Low-cost Eats Week 3 (Heat Climate)

Week 3 of a budget eats meal plan brings much more selection with out overcomplicating your grocery checklist. You’ll discover meals which are cozy, recent, and stuffed with taste—together with a foil packet dinner, a household favourite pizza night time, and a vibrant lemony rooster dish that’s good for spring or summer time.

By now, you’ve obtained a stocked pantry, and that’s going to maintain your haul small and your prices even decrease this week.

Keep in mind, this plan is versatile. You don’t must prepare dinner each meal within the actual order—and even make all seven. You may double up on favorites, skip an evening, or throw in a leftovers day and nonetheless keep on observe. Our free customization software (in beta) enables you to simply regulate serving sizes, swap out recipes, and generate a brand new purchasing checklist based mostly in your selections.

And in case you’re extra of a visible learner, you’re in luck! Every recipe has a step-by-step video tutorial on our web site to information you thru it.

A decorative image showing the menu for week 3 of the Cheap Eats Meal Plan.

Don’t neglect to take a look at the opposite weeks of the plan and the pantry staples information. You may combine and match throughout the complete 4-week plan or customise any week to suit your wants.

Fast Tip

For the rooster salad sandwiches, you’ll purchase grapes however solely want a couple of for the precise recipe. Serve the remaining on the aspect all through the week as a snack or a simple fruit choice with one other meal.

Grocery Haul

This week’s purchasing journey is smaller than the final two, due to the pantry staples you’ve already bought. You’ll largely be choosing up recent produce, meat, and some extras like bread and cheese.

Don’t neglect to obtain the Week 3 Shopping List PDF to make your grocery run quick and simple.

Groceries for the third week of the Cheap Eats Meal Plan laid out on a kitchen counter.

Receipt

Whole Spent: $111.99
Whole Servings: 42
Common Value Per Serving: $2.67

Week 3 is available in on the lowest price thus far, with beneficiant serving sizes throughout the board. Costs are based mostly on a typical grocery run—no coupons, no bulk shopping for, simply practical prices.

Fast Tip

This week’s meal plan makes use of 5 kilos of floor beef. You is likely to be pondering, “That’s a whole lot of beef!” However we promise, unfold all through the week and with completely different flavors, you gained’t even discover. Floor beef is a superb protein that’s straightforward to prepare dinner and shops properly within the freezer. There are such a lot of alternative ways you possibly can serve floor beef—it’s certainly one of our go-tos after we don’t know what to make for dinner.

The Recipes

A photo of Rachel in The Stay At Home Chef Kitchen with the meals from Week 1 of the Cheap Eats Meal plan on display on the kitchen counter.

Proper above, you’ll discover a snapshot of all seven meals this week, laid out with portion sizes so you possibly can see precisely what you’re getting. Serving sizes might be arduous to image, so we made certain to point out what every recipe appears like plated.

There’s additionally a fast video walkthrough that provides you a take a look at the complete unfold.

Let’s break it down meal by meal:

Monday

Flip floor beef and noodles right into a hearty, tacky consolation meals meal! This straightforward, one-pot recipe has been a family staple for over a century. Our recipe serves 8 utilizing a half pound of pasta, however you possibly can simply use the entire pound for extra servings and leftovers! Simply be sure that so as to add 1 additional cup of beef broth and don’t simmer it fairly as lengthy to keep up the appropriate consistency.

Old Fashioned American Goulash

A consolation meals favourite made with floor beef and pasta in a tomato-based stew. Made with easy, reasonably priced components and multi functional pot!

Tuesday

Add some colour and selection to your week with this straightforward stuffed bell pepper recipe. Our Tex-Mex floor beef and rice combination brings the flavour! In case you’re wanting so as to add a aspect, we advocate our Slow Cooker Refried Beans.

Easy Stuffed Bell Peppers

These bell peppers are filled with a scrumptious tacky floor beef and rice combination. Tremendous straightforward to make and so they’re prepared in about an hour!

Wednesday

We love something fajita over right here! This flavorful salad is packed stuffed with tender, completely seasoned rooster, lettuce, and veggies. Plus, you’ve your very personal fajita seasoning combine constructed from the pantry staples.

Chicken Fajita Salad

Skinny Hen Fajita Salad is a recipe you’ll use again and again. This salad is prepared in below 15 minute making it the proper fast wholesome meal.

Thursday

Considered one of our favourite straightforward dinners! This vibrant and zesty pasta dish is made in a single pot and makes use of a handful of components, making it a weeknight (and pockets) win. In case you’re wanting to avoid wasting money and time, go forward and use rotisserie rooster as an alternative of rooster breasts.

Lemon Chicken and Orzo

Maintain dinner straightforward with Lemon Hen and Orzo! A zesty, creamy, one-pot meal full of rooster, parmesan, and herbs—prepared in 45 minutes.

Friday

Pizza night time made straightforward! No must make your individual dough with this recipe. Simply pile on the cheese and your favourite toppings for a dinner everybody will love. In case you’re wanting so as to add a aspect to this dish, we advocate a veggie plate—straightforward on time and your pockets.

Garlic French Bread Pizza

A layer of garlic butter is our secret to the perfect French Bread Pizza. It’s by no means been simpler to throw collectively a cheap pizza night time!

Saturday

This one-pot rooster and rice dinner is essentially the most scrumptious and simple consolation meals, full with a inexperienced veggie and gooey cheddar cheese. In case you’re trying to beef up your meal and create extra servings, we advocate including an additional cup or two of broccoli.

One Pot Chicken Broccoli & Rice

Creamy, tacky one-pot rooster broccoli & rice made with actual components. Excellent for busy weeknights and no canned soup required!

Sunday

These tinfoil dinners mix easy components, and also you don’t even want a campfire to make them! Load up your packets with floor beef and your favourite veggies, and throw them over the grill or within the oven.

Hobo Foil Packets

These hobo foil packets are stuffed with taste with juicy patties and seasoned veggies. Make within the oven, on the grill, or over campfire coals.

Make It Work for You

This plan is versatile. If seven dinners per week is an excessive amount of in your schedule, skip a pair and simply use leftovers or repeat your favorites. If certainly one of these recipes isn’t your factor, it’s completely high quality to swap it out.

We’ve obtained a customization tool in beta that allows you to do precisely that—regulate servings, swap meals, and generate a brand new purchasing checklist based mostly in your adjustments. It’s not fancy, however it will get the job completed.