggest splurge recently was scallops for my DH’s birthday. Loved it!!!
Whole beef tenderloin marinated in teriyaki sauce and jalepenos. Yum!
We love seared scallops and a really nice filet mignon. Thank you for the excellent give-a-ways!
My husband LOVES a good steak, so that’s what I would make. Along with potatoes, broccoli and his favorite dessert – homemade apple dumplings!
Hmm..our biggest splurge meal is steaks with baked sweet potatoes..
we love filet mignon but it is rather expensive ….but it taste SOOO GOOD!!! LOL
Ribeye Steaks and Cheesecake for Dessert! Yum!
Well my Fiance is Cuban,so I would have to say he’d be blessed whenever I splurge and cook hi an authentic cuban dish.I love makeing Ropa Viaja which is made with Flank steak,garlic,tomatoes,peppers,
bijou,onions along with black beans,rice and of coarse YUCA…mmmm…okay now Im hungry..lol
Our splurge is rib roast, I make the Publix Simple meals one and it is divine!
Our splurge meal is lobster and filet mignon.
Surf & turf!
Our favorite is a chicken with a creamy white wine sauce (to die for) over angle hair pasta and a strawberry spinach salad.
Seafood – shrimp and scallops! Yum!
I love Lobster! Just too expensive to justify very often! Grilled, broiled….
a really good steak with potatoes, carrotts and cheesecake. yummy!
Steak and pineapple kabobs, bakery rolls, potatoes and green beans, complete with strawberry lemonade.
We love a nice steak dinner, with a baked potato, tossed salad, and a slice of barbecue bread baked w/ butter and garlic salt!
Seared scallops and shrimp skewers with steak…oh my gosh i can taste it right now! Thanks again!
Steak with all the “fixins”!
My husband is the most basic eater chicken fingers and mashed potatoes make him happy. I however love veggies so our big splurge is as a family to make pasta two ways. He has homemade meatballs and spag. and I make roasted veggies over pasta!
Shrimp or Crawfish Etouffee with dirty rice. Delish but not budget friendly.
Crawfish Etoufee!!!
we love a good steak and lobster, a real surf and turf!
Chicken Roulade with Leek Cream Sauce and Creamy Risotto!! YUMMO!!
Surf & turf here as well… shrimp and oysters for hubby, but steak and potatoes for me since I’m allergic to shellfish!
Well my husband loves steak and potatoes and I would love seafood so surf and turf for us.
Steak, potatoes and fresh asparagus
Sad to say but my splurge is pesto. I LOVE a good pesto but I can’t bring myself to pay $4 for that tiny little tub of good stuff.
Splurge meal would have to be (without a doubt) lobster and cheesecake (with mac n cheese for the little one in the house)
I love filet mignon and baked potato!!
Big stuffed peppers with lots of quinoa and other random veggies and fillings. It’s a splurge because good, colorful, big peppers (and other fresh product) are expensive, but it’s definitely a healthy, tasty meal! Add some Mozzarella sticks for an appetizer and an Oreo ice cream torte for dessert and it doesn’t get much better than that!
Ham, Sweet potatoes , green beans and cake! yummy
Steak, baked potatoes, green beans, & chocolate cake!
My husband loves a good t-bone with all the sides. Thats what I would make! Thanks so much!
Salmon!!
BBQ Spare Ribs, corn on the cob, baked potatoes and creamed cauliflower….When I was a kid we would have this only on my birthday since there were 15 of us!
A good filet mingion and white truffle mac and cheese!
Steak (for my hubs) and shrimp… and something decadent for dessert!
Lobster and Steak with twice baked potatoes!
leg of lamb!
Lobster with butter. It’s that simple but oh so good!
Filet mignon for sure. So good, but so pricey!
We love a steak and shrimp dinner. My husband loves steak and me and the kids would love to have grilled or boiled shrimp!
My splurge meal is beef tenderloin (whole one) roasted with asparagus and mushrooms
filet mignon is one fav – another (which my husband cooks – makes it even better) is a pasta dish that has lots of pricey cheeses in it
Surf and turf! We love some steak and shrimp with loaded baked potatoes!
I have to say Steak too- top sirloin is my favorite with sauteed mushrooms!
Grilled Ribeye Steaks with Sauteed Mushrooms, Baked potato with sour cream and butter, yeast rolls and Death by Chocolate for dessert! Yummy!
I don’t cook alot, so my big splurge meal would be like Thanksgiving or Christmas – a big turkey (or ham) with mashed potatoes, veggies, homemade dinner rolls with lots of sweet butter, and something extra yummy for dessert, like chocolate cake or cheesecake.
My spluge meal is rib roast from publix, with mashed potato and asparagus. Desert is a publix chocolate cake.
We love smothered chicken with a side of scalloped potatoes and asparagus!
We love steak and shrimp, potatoes, asparagus with bearnaise sauce, and french silk pie! A bottle of wine is nice too.
My Hubby’s fav. splurge is a seafood casserole complete with claw crab meat, shrimp and lots of calories!
Ribeye steak on the grill with fresh salad, fruit and a homemade angel food cake!
As most everyone else said probably steak and chicken kabobs frilled with fresh pineapple, onions, peppers, and mushrooms and some homemade fried rice with some white sauce and some sauted zucchini and onions. German chocolate cake or red velvet its a toss up on that one! Just typing this makes me want it. Hope ya feel better.
My splurge meal is baby back ribs, macaroni and cheese and collard greens with New York Style cheesecake for dessert.
I would say steak as well, or either shrimp and grits, a Lowcountry favorite. 🙂
We love filets on the grill, twice baked potatoes, salad and something really yummy for dessert!
We love steak, loaded potatoes and salad. Typical american fare!
Bang, Bang Shrimp (copycat of Bonefish Grill’s recipe) Steak – Filet for me, Porterhouse for him. Crab Legs, Loaded Baked Potato, Corn on the Cob and Cheesecake. Mmmmmm, now I’m hungry!
Wow lets see a pricey meal. Favorite meal that we havent had a in a while because of the price would be the home version of the tour of Italy. The Lasanga, Chicken Parmasean, and the speghetti.
Love it but super expense. Would love to be able to serve that this year.
Our household splurge is mac&cheese but I purchase diffrent types and textures of cheese. The cheese alone cost atleast $30.00. Publix carries a wide variety of cheeses. I always have enough noodles, flour, milk and spices on hand.
Our favorite splurge meal is homemade coconut shrimp!! Yum! Yum!
Your favorite is our favorite too!! A Low Country Boil. We’re from the coast and now live a little further away, so each time we go camping we head to the local seafood market OR PUBLIX and pick up the fixins. Then we spread it all on a picnic table covered with newspaper and have a feast!!
My favorite splurge meal is bacon-wrapped jambo shrimp with corn-on-the-cob and garlic mashed potatoes. To top it off I always have key lime pie!!! YUM!!
We love Filet Mignons, baked potatoes, salad and a bottle of wine!
For special days, we make a seafood paella with lots of lobster, shrimp and other fresh seafood. We have a great wine with it, and a wonderful fresh fruit tart with a good whipped cream. Pricy but worth every crumb for this whole meal.
