Genius Hack to Eat Healthy for $5/Day 🤯

Today I'm showing you an easy meal prep that anyone can do including breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack all for well under $5. Eating healthy doesn’t HAVE to be expensive and I hope these recipes can serve as a jumping off point on how to stretch your dollar a little further. Enjoy!

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🥣 Overnight Oats:
60g rolled oats (about 2/3 cup) $0.21
1/2 tsp cinnamon $0.01
2/3 cup water
1 banana (1/2 for blender, 1/2 for chopping) $0.24
1 TBL peanut butter $0.08
Total cost per serving = $0.55
Add oats + cinnamon to tupperware. Blend 1/2 banana + peanut butter into water. Add liquid to oats, then add remaining 1/2 banana. Stir together. (If banana is left unstirred, it will turn brown.)
Optional: add soy milk, ground flax, chia seeds, jam, or any other fresh or frozen fruit

🌯 Burrito:
75g (uncooked) black beans $0.15 (I cooked 300g in total for 4 servings, and still had some leftover)
1 tsp. chili powder $0.02 (I recommend adding a pinch of salt here as well)
40g (uncooked) rice $0.09 (I cooked 250g in total for 4 servings, but had so much leftover, I've reduced the per serving amount to 40g uncooked (160g uncooked for 4 servings))
50g frozen veggies $0.17 (I cooked 200g in total for 4 servings but had a lot leftover with the rice)
1/2 cup salsa $0.14
Tortilla $0.39
Total cost per serving = $0.95
Optional: add onion, cilantro, jalapeños, extra spices, salsa or hot sauce

🍜 Noodle Soup:
90g (uncooked) buckwheat noodles $0.50
65g frozen veggies $0.21
87.5 tofu $0.75
1 TBL soy sauce $0.07
Total cost per serving = $1.65
Optional: add chili oil, sesame seeds or sesame oil, rice vinegar, green onion, or other veggies

🍎 Apple Snack:
1 apple $0.60
2 TBL peanut butter $0.15
Total cost per serving $0.75

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[LetsEatPlants]

$3.90 TOTAL for al these meals!!! Hope you enjoy this one! 🤗 I tried not to add *too* many different ingredients to each meal, because that can add up quickly for initial money spent, but feel free to add any extras for more flavor, or increase the portion sizes for more calories.

[ioleenl]

Definitely going to try that milk replacement hack for overnight oats! Thanks for some great tips! 😃

[phillippinter]

I noticed that some things actually over doubled for me. Like bulk flax seeds and potatoes at the cheaper stores.
Flax seeds were$1.19 a Pound and now I think $3.29 . potatoes were around $3 for 10 pounds and now over $6

[traceyzvirblis]

I love ideas that show cheap doesn’t mean flavourless or boring. I’d happily eat each of these meal ideas…especially the burritos 🌯
Thanks heaps Maddie for keeping it real 🙏🏻🥰

[JohnGiasi]

Same here in the states! When it hits Costco (who uses a very tight almost fixed profit %) you know that it's real and hitting everywhere. Awesome demonstration of how prepping & vegan WHOLE FOODS really saves $$$!!

[sachagud]

Great tips!! Love the blended banana and peanut butter idea and the veggies on top of rice in the instant pot. Going to have to try out both!

[TarrinLupo]

This is really useful, thanks for the money breakdown.

[samantharose]

I love a good budget video 🤗 we started shopping back at Costco before Christmas. The local supermarket prices are through the roof. I'm just really concious what I buy and always go armed with a list! I got 4kg of organic mung beans for less than $10 aud. We are living on them 🤗

[catherineciaravino]

Loved this video Maddie! Apples and pb are our favorite snack here also! I especially love the tip about adding bananas and pb to water to make the overnight oats. Thanks!

[doveandolive]

Great tips Maddie! Loved the frozen veggies on top of the rice to steam them and the soup prep - what a great idea! Certainly looks delicious, healthy and cost saving, well done.

[lp]

I've been making your rice, tofu and frozen veggies in the instant pot and it is genius! I'm definitely going to try the peanut butter and banana in the oats.

[davidthescottishvegan]

Thanks for sharing this awesome video Maddie and it was amazing that you managed to eat for less than $5 per day. It's a challenge to eat cheap these days with ridiculous price increases. Love 🥰 the video and love 💞❤️ Maddie & Q.

[booklassygarrahan]

In Costa Rica, they make a soup out of the liquid from the beans. It's a light soup with fresh scallions, cilantro, and lemon.

[CS-zwim]

Great ideas! I love these ideas and I am going to try them this week!❤

[veganmamafourgirls]

Thank you Maddie for these cheap and quick meal ideas :)

[andyamc]

Great ideas& video! Thank you for share it!

[traceykaminski]

I will have to look at ur directions to steam veggies in IP while making rice bc I would have thought the veggies would get over cooked! 🎉❤

[monsyd]

What a great noodle batch prep idea! Love it!

[bjoyp]

I definitely noticed😉. But figured you would say something when you were ready. I can’t imagine anyone more prepared for a healthy pregnancy. You have so much great content that I enjoy watching several times so enjoy your pregnancy and pop in whenever you want. Huge congratulations to you and your husband!

[bynro]

Fantastic, Maddie! Thank you for this video! Now I'm off to watch the other one!