Healthy, yet wallet friendly meals?

ocaudle8912

I've been trying to give myself a $15-$20 budget with my checks lately (though it rarely happens) and I was wondering what meals I could create while not going over my two week budget, if at all possible.

martyqueen52

I do this weekly, literally every week.

- get a 3lb bag of chicken
- crock-pot
- 2 small / medium bottles or 1 LARGE bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce, or salsa, or hot sauce
- throw chicken and ALL of the sauce in bottle into a crock pot
- slow cook for 8 hours on LOW

After 8 hours, remove chicken, and you can either shred it, or leave whole. Make wraps, sandwiches, mix it with veggies, or eat as is. Should last you Monday-Friday. Very cheap too maybe 10$ for sauce + chicken, and add an extra 2-3$ for bread for wraps or sandwiches.

Laurend224

Rice, dried beans and lentils are very inexpensive. So are oatmeal and frozen veggies.

Zinka61

I'll mix a can of pinto beans with some frozen spinach, salt and pepper in microwave for lunch. It's cheap, filling, and healthy, and it takes only 5 minutes.

Lizzy622

Laurend224 wrote: »

Rice, dried beans and lentils are very inexpensive. So are oatmeal and frozen veggies.

Plus eggs, potatoes, carrots and onions and you can probably come up with quite a few meals on $20.

SueInAz

Stir fry is cheap. Buy the bags of store brand frozen stir fry (or asian) veggies. For one person you'll probably use 1/4 to 1/3 of the bag for each meal and you can usually buy them for $1 to $1.50. Add a few ounces of cooked lean protein (chicken, beef, pork, shrimp, tofu) which can even be leftovers from another meal, a little oil, a little soy sauce, some garlic and/or ginger and get it nice and hot. Serve just like that or over some steamed white rice or cooked spaghetti noodles.