Favorite splurge meal would be laughing cow surprise. Beef, cheese, and a bunch of yummy others inside a fresh baguette. Fresh salad, fruit, and of course dessert, warm apple crisp with ice cream. mmmmmmm.
We all love steak and shrimp on the grill served with a greek salad and sweet potatoes. For dessert, my kids love chocolate cake with ricotta filling. Yummy!
ribeye, potatoes and veggies…mmmmmm
my husband loves my Corn and seafood chowder.
We love crab legs and artichokes!
Shrimp & Beef tenderloin filets, asparagus and peanut butter pie with Oreo crust!
Filet Minon Steak, Bake Potatoes, and Fresh Veggies all cooked by the HUBBY on the grill 🙂
My favorite food to make is Portabella Mushroom Lasagna and Italian Salad! It is very yummy and I would have it once a week if I could!
steaks and lobster!
My families would have to be steak, potatoes, and cheesecake for dessert!!
Sea bass–yum.
That boil sounds delish! I would say leg of lamb is my fav but sooooo $$$$$$$!
Definitely would make cheese fondue for appetizer, dinner would be steak for my hubs., grilled veggies, homemade fries, fresh fruit salad with all the favorites (including pineapple!), a bottle of wine and chocolate molten cakes for desert. Way to make us hungry Michelle :).
I have a fantastic recipe for crab and spinach stuffed chicken breasts with a parmesan cheese crust. I love to make asparagus and cream sauce to go with it. Dessert would be a cheesecake brownie pie with caramel and pecans. My mouth is watering right now!!
Lobster baby!
My favorite splurge meal is filet mignon and baked potatoes with dijon green beans and a tossed salad.
One of my favorite splurge meals is grilled beef tenderloin, and my macaroni and cheese made with gruyere. Yum!
It’s a simple meal but steaks are a splurge for us!!
Surf and turf! Grilled steak and shrimp, salad, and baked potato with some yummy dessert!
Definitely some high quality steaks!
My favorite is steak and shrimp on the grill!!
Our favorite splurge meal would be sushi. We love the stuff!
King crab legs with fresh asparagus, roasted potatoes, and corn! Could eat this every night if I had to!
Tuna Steaks with portabella mushrooms and aspargus. YUMMY!!!!!!
Premium steak and shrimp with baby potatoes and corn casserole. Mmmm!
My favorite meal is crab cakes!
Our favorite splurge meal is grilled salmon with grilled portobella mushrooms and roasted peppers a salad and wine!
We love italian!! Lasagna especially, but a really great home made sauce lots of cheese can make it costly. Cheesecake for desert…yum!!
A family favorite of ours is a chicken and rice casserole. It is extremely high in fat, so we don’t eat it very often, but it is soooo good. You put a layer of cooked rice at the bottom of the dish, then put a mixture of cream of chicken soup, sour cream, cut up chicken, and chili peppers or jalapenos if desired. Layer it with shredded cheese and bake it at 350 for 30 minutes till cheese boils. Then layer it with Nacho Cheese Doritos and bake for 5 mins. It doesn’t sound near as tasty as it really is. It’s a hit with anyone who comes over to try it.
My favorite splurge meal is Chicken with Alfredo sauce. Because I make it with real butter and heavy cream. So rich and yummy.
I do not make it that often let me tell you but I just love it!!
My favorite splurge meal would be Homemade Macaroni and Cheese, Roast, Turnip Greens, and Corn with Strawberry Shortcake or Cheesecake as dessert with a side of ice cream.
Our favorite splurge meal is prime rib and sometimes we add lobster tail to make a complete “surf and turf” meal…of course all the fixings with it, usually corn on the cob and salt potatoes or my kids LOVE my loaded mashed potato casserole! It’s making me hungry just thinking about it! LOL
Our favorite splurge meal would be ribeye steaks cooked on the grill. Since I usually seem to have a house full of my kids and their friends – it can be very expensive
A good steak with grilled onions, baked potatoes and salad and garlic bread. Need a chocolate cake with that too.
Chilean Sea Bass and a salad. Yum Yum.
My husband makes THE BEST seafood gumbo…better than I’ve had in any restaurant, but the shrimp, crab,and fish are so expensive, we never make it. I’d love to have that gift card. Mmmmm, my mouth is already watering!
A meal my husband loves but rarely gets because it is so pricey is steak fajita nachos!
Our splurge is probably my husband’s veal parmesean. He was raised by an Italian step-father who fortunately taught him delcious Italian recipes. So tasty….I think my mouth is watering now.
My favorite splurge meal is swordfish, Publix crab bisque, and cheesecake. I would eat this every single day if I could – YUM!
I took a class at Williams-Sonoma and we learned how to make an herb crusted tenderloin. That would be a huge splurge. We also learned how to make a Fontina Prosuitto (spelling) and Pear Panini. Both totally fabulous.
Ribeye steaks!
We LOVE Spicy Shrimp with Mango Salsa and Coconut Jasmine Rice! Mmm!
Our favorite splurge meal is Shrimp Fra Diavolo…I would love to make that soon.
Our family loves a good steak and crabcakes.
I favorite splurge meal is bacon wrapped Filet Mignon. So good!
I love a good low country boil, but our favorite splurge meal is a greek salad with steak from Rachael Ray. Super yummy, but also super expensive!
Steak with Lobster!!! Add a great wine and it puts me in bliss!
I make the best all in Gumbo, with chicken, sausage, crab, shrimp, and tons of fresh produce. We usually have it once a year around the holidays
Peel ’em and Eat ’ems. For all of you folks not from St. Augustine–those are our local shrimp, but they can get pricey.
Steak,potatoes,mac&cheese and of course dessert 🙂
Guacamole! Even when avacados are on sale it still adds up!
Hmmm . . . steak, loaded baked potato, salad, and homemade breadsticks and of course cheesecake for dessert. 🙂 Mmmm Good!
Something with shellfish! I would have to search a recipe b/c I only get it at restaurants – it would be fun to try, though!
Crab cakes with jumbo lump crab meat!
Our favorite splurge is Blackened Mahi Mahi sandwiches with sweet onion and cheddar cheese…. YUMMY!!!
Asparagus is a vegetable I never splurge on. But I love it. Fresh pineapple is a fruit we don’t get nearly enough. (We ate a ton of it on our honeymoon and developed a slight addiction to it!)
Salmon (fresh) broiled is my favorite dinner that we almost never splurge on.
We love Maple glazed chicken stuffed with ham and geuryere cheese!
One of my favorite splurge meals is Vegie Lasagna! I use lots of ricotta and Mozzerella!!! If I win this, I might add chicken to try something different. (of course it would no longer be a “vegie lasagna”. LOL
My husband’s pizza. Sooo yummy, but they end up being soo expensive when he’s in charge!
HOTDOGS! Just kidding 🙂 I love buffalo chicken pizza so simple – brown chicken in a skillett, add some franks, throw that on top of some publix pizza dough, add some cheese and waa-laa!
