What meals can I make with $150 a month for groceries?

Answer 1

Rice $ beans
oatmeal
soups
pastas
potatos
hamburger meals

Answer 2

I'm in Cleveland and the best place to buy meat in my neighborhood is Super KMart, short of going to the butcher. They have really great cuts of meat - and they do big buy sales where you can get a 10# bag of chicken leg quarters for $2.99 for the bag not by the pound, and that's a great price. I cook for 5 and sometimes more, every night. Sam's Club is great too. We got a membership when I was pregnant with my 1st son, we saved oodles of money by buying diapers and wipes and baby formula (Carnation is awesome - and didn't upset the baby's tummy like similac did and some of those other formulas did, by the way.) Cereal you can buy a 3 pack box for $7 or so at Sam's, its far worth the yearly $45.00 membership fee. You can buy fries and veggies and you name it for bulk size for about what you would pay for the average size at the grocery store. KMart during a big buy sale - even has porterhouse steaks for like $6.99 per pound - you can get 4-6 thick steaks for like $20, which you could freeze and grill for a weekend treat or buy ground beef in bulk and use freezer bags for separating it. Just stock up on bulk items of different variaties (meats, veggies, fruits) and put your freezer to work. You can make lasagna and freeze some of it or you can bake a whole chicken, then boil the carcass and reserve some of the meat to make chicken soup, with the rest of the meat, you can make chicken and potato salad and chicken pot pies that can be frozen, you can make chili and take some of it and freeze it then when you are ready to eat it, make a crust out of corn bread/muffin mix and put the chili in the center and let the whole thing bake. Check out cooking by the month (just google it) - this will help you treamendously). You will be able to form a basis of menu planning and budgeting, etc. from this.

Answer 3

It would help to know how many people this is for and is food expensive or reasonable where you live. Anyway, buy a beef roast and a pork roast. You will have a lot of leftovers and can do many things with them. Get potatoes, pasta, eggs, canned tuna, canned veg. and fruits. Rice and beans go a long way too. Even if you are only feeding one you are going to have a hard time stretching $150 for a month. You still need milk, bread, tea/coffee, paper products, sugar, flour, salt, pepper, and other seasonings. I am single and probably spend $250 a month. I am a careful shopper too. I am watching my budget.

Answer 4

ok i lived on $50 a week for a few months so find out when the sale day is at your local shop ...
or go early in the morning as alot of things will be marked down from the night b4...
i always go rice pasta
vegemite peanut butter
cheese milk (powdered if possible cause it goes a llong way)
sugar tea
ground meat goes a long way can turn it into tons of meals..
then just continue the list


good luck and have fun with tring out new meals close to payday cause thats the day that there is not much left in the cupboards...

Answer 5

That depends on where you live? If you are in a city like N.Y., not much. If you are not so close to those much higher prices your money will go a lot farther. It you are single, you may only want to make simple things like hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken fried or in small casseroles, Spaghetti with a sauce just from a can of tomato sauce, mushrooms, onion, spices, and maybe some ground beef or sausage. (If you want sausage leave the onions out or it may taste like meat loaf.) See if you can find a cook book on cooking for one or two people; if not look on the Internet.
Don't buy those meals that have everything in the box. To "make it all in the box" and not "go bad", most of the vitamins have to be removed. So you would not get much nutrition.
Eat as much fresh veg. and fruits as you can afford. Potatoes you can make a wide range of items, for not much money. The skins of the potatoes are the most nutritious, so eat them too.
See if you have a local university that has free lessons in this. Maine dose.

Answer 6

How many people are you feeding? If one, then you would be able to make ALOT of different and low-cost meals. For two people, you might have to get a lil creative.

LIke Macaroni and cheese mixed with a can of tuna and frozen peas; or those box meals (betty crocker makes them and othe companies) such as cheesy potatoes and ham, chicken alredo, etc.

Spaghetti is also cheap, and filling. Other good choices are chicken, potatoes,can veggies. so long as you have the staples like meat, potatoes, noodles, bread, butter, etc you should be able to come up with quite a bit of combinations. Without knowing how many people you intend to feed daily I don't know where to send you. Look online for "30 minute meals" or "easy recipes" and you should get an idea.

