Healthy saving of money is a useful skill. IN modern conditions food prices are high and expenses often exceed all imaginable standards. Today we have compiled a budget menu for you for the week, following the principles of inexpensive and proper nutrition. It represents a ready-made option, with the number of products purchased and their approximate cost.

Required Products

Name	Quantity	price, rub.
Potato	1.5 kg.	37,5
Beet	400 gr.	10
Carrot	600 gr.	15
Bulb onions	650 gr.	18,5
Pickled cucumbers	1 jar	83
Sauerkraut	1 package	41
Beans	400 gr.	34
Boiled sausage	200 gr.	35
Chicken egg	5 pieces.	23
Canned green peas	2 cans	48
Mayonnaise	1 package	28
Pork	300 gr.	50
Greenery	70 gr.	52
Butter	1 pack	48
Beef	1 kg.	319
Cabbage	700 gr.	10
Tomatoes	200 gr.	30
Sour cream	100 gr.	25
Garlic	3 pcs.	28
Puff pastry	700 gr.	20
Chicken fillet	350 gr.	31,5
Rice	200 gr.	13
Bulgarian pepper	150 gr.	7,5
Canned corn	1 jar	45
Buckwheat	1 glass	11
Zucchini	200 gr.	5
Sausages	350 gr.	42
Pasta	250 gr.	17
Unaccounted products		~200
Total		1327

Meals for the week

We know firsthand that preparing half a liter of borscht for one person is not an option, so in the menu we will limit ourselves to listing the dishes, their composition and the amount that will last you for 1 week with a consumption of 2000 kcal per day, which is the average for a person.

Second courses

1. Pasta with sausages and seasonings

Sausages 350 g, dried basil 1 g, pasta 250 g, vegetable oil 2st. l., garlic 1 tooth., onion 1 PC., tomato paste 1.5 tbsp. l. and black pepper

2. Buckwheat with vegetables

buckwheat – 1 cup, granulated sugar– 0.5 tsp., onions – 1 pc., zucchini – 200 g., vegetable oil – 40 ml., carrots – 1 pc., salt – 3 g., tomato sauce– 1 tbsp. l.

3. Rice with vegetables

Rice 200 grams, vegetable oil - 10 g, onion - 1 piece, bell pepper - 1 piece, canned peas - 1 jar, carrots 1 piece, canned corn - 1 jar

4. Dumplings with minced chicken and greens

Unleavened dough - 700 grams, red pepper - 2 grams, greens - 30 grams, potatoes - 70 grams, flour - 30 grams, onions - 100 grams, salt - 2 grams, black pepper - 2 grams, chicken fillet- 350 grams,

Soups

1. Borscht with beef

Beef 500 g, sugar - 5 grams, carrots - 1 pc, white cabbage - 200 grams, onions - 1 pc, beets - 2 pcs, tomato paste - 2 tbsp, vinegar - 1 tbsp, greens - 10 gr.

2. Cabbage soup from fresh cabbage

Meat - 500 g, garlic - 2 pcs., cabbage - 500 g., onions - 1 pc., tomatoes - 2 pcs., vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons, potatoes - 2 pcs., greens - 20 grams, Bay leaf- 2 pcs., sour cream - 100 gr., carrots - 1 pc., pepper - 3 grams.

3. Potato soup

Pork - 300 g, black peppercorns - 4 pcs., onions - 100 g., coriander - 1/4 tsp, allspice - 3 pcs., bay leaf - 3 pcs., potatoes - 550 g. , paprika - 1/4 tsp, greens - 10 grams, butter- 20 gr., vegetable oil - 1 tbsp.

Salads

1. Olivier classic

Potatoes – 4 pcs., pickled cucumbers – 3 pcs., boiled sausage – 200 g., chicken eggs – 5 pcs., carrots – 2 pcs. green pea canned - 1 jar, mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l;

2. Vinaigrette with beans

Potatoes - 2 pcs., salt - 2 grams, beets - 1 pc., carrots - 2 pcs., onions - 1 pc., pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs., sauerkraut - 100 gr., beans - 400 gr., sunflower oil- 2 tbsp.

Budget menu for a week for a family

The menu is designed for a family of 2 people. If you need to calculate a menu for 3 people, simply multiply the number of products by 1.5. It should be understood that it is difficult to include any delicacies in a budget menu: fruits, sweets, and so on, so we will form only the body of the diet, with a calorie content of 1900 kcal for men and 1500 for women. The consumption of all other products will be at your discretion.

