How To Turn a $60 Grocery Haul into 20 Healthy Meals
I started my series where I share a grocery list and meals for the week with you all over a year ago now (wow!) and I have absolutely loved iterating and adapting the series over the past year to make it as valuable for you as possible. This week, I shared my most recent iteration where I took a $60 grocery haul and turned it into five of my favorite recipes I’ve ever made through these series.
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 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!
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 features on Good Morning America, BuzzFeed, NBC10 Boston, & Yahoo!.
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 lime
- 1 head of kale
- 1 lb carrots (about 4-6 large total)
- 1 cucumber
- 1 broccoli head
- 1 cilantro bunch
- 3 large celery sticks
- 3 lb bag sweet potatoes (about 7 medium potatoes)
- 15oz can navy or cannellini beans
- 15oz can black beans
- 32oz whole peeled tomatoes
- 4-5 chipotles peppers in adobo sauce (comes in a 7oz can typically)
- 32oz vegetable broth
- 2 13.5oz full-fat coconut milk cans
- 10-12 corn tortillas
- 2 cups dry brown rice (can sub white rice or quinoa)
- 1 lb ground chicken (can sub ground turkey)
- 1 lb ground Italian sausage (sweet or spicy will work)
- 8oz tempe OR 14oz block firm tofu
- 14oz dry gluten-free spaghetti (can sub regular spaghetti)
- 4oz peanut butter
Pantry staples to have on hand:
- olive oil
- salt & black pepper
- garlic powder
- dried oregano
- ground ginger
- ground cumin
- chili powder
- apple cider or white vinegar
- maple syrup or honey
- sriracha
- coconut aminos, tamari, or soy sauce
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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Hi Jenn! THANK YOU for this series, it was so easy and so satisfying when the groceries were actually under $60. Honestly I thought the soup was going to be my least favorite – it was the BEST. SO much flavor, sooo yummy. Thank you again! 🙂
So glad I gave this a go! Everything was delicious. It’s just me and my husband, so we had leftovers for lunch each day. This cost us about $51 at HEB in McKinney, TX. Easily a third of what we normally spend on groceries for a week. Only swap I made was regular milk instead of coconut milk since I have to keep on eye on saturated fat (thanks, bad cholesterol genes!). Trying an earlier series this week!
Thank you so much for making these! My sister and I are currently making all of these this week and we’ve found your recipes super helpful! Just prepped the meatballs and pickled veggies and we can’t to eat them! 😚🩵🩵
Hi Jenn, The saucy-peanut-ginger-chicken-meatball-bowls dish is delicious!! I shopped at Trader Joe’s in Cali today and your grocery estimate was very accurate. Thank you for taking the time to put all this together. Looking forward to trying the other dishes!
I can’t explain, but when I prepare your weekly meal plans, I have such a sense of satisfaction. I know that I made delicious, healthy, inexpensive meals and I have used everything that I purchased with zero waste.
This week looked EXTRA delicious, so I decided to FINALLY hit the grocery store and give these weekly grocery hauls a try. Got all my groceries and started my Monday off RIGHT with the spicy peanut sauce meatball recipes, but with some added flair…. in case it helps anyone else, I have tons of wild game in my freezer, so I subbed the chicken meatballs for venison ones and it was a huge hit! Looking forward to trying the rest this week. Thank you for sharing these, Jenn!
The dinners in this meal plan were really delicious. It was also super convenient to not have to meal plan this week and to have a grocery list all ready to go.
We have tried 2 of these meals so far and they have been a hit for the whole family! Can’t wait for the rest of the week. Thank you!
My husband and I are only one recipe in on your grocery series for the first time ever (almost a year after its original post) and your pricing was pretty accurate for us in Houston, TX still! We made the soup tonight and it was SO GOOD! Can’t wait to try the rest and super thankful for this series!
love to hear this!! enjoy the rest of the meals this week!