How To Turn a $50 Grocery Haul into 20 Healthy Meals

If you’re new here, my budget grocery series is where I show you how a little bit of planning can really help reduce grocery costs, even when you’re eating nutritious, delicious meals. I started doing this series in early 2023 and every time I do, I have more and more fun with putting the menu together. This week, I shared my most recent iteration where I took a $50 grocery haul and turned it into five recipes. It’s no secret that groceries are getting more and more expensive and it can be so tough to figure out how to budget for groceries while also eating delicious and healthy meals. My hope as always is that this grocery list and meals to go along with it help you and your family eat well on a budget.

This is the full post with links to each recipe from my latest grocery series where I took a single $50 grocery trip and turned it into five different recipes, or 20 servings of delicious, healthy food! While you’re at it, make sure you’re subscribed to my newsletter where I send all of this information and weekly recipe recaps right to your inbox! PLUS, I just launched my YouTube channel and made long-form videos to go with the grocery shopping AND every recipe from this week, so please subscribe and check out the videos so you can cook along with me!

You can find all of the videos for the series on my Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube. Be sure to follow me there for more videos like this!

Head to my Grocery Series page to see all of the ones I’ve done in one spot!

Grocery List:

• 1 large yellow onion
• 1 head of garlic
• 1 english cucumber
• 1 cabbage head (about 8-9 cups sliced)
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 jalapeño pepper
• 2 limes
• 10oz baby bella mushrooms
• 1 green onion bunch (about 6)
• 1 cilantro bunch (about 2 cups)
• 1 basil bunch (about 2 cups)
• 1 lb chicken breast
• 1 lb ground pork
• 1 lb ground chicken
• 14oz block firm tofu
• 10-12 corn tortillas
• 15oz chickpea can
• basmati or jasmine rice (3 cups dry)
• 32oz chicken or veggie broth
• 13.5oz can full-fat coconut milk
• 6oz tomato paste
• 8oz jar sun-dried tomatoes
• 14oz GF pasta (I did TJ’s brown rice penne, which has 16oz)

Pantry staples to have on hand:

• olive oil
• sesame oil
• coconut aminos, tamari, or soy sauce
• maple syrup 
• rice vinegar 
• sriracha
• salt & black pepper
• garlic powder 
• ground ginger 
• chili powder
• ground cumin
• dried oregano
• red pepper flakes (optional)

All 5 of the recipes are below – just click the link of either the website post or Instagram post to view the full recipe. Each one serves 4 people!

As always, I really enjoyed putting this series together! If you have any feedback, my DMs are open!

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