How To Turn a $55 Grocery Haul into 20 Healthy Meals
As grocery prices continue to rise, I’m here to help! This is the full post from my latest grocery series where I took a single $55 grocery trip and turned it into five different recipes, or 20 servings of delicious, healthy food! This series was inspired by my frustration with the rising prices and my desire to continue to eat healthy meals while still operating within a tight budget, I hope it helps!
This is my fall edition of this series! If you love to eat veggie and protein packed meals but want to cut back that grocery bill, try getting the groceries from the list below, and following along with my recipes!
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! You can also check out my feature on Good Morning America, BuzzFeed, & Yahoo!.
Grocery List:
- 1 garlic head
- 1 large yellow onion
- 1 large butternut squash
- 1 lb carrots (8-10 carrots)
- 10oz mushrooms
- 16oz wild rice
- 12oz gluten-free pasta of choice
- 10oz shredded kale
- 1oz rosemary (can sub dried rosemary spice
- 3 green onions
- 1 lb brussels sprouts
- 14oz tofu
- 1lb ground pork
- 2lb chicken thighs
- 2oz nutritional yeast
- 8oz dates
- 13.5oz can full-fat coconut milk
- 32oz vegetable broth
Pantry Staples:
- olive oil
- apple cider vinegar
- maple syrup
- coconut aminos or tamari
- cornstarch, arrowroot starch, or tapioca starch
Spices:
- kosher salt & black pepper
- garlic powder (if not using all fresh)
- ground sage
- dried thyme
- sesame seeds (optional)
All 5 of the meals are below – just click the link of either the website post or Instagram post to view the full recipe. Each one serves 3-4 people!
As always, I really enjoyed putting this series together! If you have any feedback, my DMs are open!
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Wow! We thought the chicken and vegetables was delicious, then we just tried the pasta with pork, squash and kale and omg was that unbelievably good!! Cannot wait to try the tofu next. Thank you for posting these dinners-the grocery list plus meals made it a breeze of a cooking week!
I’m so happy to hear you’re liking the recipes Betsy!
I’m grateful for the 5 dinner recipes. Out of the shopping list what are your breakfast and lunch recipes? I struggle fir quick weekday breakfast and lunch meals.
I tried every recipe! I had a lot of ingredients already so I maybe spent $35 on dinner/lunch this week. Thank you SO much for publishing this. The salad was probably my favorite. Can’t wait for the next series.
Your account came across my suggested feed. I’m so happy it did! I have meal planned before but never considered the budget part. It made it so easy. I love the recipes, easy to prep ahead and can easily be made vegan (I swapped tempeh for the chicken). I’m a single person who loves to cook and this leaves plenty to share with friends and lunch the next day. Well done. Thank you!
I’m really excited to try these! Honestly— I’m a little intimidated.
Should you still mix the dressing with the kale if you’re planning to meal prep? Won’t it become soggy?