Piggly Wiggly Low-Carb Meal Plan
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BUDGET RATIONALE
Why these meals: This week's plan builds each dinner around a different sale-priced protein, so you get real variety without any starchy sides to slow you down. You'll start Monday with baked chicken drumsticks over sauteed spinach and onions, then move into Tuesday's pan-seared pork chops topped with buttery mushrooms. Wednesday flips the script with bunless ground round burgers piled high with avocado and cherub tomatoes, while Thursday keeps things light with grilled chicken breast alongside Taylor Farms vegetables. Friday closes the week on a high note with pan-seared T-bone steaks and caramelized onions, so make sure your pan is nice and hot for that final sear.
5-DAY MEAL PLAN
Monday
Meal: Baked Chicken Drumsticks with Spinach and Onions
Description: Chicken drumsticks are baked until crisp-skinned and juicy, then served over a quick saute of baby spinach and yellow onion. A simple, protein-forward weeknight dinner with minimal cleanup.
Sale items used: Chicken Drumsticks or Thighs, Dole Baby or Teen Spinach, Medium Yellow Onions
Prep time: 45 minutes
Serving note: 2 lb chicken drumsticks, 1 bag Dole Baby Spinach, 1 medium yellow onion sliced, for 4 people.
Tuesday
Meal: Pan-Seared Pork Chops with Sauteed Mushrooms
Description: Center cut boneless pork chops are pan-seared to a golden crust and topped with a buttery mushroom saute. Quick, rich, and low-carb without any starchy sides.
Sale items used: Family Pack Fresh Center Cut Boneless Pork Chops, Sliced White Mushrooms
Prep time: 30 minutes
Serving note: 2 lb pork chops, 1 bag Sliced White Mushrooms sliced and sauteed, for 4 people.
Recipes:
- Pork Chops with Super Creamy Mushroom Sauce
- Cast Iron Pork Chops with Mushrooms
- 30-Minute Pork Chops in Mushroom Sauce
Wednesday
Meal: Ground Round Burger Patties with Avocado and Tomato
Description: Seasoned 85% lean ground round is formed into patties and pan-seared, then served lettuce-wrap style topped with sliced avocado and cherub tomatoes instead of a bun. A satisfying, bunless burger night.
Sale items used: Family Pack 85% Lean Fresh Ground Round, Avocados, NatureSweet Cherubs Tomatoes
Prep time: 25 minutes
Serving note: 2 lb ground round formed into 4 patties, 3 avocados sliced, half the NatureSweet Cherubs Tomatoes container halved, for 4 people.
Recipes:
- Grilled Burger with Avocado and Tomato Recipe
- Keto Bunless Burger with Avocado and Tomato
- High Protein Bunless Burger with Avocado and Tomato Recipe
Thursday
Meal: Grilled Chicken Breast with Taylor Farms Vegetables
Description: Boneless skinless chicken breast is grilled and sliced, served alongside a quick saute of Taylor Farms vegetables. A light, colorful, protein-packed dinner.
Sale items used: Tyson Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast or Tenderloins, Taylor Farms Vegetables
Prep time: 30 minutes
Serving note: 1 package (about 2 lb) Tyson Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast, 1 bag Taylor Farms Vegetables sauteed, for 4 people.
Recipes:
- Grilled Chicken With Vegetables
- Grilled Garlic and Herb Chicken and Veggies
- Grilled Chicken Kabobs with Vegetables
Friday
Meal: Pan-Seared T-Bone Steaks with Caramelized Onions
Description: T-Bone steaks are pan-seared to a deep crust and rested, then topped with sweet caramelized yellow onions. This is the week's premium night, so make sure the pan is hot for a proper sear.
Sale items used: USDA Select Black Canyon Angus T-Bone Steaks, Medium Yellow Onions
Prep time: 35 minutes
Serving note: 2 lb T-Bone Steaks (about 0.5 lb per person), 1 medium yellow onion thinly sliced and caramelized, for 4 people.