Our splurge is Pineapple glazed salmon with balsamic glazed asparagus and flourless chocolate souffles!
My family’s fave spurlge meal is grilled fresh shrimp. I put in the shrimp on skewers and brush with evoo, salt and pepper. Grill a few minutes on each side and serve with pasta and a green veggie! YUM-O
Oh how I would love a nice steak, salad and baked potato. Haven’t had that meal for a long time now. It would be great to make that for our 38th anniversay on March 31st.
Hmmm…I like crab.
Favorite splurge meal is shrimp pasta, good caesar salad, and Publix carrot cake or key lime cheesecake (or both) for dessert!
Splurge meal = Surf n Turf! Lobster tail and filet mignon OR Scallops and filet mignon … loveeee scallops!
I would have to say filet mignon and crab legs!!! With cheesecake for dessert.
Our favorite splurge meal is Surf & Turf (steak, lobster tail, and shrimp scampi), and maybe a little cheesecake to top it off 🙂
Ours is a Pollo Caprino Chicken; using a sauce made with a marsala wine & mushrooms. You butterfly each chicken breast and layer grilled zuccinni, red pepper and a fine goat cheese and then cook the entire stuffed breast in the marsala sauce. It is served with grilled or sauted veggies. When I do a fine Italian dish like this, it is a MUST to serve with a fine wine and make a tiramisu to top it off, yummm!
Our is kabobs cajun style. We normally use steak, chicken, sausage and shrimp. It is one of my favorite meals ever!
Our splurge is steamed crab and shrimp scampi! yum!
We love to splurge on steak and shrimp, mushrooms, tater tot casserole! Our favorite!
My fav is Honey Ginger Shrimp!!! Yummy, yummy 🙂
Our favorite meal is a New England Clam Boil. It’s a big splurge (twice a year if we’re lucky). We use steamer clams or little necks, linguica, chorico, (both Portugese sausages) corn on the cob, potatoes and onions. It’s popular in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts – Emeril has a great recipe for it from his mother.
Favorite Splurge Meal: Filet Mignon, Sauteed Mushroom, green beans, twice baked potatoes…and either banana pudding or strawberry shortcake for dessert!
I love to make a good steak dinner, with shrimp, red potatoes, and broccoli.
Love a good Lowcountry Boil – or Shrimp & Grits with Bacon Gravy…YUM! The seafood does get very pricey though – thanks!!
We love steak, chicken, and shrimp taco’s. We like to grill all of it and add onions and cilantro with a good salsa. I like to make a good cheesecake with cherry topping or if around the holiday’s A pumpkin cheesecake. Thanks for all you have done for everyone.
Steak and a great bottle of wine!!
I am no carbing with my coupon bff Joei, so I will share with her so we can protein up with a hefty New York Strip steak and how about some of those fancy micro greens and a lemony vinagrette. Mmmhh!! btw, these comments are making me hungry!!!!!!!
Grilled Steak and shrimp with lots of grilled veggies (marinated in garlic, olive oil and balsamic veniger!) and broccoli salad and homemade cheese cake….now i’m hungry!
My BF’s favorite…Filet Mignon with lobster tails, sautee’d mushrooms, twice baked potatoes, cheesey garlic biscuits.
filet mignon……..yummm!!
We have several splurges goose stuffed with apples and onions (goose is over $60.00 at publix so have not cooked it anymore for the holidays). Love steak Diane -filet mignon and Duck is our other splurge.
Italian steak and cheese sandwiches. When you are feeding 6 adults, it really adds up.
our fav splurge is actually a lot of small plates. we buy a bottle of wine, cherry smoked oysters, small sushi, a few kinds of fancy cheese, and then get a ready to cook meat, the ones that are raw but marinated behind the counter. then a pre made dessert.
Scallops with garlic mashed potatoes with a chocolate cheescake for dessert!! I am so hungry now!!!
My husband is totally a meat and tater kind of guy so we would grill steak, shrimp & baked potatoes!
Our favorite splurge meal is steak, scallops, asparagus and mashed potatoes!! Love it!
A nice steak dinner sounds great!
Steak(ribeyes), baked potato(with the works), asparagas, and some shrimp too! Cheesecake for desert!
gotta love a great surf and turf meal 🙂
steak and shrimp
Love just regular ol steamed crab legs, with a little garlic butter sauce. YUM!
Maryland steamed crabs, crab soup, and crab cakes….man, you just made me hungry!
Crab cakes!
ooh.. good old fashioned steak and baked potatoes… family of 5 (including one 17 year old boy)makes it expensive!!
surf and turf…hands down! (ribeyes and crab legs) Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
Italian Night!! Baked Zita, Lasagna, along with salad and cheesecake dessert. My family wants it to look like Olive Garden–just at home!!! YUM!
A favorite in our house is leg of lamb. I’ve been dying to try making it in the crock pot, but it’s sooo expensive!
Ribeyes, faux tatoes (mashed cauliflower w/ cream cheese & butter), and a salad with all the ‘fixins’! We love steak, but like so many others, we do not have it near as often as we would like.
Steak and Shrimp, Baked Potatoes, Salad, Corn on the Cob and Red Velvet Cake with Vanilla Bean Icecream! tracietrump@yahoo.com
Oh my goodness! It’s been a longtime since I made a splurge meal….but I would have to say Tilapia filets, spinach salad, shrimp cocktail, a potato and peanut butter pie!
I love steaks!!
We LOVE to grill Cowboy Ribeye steaks. So good… but yeah, a little pricey.
I love to make fettuccine Alfredo for my wife and the Olive Garden Salad and Breadsticks from Food Network Mags “copy” recipes!
Great giveaway, thanks!
Leroy M.
Thai pork stew with yummy pork tenderloin…mmmmmmm
We love steak & lobster.Yummy! 🙂
Our favorite splurge is seafood. We make a big batch of crab legs, some shrimp, and do tuna steaks. Yummy!!!!!!!!!!
I would love to make Paella, a Spanish dish with rice, sausage, shrimp, mussels and veggies. It’s so good!
BLACKENED MAHI MAHI WITH ROASTED POTATOES,ONIONS&PEPPERS.FAMILY FAVORITE,BUT I LOVE IT BECAUSE MY HUSBAND MAKES IT OUYSIDE!!
A favorite in our house is grilled steaks and shrimp with baked potatoes. A wonderful dessert and good bottle of wine:) OF course we don’t get this often!
Steak! 🙂
I would make Zucchini and Brie tartlets drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette (yum!) and tiramisu for dessert. What a great idea for a giveaway!
steak,lobster and cheesecake.
Filets with mushrooms and onions, loaded baked potatoes and salad. Oh, and bananas foster with vanilla ice cream for dessert :o)
I would have to say our “splurge meal” would be my husbands favorite of Spinach Salad, Flat Iron Steak w/ a Baked Potato and Chocolate Cheesecake. But this is a very rare occasion since money is tight!
Our favorite is steak with a stuffed baked potato and Red Velvet Cake
fried coconut shrimp, margaritas and cheesecake
My fav splurge would be a nice bottle of wine with my hubby’s grilled steak and asparagus, my homemade white cheddar mac n cheese and for dessert……cherry cheesecake with buttery graham crust. YUMMY!
