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Recipes by Budget
Browse Sweet Pea Kitchen recipes by spending goal. Prices are added only when they can be supported by reliable ingredient or shopping data.
Choose a Spending Goal
Use these collections to narrow the kind of meal you want before you start cooking. A collection is not labeled with a dollar amount until the recipe cost can be supported by reliable shopping data.
Looking for a smaller plan? Start with Cheap Meals for Two. Feeding a family? Browse Cheap Family Dinners. Need something easy tonight? Try Cheap Lazy Dinners.
Under $5
Affordable breakfasts, desserts and small meals.
Under $10
Family-friendly meals, pasta and chicken dinners.
Under $15
Comfort food and meals for a few people.
Cheap Meals for Two
Smaller-batch meals without the leftovers avalanche.
Cheap Family Dinners
Stretch-friendly dinner ideas for busy nights.
Cheap Lazy Dinners
Low-effort meals for when ambition has left the building.
Under $3 Per Serving
Cost-per-serving collections will appear as verified data is available.
$50 Grocery Challenge
Turn one grocery trip into multiple dinners.
7 Dinners From One Grocery Trip
See how one flexible grocery haul can become a week of dinners.
Shop These Ingredients
These are useful starting points for planning, but they are not assigned a dollar amount unless verified cost data exists.
Chicken Alfredo
Cozy, four-serving dinner with a 30-minute method.
Garlic Parmesan Chicken
Weeknight skillet option from the existing recipe collection.
Chicken Fried Rice
A flexible rice-based meal for using overlapping ingredients.