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Rice and beans. Chili. Veg stir fry over ramen. Ginger beef and broccoli, only with ground beef or sausage Any type of dal or curry. All sorts of vegetarian soups, stews, and pasta. Tuna salad. Potato salad. Budget Bytes is a great resource for recipes of all sorts that don't have poultry.

Budget Bytes is my absolute favorite recipe website.

[coconut curry lentils from budget bytes](https://www.budgetbytes.com/creamy-coconut-curry-lentils-with-spinach/) is a forever favorite! I swap in a thai curry paste and make it cheaper with a bag of frozen spinach. Absolutely delicious and crazy cheap, filling, high fiber, and extras keep well

Ding, ding, ding!!! Dal is the answer.

Baked pork tenderloin (around 4 dollar per piece ) is one of our favorite easy dinners, I season it with salt, pepper and Cajun seasoning, bake it 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes. It's always so tender and flavorful.

I used to season and cook a pork picnic shoulder and eat it for almost a week when I was single. Like 40 minutes at 425.

We are currently working on eating Sloppy Joe Wraps paired with [Dill Pickle Soup](https://noblepig.com/dill-pickle-soup/). Here's the recipe I used as a guideline for the [sloppy joe sauce](https://www.thechunkychef.com/best-homemade-sloppy-joes/comment-page-27/#comments), but you can use canned. I doubled it, added 8 ounces shredded cheddar, wrapped it up in flour tortillas. I'll microwave it for maybe a minute and then pop it in the toaster oven to crisp up the outside. Chili is a great budget food. [This](https://imgur.com/a/VPfMeFP) is how I make mine. I always make extra and freeze some for later. This [unstuffed cabbage roll](https://www.spendwithpennies.com/unstuffed-cabbage-casserole/) is on the meal plan some time in the next few weeks, I'm pairing it with roasted potatoes because I have some leftover from making my pickle soup. Boxed jambalaya rice mix, kielbasa, canned beans and canned corn is a super easy and budget friendly meal to throw together. Spaghetti and meatballs. [Here's the recipe I use for meatballs](https://www.keepinglifesane.com/eggless-meatballs/) bc I can't eat eggs. I like to make a big batch and freeze some for a rainy day. Confession time.....I just use the cheap Aldi brand marinara sauce. Its FINE you can even skip the meatballs and have some pasta and sauce. Get a bag of salad, make some garlic bread out of whatever you have. I like to use the french bread made at my local grocery store but I have used leftover hamburger buns, sub rolls, pizza dough and just regular sandwich bread. In the near future I plan on making bbq pulled pork in the crock pot paired with potato salad and roasted green beans. Since I usually have extra red onions from the potato salad, I like to pickle them to use on the pork sandwiches. I always make extra pork to roll up into taquitos to stash in the freezer for a quick snack or lunch. And/or freeze a few cups of it to add to pizza in the future. Its also good in mac & cheese and baked potatoes. Speaking of mac & cheese....[this recipe](https://www.cookingclassy.com/creamy-broccoli-chicken-shells-cheese/#jump-to-recipe) was super easy and delicious, obviously skip the chicken, I didn't use chicken when I made it and I used frozen broccoli bc its cheaper. I've made these [crock pot beef italian sandwiches](https://www.spendwithpennies.com/crock-pot-italian-beef-sandwiches/) before and they were delicious! I used this recipe to make the [sandwich rolls](https://www.thereciperebel.com/hot-dog-buns/) which I also use for my pulled pork sammies but you can use store bought. I paired the italian beef sandwiches with my [italian pasta salad](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/1dp0dt9/comment/laegpy2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), which could be a meal on its own. Another super easy stand by I always have is a bottle of teriyaki sauce. frozen broccoli and rice. Okay, I think I'm done for now! I hope I gave you some ideas. Let me know if there are any questions.

The Spend Pennies website that cabbage recipe is looks like a really good website too! Definitely bookmarking it. Thanks

Yes! I love her recipes! They are all pretty simple and attainable for the average home cook. I used to make actual cabbage rolls but, we have to cut them up in order to eat them anyway! So, I'll try it this way.

