Eat Well All Week for About $4.75 a Day

If your grocery budget is tight but you still want real, filling food on the table, this plan is for you. This printable 7-Day Bean & Lentil Meal Plan gives you seven batch recipes, a full 21-meal week mapped day by day, and a grocery list with real prices from my local ALDI, so you can feed yourself well for about $35 in groceries.

Two cook sessions cover the whole week: a Sunday prep (about 3 hours) for Monday through Thursday plus freezer stock, and a short Wednesday cook (about 1½ hours, mostly hands-off) for the weekend. Every recipe costs under $1.75 per serving.

Instant digital download. Print at home and use again and again.

What's Included

Your downloadable PDF includes:

- All 7 recipes: Chocolate Chip Black Bean Muffins, Chocolate Peanut Butter Chickpea Pancakes, Chickpea "Chickn" Salad, Easy Lentil Curry, Black Bean Patties, Meatless "Meatloaf," and Southwestern Lentil & Black Bean Salad, each with ingredients, instructions, per-serving cost, and nutrition estimates

- The complete 7-day plan with breakfast, lunch, and dinner mapped out

- A consolidated grocery list with real ALDI prices

- Sunday prep and Wednesday cook checklists, plus a one-go chop list

- A freezer and reheating guide for every recipe

- Leftover makeover ideas, easy ingredient swaps, and family stretching notes for feeding four

- A week-at-a-glance fridge sheet

- Blank 2-week meal plan and grocery list templates to print and reuse

- Transparent batch pricing breakdown

- A screen-reader-friendly HTML version of the entire plan

You may print as many pages as you need for personal use.

Product Details

- Format: Printable PDF (29 pages, US Letter) + screen-reader-friendly HTML version

- Delivery: Instant digital download after purchase

- Editable: No (design cannot be altered)

- Printing options: Print at home or use a local print shop

For best results, print using high-quality paper and ink. Colors may vary by monitor and printer.

How to Download and Print

1. Complete your purchase.

2. You will receive an order confirmation email.

3. Click the download link in the email.

4. Download the file to your device.

5. Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader (free at adobe.com).

6. Select "Actual Size" in your printer settings when printing.

Important Information

- This is a digital product only. No physical item will be shipped.

- For personal use only.

- Files may not be resold, redistributed, or used commercially.

Support

This meal plan was thoughtfully created to help you stretch your grocery budget with real, filling food. Prices come from my local ALDI (September 2026) and will vary by store, region, and season. Nutrition numbers are estimates from food databases, not lab-tested. This plan is general information, not medical or dietary advice, and I encourage you to customize it to work for you.

You're welcome to share my website with friends and loved ones, but please do not share or reproduce the files. For more budget-friendly recipes and meal planning tips, visit WholeAndHappyLiving.com or find me @lauralegge_.