How To Turn a $60 Grocery Haul into 20 Healthy Meals
As grocery prices continue to rise, I’m here to help! I’m back with another one of my popular grocery series where I turn one single grocery trip 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 summer edition – 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.
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Grocery List:
- 1 lemon
- 1 mango
- 3 zucchini
- 4 ears of corn
- 1 eggplant
- 2 red bell peppers
- 1 cilantro bunch
- 4 limes
- 2 avocados
- 5oz arugula
- 1 garlic bulb
- 1 small red onion
- 1 pack corn tortillas (at least 12 tortillas)
- 2 15oz chickpea cans
- 1 15oz can coconut milk
- 12oz gluten-free pasta (I used spaghetti)
- 1 block firm tofu
- 1 + 1/2 lbs chicken thighs
- 1 lb frozen shrimp (pre-cooked is fine), about 36 shrimp
- 1 package white or brown rice
Household Spices/Sauces:
- olive oil
- sesame oil (optional)
- apple cider vinegar
- rice vinegar (can sub regular white vinegar)
- maple syrup or honey
- reduced sodium soy sauce, tamari or coconut aminos
- kosher salt
- black pepper
- garlic powder
- ginger (ground or root)
- smoked paprika or paprika
- red pepper flakes (optional)
- starch of any kind — corn, tapioca, arrowroot, etc.
All 5 of the healthy meals are below – 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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Hi, what is cater on the salad recipe? It is listed as an ingredient.
Oops! That should say water. Thanks for flagging.
Jenn! Thanks for the great recipes. My wife especially loves your taste and I love being able to cook new and excited foods for her. Keep it coming, we’ll be ready!
Thank you so much Bo! I’m so glad your wife is enjoying the recipes!
I can’t wait to try these recipes!
So I don’t eat tofu…I’m thinking of trying that recipe with chicken. Do I still need to coat the chicken with starch or is that tofu specific? Not sure if the starch helps keep the sauce on! Thx!
You can leave it out for the chicken!
I made everything but the teriyaki tofu from this list and it was great. The chickpea dish was going to be “too healthy” for the rest of my family 😅 so I used it as my lunch prep for the week and it was really satisfying. Looking forward to trying more recipes. I love all the grocery/meal planning tips!
Made the teriyaki tofu and mango salsa tonight and it is so, so good! Love the sauce! Salty and sweet combo was delicious!
I’m so happy you loved this one!! It’s suchh a good sauce
One member of my household does not like shrimp, but I do! Any suggestions for a substitution.
We used salmon and it worked great
Love this! Love going back and looking at your budget series. They are my absolute Favorite