Piggly Wiggly Kid-Friendly Meal Plan
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BUDGET RATIONALE
Why these meals: Here's why these meals work for your family this week: every dinner is built around familiar, kid-friendly favorites, and most of the sale picks do double duty. On Monday, Fresh Fryer Leg Quarters bake up crisp for just $3.16 for 4 lbs, and the 2-bag pair of Best Choice Frozen Vegetables ($3.00) covers both Monday and Tuesday, when pork chops land next to creamy Cracker Barrel Macaroni & Cheese. Wednesday's cheeseburger sliders on King's Hawaiian Buns let the kids build their own plates, and Thursday's pancakes with Johnsonville sausage and apple sauce turn breakfast into a fun dinner. Friday wraps things up with sheet-pan nachos, where the kids add their own avocado and tomato toppings, so check your pantry for staples like butter, salt, and cooking oil before you head to Piggly Wiggly.
5-DAY MEAL PLAN
Monday
Meal: Oven-Baked Chicken Leg Quarters with Simply Potatoes and Frozen Vegetables
Description: Chicken leg quarters are seasoned simply and baked in a hot oven until the skin is crisp and the meat is juicy. They are served with warmed Simply Potatoes and buttery frozen vegetables for an easy, familiar family dinner.
Sale items used: Fresh Fryer Leg Quarters, Simply Potatoes, Best Choice Frozen Vegetables
Prep time: 55 minutes (about 10 minutes of hands-on work)
Serving note: 4 lbs Fresh Fryer Leg Quarters (assumed total weight, about 1 quarter per person), 1 package Simply Potatoes, and 1 bag of the 2-bag Best Choice Frozen Vegetables pair (the second bag is used Tuesday). Bake at 425 degrees F for about 45 minutes, until the juices run clear.
Recipes:
- Savory Oven Baked Chicken Leg Quarters with Potatoes
- Baked Chicken Leg Quarters with Mixed Vegetables
- One Pan Chicken Leg Quarters with Potatoes and Carrots
Tuesday
Meal: Pan-Seared Pork Chops with Mac & Cheese and Frozen Vegetables
Description: Boneless pork chops are seared in a skillet with butter and mild seasoning until golden and cooked through. They are served with creamy boxed mac & cheese and a simple side of steamed vegetables.
Sale items used: Family Pack Boneless Sirloin Pork Chops, Cracker Barrel Macaroni & Cheese Dinners, Best Choice Frozen Vegetables
Prep time: 30 minutes
Serving note: 2 lbs Family Pack Boneless Sirloin Pork Chops (assumed total weight), 1 box Cracker Barrel Macaroni & Cheese Dinners, and the second bag from the Best Choice Frozen Vegetables pair. Sear the chops about 4 to 5 minutes per side until cooked through.
Recipes:
- Pork Chop Mac and Cheese
- Pan Seared Pork Chops
- Pan Grilled Pork Chops with Sautéed Spinach and Mac and Cheese
Wednesday
Meal: Skillet Cheeseburger Sliders with Garden Salad
Description: Ground chuck is shaped into mini patties, pan-cooked in a skillet, and topped with melty Velveeta Slices on soft King's Hawaiian Buns. A crisp side of Dole Garden Salad rounds out the plate.
Sale items used: Fresh Ground Chuck, King's Hawaiian Buns, Velveeta Slices, Dole Garden Salad
Prep time: 30 minutes
Serving note: 1.25 lbs Fresh Ground Chuck (assumed total weight, about 8 small patties), 1 package King's Hawaiian Buns (about 2 per person), 1 package Velveeta Slices, and 2 bags Dole Garden Salad (one 2-for-$3.00 pair). Let kids build their own sliders.
Recipes:
- Cheeseburger Sliders
- Cheeseburger Sliders Recipe: How to Make It
- Cheeseburger Sliders (Easy, 30-min Recipe)
Thursday
Meal: Pancakes with Pork Sausage and Apple Sauce
Description: Breakfast-for-dinner with fluffy pancakes made from Premier Protein Pancake Mix, served with browned pork sausage and a drizzle of syrup. Apple sauce on the side adds a sweet, fruity touch kids enjoy.