Monday

Breakfast

• pasta with beef stew - 400 grams;

Dinner

• bow pasta - 500 grams;
• borscht from fresh cabbage and potatoes - 500 g;

Dinner

• rice with chicken - 500 grams.

Total: 3356 kcal.

Tuesday

Breakfast

• cottage cheese 1.8% - 200 grams;
• Rice milk porridge - 600 gr.

Dinner

• lean cabbage soup - 500 grams;
• Olivier salad with chicken - 500 gr.

Dinner

• Bigus with pork – 600 g.

Total: 3467 kcal.

Wednesday

Breakfast

• fried eggs - 500 gr.

Dinner

• potato soup with mushrooms - 500 grams;
• vegetable salad with mayonnaise - 500 gr.

Dinner

• fried potatoes - 500 grams;
• chicken cutlets with mushrooms - 300 g.

Total: 3460 kcal.

Thursday

Breakfast

• omelette with ham - 500 gr.

Dinner

• ear - 600 grams;
• Navy pasta - 300 g.

Dinner

• stewed potatoes with beef - 500 gr.

Total: 3495 kcal.

Friday

Breakfast

• buckwheat with mushrooms and onions - 400 gr.

Dinner

• mushroom soup with noodles - 600 grams;
• pasta with sausages and spices - 400 g.

Dinner

• stewed cabbage with potatoes - 400 gr.

Total: 3366 kcal.

Saturday

Breakfast

As you can see, there are no special things, but some people will ask where in budget menu sour cream sauces, and empty pasta will only have to be eaten one day. Let’s answer very simply - the cost of such a diet is 2576 rubles! For one person it is only 1288 rubles per week.

The question is - why so little? The whole catch is that you most likely came to this page not to lose weight (which is what our site is actually about), which means you really have no idea how you can eat quality food and, most importantly, inexpensively. Most of the money goes to “goodies”: sweets, alcohol, lemonade, chocolates and other semi-finished products. Nutrition natural products much cheaper and this diet can be made into a restaurant by adding a couple of thousand to the expenses.

At the same time, we suggest you take a look at the remaining sections of the site, where good dietary rations, which are even cheaper than presented.

Creating a weekly menu for your family is a very useful activity that will help you make the most of your time preparing hearty and healthy dishes, and will also significantly reduce financial costs for products.

Surely we all know the situation when the refrigerator is empty and you urgently need to prepare something for your household. Very often at this moment we go to the store and buy quite a lot of products that we, in fact, do not really need.

On top of everything else, they often make dishes that do not bring any value or benefit to the body. If you want to avoid all this and also start practicing healthy eating for the whole family, you need to create a menu for every day.

It won’t take long to work on drawing up a nutrition plan - on average, it takes an hour of time. At the same time, you will receive clear “instructions” for the next seven days, which will help you finally free yourself from the endless "kitchen slavery", and will prove useful to your spouse and children.

To ensure a balanced and appropriate diet basic principles healthy eating, you should diversify it with certain recipes. They, in turn, can be found on the Internet or relevant literature. So, how to create a menu with good recipes for a week for the family?

The benefits of planning a menu for the week

In compiling a complete healthy menu There are many benefits to feeding your family for a week. You will spend no more than one hour on the entire development process, and this time will more than pay off within a week. You will stop asking yourself a stupid question “What can I cook quickly?”, you will begin to eat more healthily and balanced, and you will begin to spend a minimum amount of time on kitchen work.

Creating a simple weekly menu for your family will give you the following benefits:

• You will save yourself from unnecessary hassle, since the meals will be planned in advance;
• You will stop wondering what to buy for home to eat after work, and how to quickly cope with preparing a family dinner;
• You will be able to eat more varied, and, importantly, tasty;
• From an early age, your children will learn to eat nutritiously and correctly, not to snack on unhealthy foods, not to overeat, and not to eat “dry” food;
• You will be surprised to find that you begin to spend less money on purchasing food, and spend only on really necessary products, and not on quite expensive “garbage”, which can be saved due to lack of a full lunch or dinner at home;
• You will stop eating fast food, canned food and processed foods, and you will no longer have to eat borscht that was prepared on Monday all week.

