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Cheap and frugal meal ideas
Are you stuck on what to make for dinner? Well you have come to the right place. Keeping costs low and providing your family nutritious healthy meals are important. Below you will find 50 frugal meal ideas to help you feed your family and save money.
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What to cook when you are broke? Or your income is running low? For starters don’t stress it. Take charge and check the cupboards. What do you have? What can you make? Dinners don’t have to be perfect to be pleasing.
frugal meals
You could make beans and rice or breakfast for dinner and you are still providing a nutritious meal for cheap. My favorite frugal meal would have to be either eggs on toast or soup. You can’t go wrong with a bowl of soup.
frugal dinner ideas
Simple frugal dinner ideas could include spaghetti and salad, baked potatoes with toppings, stir fry and rice, tacos or breakfast for dinner. Dinner doesn’t have to be complicated or take forever to cook to be delicious and satisfying.
frugal lunch ideas
Cheap and simple lunch ideas for at home or on the go. Sandwiches and soup are a great frugal lunch. Homemade mac and cheese. Or a simple salad or yogurt and fruit. Samosas are a great cheap lunch so are nachos or tacos. Leftovers from dinner make great cheap lunches on the go.
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frugal family meals
Soup is an amazing frugal meal. You can make soup out of just about anything. Cream of vegetable soup, beef and barley soup, egg drop soup. Your options are endless.
healthy frugal meals
Soup is cheap to make, filling and nutritious. Bone broth is a great meal anytime as well, and even cheaper to make – you are using leftover bones and vegetables. Bone broth is great for your body and can be used for breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack.
cheap family meals
Simple cheap meals like pastas, rice bowls, soups, casseroles and breakfasts for dinner can help get you through from paycheck to paycheck.
50 great frugal meals:
- Baked ziti
- Homemade pizza
- Quiche and salad
- Beans on toast
- Hamburger soup
- Tacos
- Stew
- Beans and rice
- Rotisserie chicken
- Vegetarian curry
- Cabbage stew
- Egg drop soup
- Spaghetti
- Cereal
- Fajitas
- Finger food appetizers
- Quinoa and beans
- Tortilla soup
- Sausage and beans
- Meatballs
- Egg salad
- Cabbage rolls
- Chicken and rice bowls
- Ramen and vegetable bowls
- Bunwiches and soup
- Chili and cornbread
- Homemade soup or bone broth
- Chicken pot pie
- Goulash
- Sloppy joes
- Salad
- Stir fry and rice
- Shepherd’s pie
- Tuna casserole
- Breakfast for dinner
- Meatloaf
- Spanish rice
- Lasagna
- Nachos
- Burrita bowls
- Pancakes or waffles
- Baked potatoes
- Sandwiches
- Omelettes
- Freezer meals
- Pesto pasta
- Quesadillas
- Chicken fried steak
- Stroganoff
- Orzo pasta salad
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frugal meal planning
If your pocket book is running low or you are simply planning frugal meals to save money. Improvise, use what you have on hand. Some of the best meals are thrown together with what you have in the cupboards and fridge.
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Updated February 19, 2021
