Feeding your family on a budget is no easy task. Feeding them healthy eats on a budget can seem practically impossible. There is hope, though! There are a few surefire ways to eat cheap and healthy, like working meatless meals into your meal plan, using seasonal fruits and veggies, and limiting the number of ingredients required for each dish.
Below is a meal plan that employs these strategies to provide your family with a week’s worth of meals that are satisfying, healthy, and easy on the pocketbook.
You don’t have to sacrifice flavor or an interesting presentation with these black bean croquettes! Starting a meatless Monday tradition is a great way to save money and eat healthy. Beans and legumes are cheap and full of protein and fiber.
The tasty Mexican-inspired flavors of this dish are sure to give your meatless Monday a kick!
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This tasty pork tenderloin recipe is deliciously seasoned to create a healthy and flavorful dinner. Pork tenderloin is on sale pretty frequently. Watch your grocery store’s ads and pick up a few while they’re cheap. Grits are well known amongst Southerners for being versatile, affordable, and filling.
Pasta is a great way to stretch your dinner dollar. This spaghetti Carbonara recipe combines frozen peas, a little bacon, and cheese with pasta to create a quick and easy dinner. This recipe is also very quick, which is perfect for busy Wednesday nights.
This dish is fairly simple and employs a lot of pantry staples to create a delicious, flavorful dinner. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and often times the cheapest to prepare, so turning classic morning dishes into dinner is a great way to save money and eat well.
These simple sesame soba noodle bowls are easy to customize. Use whatever veggies you have on hand, substitute the black sesame seeds for white ones, or the orange juice for pineapple juice to make a unique, flavorful dinner for your family.
Who doesn’t love pizza? It is the heavy favorite when it comes to dinner at my house, and anything that even remotely resembles pizza is always well received. This homemade pizza uses canned biscuits for the crust and canned pizza sauce to create a quick, easy, and cheap dinner.
Sunday chicken takes on a new meaning with this yummy and fairly simple chicken parmesan recipe. If you need to save some time, buy a jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce instead of the homemade tomato sauce listed in the recipe. Serve this chicken over the pasta of your choice or even zoodles if you want to make your Sunday dinner even more veggie-filled.
While fairly simple, club sandwiches are a hearty and filling dinner idea when you’re short on time. There are so many potential variations using whatever you happen to have in the fridge. Get creative with your sandwich toppings, and add lots of veggies to make the sandwiches healthier!
Eating healthy and eating cheap don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Planning ahead and using the strategies mentioned above can save you money and help you feed your family dinners that are healthy and delicious.
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