‘Budget Meal Planner’ Website Shows You How to Eat Well on $5 Per Day
16th August 2019
If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
According to Lifehacker, every meal plan on Budget Meal Planner can be made for less than $5 a day—which is roughly equivalent to the average food stamp allotment in the United States. Every meal plan includes grocery lists and recipes for seven days worth of breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. The plans on the site are broken down into different themes, including mushroom, Thai, Tex-Mex, potato, and Mediterranean. The recipes listed may be cheap and healthy, but they don’t skimp on flavor. With Tex-Mex, you’ll get chicken tacos, stuffed bell peppers, and chili. Choose Thai and enjoy Thai chicken cabbage wraps with peanut sauce and Thai yellow chicken curry.
The site includes meat-free options as well. Just select “vegetarian” beneath the “meal plans” tab for vegetarian versions of Budget Meal Planner’s recipes lists. The vegetarian take on the Thai meal plan, for example, uses tofu instead of chicken and mushrooms instead of beef.