and enjoying affordable restaurant meal deals is one of my specialties. But even at a little over ten bucks, these are what I would call affordable meals, at least when compared to Brad's extravagant picks. Teresa Mason's Mas Tacos Mexican cantina in East Nashville offers wonderful chicken tortilla soup, and lots of tacos chicken, pork, fried avocado, fried tilapia at great prices.

It is Ms. Cheap's favorite cheap lunch. Sides include Mexican corn, Cuban black beans and fried plantains. WHERE THE LOCALS EAT: Top 10 old-school Nashville restaurants where locals go.

WE STILL MISS: Top 10 Nashville restaurants we wish were still open. Mas Tacos is at McFerrin Ave. in East Nashville. Open lunch and dinner Monday - Saturday. Plan to stand in line. And payment is cash only. Cheap: Mas Tacos still my favorite cheap lunch.

The salads and chicken plates offer a great and delicious value. Don't miss the black beans. Details: Open lunch and dinner. This small Ethiopian eatery in the Arcade downtown serves up some wonderful authentic Ethiopian dishes. The friendly Ajora owners Zeni and Girma Meshesha have been open in the Arcade for six years, making and serving generous portions of their native country's food that Zeni prepares in the small adjoining kitchen, using recipes that were her mother's and grandmother's Ethiopian staples.

Cheap: Ajora in Nashville's Historic Arcade serves up a delicious and bargain priced Ethiopian lunch. Details: ajorakitchen. com or Open for lunch Monday - Friday and for dinner on the first Saturday of the month. Self-described as a "low-key joint serving up Tex-Mex fare and buckets of beer in a space with minimal decor and a big patio," San Antonio Taco Co.

Details: San Antonio Taco Co. cfm or Merridee's has been in business in , and offers sandwiches on homemade bread , soups and quiche, as well as breakfast items And don't miss the marked down "yesterday's treats" that you can buy at a discount.

Details: Merridee's is at Fourth Ave. in Franklin; Open Monday through Saturday for breakfast and lunch and for dinner Thursday through Saturday. com or call More: Legendary lunch spot Merridee's offers sweet deals for decades. Owner Hamid Hasan and his staff provide wonderful service and delicious food at Ms.

Cheap kinds of prices. If you are unfamiliar with Persian food, the menu offers pictures and descriptions to help you choose. Details: House of Kabob, Thompson Lane. Open lunch and dinner seven days. More: Nashville's House of Kabob offers authentic, fresh food at great prices.

This homey South Nashville mainstay serves affordable meat and three lunches and dinners Monday through Friday, as well as burgers and assorted ice cream treats. The cafeteria style menu rotates from day to day, but owner Jeff Jones says popular items include the Thursday fried chicken, and Friday turkey and dressing, and the griddle cornbread every day.

Details: Dairy King is at East Thompson Lane. Open 11 a. Monday through Friday. More: Dairy King gives you the royal treatment at peasant prices. Sometimes it is not where you go, but what you order, and Randy Rayburn's Midtown Cafe is one of my favorites.

Of course, you do need to factor in a tip. Dinner is a higher priced experience, but offers but offers free shuttle to downtown performance venues. Details: Midtown Cafe is at 19th Ave. Open Monday through Saturday for lunch and dinner and weekdays for breakfast.

Valet parking. This downtown Nashville fixture, which has been serving up chili for years, got a new owner, Bob Peabody, in November but is serving the same food that the Varallo family ladled up all these years.

Details: Varallo's, at Fourth Ave. No designated parking. Details: varallosrestaurant. site or With both Five Points Pizza locations East Nashville and Charlotte Pike offering 11 a.

Details: Locations are at Charlotte and Woodland St. Open lunch and dinner, seven days. Details: fivepointspizza. This breakfast and lunch cafe is a social enterprise that offers good food at a good price for a good cause. Proceeds go to support Thistle Farms and the women it serves. The cafe, which is staffed largely by women who've survived of addiction, trafficking or prostitution is at Charlotte Pike and serves breakfast and lunch.

Monday through Saturday. Details: thecafeatthistlefarms. org or Liz Darden's home cooking restaurant in Goodlettsville offers a great value on great food at breakfast and lunch, and on Friday nights.

