Budget Friendly Meals

These are the easiest, healthiest, and most delicious budget-friendly meals that you can make at home for under $10!

There are so many affordable recipe ideas here. The best way to save money for your meals is to make them yourself, from scratch. Plenty of these dishes are casual, fancy, and everywhere in between. So you can prepare a beautiful and tasty plate no matter the occasion. You don’t have to be a professional chef to make the most out of your ingredients. And who says you have to spend a ton of money to make a homemade meal? So many of these recipes will feed you and your loved ones more than once.

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Massaged Raw Kale Salad – Kale is a hearty winter green that holds up well in soups and stews. But it's also wonderful as a salad if you give it a three-minute massage.
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Massaged Raw Kale Salad

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5 mins
Healthy, Buffalo Chicken Nuggets baked in the oven are spicy and delicious! Crispy and golden on the outside with tender chicken breast on the inside, so good!
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Baked Buffalo Chicken Nuggets

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25 mins
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Spicy Whole Wheat Linguini with Sausage and Roasted Peppers

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30 mins
Baked Pears with just (4) Ingredients! This EASY dish made with honey, walnuts and cinnamon is perfect for breakfast or dessert!
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Baked Pears with Walnuts and Honey

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35 mins
Quinoa Fiesta Enchilada Bake made with quinoa, black beans, corn, cilantro and green chiles topped with a quick homemade enchilada sauce and cheesy goodness!
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Quinoa Fiesta Enchilada Bake

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1 hr
Crock Pot Maple Dijon Chicken Drumsticks is an EASY slow cooker chicken dish made with only 6 ingredients, including the salt and pepper! Kid-friendly and delicious – the chicken literally falls off the bone!
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Crock Pot Maple Dijon Chicken Drumsticks

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4 hrs
These sweet plantains are baked in the oven and then stuffed with a savory turkey picadillo filling and topped with cheese – pretty hard to resist!
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Turkey Picadillo Stuffed Sweet Plantains

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1 hr
Moist cinnamon apple bread made with homemade applesauce, small chunks of fresh apples and walnuts in every bite. It's so moist and delicious, you won't believe it's low fat!
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Apple Nut Bread

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1 hr 15 mins
These delicious fries are baked in the oven with garlic, a little olive oil, kosher salt and black pepper, then sprinkled with freshly grated Parmesan and parsley – to die for!
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Skinny Garlic Parmesan Fries

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25 mins
Chia Watermelon Fresca is a refreshing summer beverage made with watermelon and chia seeds.
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Chia Watermelon Fresca

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5 mins
Raw Spiralized Zucchini Noodles with Tomatoes and Pesto is my favorite easy, end-of-summer vegetarian dish made with raw, garden vegetables and homemade pesto.
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Raw Spiralized Zucchini Noodles with Tomatoes and Pesto

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30 mins
This simple, kid-friendly chicken dish is quick and easy to make for any night of the week – ready in under 15 minutes!
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Weeknight Skillet Sazon Chicken Tenders

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20 mins
Italian tuna and brown rice salad is wonderful, easy lunch using basic pantry items such as tuna, brown rice, capers and good quality chopped olives plus some frozen mixed vegetables and fresh lemon juice.
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Italian Tuna and Brown Rice Salad (Riso e Tonno)

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15 mins
Cream of Zucchini Soup
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Cream of Zucchini Soup

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25 mins
These sweet 'n spicy Asian glazed grilled drumsticks are finger licking good! An inexpensive, weeknight dish you'll want to make all summer long!
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Sweet ‘n Spicy Asian Glazed Grilled Drumsticks

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2 hrs 30 mins
Zucchini Tots
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Zucchini Tots

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30 mins
These Baked Tostones or twice "Fried" Plantains aren't fried at all, they are baked in the oven which makes them a delicious, healthy side dish or appetizer!
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Baked Tostones (Green Plantains)

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Spiralized Greek Cucumber Salad with Lemon and Feta is delicious, the perfect light dish. In Greece, Greek salads do not have lettuce, instead they are made with fresh cucumber, tomatoes, bell pepper, olives, red onion, oregano, lemon juice, olive oil, and fresh feta – delicious!
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Spiralized Greek Cucumber Salad with Lemon and Feta

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Lemon Feta Chicken with Oregano is made with Mediterranean ingredients such as lemon, oregano and feta cheese turning ordinary chicken into a spectacular dinner
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Lemon Feta Chicken with Oregano

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55 mins