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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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!
- 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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After the week is over will there be any leftove ingredients?
The shopping list is the exact amount of ingredients you need so you will not have leftover ingredients. It’s tricky to buy these exact quantities though so you many need to purchase bigger amounts of certain things (flour, herbs, etc.) and will have leftovers to use in other recipes!
I’m excited I have found this web site the meal planning and recipes and a shopping list all together. This is what I have been looking for.
My husband is diabetic so I am hoping the low carb plans will work for him.
Love your meal plans
Lauren, ur website is wonderful. I is very grateful for all of ur various meal plans. I look forward to preparing ur meals.
Excited to try
The recipes sound easy and shopping list is great
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! :)))
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.
No, it’s 312 calories.
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!
These are wonderful. Amazing resource for busy parents! Thank you so much for putting these together!
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.
I’m so happy you like the meal plans. I really hope you’ll find them helpful during this difficult time.
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!
I am so thrilled to hear you’ve been enjoying the meal plans! Thanks for sharing Genie.