So, if all the listed advantages of pre-meal planning for a certain period captivate and attract you, it’s time to take decisive action and start making a list of products that you should purchase. This is no less important step than creating the menu itself. Because if you write down only the dishes, during the process of preparing them some component may be missing, and you will have to spend time on additional “runs” towards the market or supermarket.

Meal plan for you and your family: where to start?

Weekly and monthly meal plans usually do not include breakfasts, since they are prepared quickly and are very varied for each family.

First of all, it is worth discussing mistakes that absolutely should not be made.

For example, many women like to search for recipes using a tablet or computer. In fact, instead of the apparent convenience, you will also have to spend time constantly “looking” at the Internet.

Therefore you should use old-fashioned methods– if you have a favorite blogger whose recipes you have been wanting to try for a long time, just write them down on paper, or, as a last resort, print them out. This will make it more convenient for you to look for clues directly while preparing a dish. It’s even better if you use a cookbook, where all the proportions, quantities and mixing methods are clearly written out.

If you have enough big family, do not forget to take into account and write down on a piece of paper what is temporarily or permanently prohibited to individual members. For example, if your child is allergic to carrots, cooking carrot cutlets for dinner might be a good decision for everyone else, but certainly not for him. Therefore, you will have to either replace this ingredient for everyone, or prepare something special for one.

If you are planning to compose economical menu for a week for a family who is in this moment not worried better times financially, we recommend that you go in advance to the store, market or supermarket where you most often buy food. Write down the prices for “basic” food. If you prefer certain companies, write down only the cost of their products. Fix prices for vegetables in an average order.

What does “basic” food mean?

These are those products that are used almost everywhere, in any complete dish or snack, and which can “help you out” at any time, being quite filling, appetizing and loved by everyone.

Among the “basic” products are usually listed:

• Chicken meat (especially fillet);
• Potato;
• Rice or buckwheat;
• Non-seasonal vegetables (onions, carrots, cabbage, etc.);
• Out-of-season fruits (apples, bananas, kiwis, oranges, etc.);
• Pasta;
• Chicken eggs;
• Butter and vegetable oil;
• Dairy and fermented milk products;
• Flour.

Of course, lists of traditional “basic” products cannot be tailored to each person, much less to a specific family. But still, you must agree that the listed food sources are the most in demand at any time of the year. If you have a special family (for example, you practice a raw food or vegetarian diet), write down what you buy most often for cooking family dinners and dinners.

Some meal planners forget to consider many important things.

For example:

1. Family dinner in a restaurant or cafe on Fridays;
2. Training in sections for children on Thursdays and Tuesdays;
3. Fasting days.

Yes Yes, fasting days not only ardent guardians need female figures, but also all other family members! We strongly recommend that you make at least one vegetarian day a week. During the vegetarian day, your household should only eat dishes made from cereals, vegetables, dairy and fermented milk products and eggs. Completely exclude both meat and fish.

Example of a vegetarian day:

• Breakfast: oatmeal with milk and nuts, cheesecake with raspberries, green tea;
• Snack (most likely outside the home): banana and whole grain muffin;
• Dinner: vegetable puree soup from broccoli (very easy and quick to prepare), vegetable stew(potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants), cheese, diet cake (raw food);
• Dinner: cottage cheese, several fruits and cookies.

Please note that if you return home late (or your children come in the evening after sports clubs), dinner these days should be as light as possible. Under no circumstances should you apply for it. fried potatoes with meat or something similar.

In the presence of family tradition If you dine out on certain days of the week, do not include these days in your plan (if you don’t dine at home).

Rough plan

How to create a weekly menu for a family?

First, write down all the recipes you would like to try during that week. Then specify the products that will be needed to sell them. Visit a store or market to calculate approximate costs from your family budget. Make a list of all the food you need, slightly rounding up the amount. Make notes to yourself regarding “forbidden” dishes and products from your spouse or children. Eliminate days when you are not likely to eat at home.

Quick breakfasts in the morning, lunches at work and homemade dinners in 20 minutes can be tasty, healthy, easy to prepare and, at the same time, not at all expensive. To do this, you only need to purchase everything once a week necessary ingredients and distribute them wisely over 7 days.