Answer 7

If it's just you and not a whole family you're talking about, you can eat pretty well on $150 a month--you don't have to kill yourself by stuffing in junk like ramen noodles or mac and cheese (unless you want to). Watch the weekly grocery store flyers to see what's on sale, a lot of times they offer buy one get one free and you can use one and freeze one. Your biggest expense will be meats...you can buy hamburger and frozen chicken breasts for not that much, and I use ground turkey a lot too. Also frozen fish like tilapia is inexpensive and healthy, or canned tuna or salmon. Whole wheat pasta and brown rice is extremely inexpensive now that stores have their own generic brands, and you can just throw on some pasta sauce or veggies for a healthy low cost meal. Frozen veggies are better than canned and cheaper than fresh, which go bad faster if it's just you. Bagged salad kits are great, though--especially if you throw on some chicken or tuna for lunch/dinner. For breakfast, think things like bananas (ridiculously cheap), yogurt, oatmeal, and healthy cereals. Sandwiches are always cheap, too. Seriously, I probably spend closer to $100 or $125 each month and eat extremely healthy food.

Answer 8

We have a family of 7 and shop for 200.00 every two weeks. (This includes diapers, formula, shampoo, cat litter etc) We get things like pancake mix...and then mix it up to make either pancakes or waffles. VERY cheap...and then add some sausage or bacon.... Other cheap meals I have made are Spaghetti, homemade pizza is mUCH cheaper than buying out, sloppy joes, mac and cheese, and quesidillas are cheap to make too. Make sure you are buying the meat in bulk. I buy 5 pounds and cut them into 1 pound blocks and freeze them, getting them out the night before. Another thing I found that helps is I make a "menu" that I put on the fridge for 2 weeks. Then..the kids KNOW what is for dinner and don't ask "can we have this? can we have that?" They just KNOW what we are having - and it helps me to budget out the food. Before I really started buckling down - I went through my freezer and pantry and wrote out everything I already had - and created meals from that. You would be suprised what is hiding in the back of your pantry that you forgot you had. Hope this helps!

Answer 9

If it is $150 a month for you, you can eat like a King!

I probably don't spend that much a month with me and my kid.

We eat a lot of Spaghetti, Lasagna, stuff like that because you can freeze the leftovers.

I also buy a lot of frozen veggies and will have a Baked Potato, and some sort of Veg for Dinner, and my kid will have Mac & Cheese and some sort of meat or veg.

Your choices are endless!

You can buy big packs of meat and cut it up into smaller portions and freeze it, you save money buying in bulk.

Also, shop somewhere that has a lot of Buy One, Get One Free deals.

Answer 10

I normally spend about $40 a week on groceries. We shop at the super walmart (it sounds bad, but they have great prices on food) we also cut out coupons from the sunday paper, and let me tell you sometimes we eat sooo great. For example here is the food that I've had the past week. We had grilled chicken marinated in bbq sauce with string beans and rice (we do bagged flavored rice, its really good) on friday. Saturday we grilled hamburgers I had made out of 2 lbs of ground meat and had macaroni salad (i forget who makes them but theres a box and all you do is add the mayo- really good!) and french fries we baked in the oven. Sunday we had a salad and fish. Monday we had one of those homestyle bakes (comes in a box and its very good) Tuesday we had tacos (again buy the dinner box). Today we are having spaghetti, but I also bough sweet italian sausage I will cut up and put in the sauce. We do all this on $40. We go to walmart. For things like chicken and ground meat we buy bulk and seperate it into nightly servings (chicken 2 peices and ground meat we seperate into 1 lb servings. Wrap them and freeze them. Some weeks the $40 goes more towards sides, and other weeks it goes more towards buying the bulk meat. Buy your milk at Happy Harrys or a drug store close to you, they tend to sell milk cheaper. And dont shop for products on the end caps, they normally arent really on sale like the pretend they are. and Definately cut those coupons.. you can go a long way with $150, we use $160 and youre not far off! If you want more food ideas, or an example shopping list feel free to email me