Piggly Wiggly Standard Meal Plan
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5-DAY MEAL PLAN
Monday
Meal: Pan-Fried Catfish Nuggets with Coleslaw and Cornbread
Description: Crisp cornmeal-style pan-fried catfish nuggets are served with a quick, tangy coleslaw. A small batch of cornbread rounds out the plate for one.
Sale items used: Fresh Frozen Catfish Nuggets, Dole Coleslaw Mix, Martha White Cornbread Mix
Prep time: 30 minutes
Serving note: Use 0.5 lb catfish nuggets, about 1 cup of the coleslaw mix (save the rest of the bag for lunches), and about 1/3 of the cornbread mix box, or bake the full mix in a small pan and freeze the extra squares. Toss the slaw with a little mayo, vinegar, and sugar from your pantry.
Recipes:
- Catfish Nuggets (Easy & Less Mess)
- Crispy Catfish Nuggets {Cornmeal Breading}
- Fried Catfish Nuggets
Tuesday
Meal: Skillet Pork Steaks with Mushroom Gravy and Roasted Potatoes
Description: A single pork steak is seared in a skillet, then smothered in savory mushroom gravy. Roasted russet potato wedges soak up the sauce.
Sale items used: Fresh Pork Steaks, Whole White Mushrooms, McCormick Brown Gravy, Green Giant Idaho Russet Potatoes
Prep time: 45 minutes
Serving note: Assume one 0.6 lb pork steak. Use about 4 oz sliced mushrooms (half the pack), 1 packet brown gravy, and 1 large russet cut into wedges. The second potato and the rest of the mushrooms can go into other meals.
Recipes:
- Pork Steak with Mushroom Gravy
- Instant Pot Pork Shoulder Steaks with Mushrooms, Potatoes and Gravy
- Pork Steak and Gravy with Potatoes
Wednesday
Meal: Ground Turkey Chili-Spiced Rice Skillet
Description: Ground turkey is browned with chili seasoning and simmered with rice into a one-pan dinner. It makes a hearty portion with easy leftovers for tomorrow's lunch.
Sale items used: Butterball 85% Lean Ground Turkey Chub, Zatarain's Rice Dinners, Mama Socorro's Chili Seasoning
Prep time: 30 minutes
Serving note: Use about half the 1 lb turkey chub (0.5 lb) and half the rice dinner box. Season with 1 tbsp chili seasoning. Freeze the other half of the turkey for another meal.
Recipes:
- Chili Skillet with Ground Turkey
- Tex-Mex Ground Turkey and Rice Skillet Recipe
- 30 Minute Turkey Taco Rice Skillet
Thursday
Meal: Sheet-Pan BBQ Chicken Breast with Tomatoes on the Vine and Onions
Description: One chicken breast roasts on a sheet pan with juicy vine tomatoes and onion wedges. Brush it with BBQ sauce for a caramelized finish.
Sale items used: Sanderson Farms Fresh Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast, Tomatoes on the Vine, Medium Yellow Onions
Prep time: 40 minutes
Serving note: Assume 0.5 lb chicken breast, 0.4 lb tomatoes (about 2 small), and 0.4 lb onion (1 small). Roast at 425F for 25 to 30 minutes, using BBQ sauce you already have at home.
Recipes:
- Chicken with Roasted Tomato and Red Onion
- Sheet Pan Barbecue Chicken Dinner
- Sheet Pan BBQ Chicken and Vegetables
Friday
Meal: Smoked Sausage and Pasta Skillet with Libby's Vegetables
Description: Sliced smoked sausage is browned and tossed with tender pasta and canned vegetables in a simple skillet. It is a quick, budget-friendly finish to the week.
Sale items used: Lil Butcher Shoppe Smoked Sausage, Barilla Better for You Pasta, Libby's Vegetables
Prep time: 25 minutes
Serving note: Use about 1/3 of the sausage package (about 4 oz), 2 oz dry pasta, and 1 can of vegetables. Save the remaining sausage for another meal, or freeze it.