For breakfast I recommend porridge and toast. This food leaves you feeling full for a long time and cooks very quickly. Making toast will take no more than 5 minutes, and porridge can literally be prepared on its own while you get ready for work. Just add the cereal to the pan, add water or milk in a ratio of 1:3 and go about your business. After 15 minutes, all you have to do is put the resulting contents on a plate and add your favorite ingredients for brighter taste, for example, nuts, dried fruits, any fruits and nut butters. I prefer frozen berries and honey with porridge. These are exactly the ingredients that I always have on hand and the combination of which truly gives me pleasure, because breakfast is the most important meal of the day, the main task of which is to provide energy for several hours of productive work.

Breakfast must be delicious, because a good day begins with pleasant emotions.

As for lunch, in my office I often don’t have time to go somewhere and have a quality lunch, or such lunches are difficult to find within a suitable budget. In such cases, I cook at home the night before nutritious salad.

In addition to vegetables, I add a filling element to a nutritious lunch salad.

Such a component could be, for example, chickpeas, beans, crackers, fried mushrooms, any cereal or greek cheese. You can also add meat, chicken or fish left over from the last dinner to the salad. Both olive oil and plain yogurt without additives work well as a dressing. Or you can go to a quick fix mix honey, mustard and lemon juice, this will make a wonderful honey mustard sauce, which will give any salad a unique bright taste. Following this simple rule the result will be a nutritious salad with maximum number vitamins and nutrients necessary for the body.

The main rule for dinner is speed of preparation.

When you get home in the evening after a crazy day of work, you want to eat something hot as quickly as possible. In this case, I prefer pastes and stewed vegetables. Maximum cooking time is 30 minutes. Well it's not that much when we're talking about about a delicious aromatic dinner.

Monday: Breakfast
RICE PUDDING WITH APPLES

Turn on the oven to 200 degrees. Roughly chop one apple, add cinnamon and move around. Place on a baking sheet in the oven.

Boil 1 glass of milk, add ⅓ glass of rice (It is better to soak rice and other grains overnight so that the grains cook faster the next day).

After cooking (about 20 minutes), place the rice on a plate or in a jar, add a little honey and slices of baked apple. Regarding environmentally friendly and healthy food from jars, then the Bankatering catering service is of particular interest. She delivers food in convenient jars directly to the office or to an event.

Monday. Dinner:
BAKED VEGETABLES SALAD WITH NUTS AND CILANTRO

Preheat the oven to 160 degrees. Cut and grease olive oil 1 bell pepper, 0.5 zucchini, 1 tomato, 1 eggplant. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes.

IN prepared vegetables add walnuts and finely chopped cilantro and a few pieces of feta.

Monday: Dinner
PASTA WITH SOFT CHEESE AND TOMATO SAUCE

Boil your favorite type of pasta until al dente.

While the pasta is cooking, make the sauce. Cut 2 tomatoes. Chop 1 clove of garlic and fry in olive oil. If you have any meat in the refrigerator, it will also fit perfectly into the sauce, cut it up and fry it along with the garlic. Add tomatoes and simmer until some of the liquid has evaporated. Add salt, pepper, oregano and ready-made pasta. Let the pasta simmer in the sauce for 5 minutes to infuse flavor and aroma. Stir and place on a plate, add a few pieces of Greek cheese such as feta.

Tuesday: Breakfast
OATMEAL WITH RASPBERRY AND HONEY

Boil 2 cups of water, add a little more than half a cup oatmeal. Add a handful of frozen raspberries and 2 tablespoons of honey to the finished oatmeal. By the way, this breakfast is also great cold, so if you don’t have time to eat it at home, you can put it in a jar or container and take it with you.

Tuesday: Lunch:
GREEK SALAD WITH CHICKEN

Cut 1 cucumber, 1 tomato, 0.5 bell pepper. Add a few olives, some Greek cheese, some boiled chicken, a little lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper and oregano.

Tuesday: Dinner
SPANISH RAGU WITH RICE

Boil ⅓ cup rice in 1 cup water.

Porezhye 0.5 bell peppers and 0.5 onions. Fry in olive oil until the onion turns golden. Peel and chop 0.5 zucchini and 3 tomatoes. Add to the pan with the peppers and onions. Add also 1 pinch of sugar, salt and black pepper. The stew will be ready when the vegetables are soft.

Wednesday: Breakfast
PEANUT BUTTER TOAST

Toast the bread in a toaster or frying pan without oil. Add peanut butter and any additional component, such as green apple slices, berries or bananas. For delicious breakfast On a Wednesday morning, one of these will do just fine.

