Five weeknight dishes: Budget-friendly and downright delicious

Every year around this time, I look at the calendar, and I low-key panic. With tax season and summer child care costs looming, I have to start cutting back on, well, everything. I’m keeping a close(r) eye on food spending: making sure we’re eating or freezing leftovers, bringing lunch to work, skipping the late-afternoon lattes, etc., ad nauseam.