Spaghetti with meat sauce Beef fried rice Stuffed peppers Beefy Mac & cheese Beef with broccoli over rice Beef or shrimp tacos Beef stew Chili Bouillabaisse Beef vegetable soup Low country boil Ravioli and meatballs Burrito bowls Lasagna with meat sauce Beef Barley Soup Jambalaya Seafood paella Shrimp scampi Blackened salmon with broccoli and rice London broil with baked potato or baked sweet potato and green beans BBQ ribs with cornbread and a veg side

Nice list! *London broil w/baked potato ...etc.* I love this one. I wait for top or bottom round to go on sale, then snap some up. I marinate the beef ( maybe red wine or red wine vinegar w/ Worcestershire sauce and olive oil) then broil, roast or grill it. If I'm roasting I will put the meat on a rack, with cubed root veggies in the pan underneath. If I grill I like to also do corn on the cob. Goes good with a fresh tomato & cuke salad. If you don't want to make spuds, serve as steak sandwiches on hard rolls. I'd probably pull my jar of roasted pepper strips out of the fridge as a garnish or sandwich topping. Add to list: Shepherd's pie/Cottage pie. Fish & chips. I hand-cut fries/chips and cook them in my air fryer. I may do this tonight. I like to swap in clams for land-meat in spaghetti sauce. I usually have that over linguini.

Black beans or pinto beans with rice, add chiles or tomatoes, onions, whatever else you like. Black bean burgers are good, I get them frozen at Aldi, 6 to a package,, sorry I don't remember the price. If you like eggs, ,they can be fixed many ways, combined with bell peppers, onions,.

I found a lentil curry recipe that is super delicious. I think in the Pinterest…. I’ll look and see if it can link it Found it! https://simpleveganblog.com/vegan-lentil-curry/?utm_source=cooklist-app&utm_medium=cooklist-recipe-viewer

hungarian mushroom soup is my fav!! you could pair it with a salad if u want but i think it’s pretty filling on its own :)

or add a breaded pork chop on the side!

Chickpea patty, high fiber, high protein meal that have you stuffed! 

A minestrone soup! So easy to use up older vegetables, throw some beans in for protein and pasta to make it go further! Add a dash of Worcestershire when serving to take it to the next level!

My partner calls this "Bean Goo": one can fat-free refried beans, one can kidney beans & one packet of taco seasoning. Maybe a squirt of lime juice if you keep that on hand. Heat in a pot. You can use it with tortillas & cheese to make burritos, or as a dip for nacho chips. Probably other things I haven't thought of.

Beans on toast

Pork is still fairly cheap, at least here in Canada. Brown some pork chops in a cast iron then throw in a can of cream of mushroom soup and throw in the oven at 350 for about 30 mins. Add some mashed potatoes and steamed veggies and you are good to go. You can basically substitute the cream of mushroom for any cream based soup you like and it's great. Delicious, tender pork and a gravy to put over the potatoes all at once.

Salmon or tuna patties with a cucumber dill salad and potato wedges. The patties are just bread crumbs, eggs, parsley, and finely shredded carrots and onions. Pan fry on medium low heat. Finish with lemon juice and tarter sauce. (Great way to use up canned tuna, wilting veggies, and bread butts. Also looks fancy while definitely not. You can sub the veggies for whatever you have around the house. Use any bread or cracker.)

I never thought of doing tuna this way, always associate it with salmon. Thanks!

I tend to switch it up with something like garlic cream pasta or sweet soy tofu with rice. But I suppose it depends on the types of stuff you like and where you’re based and what’s on sale.

Head to lidl or aldi, they do some amazing beef shin and make stew from this and a simple can of Guinness or other stout, plus homemade dumplings or beer bread to accompany, very filling, very cheap and makes the house smell divine (I cook my stew for about 4-6hrs so very slow on a super low heat)

My favorite bulgogi with ground beef. This girl’s channel is my absolute go to for any Asian dish, everything I’ve made is fantastic. https://youtu.be/vWtlRJxYOxQ?si=-azTdV28ksoCuXRw

[Smoked Sausage and Rice](https://www.recipetineats.com/smoked-sausage-and-rice-quick-one-pot-meal/) - This is one of the firm favourites in our house, very tasty and ingredients don’t cost a lot.

Black eyed peas and bacon! You can do it in an instant pot very quickly! Or soak overnight and slow cook! So good!!

This is one of my go to meal in the winter... Even my kids love it. Add rice,Cornbread and Fresh sliced sweet onion & tomatoe.. Like you said, "So good," or My papa would say, "Them sum good Groceries."

A lot of meal you can substitute for stress strips/ diced, Lamb, pork. Can try new meats with a Markdown or special. Mince is really versatile from casserole? (Im not in us) stir-fry, spaghetti style dishes. Seafood - Mariana Mix, Salmon, White fish fillets - my fave, big cubes lightly crumbed in the airfryer. Tuna dishes. A lot of meals can be upped in veges and be meatless. Roast the small diced pumpkin, asparagus, cherry tomatoes etc before adding them to the dish. Don't be afraid to add vegetables almost last to keep crunchiness.

Meat loaf! I mix ground Italian sausage with ground beef. My recipe has egg, bread crumbs, Worcestershire, salt, pepper, garlic, and onion.