Recipes:
- Perfect Pan Seared T-Bone Steak
- Keto Recipe: Pan Seared T-Bone Steak with Herby Butter
- Pan Seared Ribeye Steak with Caramelized Onion Butter Recipe
🛒 Shopping List
SHOPPING LIST
Buy on sale:
- Chicken Drumsticks or Thighs (2 lb): $2.58
- Dole Baby or Teen Spinach (1 bag): $2.00
- Sliced White Mushrooms (2 bags): $4.00
- Medium Yellow Onions (2 onions): $4.00
- Family Pack Fresh Center Cut Boneless Pork Chops (2 lb): $4.58
- Family Pack 85% Lean Fresh Ground Round (2 lb): $11.98
- Avocados (3 avocados): $2.00
- NatureSweet Cherubs Tomatoes (1 container): $3.99
- Tyson Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast or Tenderloins (1 package): $5.99
- Taylor Farms Vegetables (1 bag): $2.00
- USDA Select Black Canyon Angus T-Bone Steaks (2 lb): $19.98
Pantry staples needed:
- Salt and pepper
- Cooking oil or butter
- Garlic (optional, for seasoning)
🏷️ All sale items this week
SALE ITEMS FOUND
Meats on sale:
- Fresh Whole Boneless Pork Loins: $1.99/lb
- Jimmy Dean Sliced Bacon: 2 for $7.00
- Oscar Mayer Basic Lunchables: $0.99 each (when you buy 5)
- USDA Select Black Canyon Angus T-Bone Steaks: $9.99/lb
- Family Pack Fresh Center Cut Boneless Pork Chops: $2.29/lb
- Tyson Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast or Tenderloins: $5.99 each
- USDA Select Black Canyon Angus Boneless Beef Bottom Round Roast: $4.99/lb
- Chicken Drumsticks or Thighs: $1.29/lb
- USDA Select Black Canyon Angus Boneless Beef Breakfast Steaks: $6.99/lb
- USDA Select Black Canyon Angus Family Pack Boneless Beef Bottom Round Steaks: $5.49/lb
- Butterball Fresh 85% Lean Ground Turkey: $10.99 each
- Kentucky Legend Sliced Quartered Boneless Smoked Ham: $3.99/lb
- Tennessee Pride Pork Sausage Rolls: $4.49 each
- Cacique Queso Fresco: 2 for $5.00
- Cacique Mexicana Crema: 2 for $5.00
- Cacique Beef or Pork Chorizo: $1.00 each
- Delimex Quesadillas: $4.99 each
- Soules Kitchen Fully Cooked Chicken Fajita Meat: 2 for $4.00
- Eckrich Hot Dogs: $1.79 each
- Family Pack Fresh Boneless Country Style Pork Ribs: $2.29/lb
- Family Pack Fresh Breakfast Thin Boneless Pork Chops: $2.49/lb
- Jimmy Dean Meal Size Breakfast Sandwiches: $9.99 each
- Johnsonville Fresh or Fully Cooked Pork Sausage Patties or Links: $3.99 each
- Jimmy Dean Frozen Breakfast Biscuits, Burritos, Muffins, Griddlecakes, Roll Ups or Hashbrowns: $5.99 each
- Carolina Pride Fresh Pork Sausage Rolls: $2.99 each
- Oscar Mayer P3 Portable Protein: 2 for $4.00
- Oscar Mayer Ham & Turkey Sub Kit: $7.99 each
- Louis Kemp Imitation Crab or Lobster: 2 for $5.00
- Hormel Sliced Pepperoni: $2.99 each
- Family Pack 85% Lean Fresh Ground Round: $5.99/lb
- Tennessee Pride Frozen Pork Sausage Patties: $10.99 each
- Banquet Brown 'N Serve Sausage Patties or Links: 2 for $3.00
- Oscar Mayer Fun Pack Lunchables or Snackables: 2 for $5.00
- Eckrich Fully Cooked Smoked Rope Sausage, Links or Lil Smokies: $3.79 each
- Tyson Frozen Fully Cooked Chicken: $4.99 each
- StarKist Chunk Light Tuna: 4 for $5.00
Deli and prepared on sale:
- Kretschmar Deli Loaves or Bologna: $5.99/lb
- Kretschmar Mini Horn Cheese: $5.99/lb
