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A 5 day LOW CARB MEAL PLAN with easy and healthy low carb dinner options and a free grocery shopping list; perfect for cooking on a budget. This week’s menu includes our popular Roast Chicken, Mini Meatloaf, Honey Mustard Chicken Salad, Ham & Asparagus Rolls and Taco Salad.

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a collage of 5 dinner recipes from low carb meal plan 1.

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We’ve been sharing 5-day weekly meal plans for many years now and are are so excited to introduce these budget meal plans, as well as vegetarian, low carb, and other seasonal meal plans!

  1. Each Low carb Meal Plan serves 4:

Each meal plan has 5 dinner recipes that will serve approximately 4 adults.  We’ve tried to be thoughtful about including recipes that the whole family will love as well as varying the recipes to include a variety of different meals so that you’re not having chicken every night!

2. Save Money:

While we include budget information in all of our meal plans, the main goal of these budget meal plans is to save you extra money by choosing recipes that use more affordable ingredients. You'll notice we've included the estimated cost per recipe as well as the cost for the entire meal plan, making it even easier to budget and see exactly how much you’re saving when you cook from scratch and use a meal plan!

*note that recipe costs are an estimate based on ingredient prices at my local grocer.  They will likely vary depending on where you live.

3. Eat Healthier:

Cooking from scratch is a great way to manage your health goals. Both take-out and pre-made meals from your local grocer are going to have more fat, sugar, and sodium than the same foods cooked at home.

3. Don't forget the sides

Don’t forget to search for appetizers, sides, or dessert recipes to add to your list.  Often a post will offer suggestions for sides that might accompany the recipe, and if you would like to swap any meals for a different meal, visit our main dish recipes or search our recipe index.

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**NOTE: You’ll notice the shopping list includes categories like “pantry staples”, and “spices”. Hopefully, those are items you already have on hand, and you can cross them off of the list.

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Monday: Easy Roast Chicken $16.26

Tuesday: Mini Meatloaf $11.54

Wednesday: Honey Mustard Chicken Salad $12.38

Thursday: Ham & Asparagus Rolls $9.38

Friday: Taco Salad $20.50

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Mongolian beef on a plate with rice and chopped green onion on top.Day 3
Chicken Fajita Pasta served in a skillet with a scoop of salsa on top.Day 4
Five chicken taquitos lined on a plate with a bowl of salsa on the side.Day 5

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Lauren Allen

Welcome! I’m Lauren, a mom of four and lover of good food. Here you’ll find easy recipes and weeknight meal ideas made with real ingredients, with step-by-step photos and videos.

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Evelyn
4 years ago

Love your meal plans

Lousine
4 years ago

Lauren, ur website is wonderful. I is very grateful for all of ur various meal plans. I look forward to preparing ur meals.

Nancy
4 years ago

Excited to try

Monica
4 years ago

The recipes sound easy and shopping list is great

Lindsay
4 years ago

This is awesome – I’ve been dreading meals and shopping for my family of 4 for years – this is EXACTLY what I need – thank you! :)))

Jennifer Hurst
5 years ago

Hi, Thank you for sharing these wonderful recipes. I do have one question on the calories. So if it says 312 kcal does that mean 312,000 calories? I need low carb and low cal meal plans.

Trace
5 years ago

My boyfriend and I are moving in together and I am going to be doing all the shopping and cooking for us. I am SO excited to use these shopping lists and recipes. I am printing out several as we speak. Thanks for creating these!

Ana
5 years ago

These are wonderful. Amazing resource for busy parents! Thank you so much for putting these together!

Sammy Smith
6 years ago

Thank you first of all for taking the time to do this. I am a single dad with a 12 year old boy to school from home and also work remotely as well. I spend entirely too much money on take out especially these days of “stay home”. These are perfect for me and him to use, complete with shopping list, AWESOME and thanks again.

Genie Dixon
6 years ago

Wow! I started using your meal plans about a month ago. My husband and I both work and our kids are busy in sports. Every meal has been great yet not complicated to make….and the shopping list is an amazing time saver. My family is definitely enjoying the variety. Thank you for the time you spend to make feeding our families simple!