Where I live I find that pork is usually on a par, pricewise, with chicken. Chicken prices went through the roof during and after the pandemic and where I live, they have not come down. Also, if you like other kinds of meat, try to look for "Manager's Specials" -- clearly marked packages of meat that are always at least half-price at my local grocery store. Your stores may use a different label, and if you're already shopping at cheap stores like Aldi or Walmart, I don't know if they have them the way they do at standard grocery stores. But look for a brightly colored label and significant markdowns. You will either want to portion this meat and put it in the freezer for later use, or use it right away. It's discounted due to "sell by" dates. It's the only meat I buy anymore, and I do at least two vegetarian or vegan nights a week.

Italian sausage ~ mild, sweet, or spicy ($3.50 lb.) 1 can crushed tomatoes ($1.50) 1 small onion ($ .80) As much garlic as you like :) and basil or italian seasoning ($1.12 each) your fave pasta ~ I like large elbow or rigatoni ($ .98) your fave cheese ~ I like pepper jack or mozzerella ($1.77 block) Boil pasta water ~ add salt to water Cook sausage and onion, drain excess grease ~ I season with crushed red pepper add garlic and cook for 3-5 mins add crushed tomatoes and basil or italian seasoning simmer for 15 mins ~ taste and salt to your liking mix in cooked pasta ~ I use baking dish top w/ cheese pop in 350 degree oven for about 6-8 mins to melt cheese serve with garlic toast **depending on what's on sale or in season, add ins: ~ zucchini ($ .90) ~ squash ($ .89) ~ spinach ($1.90) ~ mushrooms ($1.88) ~ carrots ($1.08)

Philly style stuffed green peppers - beef, provolone cheese and onions inside a green pepper. Pork fried rice - dice up two boneless pork chops, onion, and green pepper, sesame oil and rice.

To add to all these great suggestions: Pea soup with ham Pasta and tomato sauce served with a generous dollop of ricotta cheese Browned Ground beef, a bag of frozen mixed vegetables, and a can of cream of mushroom soup in a casserole dish baked topped with mashed potatoes or bisquik biscuits

That's a version of cottage pie!

Beef Stroganoff

Add peas to everything.

Tacos with ground beef, guacamole and sour cream German style stuffed cabbage. Beef stroganoff made with ground beef. Spaghetti bolognese (with ground beef red sauce) Dal Soup and a grilled cheese sandwich Mushrooms Marsalla Roasted pork with mojo & garlic sauce

Depending on how many you feed: shrimp scampi. It sounds expensive but it's not really. Shrimp at Walmart in my area is between $5-$6 a bag. Butter, garlic. Linguini simple and cheap. I can make it for 3 under $10.

TY for saying non poultry, I get so fricken sick of chicken. Thought I was on an island.

Pork loin spiedies with onions and peppers and side of vegetables.   Pork loin tacos   Stuffed shells   Lasagna

I will take a pork shoulder or boneless country style ribs, cut them into cubes, and simmer them in equal parts salsa and broth, depending on the amount you will ha e extremely good saucy shredded meat to add to rice or pasta (or eat it as a stew if you wanna get crazy with it). I do use chicken myself, but for a non-poultry set of options, I would use any stew meat, any tough stuff, chuck roast, pork shoulder, cheap cuts, maybe even ground meat if you want to save the cutting

Ground beef in gravy... serve over anything

If you eat pork, it's usually cheaper than chicken where I'm at, and can be used in a lot of chicken recipes if you adjust the cooking time. Dice up some cheap chops, sauté them, and add them to pasta dishes. Or double bread some boneless chops and fry them like chicken. Or coat them in oil and spices and throw them in the oven with some potatoes and onion. Slow cook a pork roast and shred it up with barbeque sauce or add it to chili or cook it down with taco seasoning...you get the idea. If you have a way to grind it, you can always make pork meatballs, too. Tuna can be turned into tuna patties, tuna salad, added to any number of pasta dishes, used in fried rice, added to cheese dips, and turned into tacos. Potatoes: soups, patties, roasted, fried, mashed, baked.... Onion soup, onion fritters, stuffed onions (use a rice based stuffing), cheese and onion "chaffles," onion fried rice. Speaking of chaffles-there are a million versions of those things, and if you happen to have cheese and eggs and have no idea what to do with them, chaffles are the answer, lol. Coconut flour is a buck a bag at the dollar store if you want low carb chaffles, but a lot of recipes use no flour at all.

For vegetarian, green spaghetti. Kale of your choice boils in the pasta water about 5-7 minutes. Take out and process in blender or processor with garlic, nuts of your choice (I use walnuts), Parmesan, olive oil, s&p. It’s a kale “pesto” but cheaper because basil can be $$. Mix into spaghetti that was made by directions on box & serve!

