15 Dinners for $5 | Easy & Delicious Meals on an EXTREME BUDGET!

Times are tough, and trying to find delicious dinner recipes the whole family can enjoy, and on a budget can be difficult.

But, with this article, you can now have a great place to find easy dinner recipes that will cost you around $5, depending on where you live it may vary a bit, but a budget-friendly meal nonetheless.

So, save this or pin these recipes for making up your dinner menu for the week. These are perfect for those on an extreme budget or for someone looking for easy and tasty recipes.

I have even more recipes like this where you can learn recipes for living on a dollar a day that are also amazing to have in your recipe portfolio.

15 Dinner recipes to make for only $5

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  Pasta with Beans Dinner

  Difficulty: Easy

  Keep dinner simple, affordable, and flavorful with this simple Pasta with Beans Dinner recipe, made with simple pantry ingredients.

  1 vote 5.0 Cuisine: American, Italian

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  Budget-Friendly Potato Soup Recipe

  Difficulty: Easy

  38 votes 4.4 Cuisine: American

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  One Pot Chicken Noodle Soup

  Difficulty: Easy

  One Pot Chicken Noodle Soup is an easy recipe to make for the whole family to warm up on those cold Fall evenings!

  1 vote 5.0 Cuisine: American

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  Sloppy Joe Macaroni and Cheese

  Difficulty: Easy

  Sloppy Joe Macaroni and Cheese — the ultimate comfort food recipe that your whole family will enjoy for .

  Cuisine: American

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  Cheeseburger Hash Brown Casserole

  Difficulty: Easy

  Ultimate comfort food– Cheeseburger Hash Brown Casserole is a simple dinner recipe, made with simple ingredients.

  7 votes 3.4 Cuisine: American

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  Chili Macaroni Soup

  Difficulty: Easy

  4 votes 4.0 Cuisine: American

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  Ham and Beans

  Difficulty: Easy

  1 vote 5.0 Cuisine: American

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  Egg Casserole

  Difficulty: Easy

  2 votes 5.0 Cuisine: American

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  Stir Fry Sausage Potato Skillet

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  Ham and Stuffing Bake

  8 votes 3.8

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  Lentil Pasta Veggie Soup

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  Black Bean Hash Brown Casserole

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  Cheesy Bacon Pasta

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  Taco Pizzas

  Difficulty: Easy

  5 votes 4.4 Cuisine: American, Mexican

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  Mexican Cornbread Casserole

  Difficulty: Easy

  5 votes 4.6 Cuisine: Mexican

What to serve with these easy dinner recipes:

You can keep dinner simple with these recipes and serve most of them as is. However, if you want to add a side or two, maybe even a dessert to these easy dinner recipes, let me give you a few options:

• Classic Side Salad
• Slow Cooker Creamy Macaroni and Cheese
• Dill Pickle Pasta Salad
• Easy Thanksgiving Stuffing
• Easy One Hour Dinner Rolls
• Garlic Pull Apart Rolls – Roll Dough Recipe
• Cream Cheese Danishes
• The Best Dessert Recipes with Pumpkin
• No-Bake Layered Turtle Dessert
• Buster Bar Dessert

Quick links for making dinner easy:

• Family meal plans
• Tools for the kitchen and more
• The best cookbook for family dinner recipes
• FREE budget meal plan
• Cooking videos to watch

If you give these recipes a try, make sure to tag us on Instagram @julia.pacheco.cooking and let us know how much you liked the recipes!