Recipes:
- Skillet Pasta with Sausage
- CHEESY SMOKED SAUSAGE PASTA SKILLET
🛒 Shopping List
SHOPPING LIST
Buy on sale:
- Fresh Frozen Catfish Nuggets (0.5 lb): $1.00
- Dole Coleslaw Mix (x1): $1.29
- Martha White Cornbread Mix (x1): $0.89
- Fresh Pork Steaks (0.6 lb): $1.31
- Whole White Mushrooms (x1 pack, sold 2 for $3.00): $3.00
- McCormick Brown Gravy (x1): $0.69
- Green Giant Idaho Russet Potatoes (x1 pack, sold 2 for $5.00): $5.00
- Butterball 85% Lean Ground Turkey Chub (x1): $3.99
- Zatarain's Rice Dinners (x1): $1.99
- Sanderson Farms Fresh Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast (0.5 lb): $1.75
- Tomatoes on the Vine (0.4 lb): $0.60
- Medium Yellow Onions (0.4 lb): $0.36
- Lil Butcher Shoppe Smoked Sausage (x1): $4.99
- Barilla Better for You Pasta (x1 pack, sold 2 for $4.00): $4.00
- Libby's Vegetables (x1 can, sold 5 for $5.00): $1.00
Pantry staples needed:
- Mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper
- Cooking oil, egg and milk for the cornbread (per package directions)
- Flour or extra cornmeal for dredging the catfish
- BBQ sauce
- Garlic powder, paprika
🏷️ All sale items this week
SALE ITEMS FOUND
Meats on sale:
- Smithfield Marinated Fresh Pork Tenderloins, Picnics or Loin Fillets: $4.99 each
- USDA Choice Black Canyon Angus Boneless Beef Top Round Roast: $5.99/lb
- USDA Choice Black Canyon Angus Family Pack Boneless Beef New York Strip Steaks: $13.99/lb
- Kentucky Legend Sliced Bacon: $3.99 each
- Sanderson Farms Fresh Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast: $3.49/lb
- Fresh Whole Boston Butt Pork Roast: $1.79/lb
- Country Style Pork Ribs: $2.39/lb
- Fresh Pork Steaks: $2.19/lb
- Boneless Beef Cube Steaks: $6.99/lb
- Boneless Beef Top Round Steaks: $6.49/lb
- 85% Lean Fresh Ground Round: $5.99/lb
- Butterball 85% Lean Ground Turkey Chub: $3.99 each
- Tyson Individually Fresh Frozen Chicken Wing Sections: $4.99 each
- Oscar Mayer Family Size Deli Shaved Lunch Meats: $4.99 each
- Wampler Farms Pork Sausage Rolls, Patties, Links or Taco Meat: 2 for $7.00
- Smithfield Smoked Sliced Quarter Hams: $7.99 each
- Hormel Fresh Roast Beef or Beef Tips Entrées: $8.99 each
- Hormel Fresh Pork, Turkey or Meat Loaf Entrées: $6.99 each
- Carolina Pride Fresh Pork Sausage Rolls: $2.99 each
- Hormel Fresh Side Dishes: $3.99 each
- Lil Butcher Shoppe Smoked Sausage: $4.99 each
- Oscar Mayer Stack Pack Bologna or Cotto Salami: 2 for $5.00
- Hillshire Farm Cocktail Smokies: $3.99 each
- Sea Best Fresh Frozen Tilapia Fillets: $3.99 each
- Fresh Frozen Catfish Nuggets: $1.99/lb
- Sea Best Frozen Fully Cooked Shrimp: $4.99 each
- Gorton's Frozen Breaded Fish Fillets or Sticks: $5.99 each
- Sea Best Fresh Frozen Boneless Cod Fillets: $9.99 each
- Oscar Mayer Deli Sub Kits: BOGO, $6.99 each
- Oscar Mayer Basic Lunchables: BOGO, $6.99 each
- Delimex Taquitos: BOGO, $9.99 each
- Oscar Mayer Sliced Bacon Mega Pack: BOGO, $6.99 each
- Land O'Frost Premium Sliced Lunch Meat: $5.99 each
- Jimmy Dean Fresh Breakfast Biscuits, Burritos, Muffins, Griddlecakes, Roll Ups or Hashbrowns: $5.99 each
- Tyson Frozen Fully Cooked Chicken: $6.99 each
- Mrs. Paul's or Van de Kamp's Frozen Breaded Fish Fillets or Sticks: $4.99 each