For me it’s lobster.My husband says steak. Hey why not both!
Surf & Turf – as in steak & shrimp or lobster.
chicken marsala
Steak with vegetables
Since it didn’t appear that restaurants were ruled out… hands down for me would be ANY Japanese Steak House! Yum!!!!
My favorite spluge meal is meatloaf, baked potatoes, with gravy and mac and cheese. Oh and maybe a roll! And pecan pie!
I love a good steak with garlic butter, fresh asparagus, and a twice baked potato. Yum!
Beef fillets!
Salmon Teriyaki with scallops over angel hair pasta, steamed asparagus, a nice wine, and dark chocolate cheesecake for dessert.
I like to have wine for me, beer for my hubby, and make a big stir fry with chicken, beef, shrimp, and tons of veggies over rice. Oh – and something chocolatey and yummy for dessert!
Brie with pears, Fillet Mignon, Red potatoes and green beans, and Raspberry Cheesecake
Steak and Shrimp!! Gotta love surf and turf!!
Our favorite is a steak dinner with potatoes, green beans & almonds, and salad. Oh, and Publix creme cake for dessert!
steak and shrimp
Filet Mignon, mashed potatoes made with real butter and cream, fresh asparagus & a good bottle of wine and a decadent dessert!
Bourbon marinated Filet Mignon on the grill w/sauteed mushrooms and onions.Mashed potatoes,and steamed Broccoli and garlic.Lemon meringue pie for dessert.
Steamed crabs and crab cakes
We also love a good low country boil and I would have to add a cheese cake with caramel and whipped cream!
My favorite splurge meal is my mother in law’s steak and mushrooms, baked potatoes, salad, rolls and a delicious punch bowl cake! Haha, I just saw that tons of people are putting steak-Publix meat is the best!!:) Thanks:)
Huge T-Bone steak, baked potato, aspagus, and a glass of wine…yuuuummmmm.
T-bone steaks, baked potatos w/ sour cream and chives, and any type of cheesecake for dessert!
Blackened tuna and grilled shrimp, grilled corn on the cob and asparagus, rosemary red potatoes, and creme brulee.
If I had $50 to splurge with I would call all the girl friends for a night of Crispy Baked Chricken, homemade creamy macaroni and cheese, green beans, a fresh salad and yeast rolls. Mason jars filled with sweet tea and a chocolate milk cake. Mmmmmmmmmm!
Organic Steak and pricey wine!!!! I sure miss those since having kids and realizing I needed a budget!
Crawfish etoufee!
We love Fettuccine alfredo with schrimp, brocoli, tossed salad. chocolate browie with vanilla ice cream on top for dessert.
I would have to say crab legs and lobster. Yummy!!
Filets with mushrooms and a bottle of Reisling!
Definitely steak around here – my 8 year old is allergic to beef & I cook to accomodate him , so whenever my hubby & I get to splurge for ourselves it is STEAK! 🙂
low country boil also.. minus the carrots and crawfish 🙂
My favorite splurge meal is Jambalaya with shrimp, crawfish, sausage, salmon, kilbesa and a ton of vegetables.
Definitely beef tenderloin!
Mofongo relleno de camarones y flan de coco. Sorry Michelle, I have no idea how to translate all that but it’s mainly shrimp. 🙂
My splurge meal is a big veggie & cheese platter for appetizers, cold pasta salad, steak (for the hubby), BBQ marinated chicken & corn on the cob for dinner and a tasty fruit beverage w/ a splash of vodka for dessert!
Our favorite is beef tenderloin, asparagus, fresh corn and twice baked potatoes. My husband cooks it all and it’s delicious!
homemade lasanga with salad, garlic bread and a really yummy dessert!
My favorite meal is steak & grilled shrimp with a salad & some french bread. YUMMY! My sweet daddy made it for me yesterday for my birthday!
BBQ ribs, corn on the cob, deviled eggs, veggie tray, mashed potatoes, and on and on! 🙂
Crab Legs and Shrimp! Yummy!
I think I like the look of yours! Would you mind sharing the recipe?
Indian food or boiled crab legs – yum!
CRAB LEGS!!!
Steak and potatoes… but a really nice steak.
fondue!
steak!
We love some good ribeyes and fried shrimp with a big, fresh salad. A homemade chocolate pound cake always makes my crowd happy =)
I have to go with a steak, twice baked potatoes, and a Caesar salad and then a nap!
Filet mignon with blue cheese topping, ceasar salad and garlic bread
I would splurge on steak, shrimp and raw oysters. Then have either a cheesecake or key lime pie for dessert.
A good T-Bone cooked on the grill, with all the fixings.
I make a salad that has sliced pepperoni, diced salami, smoked gouda, capers, pepperoncini, plum tomatoes, and heart of romaine.
My favorite splurge meal would be steak. I love steak!
grilled shrimp – mmmmmmm!
I love to cook a good steak for my husband with really decadent and creamy potatoes a fresh salad a homemade chocolate desert and a great drink to go with it. Thanks
My splurge meal would be surf & turf – Rock Lobster with melted butter and Filet Mignon wrapped with thick sliced bacon with fresh sauteed asparagas and garlic mashed potatoes all served with a nice Cabernet and chocolate molten cake with real vanilla ice cream for dessert.
Filet Mignon, steamed asparagus, sweet potatoe a botte of red wine and of course some type of yummy chocolate dessert!
steak or most seafood is a splurge!
grilled salmon and garlic butter potatoes
Salmon at 7.00 a pound to 7.99 a pound at publix. For 5 of us it adds up!
I cook it with lemon juice/honey/soy sauce.
Caprese with fresh organic tomatoes and farmer’s market mozzarella — or maybe really good pizza. Wait — King Salmon! I love this contest.
My favorite is turkey with all the fixins.
My favorite splurge meal is Maine lobster and clams! YUM!
I would want to make my homemade lasagna with ground sausage, beef, and pepperoni.. It’s delicious! Plus, my special sauce and very expensive cheeses. Then, of course, you need garlic bread, an overflowing salad with all the fixings… and steamed broccoli. A bottle of wine and a couple of girlfriends make that a dream!
Good steaks with little fat on them, baked potatoes with all the fixings, corn on the cob, and homemade chream cheese pound cake for dessert.
grilled salmon and ribeye with sauted mushrooms…oh, and a cesar salad !!!
Truffle burgers, sweet potato fries, a big fresh fruit salad and a homemade cheese cake for dessert!!
My favorite splurge meal is prime rib, baked potatoes, grilled asparagus and cheesecake. Yum!!!
Grilled Salmon, Shrimp and steak. With baked potato and salad. YUMMY!!!
The favorite “splurgesque” meal at our house would be Brunswick Stew, I suppose. My husband loves it but it has quite a list of ingredients so it adds up on the shopping tally! And, I DON’T eat it, so I have to cook something separate for myself whenever I make a Brunswick Stew for him…which adds more to the tally, see?
Thanks for such a great and helpful blog!