- Kretschmar Summer Sausage: $8.99 each
- Kretschmar Off The Bone Ham: $5.99/lb
- Van Holten's Whole Wrapped Pickles: 2 for $3.00
- Pico Pica Sauce: $2.25 each
- Juanita's Menudo: $17.49 each
- Rico's White Queso: $2.99 each
- Mi Niña Chips: $4.99 each
- Mi Niña Salsa: $3.99 each
- Fresh Dough Pizza: $10.99 each
Produce on sale:
- Navel Oranges (3 Lb Bag): $3.49 each
- Green or Red Seedless Grapes: $1.99/lb
- Best Choice Russet Potatoes: 2 for $4.00
- Taylor Farms Vegetables: 2 for $4.00
- Medium Yellow Onions: 2 for $4.00
- Gala Apples: $1.29/lb
- Dole Baby or Teen Spinach: 2 for $4.00
- Sliced White Mushrooms: 2 for $4.00
- Avocados: 3 for $2.00
- Blackberries or Raspberries: 2 for $5.00
- NatureSweet Cherubs Tomatoes: $3.99 each
Dairy and eggs on sale:
- Daisy Sour Cream or Cottage Cheese: 2 for $3.00
- Dannon Oikos Pro, Zero or Too Good Greek Yogurt: $5.49 each (when you buy 6)
- Borden Shredded Cheese: $1.49 each (when you buy 6)
- Oikos Protein Shakes: $2.49 each (when you buy 6)
- International Delight or Too Good Creamer: $2.99 each (when you buy 6)
- Dunkin' Donuts or International Delight Cold Foam or Creamer: $3.99 each (when you buy 6)
- Mayfield Ice Cream: $1.99 each
- Chobani Creamer or La Colombe Cold Brew: $4.49 each
- Chobani Flips, Greek, Less Sugar or Zero Sugar Yogurt: 10 for $10.00
- Kraft Deli Deluxe Slices: $4.49 each
- Philadelphia Bagel or To Go Dips: $1.49 each
- I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spread: $7.99 each
- Califia Farms Almond, Oat or Coconut Milk: $3.99 each
- Icelandic Provisions Yogurt: 2 for $3.00
- The Laughing Cow Wedges: $3.49 each
- Rana Pasta or Pasta Sauce: $3.99 each
Bakery and bread on sale:
- Bays English Muffins: $2.49 each (when you buy 6)
- Hostess Donettes: $1.49 each (when you buy 6)
- Lender's Bagels: $2.49 each
- Clyde's Donut Holes: $2.99 each
- Our Specialty Gourmet Cinnamon Rolls: $4.99 each
- Clyde's Variety Pack Donuts: $4.49 each
- Hill & Valley Sliced Crème Cake: $5.99 each
- Rich's German Chocolate Cake: $12.99 each
- The Father's Table Cheesecake: $11.99 each
- Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits, Crescents or Cinnamon Rolls: 2 for $5.00
Pantry on sale:
- Folgers, Dunkin' or Bustelo Coffee: $9.99 each (when you buy 6)
- Post Cereal: $3.99 each
- Progresso Soup: 4 for $8.00
- Jif Peanut Butter: $3.49 each (when you buy 6)
- Jiffy Buttermilk Pancake Mix: $1.99 each (when you buy 6)
- Tabasco Hot Sauce: $3.00 each (when you buy 6)
- Jiffy All Purpose Baking Mix: $2.99 each (when you buy 6)
- Eight O'Clock K-Cups: $5.99 each (when you buy 6)
- Dixie Plates, Bowls or Cups: $2.49 each (when you buy 6)
- Starbucks Bag Coffee or K-Cups: $9.49 each (when you buy 6)
- Smucker's Strawberry Jam or Fruit Spread: $3.49 each (when you buy 6)
- Smucker's Grape Jam: $1.99 each (when you buy 6)
- Kashi-Bear Naked Cereals or Granola: 2 for $7.00
- General Mills Protein Cereal & Granola: 2 for $7.00
- Nutri-Grain Breakfast Bars, Rice Krispies Treats: $2.99 each
- Kraft Deluxe or Velveeta Mac & Cheese Dinners: $7.49 each
- Heinz Mustard: $2.49 each
- Mahatma Jasmine Rice: $2.99 each
- Mahatma Basmati Rice: $2.99 each