Sale items used: Premier Protein Pancake Mix, Johnsonville Fresh or Fully Cooked Pork Sausage Patties or Links, Best Choice Apple Sauce, Log Cabin Pancake Syrup
Prep time: 25 minutes
Serving note: 1 box Premier Protein Pancake Mix (prepared as the package directs), 1 package Johnsonville Fresh or Fully Cooked Pork Sausage Patties or Links, 1 jar Best Choice Apple Sauce, and 1 bottle Log Cabin Pancake Syrup. Cook the sausage in a skillet according to its package directions while the pancakes cook.
Recipes:
- Sausage Pancake Casserole
- Applesauce Pancakes
- Apple Sausage Pancake Casserole
Friday
Meal: Sheet-Pan Bean and Cheese Nachos with Avocado and Tomato
Description: Tortilla chips are layered on a sheet pan with warmed refried beans and shredded cheese, then baked until bubbly. Kids top their own with fresh diced avocado and tomato for a fun, hands-on dinner.
Sale items used: Juanita's Stone Ground Tortilla Chips, Rosarita Refried Beans Microwave Pouches, Borden Cheese Shreds, Avocados, Beefsteak Tomatoes
Prep time: 20 minutes
Serving note: 1 bag Juanita's Stone Ground Tortilla Chips, 2 pouches Rosarita Refried Beans Microwave Pouches (heated in the microwave first), 2 bags Borden Cheese Shreds (one 2-for-$3.00 pair), 2 Avocados, and 0.5 lb Beefsteak Tomatoes (assumed total weight). Bake at 400 degrees F for about 8 to 10 minutes, then add the fresh toppings.
Recipes:
- Black Bean Nachos Recipe
- Sheet Pan Nachos Recipe
- Veggie & Black Bean Sheet Pan Nachos
🛒 Shopping List
SHOPPING LIST
Buy on sale:
- Fresh Fryer Leg Quarters (4 lbs): $3.16
- Simply Potatoes (x1 package): $2.99
- Best Choice Frozen Vegetables (x1 pair, 2 bags): $3.00
- Family Pack Boneless Sirloin Pork Chops (2 lbs): $3.58
- Cracker Barrel Macaroni & Cheese Dinners (x1 box): $3.49
- Fresh Ground Chuck (1.25 lbs): $6.86
- King's Hawaiian Buns (x1 package): $3.99
- Velveeta Slices (x1 package): $2.99
- Dole Garden Salad (x1 pair, 2 bags): $3.00
- Premier Protein Pancake Mix (x1): $4.49
- Johnsonville Fresh or Fully Cooked Pork Sausage Patties or Links (x1 package): $3.99
- Best Choice Apple Sauce (x1): $2.49
- Log Cabin Pancake Syrup (x1): $3.99
- Juanita's Stone Ground Tortilla Chips (x1 bag): $3.99
- Rosarita Refried Beans Microwave Pouches (x2): $3.98
- Borden Cheese Shreds (x1 pair, 2 bags): $3.00
- Avocados (x2): $1.38
- Beefsteak Tomatoes (0.5 lb): $0.65
Pantry staples needed:
- Salt, black pepper, garlic powder, paprika
- Cooking oil
- Butter
- Milk (for the mac & cheese and pancake mix as directed)
- Eggs, only if the pancake mix directions call for them
- Ketchup and mustard for the sliders
- Mild salad dressing for the garden salad
🏷️ All sale items this week
SALE ITEMS FOUND
Meats on sale:
- Pick Five Meat Section (5 items): $24.99
- USDA Choice Black Canyon Angus Boneless Beef Shoulder Roast: $5.99/lb
- Fresh Fryer Leg Quarters: $0.79/lb