Ribeye steak, pototo’s and a great salad!!! Simple but delicious!!!! Since the great depression of 2009, we never get to have this…lol
Low Country Boil!
I haven’t had any in awhile, b/c my husband doesn’t like fish, but I love Swordfish, so I’d buy myself some and find some other stuff to go w/ it!
We like Thai vegetable rice with tofu and fried Ice cream.
We like Thai vegetable rice with tofu.
For us, it’s steak, stuffed baked potatoes, and strawberry cheesecake for dessert.
We love steak, potatoes and salad with garlic bread. Strawberry shortcake for dessert!
Surf and turf makes everyone happy around here. My oldest son used to stare at the lobster tank everytime we went to the grocery store. He called them “monters.” Imagine his surprise when we cooked one and sat it on the table. He looked at us in dismay and said, “Eat monter???”
My favorite splurge meal is the same as yours! Often, my sisters and brother-in laws do this in a big boil outside on a gas burner(especially in the summer) around the pool!
Since it is so pricey, we all chip in or bring various items! It’s not summer–but at home on my stovetop would give me a little boost to get me on through this dreary weather in Georgia!!!!!
Bacon Wrapped Fillet Mignon with loaded baked yukon Gold Potatoes and Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce. Strawberry Short Cake for Dessert. Ohhhh Yumm!
Bacon-wrapped filets on the grill, roasted potatoes, steamed asparagus, and molten chocolate lava cakes for dessert!
I’ll start with steaks on the grill, top notch and then make some grilled veggies with it, and a sweet potato. I love a good homemade steak! Better than you can get anywhere else! the for dessert my friends moms famous italian rum cake.
Blackened Tuna, baked potato, asparagus w/ hollandaise. Lemon cheesecake for dessert.
Michelle- Wow, not many people really know about the Low country boil, That is an extra special treat at our house. We also place crab legs , my son’s favorite – We love Steak and Shrimp, we grill them both, Salad and baked potatoes.
Filets & baked potatoes!
Filet medallions grilled with a cream shitake sauce!! YUMMY!!!
Filet Mignon with blue cheese and greek salad!
Steak and Crab Legs! Thanks for everything!!!
Thanksgiving dinner! Cant go wrong there! Butter, Butter, Butter! :oP
Steak, potatoes and salad.
I absolutely love stuffed lobster with a salad and baked potato. I was born in Boston, MA and the Maine lobsters are such a good deal, but here we’re lucky if they have a sale on live lobsters. We’ll at times have to check out the current market prices, and if not too expensive, we might have some for a birthday. My mother knows how to make the stuffing and will bake the entire lobster! It’s a REAL treat! That’s one meal that we eat very slow so we can enjoy every bite!
We love gumbo! I puts lot and lots of shrimp and crab so it can be pricey, but oh so good.
A nice steak on the grilled w/ fresh zucchini and potatoes. topped off w/ some good wine
My favorite family meal is homemade pizza. We love to pile it high with ingredients and it gets rather pricey.
I would have to make grilled salmon, with vegetable and srimp skewers. with grilled corn on the cob and beked potatoes with ALOT of butter.
Appetizer – Publix brown rice sushi, yum!
Main course – Alaskan Polock salmon, steamed asparagus, and Buitoni alfredo pasta.
Dessert – Sarah Lee mini eclairs.
My mouth is watering! Thanks!
bleu cheese crusted filet mignon with lobster tails. twice baked potatoes, creamed spinach and buttermilk biscuits!
Snow Crab legs and corn on the cob!!! YUM!
My favorite meal would be Homemade Maryland Crab Cakes! Backfin Lump Crab Meat, just a little bread for binding and of course – Old Bay Seasoning!
Second favorite – Fried Soft Crab Sandwiches on Wonder Bread with crisp romaine lettuce, red ripe tomato and Hellman’s mayo -serve with a side of Utz potato chips and some ice cold Rolling Rock! Too much information????
Whatever looks good at Whole Foods when I shop there! Yogurt, bread, cheese…ribs…haha!
Vegan lasagna, red wine, vegan chocolate mousse raspberry cake.
Entree: Ham; not that it is really expensive, but there are just two of us (and an infant), so it seems like a splurge to buy something that large and pricey that we might not be able to finish. Also, any kind of barbecue (for the same reason).
Dessert: a HUGE fruit salad with pound cake (fresh fruit adds up when you use 10 different kinds!).
steak, shrimp and salmon, all grilled with roasted vegetables, garlic mashed potatoes and cumble cake for dessert!
Filet mignon with grilled asparagus and a salad plus something chocolate for dessert
Steak on a charcoal grill, loaded potatoes,salad…….then cheesecake.
Oh… my favorite meal is a great pot roast with vegetables, potatoes, cornbread, etc!
Filet Mignon, Yukon Gold mashed potatoes, asparagus, yeast rolls and chocolate cake
My favorite splurge meal is grilled fish & we know how expensive good quality fresh seafood is! Love your site!
Homemade sweet potatoe fries with a grilled pork loin and asparagus…….yummy!!!!
I guess steak is out splurge. It is so good. Plus I don’t have a lot of dishes to do because my husband cooks :0)
My favorite splurge would be any kind of seafood and steak! I love both but we rarely have them! Thanks for your great site!
Our favorite splurge meal is Chicken Spectacular. It is a terrific casserole that my kids and my husband all love, but it is very pricey to make and takes up quite a bit of our food budget. When we make it, we like to split the batch in half and share with a friend.
Shrimp and more shrimp!
My favorite meal to splurge on is filet with spinach and mushrooms at one of my favorite restaurants!!! Yummm.
My favorite splurge is not really a specific meal but any meal with my extended famiy. I love those holiday get togethers with good hamburger grilled, lots of potatoe salad, coleslaw and then a very nice dessert. Or an Easter dinner with a big ham and sides. Just anything where I can be together with my family and provide a meal and neither them nor I have to worry about the cost.
P.S. Remember Easter is coming very soon.
My fav is also “LOW COUNTRY BOIL” When we have this both my kids all their family come… If I have this and don’t tell them… my name is “MUD”
Lamb roast dinner!
My favorite splurge meal is grilled steaks, steamed veggies and cheesy potatoes! The splurge is the steaks, everything else is pretty inexpensive!!!
I splurge on steaks for grilling in the summertime.
Really thick and fresh Salmon steaks with crab cakes and stuffed mushrooms with a fantastic white wine. Yummy!!!
My favorite splurge meal ever was Paula Deen’s Foolproof standing rib roast. Oh. My. Goodness. I made it for Christmas last year and the roast alone was $50 and that was when it was on sale. It was amazing. I sure would love to make that again.
My favorite family meal is a crab boil. My family loves seafood and to boil crabs, shrimp, corn, sausage and potatoes in a big pot would make my family very very happy. Thanks for all the giveaways.
We love to splurge on Sunday breakfast – Creme Brulee French Toast w/ Drunken Strawberries always works!
My favorite splurge is to get a few large steaks and grill them for my family with some baked potatoes and a nice large salad. The best summer meal there is after a long day of work and play!!!
