Here’s everything you need to know about meal planning: how to create a meal plan and make it work for your entire family, even with a busy schedule! Making a meal plan is the BEST way to keep your family eating real food on a budget. After a lot of trial and error, I’ve learned my favorite method of meal planning, and it saves me time and money! Whether you plan meals for an entire month or plan one week ... Continue Reading
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Vegetarian Meal Plan
This vegetarian meal plan is full of easy, hearty vegetarian dinner recipes (plus bonus meal ideas). Whether your goal is to eat more produce or save money on groceries, you won’t even miss the meat! I’ve written a lot of meal plans over the years… there’s the Whole30 Meal Plan, the $50 ALDI Meal Plan, the original $50 One Week Meal Plan, and the second $50 One Week Meal Plan… not to mention all sorts of ... Continue Reading
Ideas for Summer Dinners: August Meal Plan 2024
This easy August meal plan will give you plenty of ideas for summer dinners! Quick, tasty, and budget friendly meals the whole family will love! Plus enjoy treats like homemade vanilla bean ice cream and slow cooker peach cobbler. Enjoy the last of summer, get ready for school and come up with a new routine for the fall season. This is just one of the reasons why I like to keep ideas for summer dinners in ... Continue Reading
One Week $50 ALDI Meal Plan
This one-week $50 ALDI meal plan lets you get everything you need at one store! Use this Aldi budget meal planner to enjoy yummy family-friendly recipes like the Best Burgers Ever and Baked Potato Nachos, plus plenty of fresh veggies, so you can feel good about feeding your family on a budget. Here at Crumbs, we’re all about eating real food on a budget. I encourage you to do things like shop in bulk, ... Continue Reading
Spring Recipes Meal Plan for March 2024
This free Spring Recipes Meal Plan for March will simplify your season! Use the delicious recipes just as they are, or for inspiration, to have budget-friendly meals all month. Dishes like easy roasted broccoli, almond-crusted baked chicken, and fluffy dinner rolls will surely please the whole family! This is the month where farmer’s markets across the country start to open their doors for business again. ... Continue Reading
Two Week School Lunch Meal Plan
These healthy school lunch ideas work for kindergarten, high school, and everyone in between! Feed your kids real food that doesn’t break the budget, with these yummy kid-friendly recipes they’ll love to take to school. Enjoy Homemade Spaghetti-os, Homemade Cheez-its, and more! When we switched from homeschooling to a traditional school several years ago, I had NO IDEA how tricky and troublesome packing a ... Continue Reading
One Week ALDI Recipes Meal Plan
Using these ALDI recipes, you can feed a family of four for $75! This Aldi meal plan includes the slow cooker and Instant Pot, and even has ideas for using leftover ingredients to save more money! Who knew that when I published a $50 list of ALDI recipes, it would be one of the most popular posts on the blog?! I shouldn’t have been so surprised, since people love ALDI, people love eating real food, and ... Continue Reading
Whole30 Meal Plan
Whether you’re a Whole30 pro or just starting out, this Whole 30 meal plan hits the spot for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Get a week’s worth of budget-friendly and kid-approved Whole 30 recipes! I’ve been talking a lot lately about the Whole30, which makes sense. When you’re on the Whole30 your life pretty much revolves around your meals… planning, prepping, cooking, cleaning up… this coming from a FOOD ... Continue Reading
Easy Airbnb Meal Plan (Healthy + Budget-Friendly)
Here is the perfect one week meal plan for easy Airbnb meals! Includes super easy-to-find real food ingredients that are perfect for the whole family, plus it's budget-friendly! Also check out my 2 month camping meal plan this summer! I’ve been making meal plans for over a decade now, so I feel like I have a pretty good grip on how the process works. In fact, you can get EVERY meal plan I’ve ever ... Continue Reading
2 Month Camping Meal Plan
Need an easy camping meal plan? I've got the perfect camping meal plan with 10 delicious meals to rotate throughout your summer trip. We recently took the kids on an EIGHT WEEK road trip to hike the National Parks. We camped the whole way in basic cabins and ate out only THREE times! This is my perfect, tried & true, menu for camping! My husband and I have been taking our kids camping since they could ... Continue Reading