- Kentucky Legend Sliced Bacon: $3.99 each
- Field or Fisher's Hot Dogs or Sliced/Cracker Bologna: 10 for $10.00
- Family Pack Boneless Sirloin Pork Chops: $1.79/lb
- Fresh Ground Chuck: $5.49/lb
- USDA Choice Black Canyon Angus Boneless Beef Top Sirloin Steaks: $8.99/lb
- Smithfield Marinated Fresh Pork Tenderloins, Picnics or Loin Fillets: $4.99 each
- Fresh Ground Chuck Patties: $5.99/lb
- Boneless Beef Stew Meat: $6.99/lb
- Tenderized Boneless Sirloin Pork Chops: $2.49/lb
- Boneless Beef Shoulder Steaks: $6.49/lb
- Boneless Beef Ribs: $7.99/lb
- Sea Best Frozen Fresh Tilapia Fillets: $3.99 each
- Sea Best Fully Cooked Shrimp and Cocktail Sauce Tray: $9.99 each
- Sea Best Fresh Frozen Argentine Red Raw Shrimp: $16.99 each
- Gorton's Frozen Breaded Fish Fillets or Sticks: $5.99 each
- Delimex Taquitos: $4.99 each
- Tennessee Pride Sausage Balls: $3.99 each
- Fresh Boneless Country Style Pork Ribs: $1.99/lb
- Fresh Pork Cutlets: $2.99/lb
- Fresh Breakfast Thin Boneless Sirloin Pork Chops: $2.29/lb
- Tyson Individually Frozen Fresh Chicken Tenderloins: $6.99 each
- Kentucky Legend Sliced Boneless Smoked Ham: $4.99/lb
- Butterball Fresh 85% Lean Ground Turkey: $10.99 each
- Oscar Mayer Family Size Deli Shaved Lunch Meats: $4.99 each
- Ball Park Meat or Turkey Franks: 2 for $6.00
- Williams Fresh Sausage Rolls: $3.99 each
- Jimmy Dean Meal Size Breakfast Sandwiches: $9.99 each
- Johnsonville Fresh or Fully Cooked Pork Sausage Patties or Links: $3.99 each
- Reser's Fresh Potatoes or Hash Browns: 2 for $4.00
- Mrs. Paul's or Van de Kamp's Frozen Breaded Fish Fillets or Sticks: $4.99 each
- Wright Brand Bacon (Fri/Sat/Sun only): $6.99 each
- El Monterey Single Serve Burritos: 10 for $10.00
- Hillshire Farm Smoked Sausage: 2 for $7.00
- Bob Evans Family Pack Side Dishes: $3.99 each
- Smoky Farms Frozen Sausage Patties (Fri/Sat/Sun only): $2.99 each
- Tyson Individually Frozen Chicken Wings (Fri/Sat/Sun only): $3.99 each
- Carolina Pride Cocktail Smokies (Fri/Sat/Sun only): 2 for $5.00
- Hormel Real Crumbled Bacon: $2.49 each
Deli and prepared on sale:
- Fresh Baked Fresh Dough Pizza, Hot & Ready to Eat: $10.99 each
- Fried Chicken (8 pc): $8.99 each
- Fried Chicken (8 pc with 2 sides): $14.99 each
- Kretschmar Chicken Breast (sliced to order): $7.99/lb
- Kretschmar Cheese (sliced to order): $5.99/lb
- Hormel Party or Snack Trays: $14.99 each
- Columbus Salami Trio Sampler: $10.99 each
- Kretschmar Smoked Hams (sliced to order): $5.49/lb
- Better Butter Gourmet Butter: 2 for $5.00
Produce on sale:
- Raspberries, Blueberries or Blackberries: 2 for $5.00
- Michigan Apples (5 lb bag): 2 for $10.00
- Green Giant Potatoes (5 lb bag): 2 for $6.00
- Dole Garden Salad: 2 for $3.00
- Peruvian Sweet Onions (3 lb bag): $3.99 each
- Pomegranates: $1.99 each
- Bell Peppers: 10 for $10.00
- Beefsteak Tomatoes: $1.29/lb
- Avocados: $0.69 each
- Baby Bella Mushrooms: 2 for $5.00
