Day 18 - January 21, 2014: Slow Cooker Beef Stew

I had bought some stew meat at the $5 sale last week.  So, I decided to make stew and use up some of the stuff in my refrigerator, like the celery that I bought to make tuna or egg salad 3 weeks ago, which I never ended up making.  Then I looked up a stew recipe (http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-beef-stew-i/) and lined up my ingredients:

As you can see, I used only about 1/2 the amount of meat and threw in more veggies and potatoes to make up for it and to make it under $10.  And here is the list of ingredients:

1 1/2 cups of beef broth: $1.30
1.25 pounds of beef: $5.00
5 red potatoes: $0.50
1 yellow onion: $0.70
5 carrots: $0.25 (the 1 pound bag was $0.49 at Aldi!!)
Brussel Sprouts (2 handfulls?): $1.32
4 stalks of celery: $0.89
Condiments needed for recipe: negligible
Total: $9.96

I made it according to the directions on allrecipe.com and this is what I got:

Verdict:
Good taste overall.  The meat was a little dry but it was the perfect dish for today's snow day.