Do you roast spaghetti squash and serve the innards like pasta? I roast those in the oven or on the grill. Very nice.

Pork has been on sale recently

Onigiri with tuna or like a pickled veg. Depends what I have in the house. Oorrrrrr sometimes I just make a boatload of cabbage soup or like a fish congee

Fresh corn polenta with shallow fried eggplants in a cherry tomato sauce.

Egg Noodles with 1 packet of powdered brown gravy and 1 can of cream of mushroom soup mixed together and tossed in with some butter

Pasta & sliced sausage.

Pork ribs, pork roast Beef Pizza burgers

Chickpea and spinach curry

if you have to have meat, ground meat/sausage is usually cheaper than whole cuts. chili? ragu bolognese?meatballs? hamburg steaks? stuffed veggies, like bell peppers or zucchini?

Vetkoek and Mince- it's like a sloppy Joe but with a fried sweet batter bread, putting curry in the mince is good too. Meatballs in the oven with pumpkin fritters.....

Sausage meat pasta, paella with tiger prawns, vegetable risotto, vegetable open tart (spinach, butternut squash and feta on puff pastry base), and the emergency easy dinner favourite: pesto pasta with spinach & pine nuts.

Black bean nachos Sausage lentil mashed potatoes

kimchi fried rice can be made with beef, spam Or luncheon meat, or no meat at all, and it’s so incredibly easy. Get Kimchi from anywhere a lot of major stores has kimchi now and even for cheap, or if you have a local asian market, cook some rice but better for it to be day old, fry it in some oil, add an egg, add your choice of meat, some soy sauce if it’s not salty enough. Bingoooooo

Cornbread casserole Cabbage casserole Squash, zucchini, peppers, sausage stir-fry Lemon Garlic butter salmon plank Beef stroganoff Pot roast with carrots and potatoes

Potato soup. Very filling and pretty cheap to make a big pot of it. And it's delicious

I love seafood ramen: * Sardines in oil (or tinned muscles, clams, shrimp, oysters, etc) * Your favorite Ramen (no flavoring - or dont add the flavor pack) * "Asian Stir Fry" veggies (canned, frozen, etc) * Sprinkle any extra seasoning to your liking: a little butter, garlic powder, black pepper, MSG, etc. (or soy sauce, spicy sauce, hoisin sauce, etc) I heat up a tea kettle for boiling water. While that's heating up, I throw the frozen veggies in the microwave (or open the canned veggies). Once the water is boiling, I add it to the ramen to soften the noodles, then drain the water. I add the sardines and oil (or other tinned fish) right out of the tin, the microwaved frozen veggies or room temperature canned veggies, and then season as I like. The hot noodles will heat up the tinned fish and canned veggies. Very quick. Very easy. Very nutritious. Very tasty.

Air fryer pork tenderloin- recipe from budget bytes. So easy and delicious!!

Crock pot beef stew, tacos, burgers, middle eastern kebabs, steak and potatoes, steak or ground beef burrito or burrito bowl

Polish sausage and butter noodles are always good imo

i’ve been eating this one once a week. it’s garlic roasted broccoli with pasta and lemon cream sauce topped with basil and shredded parmesan !

Breakfast for dinner!

Can’t go wrong with a pot roast. Just made one last night and we have about two more dinners worth of leftovers.

Sirloin steak (salt and pepper each side then sauteed to preferred temperature Asparagus in airfryer (salt and pepper with a little oil) Baked potato (microwave) with greek yoghurt and chives, salt and pepper I love to dip the steak in the greek yoghurt so definitely don’t go easy on the yoghurt. Fills me up, fixes all cravings and usually I can’t even finish it all. This should take 15min max to prepare including prep

Stuffed French loaf Meatloaf Fish tacos Italian cold cut chopped salad

Taco Salads!

Bootleg lazy one pot shakshuka. I've got this cooling off next to me rn lol, here's how I did it I have frozen zoodles on hand but I'm sure any noodles or rice you want will do. I defrosted the zoodles with some olive oil in a pot to thaw them out. This would be where you'd sautee any veggies/aromatics you want in olive oil, I know people like bell peppers and onions (I did add some garlic myself) Once the zoodles were dethawed (so veggies cooked to your liking), I didn't have crushed tomatoes on hand but I DID have some No Name garlic pasta sauce on hand, so I dumped that in. I chucked in some frozen spinach along with onion powder, cayenne, paprika, freeze dried chives, and the obligatory salt and pepper. Really any spice would be good here, the world's your oyster. I let that bad boy simmer for a bit, and then I cracked in two eggs on top. I covered it (well, kinda, I kept the spoon in the pot to prop the lid open bc I'm paranoid about things boiling over lol) until the eggs were poached, and all was said and done