Wednesday: Lunch
TUSCANY PANZANELLA SALAD

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Cut 3 pieces of bread into cubes, pour olive oil, sprinkle with salt, pepper and oregano, bake in the oven for 10 minutes.

Chop 3 tomatoes, add croutons, a few olives and olive oil.

By the way, this salad will taste better if it sits in the refrigerator overnight, so it’s best to prepare it the night before.

Wednesday: Dinner
GLASS NOODLES WITH MUSHROOMS

Pour boiling water over glass noodles for 10 minutes. Fry 100g of mushrooms with 1 clove of garlic, several slices of fresh chili and grated ginger. The amount of ginger required for this dish looks like 2 cloves of garlic.

Cut ¼ carrots into strips and add to the pan with the mushrooms. Cook for 5 minutes. Add glass noodles and stir. Add spices to taste.

Finely chop the cilantro and add to the noodles.

Thursday: Breakfast
BUCKWHEAT PORRIDGE WITH CINNAMON

Boil ⅓ cup of buckwheat in 1 cup of milk. Add a pinch of cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of honey.

Thursday: Lunch:
SALAD WITH CHICKPEAKES AND FRESH VEGETABLES

Cut 1 tomato, 1 cucumber, 3/4 carrots, 2 lettuce leaves, several cauliflower florets, 1 stalk of celery, add ½ cup boiled chickpeas. Water a small amount lemon juice and yogurt or sour cream. Add salt, pepper and other spices to taste.

Thursday: Dinner
PASTA WITH BAKED TOMATOES AND GREEK CHEESE

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Cut 2 packages of cherry tomatoes in half, toss with olive oil, salt, pepper, oregano and place on a baking sheet. Bake for 30 minutes.

Boil the pasta until al dente and mix thoroughly with a few pieces of Greek cheese, olives and ⅓ of the baked tomatoes (the rest of the tomatoes will be needed for dinner on Friday and breakfast on Sunday). Let sit for 5 minutes to allow the paste to absorb the flavor and aroma. Sprinkle black pepper on top.

Friday: Breakfast
NUT OATMEAL PUDDING

This breakfast is best prepared in the evening. To prepare it, you need to mix all the ingredients and put it in the refrigerator overnight. During this time, the oatmeal will swell and become saturated with flavor.

Pour half a glass of oatmeal with a glass of milk, add 1 tablespoon peanut butter, 50g of nuts, 2 tablespoons of honey and a handful of raspberries. Mix thoroughly and refrigerate overnight.

Friday: Lunch
SALAD WITH FRIED MUSHROOMS

Peel, cut and fry 150g mushrooms in olive oil.

Wash 50g lettuce leaves, cut. Also cut 2 tomatoes. Mix all ingredients with 50g nuts, salt, pepper, oregano and olive oil.

Friday: Dinner
POLLACK WITH VEGETABLES

Boil 2 potatoes.

Fry pollock in olive oil with salt and pepper. Boiled potatoes also lightly fry in the same pan.

Make a salad with lettuce, half the remaining roasted tomatoes, olives and olive oil. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Saturday: Breakfast
TOAST WITH EGGS AND FRUIT SALAD

Bake 2 slices of bread in a toaster or fry in a pan without oil.

Fry 2 eggs any way you like.

Place a few lettuce leaves and eggs on the bread. Sprinkle with black pepper.

Peel and cut 0.5 apples, 1 orange and 0.5 pears. Chop finely small piece ginger Mix fruit, ginger and 2 tablespoons honey.

Saturday: Lunch
PUMPKIN SOUP WITH COCONUT MILK

Preheat the oven to 150 degrees. Cut the pumpkin into cubes and bake for about 1 hour until done (part of the pumpkin will be needed for Sunday breakfast and dinner).

Fry in olive oil several slices of fresh chili, a chopped clove of garlic and 2 times more fresh grated ginger. Add pumpkin (about 200g), black pepper, coconut milk(about 200g) and beat in a blender. Heat the soup, stirring frequently.

Saturday: Dinner
CAULIFLOWER WITH CHEESE, PEAR, APPLE AND CELERY SALAD

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Divide the cabbage into florets. Grease a baking sheet with olive oil and place the desired amount of your portion into it. Season with salt and pepper, add a little oregano and grated cheese on cabbage. Bake for about 15 minutes until golden brown.

By the way, cauliflower It’s also good raw, so you don’t have to wait until it’s completely baked.