CRABLEGS!! 🙂
Steaks!
Our favorite splurge meal is t-bone steak (or rib eye), lots of mushrooms, baked potatoes, roasted or grilled asparagus and a nice salad.
Our favorite splurge meal is grilled Ribeye steaks, potatoes, and salad.
My favorite splurge meal is filet mignon and shrimp with steamed/grilled veggies (depending on the weather).
My favorite splurge is Snow Crab Legs. The kids always come around the table to snag some!!!
My favorite splurge meal is steak for the hubby and either crablegs or lobster for me. Shrimp for my daughter, pizza lunchables for two of the boys, and spaghettios for the other boy.
Our favorite is making ribeyes with mushrooms and onions! Along with a nice side and a salad.
My favorite splurge meal is steak, baked potatoes, salad and homemade apple pie for desert.
it is a toss up between steaks and crab legs for my family of 7. I’ve never made the low country boil but I’ve had it before….that would be nice.
Country boil or surf & turf
Our favorite splurge meal is Surf and Turf. A nice juicy grilled steak and a delicious buttery drenched Lobster Tail….yummy..yummy..:-)
Oh and Ben and Jerry’s Karmal Sutra ice cream for dessert. Yum-o !! It’s the best!!
Some nice grilled ribeyes and a yummy lobster tail. MMMM!!
Homemade PIZZA”S with the works!!!!! YUM! ☺
King crab legs, lobster tails or filet mignon!
lobster…lobster…lobster!!!
turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, mac and cheese…apple pie and ice cream-basically Thanksgiving dinner! 🙂
We love a low country boil too! Our special meal would honestly be that (I just made it 2 weeks ago for my hubby’s birthday), or crab legs… or maybe blue crab. Seafood for sure!!
Filet mignons!!!
Well my husband’s favorite meal is steak but we rarely have it! He is graduating from college next month so this would make a great celebration dinner! =-)
I’m with you Michelle. Seafood is our big treat. Must be a Southern thang!
My splurge meal is Beef Tenderloin with chimichurri sauce, Steamed Lobster tails and Mashed Potatoes with gravy.
My favorite SPLURGE meal is going to eat at FIVE GUYS BURGERS! YUM!
My favorite splurge meal is steak, potatoes, bread, and a good dessert (chocolate anything!!)
My favorite splurge is steaks for the grill…and with all the nice weather we’ve had lately it may be time to break out the grill for a cookout!!!
Grilled steaks and all the fixings that go with it!
Lasagna made with “real” Italian sausage, ricotta cheese, and sliced mozzeralla cheese! Yummy!
Filet Mignon…(and have my dad cook it, his are always the best) Twice baked potatoes, prosciutto wrapped asparagus and my moms homemade rolls. Then for dessert it’s gotta be her brownie pie…whoa my mouth is watering!
Oh suffrin’ succ-o-tash! We live in the Low Country and you are makin’ me mouth a water!
Well, since we are pretty much coupons snobs and there are rarely (no pun intended) coupons for steak, I would have to say my splurge meal would be a good, thick and juicy steak (pan seared and oven finished with some lemon butter and salt ‘n pepper, please)!
Since we have 4 of the male kind in the house and only 2 of us women folk, it would take a whole lotta red meat beef critter slabs to go around! So my choice would be STEAK, steak and more steak! Did I mention I like STEAK? hehe
ooh mine is steamed halibut with asparagus! Yummy
We love fondue!!!! It can get pricey!!!!!
My splurge meal is lobster tails ! We have it for thanksgiving or christmas
My hubby loves steaks, and I love fish! My fave is saving so much on groceries that there’s leftover money in the budget to go eat out and skip the cooking!
OMG Lasagna!!!! I could easily spend $30 on the loads of cheese I stuff into it! Yummy!
I splurge on Creamy Chicken Enchiladas with yellow rice and black beans. The recipe feeds an army, so it is my go-to when we are having guests. It’s a pretty expensive meal to prepare (by my standards anyway)-lots of cream soups and cheese in there.
Mmmm….reading these entries have made me hungry 🙂 Homeade pizza…w/ REAL CHEESE…homeade barbeque sauce…rotisserie chicken…and grilled red onions!!
My husband favorites is lamb racks and my famous rissotto with aspargus sauted in butter but that meal can be pricy so its a special occasion only.
Bacon wrapped filets with loaded baked potatoes. Oh how good it is!
Shrimp boil!
My favorite splurge is Barbecue chicken salad–it takes fresh herbs and lots of different fresh veggies>it it WONDERFUL!!
Homemade Chicken Marsala…. mmmmm… its a lot of preparation to make it, but well worth the effort.
My Favorite Splurge meal has got to be Pina-Colada Shrimp.. The sad thing is that Fresh Large Shrimp run about $14.99 A pd and you only get about 10 🙁
crawfish bisque
My favorite splurge meal is filet mignon with lobster. YUM. This contest is making me hungry!
Steaks with sweet potatoes, green beans and bacon and then a chocolate obsession cake from the Publix bakery!
Steaks!
Favorite splurge meal has got to be steak dinner, fresh veggies, sweet potatoes, and a good bottle of cabernet.
Mmmm…
My husband loves a fancy version of Mac and Cheese with gruyere cheese, and I love blue cheese salads with beets – OK not too expensive, but hard to splurge on!
mmm gotta be steak, potatoes, veggies and dessert of course 🙂
Best organic veggies from Publix works for us. You can easy spent a lot on just that detail of the meal and of course fresh baked bread and cheese.
I love this special vegetarian lasagne with gourmet cheeses, butternut squash, 3 kinds of mushrooms, and fresh noodles- yum! Served with salad and fresh bread. . . . my mouth is watering. Don’t make it often b/c the cheeses and produce costs really add up and its just not the same if you cut down on ingredients or use Kraft cheese.
Gumbo
steak, we only have it once or twice a year.
My favorite splurge meal is the recipe for California Pizza Kitchen’s Chicken Tequila Pasta! It costs about $45 to make, so the $50 giftcard would be perfect!!
I our house steak is definitely a splurge, and mashed sweet potatoes.
I love a pork roast with a guava sauce over the top; sweet potatoes; yellow rice; avocado salad; cuban bread w/garlic. For dessert– A strawberry cheesecake
Low country boil is also our splurge! Usually it is for someone’s birthday and our family comes over to eat!
Hi, I’m was born in Savannah and Low Country Boil is one of our favorite things to make. As kids, we would go out with Daddy and catch our own shrimp. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Hope to win.
Anything vegetarian. It’s amazing how the produce and cheeses really add up!
Spaggetti alla Carbonara – I use 3/4 lb. of Pancetta from the deli (around $7) and the REAL Parmesean and Romano cheeses that I grate by hand (easily another $10.) And, since you have to raw eggs, I splurge on the pasturized ones. But, its so yummy!!!
We love nice big juicy fillets wrapped in bacon and a smorgasbord of sides. Baked potatoes, grilled aspargus wrapped in bacon, dinner rolls and anything else we can think of!!!
We love King Crab legs!! and anything else to go with them 🙂
Crablegs!