- Buffalo Wild Wings Sauces: $3.69 each
- Kraft Blue Box Mac & Cheese 5pk: $3.99 each
- Heinz Simply Ketchup: $4.99 each
- Heinz Ketchup: $3.99 each
- Ragú Pasta Sauce: 2 for $7.00
- Vietti Chili With Beans: $1.79 each
- San Giorgio Lasagna: 2 for $4.00
- Ronco Pasta: 2 for $6.00
- Bertolli Alfredo Sauce: 2 for $6.00
- Stubb's BBQ Sauce: $3.99 each
- Bertolli d'Italia Pasta Sauce: 2 for $7.00
- Red Gold Tomato Sauce: $0.79 each
- Hormel Chili Seasoning Mix: 4 for $5.00
- Nescafé Clasico Coffee: $8.99 each
- Oleico Safflower Oil: 2 for $7.00
- Ortega Taco Seasoning: $0.89 each
- Snack Pack Family Size Pudding or Gelatin: $3.99 each
- Country Bob's Wing Sauce: $3.99 each
- Wendy's Chili With Beans: $4.49 each
- Wendy's Chili No Beans: $4.99 each
- Betty Crocker Potatoes: 2 for $3.00
- Libby's Crushed Pineapple: 2 for $4.00
- Ortega Diced Green Chiles: $1.59 each
- Classico Pasta Sauce: $2.99 each
- Mazola Cooking Oil: $5.49 each
- Nissin Fire Wok Bowls or Old El Paso or Totino's Noodle Cups: 3 for $5.00
- Chex Mix, Bugles or Gardetto's: 2 for $7.00
- Nabisco Multipack Cookies or Crackers: $5.99 each
- Pringles Mingles or Party Stacks: $2.99 each
- Nabisco Party Size Cookies or Crackers: $6.49 each
- Bisquick Baking Mix: $4.29 each
- Pearl Milling Co. Original Pancake Mix: $3.99 each
- Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix: $0.69 each
- Nabisco Honey Maid Grahams or Nilla Wafers: $4.49 each
- Orville Redenbacher's Popcorn: $6.49 each
- Pearl Milling Co. Pancake Syrup: $3.99 each
- Pompeian Robust Olive Oil: $4.49 each
- Ortega Taco Sauce: 2 for $4.00
- M&M's or Skittles Share Size Candy: $2.29 each
- Dolly Parton's Crumb Cake Mix: $3.99 each
- Dolly Parton's Cornbread Mix: $2.79 each
- Little Debbie Mini Muffins: $2.79 each
- Frito-Lay Lay's or Kettle Chips: 2 for $5.00
- Frito-Lay Cheetos: 2 for $8.00
Frozen on sale:
- Outshine Fruit Bars: 2 for $7.00
- Mars Ice Cream Bars (Snickers/Twix): $4.49 each
- Tony's Pizza: 3 for $9.00
- Banquet Family Size Entrees: $2.99 each
- Smucker's Uncrustables: $5.49 each (when you buy 6)
- Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls: $1.99 each (when you buy 6)
- Totino's Pizza Rolls: $3.99 each
- Arby's or Checkers Frozen Potatoes: $6.99 each
- Tombstone or Jack's Natural Rising Pizza: 2 for $8.00
- PictSweet Farm Favorites or Southern Classic Vegetables: 2 for $4.00
- Stouffer's Party Size Entrées: $15.99 each
- Mrs. T's Pierogies: $2.99 each
- Farm Rich Mozzarella Sticks or Jalapeno Poppers: 2 for $6.00
- Birds Eye Premium Vegetables: 2 for $6.00
- Tai Pei Potstickers: $5.99 each
- Tai Pei Single Serve Entrées: 2 for $8.00
- Air Fryer PictSweet Frozen Sweet Potato Fries: 2 for $7.00
- Mr. Dell's Hash Browns: $3.29 each
- Eggo Protein Waffles or Pancakes: 2 for $8.00
- Edwards Single Serve Pies: 2 for $6.00
- Banquet Mega Chicken Filets: $5.49 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.
$63.10
for 4 people · $15.78 per person
📍 Disclaimer: Prices and availability are based on the Piggly Wiggly weekly sales flyer for the week of September 16, 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.