Wednesdays and Sundays are fried chicken days. Details: Liz's Kitchen is at A Memorial Dr. in Goodlettsville. Open for breakfast and lunch Monday through Friday, plus Friday dinner and Sunday lunch.

The Picnic Cafe is known for its chicken salad, as well as soups, other salads and sandwiches. The Belle Meade area eatery, which has been in business for 35 years, is open for breakfast and lunch but does a big "to-go" business.

However, in late , JJ added the Little John. Plus, there are seven varieties of the Little John, which gives you options, but the 6 is a solid choice if you're looking to get the most out of the smaller sandwich. The vegetarian sandwich comes with avocado, provolone, cucumber, lettuce, tomato, and mayo.

You're getting a lot more flavor there than with the spare Slim 5 and a few more calories than with the other Little John options. If you're ordering anything but the salt and vinegar chips, you're doing it wrong.

What to order: You're going to have a tough time pulling this one off. That's the highest calorie soup they offer. For the same price, you can come close with the Summer Corn Chowder or the Bistro French Onion.

What to order: You'll run into the same problem here that you ran into at Chipotle. You could turn to the kid's menu, but that can get awkward.

Let's go a different direction. What to order: The Dollar Menu is dead; long live the Dollar Menu. That's the best you'll do unless you're dining with the Hamburglar. What to order: Get dressed like you're making stops at the sock hop and Makeout Bluff, then try not to spill chili cheese down your chest.

So, there's really only one option to make it all happen here. Load it up with your favorite fixings and add in a bag of Sun Chips, because that's what you do at Subway. What to order: Yes, you could blow your budget and more on any of its ridiculously sweet Frap du Jour surprises.

But you can actually get a decent breakfast as well. Not to mention you should be checking the Rewards app to get points and see if there's a Happy Hour going down. What to order: You could blow the budget on the new Impossible Whopper , which is really a pretty good choice.

That'll land you a bacon cheeseburger, four-piece order of chicken nuggets, cookie, value-sized fries, and a ounce soft drink. What to order: Look, you know where this is going.

You can't just go to Popeyes and not get that chicken sandwich. That almost puts you up to you budget's ceiling. You're going to want that drink to cool your mouth if the sandwich proves too spicy for you.

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72 Cheap Dinner Ideas for Weeknight Meals · Inside-Out Stuffed Cabbage · Teriyaki Chicken Thighs · Easy Tamale Pie with Peppers · Hearty Pasta Fagioli 76 Cheap Dinner Ideas That Don't Skimp on Taste · Slow Cooker Chicken Noodle Soup · Hearty Vegetable Soup with Parsley Gremolata · Slow Cooker 61 Cheap Dinner Ideas That Do the Most With the Least · Pasta With 20 Cloves of Garlic · Smoky, Spicy Creole Red Beans and Rice · Vegetarian

Inexpensive dinner specials - 1. Popeyes: $12 Two Can Dine Meal · 2. Wendy's: Free Dave's Single Burger · 3. Taco Bell: $6 Build Your Own Cravings Box · 4. McDonald's: Free 72 Cheap Dinner Ideas for Weeknight Meals · Inside-Out Stuffed Cabbage · Teriyaki Chicken Thighs · Easy Tamale Pie with Peppers · Hearty Pasta Fagioli 76 Cheap Dinner Ideas That Don't Skimp on Taste · Slow Cooker Chicken Noodle Soup · Hearty Vegetable Soup with Parsley Gremolata · Slow Cooker 61 Cheap Dinner Ideas That Do the Most With the Least · Pasta With 20 Cloves of Garlic · Smoky, Spicy Creole Red Beans and Rice · Vegetarian

Glaze chicken wings in sticky sauce and serve with jasmine rice for an easy family meal. Chicken wings are budget-friendly and full of flavour. Make a filling soup with the help of green lentils, pancetta, white cabbage and mushrooms, along with miso flavours.

It packs in three of your 5-a-day. Make the most of any tins of black beans in your cupboards and make this easy and satisfying soup.