Chop 0.5 apples, 0.5 pears and 1 stalk of celery. Mix the ingredients together with a handful walnuts and 1 tablespoon of honey.

Sunday: Breakfast
TOASTS WITH SOFT CHEESE, BAKED TOMATOES AND PUMPKIN

Bake a few slices of bread in a toaster or fry in a frying pan without oil. Spread Greek cheese on bread and add roasted tomatoes and pumpkin.

Sunday: Lunch
SOUP DAL

Fry some grated ginger, a few slices of fresh chilli and dried mustard seeds. Add 0.5 coarsely chopped carrots and 1 chopped potato. Fry until half cooked. Add 0.5 cups of dry lentils, lightly fry and cover with water. Salt and pepper. Cook until done.

Sunday: Dinner
WARM SALAD WITH BAKED PUMPKIN AND CHICKEATS

Heat the remaining baked pumpkin in the oven. Mix with lettuce leaves and boiled chickpeas (it is also better to use freshly boiled chickpeas warm). Water Greek yogurt, salt, pepper and add a little cilantro.

Weekly grocery list for 1 person (to prepare 21 dishes)

The approximate cost of food for a week is 4900 rubles. It's 21 full meal + bulk products, which will be left over for cooking next week (Rice, glass noodles, pasta, chickpeas, buckwheat, oatmeal). On average it turns out to be approximately 233 rubles. for 1 dish. If desired, this figure can be reduced by at least 1000 rubles if, for example, you do not use products such as pumpkin, cauliflower and frozen raspberries. They can be safely replaced with those products that you have in stock. Thus, the price tag of products for the week will drop to 3925 rubles, which will be 187 rubles. for 1 dish.

	Product	Quantity	Price, rub.
1	Rice	1 pack	40
2	Glass noodles/Funchoza	1 package	110
3	Paste	1 pack	40
4	Chickpeas	1 pack	105
5	Buckwheat	1 pack	60
6	Oatmeal 1 pack	1 pack	30
7	Tomato	12 pcs	400
8	Cucumber	1 PC	50
9	bell pepper	2 pcs	25
10	Zucchini	1 PC	40
11	Eggplant	1 PC	60
12	Carrot	2 pcs	15
13	Potato	3 pcs	15
14	Small pumpkin	1 PC	200
15	Apples	2 pcs	15
16	Pear	1 PC	15
17	Orange	1 PC	15
18	Small size cauliflower	1 PC	500
19	Celery stalks	1 package	165
20	Cherry tomatoes	2 packs of 250g	180
21	Lemon	1 PC	15
22	Lettuce (Iceberg)	1 package	90
23	Garlic 1 clove	1 head	35
24	Ginger	1 root	50
25	Chili fresh	1 PC	25
26	Cilantro	1 bunch	40
27	Fresh champignon mushrooms	250g	85
28	Chicken breast	1 PC	200
29	Pollock	200g	88
30	Frozen raspberries 1 pack	1 pack	275
31	Bread	1 PC	90
32	Olives	1 jar	80
33	Peanut butter/Urbech	1 jar	200
34	Nuts (any kind will do, I use walnuts)	200g	400
35	Coconut milk	1 jar	166
36	Greek cheese (Sirtaki/Feta)	1 package 300g	176
37	Yogurt without additives (Greek)	1 pack 200ml	45
38	Russian cheese	1 package 250g	155
39	Milk	1 pack	60
40	Cinnamon 1 pinch	1 small package	60
41	Dried oregano	1 package	40
42	Mustard seeds	1 package	113
43	Salt	1 pack	17
44	Pepper	1 pack	63
45	Honey	1 jar 200ml	130
46	Olive oil	1 bottle 250ml	120
TOTAL			4898

IN modern world a significant number of people are forced to strictly adhere to a budget. Salaries are often only barely enough for necessary expenses, or even not enough at all. In such conditions, it is necessary to carefully plan all expenses in advance, learn how to properly organize rest, food, treatment, etc. As practice shows, most Russian families spend about half of their income, or even more, on food. Therefore, organizing a budget diet plays an extremely important role. Let's clarify what an economical menu could be for a family of 3 people for 7 days of the week.