Definitely steak here!!
My splurge meal is similar to yours. Just give me pounds and pounds of CRAB LEGS!!! Yummmmmmy! Haven’t been able to afford those in years. Would be a real treat 🙂
Steak,baked potato (french fries for hubby) and asparagus
Thick ribeye steaks, grilled to perfection!, with baked sweet potatoes, salad, fresh green beans, and dessert!
Our favorite splurge meal is easy – it’s Prime Rib dinner with roasted veggies – I’ve got an awesome recipe that I use for the Prime Rib – the veggies are just, asparagus, red bell, carrots, potatoes, onion mixed with your favorite seasonings and EVOO, roast – yum. The Prime rib is easy – the key is to never open the oven door!!!!
I have to say I am with the masses on this one. Steak for sure with a topping of creamy shrimp for us and a side of arugela and parmesan salad!! Gosh, now I’m hungry!!!!!!
My husband would love a steak as he never get them anymore.
We LOVE a massive pan of Baked Ziti with all the fixins, garlic bread, salad, and of course some yummy wine!
Prime rib, roasted veggies, au graten potates with Tirmisu for dessert. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
By far my favorite meal is steaks on the grille! Add big baked potatoes with butter, sour cream and bacon. A side salad with some Ranch dressing! YUM! It’s my husband’s favorite too…
Low country boil!!!!
My favorite meal is anything that I can throw together on the grill and invite my family and friends over to enjoy it together.
Favorite Meal is the complete one with Veggie rich salad, eggplant parmigiana and ooh ooh ooh Tiramisu and of course a blush wine 🙂
Oh there are so many things I don’t spend money on…Salmon would be on the top of the list and Avocado’s!! I could make something yummy with those two splurge items.
My favorite meal is Seafood Gumbo. I just recently got the recipe from my Aunt but havent had the money to buy the seafood. My Uncle is a true Cajun from Louisianna and I remember when i was a little girl them coming to visit and they would make Seafood Gumbo.
I love a good low country boil, but my favorite splurge meal would be steak and lobster. Yum!
A steak dinner!
Steak, steak, and more steak. Yummy yum yum!
fresh fish for me, steak for my husband
with baked potatoes, broccoli for me, green beans for my husband
our 2 daughters just get to pick 🙂 As you can see, most meals turn into bigger meals b/c my husband and i have such different taste buds
We love to BBQ ribeyes, with corn on the cob, coleslaw etc…. This would be awesome to win~!
Definitely the crawfish boil. Wish I could get them more!!!
My favortie splurge is baked ham with pineapple rings, smashed red potatoes and gravy and homemade yeast rolls. Yummy!
We splurge is steak as its too expensive to have on a bi-weekly menu.
I LOVE sea scallops sauteed in white wine and olive oil with garlic. When the budget doesn’t allow – I just use bay scallops!
My grandmother’s gumbo! She was from New Orleans and my mother watched her make it one day and wrote the recipe down (because grandma just had the recipe in her head). Very yummy and a great memory for my family when we make it! 🙂
Grilled steak with asiago mushrooms. Yum!
We love a good steak and seafood.
My splurge is steak and baked potatoes. I love this meal.
Corned beef and cabbage. Corned beef is always so pricey, too bad Albertsons doesn’t have a B1G2 Q for those!!!
Definitely a surf and turf meal…with fresh jumbo shrimp and a really good cut of steak (of course I’d still have to wait for it to go on sale…it’s just in my blood to be cheap!) =)
Homemade mannicotti. I make everything from scratch and the ingredients for it all really add up.
Some grilled chicken and steak would be great for your biggest fan! Some baked potatoes and salad while reading your blog! I’m a junkie!
Mmmm lobster risotto with seared scallops.
Shrimp etoufee and a nice bottle of wine!
Lobster Thermidore (with a nice wine!)
Crab & steak!
My mom’s recipe for lasgana………….oh so good! Makes me think of my mom!
Our favorite splurge meal is fresh lobster linguine served with asparagus and white wine. A simple Italian recipe with fresh ingredients and homemade pasta. So delicious!
Well, it’s getting to be the right weather for a great cook-out! A boston butt smoked, shredded then slathered with BBQ sauce. Along with my awesome potato salad, a huge chef’s salad, and of coarse brownies that cost me (no joke) $20 in ingredients alone to make (and over an hours’ worth of time). I haven’t figured out how to cut the recipe in half, so it’s quite a rare treat!
We love to grill a nice steak, baked potato, grilled vegetables, salad, and a homemade apple pie for dessert!
RIBEYE STEAKS SEASONED WITH MONTREAL STEAK SPICE COOKED ON THE GRILL, SALAD, BAKED POTATO AND GARLIC BREAD. THE ONLY WAY TO MESS UP A RIBEYE IS IF YOU BURN IT.
We have shrimp boils every summer!! A gifftcard would be a great way to fund it!! It is a great way to enjoy the season with good friends!
its gotta be steak – nothing beats it, and we rarely buy it anymore. We love to grill them with foil-wrapped-sweet potatoes with cinnamon and butter and foil-wrapped-cabbage quarters also with butter and salt/pepper to flavor. YUM! THIS IS MY FAMILY’S FAVORITE MEAL!!
Homemade lasagne… my husband loves it! Along with a nice green salad, garlic bread and green beans with bacon. It takes a lot of time to put it together and cook it, so it’s definitely a treat.
Sea bass or crab boil!
Lobster and crab legs are my favorite splurge meals.
filet mignon, grilled veggies and some kind of potato.
My favorite splurge meal would have to be anything that came out of the fresh seafood case. My husbands would have to be a good ribeye. So together it would be Surf and Turf with a baked potato and ceasar salad. Yeah! I could spend a good $50.00 on that meal.
A big Cuban feast since Friday is my b-day this would be awesome 🙂
A crayfish and crab boil def!!! It about that time too!
Surf and Turf!! A good steak with crab cakes and shrimp sauce. YUMM!!
Hmmm…Not very excited, but we used to splurge on a couple of filet mignon with some baked potato and salad (blue cheese dressing, yum!) Haven’t done that in a while. 🙂
Would be surf and turf blend.
Appetizer would be boiled cajun seasoned fresh shrimp. Husband would have to have a New York Strip, me a grilled Salmon (from fresh seafood case) and our son can eat his weight in crab legs (18yrs old bottomless)served with fresh salad, twice baked potatoes (3),fresh steamed broccoli, nice bottle of wine for hubby and I. Dessert would be a red velvet cake (my son’s favorite).
Definitely Filet, Loaded Baked Potato, and Grilled Veggies!!! Yummies!! (as my little one says 🙂
Seafood. I would feast on Lots and lots of seafood. Crab, shrimp, scallops. 🙂
A REALLY good cut of steak with sauteed mushrooms and onions in a burgandy sauce. My sides would be roasted asparagus and cauiliflower. yummy!!!
A big, fat juicy ribeye steak with mushrooms, baked potato with about 5 toppings, fresh veggies, some super fresh yeast rolls with honey butter, and carrot cake for dessert. YUMMY!
