You will find everything you need to follow for an easy, flavour-packed and healthy ease into the New Year – including a full FREE shopping list, additional notes and a breakdown of cost. On these cold days of January, there’s one thing we need, and that’s hearty and delicious home cooked food that doesn’t break the bank – right?! We are here for you, my friends! This is the FOURTH and final budget meal plan in our Money Saving Meals series, where we bring 4 weeks of family friendly midweek dinners that tick all the boxes. Here are the others: week 1, week 2 and week 3.
About this budget meal plan
We have concentrated here on bringing you a collection of recipes that strike a balance of prioritising price and value, while also making sure you get: ⭐️ A full meal for 4 people ⭐️ A balanced plate of carbs, protein and vegetables ⭐️ A variety of ingredients and dishes
Things to note
➡️ You may want to add some side dishes to some of these recipes, which we will outline in the notes below ➡️ Please be aware that any suggested sides have been added to the shopping list but are NOT included in the costings breakdown ➡️ I’ll be sharing this meal plan on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, so watch out for the videos so you can cook along. For reference, I shopped for this Meal Plan in December 2023 at Aldi and it cost £29.30 ⭐️ Having a plan for dinner avoids the mental load of “what’s for dinner?” question every night The printable shopping list can be found here.
You can find more Meal Plans here:
Meal Plan 26 – Slow Cooker Saviours Meal Plan 25 – Easy Midweek Winners Meal Plan 24 – 5 Brand New Recipes ➡️ Maybe think about doubling up and freezing a recipe or two where the recipes are suitable, so save cooking another day or for the weekend ➡️ Remove ingredients for any meals that you don’t want to cook ➡️ The shopping list includes the cheapest version of each ingredient. Obviously if you want to buy lower fat mince or free range etc, that’s personal choice ➡️ All of the recipes are to serve 4, so if you’re cooking for 2, simply halve the ingredients ⭐️ Cost: £.98p per portion ⭐️ Serving suggestion: We’ve added salad to serve on the side to the shopping list. ⭐️ We’ve bought a bag of red onions for all of the week’s recipes, so use these instead of white Dinner 2 ⭐️ Cost: £1.32 per portion ⭐️ Brand new recipe! ⭐️ We’ve added rice to the shopping list to serve with this dish ⭐️ Cost: £1.26 per portion ⭐️ Complete meal in 10 minutes – no need for sides Dinner 4 ⭐️ Cost: £.99p per portion ⭐️ Serving suggestion: We have included rice on the shopping list to serve with this. ⭐️ Cost: 90p per portion ⭐️ We’ve added baking potatoes to the shopping list, so you could use these for slow cooker jacket potatoes or homemade chips depending on what you fancy!
