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Home | Recipes | Budget-Friendly Meals | Page 6

Budget-Friendly Meals

Looking for delicious and satisfying meals on a budget? Our budget-friendly meals are perfect for those looking to save some cash without sacrificing flavor.

Browse dozens of recipes that make the most of everything from pantry staples to budget cuts of meat, including simple buttery pasta, slow cooker chicken with potatoes, easy scrambled eggs, and more.

A person using metal chopsticks to scoop up spaghetti al limone amalfitano from a bowl.
Three breaded chicken thighs on a plate with slices of roasted lemon.

Breaded Oven Fried Chicken Thighs

35 mins

A glass jar half filled with apple cranberry sauce, with a second jar of applesauce in the background.

Apple Cranberry Sauce

1 hr

A cast-iron skillet filled with eggplant shakshuka made with poached eggs in a tomato and eggplant sauce, with feta scattered over the top.

Eggplant Shakshuka

45 mins

A mini funnel cake dusted with confectioners' sugar.

Mini Funnel Cakes

1 hr

A bowl of spaghetti all'Aglio e Olio topped with olive oil and flakes of Parmesan cheese.

Spaghetti all’Aglio e Olio

20 mins

A half-full jar of honey barbecue sauce with a spoon dripping excess sauce back into the jar.

Honey Barbecue Sauce

35 mins

Several cooked papo-secos on a wire rack.

Papo Secos ~ Portuguese Rolls

4 hrs

A bifana, a Portuguese pork sandwich on a white plate with a bottle of mustard in the background.

Bifanas ~ Portuguese Pork Sandwiches

2 hrs

A thin circle of stretched pizza dough being tossed in the air.

Jim Lahey’s Pizza Dough

18 hrs

A New York-style pizza sliced into 8 pieces, with one slice missing and a bowl of parmesan on a red pizza plate.

New York Style Pizza

1 d

Halved slices of sourdough stacked on top of each other on a white and grey marble surface.

Sourdough Bread

12 hrs 30 mins

A cooked leftover pasta frittata on a round metal pan.

Leftover Pasta Frittata

25 mins

Several open glass bottles of barbecue sauces, including a vinegar barbecue sauce.

Vinegar Barbecue Sauce

10 mins

Homemade Greek yogurt being strained through cheesecloth into a white bowl with a spoon and a small bowl of honey beside it.

Homemade Greek Yogurt

12 hrs

A small white dish of gochujang, a Korean chile past with a spoon, jar, and bowl beside it.

Cheater’s Gochujang

5 mins

A skillet filled with spicy scrambled eggs with a wooden spoon inside.

Spicy Scrambled Eggs ~ Ande Bhurji

30 mins

Six Alabama muffin biscuits in a muffin tin.

Alabama Muffin Biscuits

45 mins

Three pieces of mkate wa ufuta (Zanzibar sesame bread) with some sesame seeds sprinkled around it.

Zanzibar Sesame Bread ~ Mkate Wa Ufuta

1 hr 30 mins

Four Hoosier sugar cream pies, one dusted with confectioners' sugar on a sheet of parchment.

Hoosier Sugar Cream Pie

5 hrs

A glass spice jar filled with cinnamon sugar, lying on its side with some cinnamon sugar poured out.

How to Make Cinnamon Sugar

5 mins

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