Dairy and eggs on sale:
- Simply Orange Juice: $5.99 each
- Mayfield Sour Cream: $2.29 each
- Mayfield Cottage Cheese or French Onion Dip: $2.49 each
- Vital Farms Large Eggs: $5.99 each
- Just Crack An Egg or Oscar Mayer Scrambles: $1.99 each
- Yoplait Go-GURT: 2 for $5.00
- CoffeeMate Creamer, Iced Coffee or Cold Foam: $3.49 each
- Velveeta Slices: $2.99 each
- Chobani Creations, Flips or Protein Yogurt: 10 for $10.00
- Borden Cheese Shreds: 2 for $3.00
- I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spread: $7.99 each
- Best Choice Butter: $3.19 each
- Best Choice Cream Cheese: $1.99 each
- Best Choice Coffee Creamer: $3.99 each
- Minute Maid Orange Juice: $4.49 each
Bakery and bread on sale:
- Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits, Crescents or Cinnamon Rolls: $2.49 each
- King's Hawaiian Buns: $3.99 each
- Rich's Variety Cake: $16.99 each
- JJ's Snack Pies: 4 for $3.00
- Cloverhill Bakery Pastries: 10 for $10.00
- Best Choice Garlic Bread or Rolls: $2.49 each
Pantry on sale:
- Red Gold Tomatoes, Chili Beans or Sloppy Joe Sauce: 10 for $10.00
- Ragu Kettle, Pasta or Alfredo Sauce: 2 for $4.00
- Rotel Tomatoes: 10 for $10.00
- Manwich Sloppy Joe Sauce: 10 for $10.00
- General Mills Big & Family Size Cereals: 2 for $8.00
- Creamette, Ronco, Mueller's or San Giorgio Pasta: 10 for $10.00
- Sunbelt Granola Bar Family Packs: $2.99 each
- Nissin or Top Ramen Chow Mein or Noodle Cups: 10 for $10.00
- Wyler's on the Go Drink Singles: 10 for $10.00
- Chef Boyardee Microwave Cups: 10 for $10.00
- Martha White Pouch Muffin Mix: 10 for $10.00
- Maruchan Yakisoba Ramen or Bowls: 10 for $10.00
- Mrs. Cubbison's Croutons: 10 for $10.00
- Chicken of the Sea Chunk Light Tuna or Pouches: 10 for $10.00
- Old El Paso Taco Seasoning Mix: 10 for $10.00
- No Yolks Pouches: 10 for $10.00
- Maxwell House Ground Coffee (must buy 2): 2 for $9.98
- Vlasic Relish: $1.49 each
- Ben's Original Family Size Rice: $3.99 each
- Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa Mix: $2.99 each
- Juicy Juice: $2.99 each
- Kraft Mayonnaise: $2.99 each
- Miracle Whip: $3.99 each
- Wish-Bone Salad Dressing: $3.49 each
- StarKist Chunk White Albacore Tuna: $1.49 each
- Chicken of the Sea Chunk White Tuna or Salmon Pouches: $1.49 each
- Wolf Chili with Beans: $1.69 each
- Wolf No Bean Chili: $2.29 each
- Country Bob's BBQ Sauce: $2.79 each
- Country Bob's Marinade or Wing Sauce: $3.49 each
- Country Bob's Season Salt or Cajun Seasoning: $2.99 each
- Rosarita Refried Beans Microwave Pouches: $1.99 each
- 2 Sisters Salsa: $3.99 each
- Kraft Aioli: $3.99 each
- Hamburger Helper Microwave Cups: 2 for $4.00
- Heinz Dipping Sauce: $2.99 each
- Cracker Barrel Macaroni & Cheese Dinners: $3.49 each
- Juanita's Stone Ground Tortilla Chips: $3.99 each
- McCormick Chili Seasoning: 4 for $5.00
- Carroll Shelby's or Wick Fowler Chili Kits: $2.99 each