- Kretschmar Roast Beef (sliced to order): $12.99/lb
- Kretschmar Baby Swiss Cheese (sliced to order): $7.99/lb
- Kretschmar Smoked Ham (sliced to order): $5.49/lb
- Tyson Boneless Wings: $4.99/lb
- Old Wisconsin Party Trays: $12.99 each
Deli and prepared on sale:
- Kretschmar Cheese Platters: $6.99 each
- Better Butter Gourmet Butter: 2 for $5.00
- Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps: $2.99 each
- Zumbapica Forritos: $6.49 each
- Zumbapica Zumbafiesta: $14.99 each
- Zumbapica Forritos Rim Dip: $5.99 each
Produce on sale:
- Red Seedless Grapes: $1.89/lb
- Tomatoes on the Vine: $1.49/lb
- Bartlett, Bosc or Anjou Washington Pears: $1.49/lb
- Michigan Apples: 2 for $7.00
- Medium Yellow Onions: $0.89/lb
- Taylor Farms Large Veggie Tray: $8.99 each
- Whole White Mushrooms: 2 for $3.00
- Green Giant Idaho Russet Potatoes: 2 for $5.00
- Pomegranates: $1.69 each
- Dole Coleslaw Mix: $1.29 each
Dairy and eggs on sale:
- Daisy Sour Cream or Cottage Cheese: 2 for $3.00
- Kraft Natural Slices: 2 for $5.00
- Kraft Protein Sticks: $3.59 each
- Kraft Cracker Cuts or Cubes: $2.99 each
- Florida's Natural Orange Juice: $4.49 each
- Blue Bonnet Margarine Quarters: $2.79 each
- International Delight Creamer or Cold Foam: $4.49 each
- Planet Oat Milk or Creamer: $2.99 each
- Texas Roadhouse Spreads: $3.49 each
- Lactaid Creamer or Milk: $3.99 each
- Best Choice Coffee Creamer: $3.99 each
- Best Choice Ricotta Cheese: $2.49 each
- Best Choice Cream Cheese: $1.99 each
Bakery and bread on sale:
- Wonder Cupcakes or Cinnamon Rolls: $3.99 each
- Wonder Danish Pastries: $1.99 each
- Pepperidge Farm Garlic or Cheese Bread: $3.29 each
- Mary B's Frozen Biscuits or Dumplings: $3.49 each
- James Skinner Gourmet Cinnamon Rolls: $5.99 each
- Café Valley Mini Cupcakes: $3.49 each
- Sweet P's Frosted Sugar Cookies: $3.99 each
- Reese's Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cake: $17.99 each
Pantry on sale:
- Bertolli Pasta or Alfredo Sauce: 2 for $6.00
- SpaghettiOs Pasta: 4 for $5.00
- No Yolks, Ronco, Mueller's, Creamette or Light N Fluffy Egg Noodles: 2 for $4.00
- Kraft or Velveeta Deluxe Macaroni & Cheese: 2 for $4.00
- Kraft Blue Box Macaroni & Cheese or Spirals: $3.99 each
- Maruchan Ramen: 2 for $7.00
- Maruchan Ramen Souper: $1.79 each
- Barilla Better for You Pasta: 2 for $4.00
- Pace Salsa or Picante Sauce: 2 for $5.00
- Ocean Spray Cran-Grape Juice: $2.79 each
- V8 Splash Juice: 2 for $4.00
- Swanson Broth: 2 for $3.00
- V8 Juice: $2.99 each
- Wendy's Chili with Beans: $4.49 each
- Wendy's Chili No Beans: $4.99 each
- Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce: $3.99 each
- Zatarain's Rice Dinners: $1.99 each
- Maxwell House or Gevalia K Cups: $6.99 each
- Hidden Valley Salad Dressing: $4.99 each
- Vlasic Sauerkraut: $2.99 each
- Libby's Vegetables: 5 for $5.00
- Heinz Ketchup: BOGO, $5.49 each
- Capri-Sun Pouches: BOGO, $6.99 each
- Kraft American Singles Twin Pack: BOGO, $4.49 each
- Kraft Restaurant Macaroni & Cheese: $2.99 each
- StarKist Lunch to Go, Smart Bowls or Pouches: 2 for $3.00
- Chicken of the Sea Solid White Tuna: $1.79 each
- Gevalia Ground Coffee: $7.99 each
- Ken's Salad Dressing: $4.79 each
- Red Gold Ketchup: $1.99 each
