![]() it doesn’t have to be the same meal every night. Get creative! Add different spices, makes casseroles, etc. There are endless variations you can make on these. Baked (or slow cooked) chicken and rice, veggies.Īlso see: The $20 meal plan for more recipe ideas.chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy (make sure to use the broth from your chicken in the gravy!).Potato and broccoli soup (using broth from chicken you’ve cooked previously), devilled eggs.Chicken-veggie soup (carrots, onions, potatoes, rice).Stir-Fry (cabbage, onion, and carrots), with chicken and rice.Bean and cheese burritos with salsa.( make refried beans in the crockpot at the beginning of the week to cut out prep time). ![]() ![]() eggs, oatmeal (with butter and fruit) or hash browns/fried potatoes.Frozen veggies, 3 bags, $2.97 (See why I buy frozen veggies).**these prices are all real, current prices from grocery stores in the greater Nashville area** Subscribe Powered by ConvertKit A Healthy Diet For $20 A Week I'd like to receive the free email course. If you fill this in, you will be marked as a spammer. Update: This is new and exciting! Now you can get the $20 Meal Plan Printable Shopping list and meal plan for free by filling out the form below! Can easily be made dairy-free by swapping out the butter for another cooking oil, and the cheese for your preference of substitute.They’ll be cheaper, and taste way, way better. By the way, if you have time and inclination, you could buy a bag of masa and make your own tortillas instead. I suppose some folks might consider packaged corn tortillas to be manufactured food, but they’re basically made with masa and water. It Provides a daily average of 117 grams of protein per person.Mine feeds two people based on a 2,000 calorie per day diet – which is why this actual list totals $40.Here are the differences between my list, and Money Saving Mom’s: I’m so excited to report that you can have a healthy diet for a mere $20.00 per week! With that in mind, I drug Gabriel and the kids through the store, where I basically wrote down how much everything cost, then we went home and crunched a bunch of numbers. Just a good old fashioned shopping list and menu plan.Įven though that particular plan wouldn’t work for us because of Gabriel’s food allergies (specifically, he’s allergic to gluten), I knew there had to be a few substitutions we could use to still come up with a bare bones, $30 or less gluten-free recipe meal plan.Īfter some more thought, (about the fact that I function so much better on a relatively high protein diet) I got to wondering how much protein I could pack into such a tight grocery budget. It’s so simple, no coupon clipping or deal crunching. Have you ever seen Money Saving Mom’s article about feeding yourself on $30 a week? It showed up in my Pinterest feed a while back, and I was super inspired when I saw it.
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