- StarKist Pouches, Bowls, Lunch to Go or Creations: $1.49 each
- Chomps Meat Sticks: $1.99 each
- Capri-Sun Juice: $2.49 each
- Popeyes/Trappey's Beans and Popeye's Spinach: $1.49 each
- Bush's Chili Beans: 3 for $4.00
- Jiffy Baking Mix: $3.29 each
- Old Orchard Juice: $2.79 each
- Best Choice Vegetables: 10 for $10.00
- Best Choice Apple Sauce: $2.49 each
- Best Choice Peanut Butter: $1.99 each
- Best Choice Sugar: $2.99 each
- Best Choice Coffee: $10.99 each
- Best Choice Water: 2 for $7.00
- Best Choice Pie Crust: $2.49 each
- Best Choice Pork Skins: $1.99 each
- Quaker Cap'n Crunch or Life Cereal: $2.99 each
- Quaker Old Fashioned Quick Oats: $4.99 each
- Nabisco Honey Maid Graham Crackers or Nilla Wafers: $4.49 each
- Cheez-It Caddy Packs: $8.99 each
- Bubly Water: $3.89 each
- Famous Dave's Cornbread Mix: 2 for $5.00
- Premier Protein Pancake Mix: $4.49 each
- Wesson Oil: $12.99 each
- Nabisco Premium Crackers: $3.49 each
- Pringles Snack Stacks: $5.99 each
- Jolly Time Popcorn: $3.99 each
- Log Cabin Pancake Syrup: $3.99 each
- Duncan Hines Classic Cake or Brownie Mix: 2 for $3.00
- Duncan Hines Frosting: $1.79 each
- Sun-Maid Raisins: $2.99 each
- Zulka Sugar: $7.99 each
- Chapala Hot Sauce: 2 for $5.00
- Juanita's Hominy: 2 for $4.00
- Juanita's Cooking Sauce: $4.99 each
Frozen on sale:
- Totino's Party Pizza or Pizza Rolls: 2 for $3.00
- Banquet Pot Pies or Fruit Pies: 10 for $10.00
- Hot Pockets Sandwiches: 10 for $10.00
- Banquet Homestyle Bakes: $3.99 each
- Best Choice Frozen Vegetables: 2 for $3.00
- White Lily Frozen Biscuits: $4.49 each
- SuperPretzel Frozen Pretzels, Mini Pretzels, or Pretzel Stix: $2.99 each
- Banquet Hot & Spicy Wings: $10.99 each
- White Castle Chicken Rings: $8.99 each
- Farm Rich Frozen Appetizers: $5.99 each
- Simply Potatoes: $2.99 each
- Banquet Basics Dinners: 2 for $3.00
- Kid Cuisine Dinners: $2.99 each
- Birds Eye Voila Beef, Shrimp, Chicken: $4.99 each
- Jose Ole Chimichangas: $1.29 each
- TGI Friday's Frozen Appetizers: $3.49 each
- Edwards Single Serve Pies: 2 for $6.00
- Big Mozz Mozzarella Sticks: $5.99 each
- On-Cor Family Size Entrees: $3.99 each
- Smart Ones Frozen Entrees (when buy 4, else $2.49 ea): $1.50 each
- McKenzie's Cream Corn: $2.49 each
- Birds Eye Premium Vegetables or Blends: $4.49 each
- Wild Mike's Pizza: $5.99 each
- Red Baron Pizza: $3.99 each
🛒 Estimated Shopping Cost
Based on sale prices for items in this plan
Some sale prices require the store's loyalty card or a clipped digital coupon. Check the flyer before you shop.
$61.02
for 4 people · $15.26 per person
📍 Disclaimer: Prices and availability are based on the Piggly Wiggly weekly sales flyer for the week of October 28, 2026. Flyers are sourced from store websites and weekly flyer aggregator sites. Actual prices may vary by location. Always verify prices at your local store. We are not affiliated with Piggly Wiggly.