I’ll say right away for those who, having read the recommended dishes for any day, will say that this set is suitable for a family of any number of people. But no! A weekly menu for 3 people assumes that 2 people are working people. If we talk about the menu of a family of 5-6 people, then, for example, 2 people work, 1-2 are retired and 1-2 are children. Seemingly living large staff In one room it is easier to pay for utilities, but in reality it is easier only for heating. All other services are metered. This means that the consumption of utilities per capita remains approximately the same. At the same time, the size of the pension is not comparable to the salary. Therefore, as a result, there is not enough money... In a family of two working people, funds are spent on two people. In a family of 5-6 people, in fact, it’s as if only 3 people are working, and you need to spend on 5-6... So it turns out that the weekly menu for a family of more people in most cases of life will be simpler, a menu for 3 people, respectively more interesting despite the fact that it is economical.

Economical menu for the week

Monday

The most healthy breakfast It’s not for nothing that porridges are considered, and they are quite inexpensive. Prepare for breakfast oatmeal, and if there are fruits, dried fruits, nuts or honey in the house, add them to ready dish.

For lunch, prepare borscht. First courses can be prepared using chicken, meat or bone broth. Use some of the meat in borscht, and the rest will go into other dishes, for example, salad, casserole or pizza.

Dinner. Excellent budget option For dinner the whole family will have potatoes baked in foil with filling - the so-called “crumb potatoes”.

Tuesday

You can also prepare egg dishes for breakfast. This way, all family members can have a tasty breakfast and aromatic omelette with cheese.

For lunch, boil a simple one chicken soup With homemade noodles.

For dinner, cook spaghetti with minced meat; you can also add tomato sauce to the dish.

Wednesday

Prepare porridge for breakfast from available cereals, for example, corn or millet. Milk porridge is also a good option.

Boil for lunch pea soup.

And for dinner, cook rice and chicken liver stewed in tomato.

Thursday

Fry cheesecakes for breakfast or semolina balls.

For lunch, boil chicken soup with millet cereal or solyanka with beans.

A excellent option they will be meatless for dinner lazy cabbage rolls(rice with vegetables) or dumplings with potatoes and sour cream.

Friday

Prepare so-called curly scrambled eggs with tomatoes for breakfast.

For lunch, boil soup with meatballs.

And for dinner, prepare fish in batter with a side dish, for example, couscous or fried potatoes.

Saturday

A great option for a Saturday breakfast for the whole family would be lazy dumplings.

For lunch you can cook cabbage soup with sauerkraut.

And dinner may consist of mashed potatoes and goulash or meatballs with rice in white sauce and vegetable salad.

Sunday

Prepare for breakfast rice-curd casserole.

For lunch, make soup with dumplings.

And for dinner, please your loved ones with potato tortilla with cheese or buckwheat with vegetables and mushrooms.

What else can be included in an economical menu for 3 people?

Salads for a budget menu

There are quite a few salads that can be made from available products. Excellent choice will become budget dishes from seasonal vegetables. In the cold season, you can prepare salads from beets, radishes and carrots.

TO budget salads also include “vinigrette”, “vitamin”, “meat with egg pancakes", "Korean style carrots" and "Georgian pickled cabbage".

Desserts and baked goods

In order to diversify the economical family menu, select recipes with minimum quantity eggs, butter, margarine and sour cream. So quite affordable dishes will become pancakes (they can be cooked with or without filling), lean yeast pancakes, shortbread, “potato” or “anthill” cakes. You can also build a cherry tree or Apple strudel, cheesecakes with jam, various pies, pizza, Lenten pie(for example, with jam) and even “Coffee” or “Fish” cakes.

In order to create an economical menu for your family, audit your supplies. Carefully write down all the products that are currently in the house and adapt the menu to use them. On a separate sheet, write down the products that need to be purchased, calculate their quantity and price. Walk once with your list to different stores and markets. Draw your conclusions...

Go to the store only once a week, purchasing all the required amount of products at once. In the middle of the working week it is worth buying only perishable food eg bread or milk. But at the same time, you should not take with you more money than you plan to spend. Otherwise, you will spend money on something “very necessary”, which you could easily live without.

Of course, your diet should include fruits and dairy products. It is also advisable to purchase them in advance, focusing on your financial capabilities and the needs of family members.

It may well be that in your family there is no need to prepare first courses every day. They can be cooked for two days at once, which will significantly save time.

Thus, every housewife can create an economical menu for the week. If you try to stick to it, you will notice that you really spend less money, but your family members remain full and satisfied. The main thing is to start!