Budget-friendly Meal Plan Week 3

Below you’ll find the Budget-Friendly Meal Plan for week 3. You’ll find six dinner recipes, three lunch recipes, three breakfast recipes, and two dessert recipes. There are only six dinner recipes so you can have one night a week be “leftover-night” where all the leftovers are used up. I designed this meal plan to have only two lunch recipes so it’s less time in the kitchen prepping and creating for you and the serving sizes should be large enough each lunch will cover TWO-THREE days worth of lunches. We gotta love those leftovers, right? #budgetfriendly at it’s finest! Similar to the lunch recipes, the three breakfast recipes will help save you prep time in the kitchen (instead of a brand new recipe for each morning of the week!) and one recipe will cover two breakfasts. Lastly, we have desserts/snacks! I have included two healthy-ish dessert/snack recipes for you to serve when you need it. Now onto the Budget-friendly meal plan week 3.

HOW THIS WORKS:

Each recipe you’ll need is listed below. To print the recipe card, simply grab the link and it’ll bring you right to it. There’s a small “print recipe” at the top of each recipe, making it easier to efficiently print all recipes rather than scroll all the way to the bottom of the post!
Print off the printable PDF for the meal plan AND the grocery list.
Check your pantry/fridge/freezer BEFORE you go grocery shopping and make adjustments as needed.

SOME TIPS FOR YOUR MEAL PLAN

Look over the grocery list prior to shopping and check your pantry/fridge/freezer to see if you already have any ingredients listed on the grocery list. Cross them off if you do!
Check the meal plan against your upcoming week’s calendar. Adjust the meal plan to anything you may have coming up that week.
The meal plans have Sundays as ‘Leftover Day’. Any leftovers still in the fridge get served on this day (or any day that you choose to do this on). Have fun with it and serve them in a Smörgåsbord style!
You’ll be using the leftover Slow Cooker Sunday Pot Roast for the Avocado Lime Beef Bowl with Kale. Gotta love those leftovers for a nice budget-friendly meal!
If you have leftover kale from the Avocado Lime Beef Bowl with Kale and the Healthy Chicken and Grain Bowl, use that leftover kale in the Easy Sweet Potato and Turkey Hash instead of the spinach. That will be one less item you’ll need to buy at the grocery store!
For the Quinoa Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies, I’m going to have you skip making the coconut butter glaze (because coconut butter is pricey!) and instead make a simple powdered sugar, butter, and dairy-free milk glaze. Mix 1 cup powdered sugar with 1 tablespoon dairy-free butter and just enough dairy-free milk to make a frosting thin enough to drizzle over the top. Add one tablespoon of milk at a time so it doesn’t get too runny. Or you can omit the drizzle/glaze altogether.
Use peanut butter for the Quinoa Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies, Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars, and Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Chunk Bars. I list sunflower seed butter as an option, but if you don’t need to be nut-free, use the more budget-friendly peanut butter!