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Frugal Meals that Are Also Healthy & Delicious

These 26 Healthy Recipes for Delicious Frugal Meals will help you eat well while not blowing your grocery budget.

I don’t know anyone who isn’t trying to tighten their belt and their food budget. From groceries to gas, everything is getting more expensive lately.

Before we dive into recipes for frugal dinners, let’s step back for just a second and think about ways we can better spend our grocery money on a tight budget and how we can reduce food waste once we get those groceries home. Both of these posts are chock full of suggestions and actionable ideas. Incorporating some of these frugal living suggestions will further help us reign in our grocery bills and save money.

So, with that info under our belts, let’s look at some healthy, delicious, and filling frugal dinner ideas and recipes that use relatively inexpensive ingredients. These recipes run the gamut, from potato soup to pasta dishes and everything in between.

Frugal Meal Recipes

Just because these fall into the ‘frugal recipes’ category doesn’t mean they aren’t also healthy and delicious. Frugal and Delicious are not mutually exclusive.

Frugal Meal Recipes

These 26 Healthy and Frugal Meal Ideas will help you eat well while not blowing your grocery budget.

More Ideas for Frugal Meals That are also Simple Meals

In addition to these delicious recipes, some other very frugal meals are:

  • Tacos (with ground beef or turkey)
  • French Bread Pizzas (Cut a loaf of french bread in half, top it with pizza sauce and sprinkle it with cheese. A couple of minutes under the broiler and you have a filling meal that is perfect when paired with a healthy salad)
  • Egg Salad Sandwiches
  • Garbage Soup (gather your leftover meat and vegetables and put them in a pot with some broth, seasonings, and diced tomatoes. This was a staple in our home growing up.)
  • Bean and Cheese Burritos (any beans will work, but seasoned black beans or pinto beans are our favorites)
  • Omelets
  • Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
  • Baked Potatoes or Baked Sweet Potatoes topped with broccoli, chili, sour cream, and/or cheese.
  • Make quesadillas with your leftover taco meat or season leftover meat with taco seasoning. Fill with refried beans, cheese, and vegetables. The variations are endless.
  • Sloppy Joes

Once you’ve gone through these recipes, a good idea is to make your weekly meal plans incorporate several of these recipes that use similar ingredients. Having items on your shopping list that you’ll use more than once is a great way to save money.

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Images of 6 different frugal meal recipes, lentil soup, cream of tomato soup, creamy turkey soup, goulash, pasta and mexican spaghetti.

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