Look at the expiry dates of the foods and ingredients you already have on hand. Check your pantry, refrigerator and freezer.Here are a few tasty meatless meal recipes: Black Bean Couscous Salad, Egg Bhurji, and Sweet Chili Tofu Stir-fry. Legumes (beans, lentils, dried peas), eggs, tofu, peanut butter and canned fish offer great tasting protein at a good price. Plan at least one meatless meal a week.Check store flyers, newspaper inserts and coupon sites online. You may be surprised at the good buys available. Just be sure to buy and plan for foods that you will actually use so that they don’t go to waste. Plan your meals around foods that are on sale.Decide which recipes you will make for lunch and dinner and make a list of the items that you will need from the grocery store. When you have a plan, you will be less likely to spend money on fast food or convenience meals. Take a look at these tips for easy menu planning. It takes a bit of time, but it will help you save money later. Grab a "lunchbox" that fits in your typical work-bag (or has its own handle!), and is oriented in the way you eat-which is to say, if you bring lots of little components or snacks, pick one with separate compartments.Are you trying to save money on food? If so, start by planning your meals for the next few days or week ahead. Having cute and functional lunch boxes and bentos always seems to motivate me, but perhaps I'm alone in that?" "Things like big-batch Bolognese or other meaty mains, lasagna, pans of roasted veg, lots of hard-boiled eggs they all get put into storage containers and are doled out over the next few days. "I don't follow a meal plan guide, per se, but I am a fan of overcooking on Sundays to have at least a couple of leftover options for our lunchboxes and dinners through Wednesday (that's the goal, at least)," says former Senior Lifestyle Editor Hana Asbrink. Here are my colleagues' best tips for quick and easy meal planning, for work-from-home lunches and weeknight dinners alike:ĭon't underestimate the importance of storage vessels.įor pre-prepped lunch and weeknight dinner components, having containers you can see right into that stack well will facilitate super easy grab-and-run-with-it dinner riffs.
And by bringing colorful, wholesome, photo studio-ready meals to the office, they were also saving money from buying lunch at the cafeteria or one of the chain quick-service spots on the block. I realized that their secret was creating a weekly meal plan so that they could have ready to eat meals for lunch and dinner. ( Sheet-pan chicken thighs! Chili! Once, I even heard someone mention a scallion crostata!)Įqual parts impressed and intimidated, I started to to pay close attention. These people were whipping up two-course meals like nobody's business. Slices of warm cake.Īnd the way they talked about weeknight dinners: good god. People would wander out of the team kitchen with hunks of perfectly charred meat that looked like Francis Mallmann had spent days roasting and plating them. My first week on the job, come noon, I'd encounter a sudden onslaught of salads composed so beautifully, I'd wonder if there was a farmers' market in the building I hadn't yet noticed.
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