Serve with coriander, avocado, feta and pumpkin seeds. Enjoy with steamed greens or broccoli. Make an elevated version of beans on toast using your favourite beans, plus tomatoes, garlic and chilli — they're great topped with cheese.

Make a chickpea curry served with raita for a brilliant budget-friendly family meal. As well as being quick and easy, it's healthy too. This easy hash is full of punchy flavours, and makes a satisfying midweek family supper with streaky bacon, pineapple and spicy seasoned potatoes.

Put in a little effort the night before and you can have a velvety soup ready as a starter for a special dinner with guests. This recipe serves six generously.

An affordable way to include oily fish in your diet. Canned sardines are a great source of omega 3 and add oomph to this simple, family pasta dish. Marinate chicken in yogurt, spices and lemon zest, then grill to make these flavourful chicken skewers. Serve in flatbreads with salad and cucumber yogurt.

A midweek budget supper of roast chicken wings with homemade chips and Cajun spices. Everyone will love this creamy fish curry, cooled down with coconut and sweetcorn.

It's budget-friendly too. A saucy, warming casserole with Cumberland sausages, chilli gravy and kidney beans.

It's budget-friendly and ready in less than 30 minutes too. A hearty budget meal of spiced red lentils with butternut and tomatoes. Add coriander, cumin, turmeric and a dollop of mango chutney.

Put mushroom soup to clever use in this Scandinavian-style beef meatball dish with dill sauce. Make crowd-pleasing fajitas the easy way with this one-tray recipe that's full of nutrients and low in fat and calories.

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Its silky texture comes from blended potatoes and broccoli stalks rather than heavy cream. Well, this is the salad version, with noodles in addition to pink radishes , orange carrots, purple cabbage, and green cucumbers.

One head of cabbage goes a long way. This recipe, where wedges are bathed in turmeric-accented coconut milk until meltingly tender and sweet, uses just half of one to feed four. The soul of this recipe comes from the ginger and tamari marinade that gives crispy tofu a sweet and savory glaze.

We like to turn leftover tofu into tacos, for some Japanese-Mexican fusion. Toss roasted sweet potato wedges in a sweet and nutty tahini dressing for this quick vegetarian weeknight dinner.

And no, it will not break the bank. This budget meal is about turning leftover side dishes into something totally new. Nearly any roasted vegetable or cooked grain could be worked into a frittata using this method.

This looks like something that took hours in a crockpot to make, but in reality, the black-eyed peas soak up the flavors of an onion- and tomato-based gravy in under 30 minutes.

Tuna salad deserves to be considered a dinner dish, not just a sandwich filling. Let the pan-fried chickpeas and red endive in this recipe convince you. Pan-crisped and glazed sweet potatoes.

With hearty, almost meaty lentils. And pistachios. Purchase lasagna noodles, mushrooms, mozzarella, and Parmesan. The rest of the ingredients for this cheap dinner recipe are already in your fridge or pantry.

One style of cheap meals: recipes chosen with their leftovers in mind , making two meals out of one. For example, these ground beef meatballs and their tomato sauce make for a great hoagie filling the next day. If you've already got miso in your fridge and don't want to spend on something new, you could use that in this stew recipe instead of gochujang.

It will be a whole different vibe, but a vibe nonetheless. Serve it with a poached egg and a slice of bread for a good cheap meal. Easy homemade tomato soup is an upgrade to the canned stuff, but we don't judge.

Try pouring the soup directly over the sliced sandwich for an irresistible comfort food. Consider this roast chicken your Sunday dinner. And then your Monday lunch, too. You can turn the leftover meat into pulled chicken sandwiches or a chicken noodle salad.

Do not underestimate the potential of the often underrated legume, the lentil, a key ingredient when it comes to filling but cheap meals. Our creamy, almost Alfredo pasta -looking stovetop mac and cheese is about as easy as opening one of those little boxes of shells and powdered sauce —but a lot more delicious.

Freeze half of these burgers to pull out during those times when you get the craving for fast food. Just add heat; you already paid.

Here are our favorite ways to prove that a cheap meal can also be the best meal. Photograph by Isa Zapata, food styling by Emilie Fosnocht, prop styling by Emma Ringness.

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