1 lb ground beef - $6.50 1 bag frozen chopped onions+bell peppers - $1.50 1 cup uncooked brown rice - $0.50 $8.50 total for 4 healthy-ish meals at $2.13 per meal, only takes like 15 minutes to prepare

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Pasta pasta pasta😭🙏🏼 it’s fast to cook and you can add any meat or veggies you want, sauce is also super cheap

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A5 Wagyu paired with lobster tail and caviar

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Hamburger helper

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Beer

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I’ve been told you can buy a warm rotisserie chicken at the store and split it among multiple meals. That probably would work alone, with rice, egg noodles (I’d have a broth with it, too, for egg noodles), Campbell’s soup is good, too.

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sweet potato or regular potato, ground beef,turkey, or chicken, rice/cauliflower rice, frozen vegetables, 0 cal sauces, rotisserie chicken, low cal tortillas, low cal cheese etc, all of these are pretty cheap and you can mix them in a bunch of different ways, definitely shop at aldis you’re not gonna find a cheaper grocery store i swear, if you shop at other stores make sure you’re signed up with your number to get coupons and stuff

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Burger Bowls: - Ground Beef - Chopped Romaine - Onion & Mushrooms - Cheese - Avocado And add any sauce you want

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my top two are trader joe stir fry/rice and cucumber, canned soup + I add tofu and edamame

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Protein bowls in the frozen section, decent protein, $2-4 per box depending on what you pick, pretty good variety and flavor isn’t half bad

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seasoned tofu scramble of over rice with French’s fried onions. A fried egg on top if you have one

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1lb Ground turkey, brown rice or quinoa, canned corn and beans, grated cheese. Easily makes 2-4 meals, is cheap, decent nutrition

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Ground turkey, taco packs, spinach, sweet potatoes, cook it all and combine. Chicken breast, frozen veggies,teriyaki sauce. I normally get enough to meal prep for the week

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wholefoods family meal prep comes out to 8 bucks a meal if you plan it right

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Ground beef, half goes in spaghetti, the other half goes in Mac & Cheese. Get some jasmine rice, you can eat it steamed or make fried rice. Get chicken, you can bake it or cook it stove top, put curry sauce, Or teriyaki sauce. Hot dogs and sandwiches for the lazy days.

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If u have a blender smoothies- I have like a tiny personal blender and I do a smoothie every day cuz you can get the big bags of frozen fruit for not that much and they last a while!

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Bolillos, lil Mexican loaves of bread that are meant to be eaten the day they’re bought, because they become stale quickly

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My method for what I do when I’m desperate: I walk to McDonalds (right near where I live) I buy a cheeseburger or McChicken for $2 something. The McDonalds app in my area usually has an app exclusive deal where you can get medium fries for free when you purchase anything over $2. Use that. I bring my clean plastic McDonalds cup that I’ve been using over and over for months and get a free drink but I hide it when I bring it in. Full meal for $2.40.

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If you have a Costco membership get bagged rice with the 20 packs of chicken you can make 20 meals for like $35

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I’m making spaghetti tn 🤷

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Pasta is cheap, ground turkey and chicken is cheap, pork is cheap, ground beef isn’t bad, frozen fruits and veggies are pretty cheap, rice is really cheap. Theres a lot of options that you can make taste delicious using seasonings which you shouldn’t have to buy too often, lot of great recipes online

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Frozen veggies

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One pan meal/bakes. Only a few ingredients and gives you at least 4 meals

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My go to cheap and pretty filling meals that have a lot of protein, fiber, and carbs (energy) White rice, lentils and ground turkey. Combine the lentils and turkey for more protein and that way, you can stretch the meal Shred pre made rotisserie chicken (where I’m at, it’s ~$5-6), do rice or potatoes with heated up frozen broccoli with some Sriracha and other seasonings

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premade salad kits and a cooked rotisserie chicken from the store. Lasts like a week

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chicken comes in lots of different forms and can be affordable if you buy a bag you can get multiple meals from, you can put it in pasta or a salad for cheap (the bags of salad with all the ingredients included)

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Oven baked Veggies, potato, sweet potatoes, canned beans for proteins etc

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Pulled chicken lettuce wraps. $5 rotisserie chicken pick dry/shredded, lettuce (or healthy tortillas if u don’t want produce), and sauce of your choice. I like kimchi on mine too with a Korean bbq sauce

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