- Red Gold Tomato Sauce: 3 for $2.00
- Sunflour Flour or Sunflower Corn Meal: $3.99 each
- Slap Ya Mama Buffalo Sauce: $3.49 each
- Sunflower Quick Grits: $1.29 each
- Carbone Pasta or Alfredo Sauce: $6.99 each
- Pringles Party Stacks: $2.99 each
- Ritz Toasted Chips: $3.99 each
- McCormick Brown Gravy: $0.69 each
- Jiffy Pancake Mix: $2.49 each
- Crisco Cooking Sprays: $2.99 each
- Keebler Sandwich Crackers: $2.99 each
- McCormick Country Gravy: 4 for $5.00
- McCormick Assorted Gravy Mix: 2 for $3.00
- Betty Crocker Premium Dessert or Baking Mixes: $2.99 each
- Kraft Caramels or Caramel Bits: 2 for $5.00
- Capri-Sun Juice Pouches: $3.99 each
- Best Choice Syrup: $2.49 each
- Best Choice Flour: $2.49 each
- Best Choice Trail Mix: $6.49 each
- Best Choice Pie Shell: $2.49 each
- Best Choice Cobbler: $6.99 each
- Best Choice Aluminum Foil: $1.99 each
- Best Choice Deluxe Mixed Nuts: $4.99 each
- Best Choice Mixed Nuts or Whole Cashews: $5.49 each
- Best Choice Cooking Spray: $2.49 each
- Best Choice Potatoes: $1.69 each
- Best Choice Gelatin or Pudding: $1.99 each
- Best Choice Canned Fruit: $1.99 each
- Nabisco Family Size Chips Ahoy, Oreos or Snack Crackers: $4.99 each
- Nutri Grain, Special K or Rice Krispies Treats: $2.99 each
- Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks Value Pack: $4.49 each
- Dot's Pretzels or Reese's Filled Pretzels: 2 for $12.00
- Splash Refreshers: $2.49 each
- Crystal Baking Sugar: $2.99 each
- Zesta Crackers: $2.99 each
- Chips Ahoy Cookies: $2.99 each
- Little Debbie Family Packs: $2.69 each
- Wesson Cooking Oil: $2.99 each
- Martha White Cornbread Mix: $0.89 each
- Mott's Applesauce: $2.99 each
- Hershey's Assorted Snack Size Candy Party Bag: $13.99 each
- SunnyD Punch: $8.99 each
- Turkey Hill Tea: $1.99 each
- Best Choice Cheese Shreds or Chunks: $1.49 each
- Maxwell House Original or Decaf Coffee: $10.99 each
- General Mills Cheerios: 2 for $5.00
- Post Honey Bunch of Oats or Raisin Bran Cereal: $2.99 each
- Quaker Instant Oatmeal or Shakes & Go: $2.99 each
- Starbucks Coffee: $5.99 each
- Frutas Selectas Cranberry or Pomegranate Juice: 2 for $4.00
- Mama Socorro's Chili Seasoning: 2 for $3.00
Frozen on sale:
- Ore-Ida Frozen Potatoes, Hash Browns or Tater Tots: $3.99 each
- Ore-Ida Frozen Potatoes or Tater Tots: BOGO, $5.49 each
- DiGiorno Pizza: 2 for $9.00
- TGI Fridays Frozen Appetizers: BOGO, $4.99 each
- Pillsbury Cookies, Pizza Dough, Filled Crescents or Pull Apart Bread: $3.49 each
- Red Baron Single Serve Pizza: $3.99 each
- Tai Pei Single Serve Entrées: $2.99 each
- Marie Callender's Layered Shepherd's Pie: $3.79 each
- Super Pretzel Soft Pretzel Bites: 2 for $7.00
- Eggo Thick & Fluffy Waffles, Pancakes or French Toast Sticks: $2.99 each
- Bagel Bites Rolled Pizza: $4.99 each
- Tai Pei Potstickers: $6.49 each
- Birds Eye Premium Vegetables: 2 for $6.00
- Deliza Frozen Eclairs: $5.99 each
- Hola Churros: $3.99 each
- Best Choice Frozen Vegetables: 4 for $5.00
- Bagel Bites Pizza Bagels: $7.99 each
- Banquet Classics Dinners: $1.79 each
- Rana Pasta: $5.99 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.
$31.86
for 1 person · $31.86 per person
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