Cheap dinners
Cheap ground beef dinners under $3.50 a serving
Tacos, skillets, chili and pasta. Every dinner here is ground beef as the main protein and under $3.50 a serving.
Showing 24 of 230 dinners
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$1.26/serving $5.04 for 4 -
$1.32/serving $5.27 for 4 -
$1.33/serving $5.34 for 4 -
$1.38/serving $5.50 for 4 -
$1.40/serving $5.59 for 4 -
$1.42/serving $5.67 for 4 -
$1.42/serving $5.67 for 4 -
$1.43/serving $5.73 for 4 -
$1.44/serving $5.77 for 4 -
$1.45/serving $5.78 for 4 -
$1.45/serving $5.81 for 4 -
$1.50/serving $5.99 for 4 -
$1.52/serving $6.09 for 4 -
$1.57/serving $6.26 for 4 -
$1.59/serving $6.35 for 4 -
$1.60/serving $6.39 for 4 -
$1.62/serving $6.47 for 4 -
$1.64/serving $6.55 for 4 -
$1.64/serving $6.57 for 4 -
$1.64/serving $6.57 for 4 -
$1.65/serving $6.58 for 4 -
$1.67/serving $6.68 for 4 -
$1.70/serving $6.81 for 4 -
$1.71/serving $6.85 for 4
No dinners match all of those.
324 dinners qualify. Filters search the 230 most familiar plus the cheapest; the rest are in the recipe library. Cost uses typical prices, dated October 28, 2026. Photos come from the recipe source; open a dinner to see the credit.
What these dinners are built from
The cheap ingredients that show up most across all 435 recipes on this list. Buy these and you can make a lot of them.
Share of the 435 recipes that use the ingredient.
How the cost is worked out
Each recipe lists how much of every ingredient it uses. We multiply each amount by a typical everyday US price and divide by servings. Oil, salt and spices are left out. Stores run sales, so your real cost can be lower. Dated October 28, 2026.
This list is ground beef as the main protein and under $3.50 a serving. 324 of 435 recipes have a real photo and amounts big enough to price; only those are shown here.
Common questions
How do you decide a meal is "cheap ground beef dinners"?
A recipe is on this page if it is ground beef as the main protein and under $3.50 a serving. Cost is the price of the ingredient quantities the recipe uses, at Salefork's typical everyday prices, divided by servings. Oil, salt and spices are not priced.
Will the cost match my store?
It is a typical price, not your store's. Stores run sales, so the same meal can cost less. Pick your city on this page to see which of these use items on sale this week, or open Build my week to price five dinners with your store's ad.
How many cheap ground beef dinners are there?
435 recipes in the library meet the rule, and 324 of them have a real photo and amounts we can price. The cheapest is $1.26 a serving, and the middle one is $2.35 a serving.
Turn these sales into dinners
Pick how many people are eating and how many dinners you want. We choose dinners that use what is on sale, show the cost, and make your shopping list by aisle.
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