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4 weeks · 20 dinners

4-Week Budget Family Dinner Plan

Check the dinner ingredients against your grocery budget before you shop.

Instant download after checkout: one ZIP with separate US Letter and A4 PDFs.

  • PDF
  • 34 pages
  • US Letter + A4
  • Print at home

Cook five low-cost family dinners a week for 4 weeks and check the grocery list against your own store's prices before you shop.

Or take all four. The Complete Kitchen Bundle holds this plan and the other three. $32 if bought separately. You save $16.

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Look inside

Real pages from the 4-Week Budget Family Dinner Plan: the top of each page, shown small.

How to check each price against your store
How to check each price against your store
Week 1 at a glance
Week 1 at a glance
Week 1 priced grocery list, with a 'Your store' column
Week 1 priced grocery list, with a 'Your store' column
A recipe page: one low-cost dinner per page
A recipe page: one low-cost dinner per page

What's in the download

  • Start page with a filled sample priced list
  • Contents and index of all 20 dinners
  • 4 weekly overviews with a 'Do before you cook' box
  • 4 priced grocery lists by aisle: reference price per line, a 'Your store' column and totals
  • 20 original low-cost family dinner recipes, one per page
  • My store prices page
  • Sources and assumptions page

Specs

Pages
34
Paper sizes
US Letter and A4 (separate PDFs)
File
One ZIP: Letter PDF, A4 PDF and a how-to-print note
Weeks
4
Dinners
20 (5 per week)
Price source
BLS Average Price Data, U.S. city average, September 2026
Servings
4 per recipe

Good to know before you buy

What you need: A printer, a pen, a food thermometer and the groceries on each week's list.

  • Recipes are original and were not lab-tested; times are estimates.
  • No nutrition figures and no diet, health or allergy advice; swaps are everyday preferences.
  • Safe cooking temperatures come from the FoodSafety.gov charts; use a food thermometer.
  • No retailer cart links: the grocery lists are printed.
  • Reference prices are U.S. city averages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for September 2026, not your store's prices; lines without a published average are left for your price.
  • No promised weekly spending or savings; prices are before tax and pantry staples are not costed.
  • Covers 4 weeks, not 12.
  • Print-only PDF: you print the pages and write on them by hand.
  • Ingredients, printing and paper are not included.
  • One-time download for your own household; no updates or subscription.

Questions about this download

Where do the prices come from?

Each reference price is a U.S. city average from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for September 2026. Lines without a published average are left blank for your price.

Does it promise a weekly grocery total?

No. Prices are before tax, pantry staples are not costed, and your store's prices will differ. You write your own prices in the 'Your store' column.

How long does it last?

4 weeks of five dinners each. It covers 4 weeks, not 12.

How many does it feed?

Every recipe serves 4.

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4 weeks · 20 dinners

4-Week Budget Family Dinner Plan

All four · $32 if bought separately. You save $16.

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