Frugal meal ideas for a frugal food budget. Updated 4/06/18 [View all]

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Some years ago when I had to adjust to living on SSDI, one part of the budget where I was able to downsize was the monthly food budget which I allotted myself $126.00 a month. $16.00 of that was SNAP benefits and the remainder came out of SSDI. But to make it on that, my diet was very bland and consisted mostly of potatoes, cabbage, home made sauerkraut, rice, dried beans and such.

In this thread, I'll post ideas based on what I ate back then, meals I prepare now, on how one may be able to make cuts to the food budget. Where I can, I'll include costs per portion. I'm not going to try for the $126.00 a month mark but I think it will be interesting to use the info I post and see if I can produce a weekly meal plan that costs around $40.00ish per week per person.

I'm also going to try to include in the meal plan the recommended serving from each food group so the meal plan is not only economical but also healthy. So I'll be editing the meals I have posted to add servings along with costs. The final post that lists a meal plan for a week should have everything.