Whether you need an entree for a school night, unexpected guests, or just a busy weeknight, these cheap and easy weeknight meals will save you time and money. Quick meal options like these are perfect for 3 weeks of meal planning, with the last recipe yielding 5 meals for the family. You also have to love recipes that can be made in a cast iron skillet. We have a few of those below. Check the 20 meals we mention below, and feel free to add your favorite cheap and easy weeknight meals in the comments below.
20 Cheap and Easy Weeknight Meals
Garlic Creamy Pesto Pasta (with no cream!)
Baked Potato Bar (top baked potatoes with leftovers!)
Or, Stretch A Roast Chicken Dinner into 7 meals!
These cheap and easy weeknight meals are in constant rotation in our home, and we love that all of them are kid-friendly meals, as well. We’re planning to teach out oldest kiddo how to make most of these, so he can start tackling these recipes.
That carrot soup looks delish! I will definitely be trying that this week 🙂
That’s great, Dee!
Thanks for gathering so many great looking, low-cost meals together in one place! I look forward to trying a bunch of them.
Wow such great meals! Had the cream of carrot soup last monday and the kids went nuts for it like it was candy! Will be sure to try more suggestions
Yay! I’m so glad the kids loved the soup!