Our favorite is some really great ribeye steaks on the grill complete with baked potatoes all dressed up and freshly steamed brocoli. Thanks!
Homemade chicken alfredo pizza with fresh baby spinach and minced garlic…YUM!
Definitely crab legs with yellow rice and fresh green beans. It makes such a beautiful plate and more importantly is duh-licious!!! Oh yeah – can’t forget the yeast rolls. And garlic butter dipping sauce for the crab. And DESSERT! Gotta think on that one 😉
Ahhhhh – I love food
Steak and lobster is always my favorite!
Surf and turf. We love crab and great steak. It’s hard to decide which is our favorite. Haven’t had eith in a long time. Thanks-
Seafood is definatly a splurge and so yummy!
Yum!
Anything seafood!
I lived in Hawaii for a year and fell in love with a dish called “Kahlua Pork”. I usually make it with pork tenderloin instead of a roast, it is much leaner (but more expensive)!
I would love to make a steam pot with a $50 gift card.
Sushi grade tuna for sashimi with wasabi & soy sauce. Add a nice salad and it is PERFECT!!!
Everythime a Red Lobster ad comes across the TV my mouth waters….I would love to buy and cook a lobster meal for me and my hubby!
Beef tenderloin, grilled corn on the cob, baked potatoes, creme brulee for dessert!
Pepper-crusted filet mignon with a light blue cheese sauce.
Baked potato with butter.
Fresh, organic green beans.
A glass of gorgeous red wine.
Mmmmmmmmmmm.
p.s. I do heart Publix. And this blog. 😉
I’d like to use it to repay all the genourous invitations I have received. Have everyone over for a cook-out! What a party that would be!
I would make lasagna or a homemade pizza (chicken, spinach, artichoke, tomatoes, alfredo sauce…yummy)
My favorite is anything mexican.
Shrimp and Asparagus! 2 very expensive but tasty favorites 🙂
our favorite splurge meal is seafood alfredo… yumm
My family loves fettucini alfredo with shrimp, salad and fresh bread. Yum!
Steak with a loaded baked potatoe and a very nice salad with a colorful variety of vegetables!
Steak and seafood dinner….yummmmm!!!
A nice, thick steak and loaded baked potatoe.
I love to make homemade sushi rolls – but they are pretty expensive and with a family of 6…we need a lot!
My husband loves a good steak, but meat is hard to find coupons for!
it is shrimp and crab mornay… yummy but pricey.
I’ve just recently begun using this site, and love it!!! And it would be great to win a gift card on top of all the great deals!! Thanks for all that you do!
Steak Marsala and Mussels in a white wine sauce, is my husband’s absolute favorite.
That’s a tough one…one favorite? Probably my husband’s homemade chicken fettuccine alfredo. All the fresh cheese adds up, but it tastes SO good!
steak for him and sea bass for me…yum! Thanks for the opportunity!
Definitely a huge mexican meal – red chili pasole – tortillas, sopapillas, green chili enchiladas and all the fixings to make burritos or nachos, tacos, etc and invite whoever will come – we even started doing this for christmas – makes for the best leftovers too after the party is over!
We love a low country boil too! We have it at least once a year, and always on our anniversary. One thing we haven’t had in years though is crablegs, yumm!!
Steak, low country boil, some good fish…you name it, we love it!
I love to make Thanksgiving Dinner in June. Full spread.
I would buy a very nice cut of steak for my husband and some sort of seafood for myself, including crab legs. 😀
Sounds like a fantastic give-away!
I have become so frugal lately with couponing that we never splurge anymore (such as eating out or fancy homemade meals!)This would surely be a great treat!
Thanks
I LOve baby back ribs, baked potatoes, grilled corn on the cob and rolls. Hmmmm!
Ribeye Steak and Grilled Shrimp….hope I win!!
Filet Mignon from publix with cheddar mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus! Key lime pie for dessert!
Steak and chicken marsala with garlic mashed potatoes!
My friend told me about your website and I love it! I would love a huge italian meal for my family. Thanks
My husband says for his last meal he wants my shrimp scampi on angel hair pasta with asparagus and crab bisque.
Crablegs are my favorite splurge meal at home, out is Sushi 🙂
Stone crab or some great shrimp or marinated salmon, here! 🙂
Thanks for a great giveaway!!
Salmon and crab legs!
Steak! Steak! Steak!
Salmon with Brown Rice accompanied by a salad covered in toasted almonds, strawberries and blue cheese dressing! Yum Yum:)
Beef tenderloin… yummy.
Our favorite is a low country boil too. My 4 year old loves to eat crab legs. She gets it from her Mama.
Steak and lobster
You just can’t beat a great steak! Thanks for all you do.
We love splurging with steak, twice baked potatoes & steamed broccoli!!! 🙂 I love your website! Thanks for all of your hard work.
I’m taking cooking classes and would love to relicate the lamb catchatori we made last night!
a NY strip, loaded twiced baked potaotes, with seared ahi tuna for an appetizer & of course a nice bottle of wine. we would love to have this meal again, it’s been too long. yummy
My favorite Splurge Meal is Shrimp Scampi with a white wine and garlic butter sauce, whole grain bakery bread, steamed asparagus, seasoned fingerling potatoes and homemade chocolate mousse with berries for dessert.
heaven.
Crusted Seabass topped with pan seared lump crab meat
Seafood Gumbo with fresh bread
Steak and Grilled Shrimp…I hope I win!!
My favorite meal is this amazing vietnamese egg roll recipe that I got from my friend who is actually from Vietnam. It’s AMAZING, but a little costly and takes some work! I would love to splurge!!!
REALLY GOOD steak and potatoes. I’m a simple kind of a guy, but I like the expensive steaks.
My favorite splurge meal is a few really nice cuts of steak, potatoes, shrimp kabobs, fresh green beans and a nice loaf of artisian bread. A little simple, but I’m a midwestern gal at heart!
Gotta be grilled grouper!
We love a great steak & potato dish, but your boil sounds so good we might have to try that one! Please send me tips on how you cook yours (how long, any spices, etc) thanks!
I love to grill up some steaks and fix sun dried tomato rissoto. Oh the cream and parmesan mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
I would make some boiled lobster, creamed garlic mashed potatoes, and a baby arugula spinach salad with candied pumpkin seeds and honey-lemon dressing. And for dessert (you can’t skip dessert!): a 5-layer chocolate, pecan cream pie.
A good thick steak. Marinate that baby for at least a day and half and you can’t do better than that
Lemon Pepper Salmon, Grilled Shrimp, Jasmine Rice, Steamed Broccoli, Freash Strawberries and Rasberry Lemonade
One of my household of 6 meals is petite sirlon steak marinated for two days in our special sauce, mashed potatoes with green beans, but i also make with this meal a bread bowl filled with cheese sauce, shrimp, lobster, crawfish, and crab. I make the sauce then add it to the bread bowl and put it in the over with the cut up pieces of the inside of the bread bowl around it so it can be toasted a little. We also add a great movie and we sit around in the living room as one whole family and pig out while enjoying a great movie!