It’s that time again!
Most grocery stores put out their sales flyers on Wednesday morning, which makes middle-of-the-week meal planning convenient – that way I have 3-4 days to get my (grocery shopping) ducks in a row before the new week.
In last week’s meal plan post, I shared how much easier meal planning makes my life. It really makes a huge difference when I’m not scrambling around trying to figure out what to make for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
Here’s the thing, I wasn’t super thrilled with any of this week’s sales – either Aldi, Walmart, HEB, or Kroger – well, there were a few small things at Kroger, like $0.89 pineapple, and admittedly, the $1.99 beef isn’t bad, so I guess there’s that.
So this meal plan is based less on sales, and more on basics, and always, the idea is to have real food meals, using affordable ingredients – in other words, this should be an affordable real food meal plan.Â
How do you find the most affordable prices on real food?
- Shop at discount, or plane-jane stores like Aldi
- Buy frozen produce, especially if you have a Costco membership
- Buy meat in bulk through Zaycon Fresh (more about getting the best meat prices here)
- Check your local sales flyers
Get the meal plan:
Get The Printable Meal Plans!
Enter the email where you want us to send the access codes to our free meal plan and shopping list printable library!
Other things to note:
- I’d love to include recipes in these meal plans, but since I’m limited on time, that’s not happening for now.
- I plan for 1 pound of meat for meal (lunch and dinner) for our family of four, so this shopping list calls for a 5lb bag of chicken, and 6lbs of ground beef. Using the $1.99 beef from Kroger, and the $1.99 frozen boneless, skinless chicken breasts from Walmart the week’s meat should cost $21.94 (I know a lot of us stock up on deep sales and use Zaycon Fresh for meat, which will make it much cheaper!)
- The shopping list assumes you have some basics in your pantry like salt and pepper, spices, and oil for sautéing.
That’s about it!
Get The Printable Meal Plans!
Enter the email where you want us to send the access codes to our free meal plan and shopping list printable library!
Leave a Reply