Cheap and Easy 15-Minute Meal Ideas – When you need to make dinner in a hurry and on a budget, these are the best meals to make! Cheap and easy dinner ideas.
It’s 4pm. The kids are going to start asking “what’s for dinner” any second now and you haven’t even started to think about cooking at all! We’ve all been there before. Now, you need cheap and easy 15-minute meal ideas that can be just thrown together at a moment’s notice.
Some of my favorite recipes are 15-minute meals, but most of them are thanks to my pre-made meal plans. But more often than not, I fail at meal planning for the week and I wait too long for dinner to get done. That’s when I stand there in my pantry trying to figure out what I can do with canned green beans and diced tomatoes.
That’s why “cheap and easy 15-minute meal ideas” are always one of my top Google searches. Tonight I found myself wondering what was for dinner at 4:15pm and then I remembered that I was the one who had to cook! Thankfully, I had my arsenal of cheap and easy 15-minute meal ideas all set and ready for searching.
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100+ Cheap and Easy 15-Minute Meal Ideas
Do you have any go-to cheat and fast recipes? Leave it in the comments with a link and I’ll add yours to the list!
Lisa says
Im totally bookmarking this page. I don’t enjoy cooking or meal planning, so this resource is gold!