How to Enjoy Healthy, Easy & Cheap Dinner in 30 Mins
Tired of preparing your dinner with daily grocery shopping and time-consuming food prep? Don’t know what you should cook for your family? Don’t want to spend hours on your meals? This post will show you several cheap dinner ideas to prepare your homemade, healthy meals in less than 30 minutes.
Budget meal kits
A meal kit is a subscription service where a company delivers pre-portioned and sometimes partially prepared food ingredients and recipes to customers. You can personalize the food and save money and time by picking up food at your door and starting cooking with food prep skipping.
Option 1 Home Chef
Home Chef is one of the notable meal kit services, which aims to make people’s dinnertime routine easier. It features meal kits (30 minutes), express meal kits (15 minutes), oven-ready, grill-ready, and culinary collections. Every week, you can choose from 30 meals and 18 Extras, starting at $7.99 per serving.
Besides, here are some special offers you can claim:
- Referral program
You can invite your friends and family to join Home Chef through an email invitation or by sharing your referral code. They will receive a $35 discount off for their first order, and you will earn $35 in Home Chef credit.
- Student discount
Simply register and your student status with Student Beans, which is free, you can enjoy Home Chef’s student discount — $30 off your first three boxes and $26 off your fourth. You just need to use its student discount code at the checkout to enjoy $116 off your subscription.
- Hero support
If you’re a doctor, nurse, hospital employee, military, first responder, or teacher, you can get your exclusive discount on Home Chef. It’s proud to support heroes and provide discounts. All you need to do is verify with ID.me at checkout and receive the discount.
Option 2 HelloFresh
As one of America’s most popular meal kits, HelloFresh is your go-to option when it comes to cheap dinner ideas. It sources high-quality ingredients straight from farms and makes them into convenient, customized meal kits for customers. You can choose from over 30 fresh recipes every week at $7.49 per meal.
- Referral program
If a friend signs up HelloFresh using your referral code, they will get $100 off across their first four boxes and you will receive $10 in credit to your HelloFresh account.
- Student discount
Students can get 65% off their first box, free first-box shipping, and an on-going 15% off (discount applied for 52 weeks). Simply register and verify your student status with UNiDAYS.
- Hero support
HelloFresh also has a special offer for medical providers, nurses, hospital employees, and military & veterans. You can get 70% off your first box and free shipping, and 15% off all your other boxes over the next year.
Option 3 EveryPlate
EveryPlate is the most affordable meal prep kit, starting at only $4.99 per meal. There are 25 delicious recipes that change every week, which save you time and money, and let you enjoy the easy and clear cooking process. Like other meal kit services, you can skip weeks or cancel any time without commitment on EveryPlate.
- Students discount
80% on the student’s first box! And students can enjoy free first-box shipping and on-going 15% off for 52 weeks. Simply join EveryPlate and verify your student status with UNiDAYS.
The above are 3 cheap dinner ideas that boast healthy, delicious, and easy meals in 30 minutes. If you have any other options, please don’t hesitate to share them below.
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