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Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? 🛒 What if we told you feeding one person for just $40 per week is achievable? Dive into this guide to make it possible!
Meal Planning on a Budget
Start by planning your meals. List out what you’ll eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Avoid last-minute shopping trips.
- Prioritize Essential Nutrients: Fresh veggies, proteins, and whole grains.
- Weekly Meal Plan Template: Create a weekly plan to track meals and shopping lists.
- Batch Cooking: Prepare large quantities, portion them out, and store them.
Smart Shopping Tips
Grocery stores offer different prices on various days. Stick to a smart shopping list!
- Shop Sales and Discounts: Check flyers and apps for weekly discounts.
- Buy in Bulk: Items like rice, beans, and pasta are cheaper in larger quantities.
- Seasonal Produce: Cheaper and more nutritious. 🍎🥦
Affordable Recipes
Eating on a budget doesn’t mean compromising on taste!
- Hearty Soups and Stews: Use beans, lentils, and vegetables.
- Stir-Fries: Great way to use affordable vegetables and proteins.
- Oven-Baked Dishes: Think casseroles and frittatas.
Money-Saving Hacks
Want to stretch your dollar further? Follow these tips! 💵🔍
- Reinvent Leftovers: Yesterday’s dinner can be today’s lunch.
- DIY Snacks: Make your snacks at home to avoid buying expensive packaged items.
- Freeze Extras: Freezing fruits, vegetables, and meals prevents waste.
Affordable and Nutritious Grocery List
Here’s a handy list to get you started for just $40 a week:
- Proteins: Eggs, tofu, canned beans, chicken thighs.
- Vegetables: Carrots, potatoes, onions, and seasonal produce.
- Grains: Rice, pasta, oats.
- Fruits: Bananas, apples (seasonal and on sale).
- Essentials: Bread, milk, and butter.
Conclusion
Feeding your family on a budget doesn’t mean skipping out on nutrition or taste. With meticulous planning, smart shopping, and a bit of creativity, you can enjoy delicious meals without breaking the bank. 🍽️👏
For more tips, check out the detailed guide here. Let’s make every dollar count!
Yeah but how meth do you have to smoke
21 and she’s got it sorted. Impressive.
Well done to her.
Checks UberEATS and reverse engineers the recipe. That’s a smart move.
Just because you can do this, it doesn’t mean you should.
I expect they’re not eating enough protein while consuming a lot of processed carbohydrates.
This shouldn’t be celebrated, it’s sad.
Edit to add, I just read a few of her recipes. Like Mac n’ Cheese – awful. The slow cooker beef stew has 150g of beef, for two people. That’s 20g of protein each. If you want to be a thin-fat weakling, eat like this.
A helpful article and her blog is good too.
Personally I use ChatGPT to generate recipes of sale items before I finalise my shopping list. It’s also good for improvising recipes from the random stuff left in the fridge.
Another handy tool is the app Grocer. You can use it to compare prices between your local supermarkets on the fly.
That’s very similar to how we cooked when my partner and I got together. We even used to have priorities 1-5 on the shopping list, totalled as we went along, and stopped buying when we ran out of money.
We also bought no more than 1 new spice per week to cook with, and sought out recipes that overlapped with what we already had, plus 1-2 new things. Over the course of 6 months, you can get a lot of spices if you’re buying 1 every week.
She’s doing pretty well.
Good for her. Grocery stores defo price gouge but you can still get by with cheap groceries with a bit of sacrifice
I probably easily spend that a day on food, and I’m buying a house at the moment, maybe stuff could do an article on me?
These articles are now about $40 a week!? Back in my day it was articles about surviving on $20 per person a week…. I feel old.
Bag of rice. Bag of oats. 5 pack of chicken breasts. And 2 bags of frozen mixed veges. Easy. 😆
Bro I just dropped tree fiddy on pak and save for two people and our diet ain’t royal.
Why do they feel the need to rub it in? Okay, so she’s rich, we get it 🙄