Saturday, January 1, 2022

[30MD] January 2021 Meal Plans Now Available!

New January Meal Plans
Available Now!


On the Menu

Budget Meal Plan 1
Note: This meal plan is for 7 days + includes Breakfast and Lunch. View this meal plan to see the details!

  • Day 1: Baked Chicken // Corn on the Cob // Baked Potatoes
  • Day 2: Savory Pasta with Bacon, Onions, and Greens
  • Day 3: Garden Salad with Chicken + Bacon 
  • Day 4: Minestrone Soup // Basic Biscuits
  • Day 5: Chicken Sandwiches // Potato Wedges // Carrots
  • Day 6: Spaghetti + Sauce // Side Salad 
  • Day 7: Vegetable Fried Rice

Budget Meal Plan 2
Note: This meal plan is for 7 days + includes Breakfast and Lunch. View this meal plan to see the details!


  • Day 1: Carnitas // Tortillas // White Rice // Refried Beans
  • Day 2: Basic Chili with Vegetables // Buttered Bread 
  • Day 3: Chili Mac with Peas 
  • Day 4: Carnitas Burrito Bowls
  • Day 5: Humble Tuna Pasta Salad 
  • Day 6: Tex-Mex Baked Potato Bar
  • Day 7: Vegetable Fried Rice

Budget Meal Plan 3 

  • Day 1: Best Burgers // Potato Wedges // Side Salad // Ranch Dressing
  • Day 2: Spaghetti & Meatballs // Side Salad // Ranch Dressing
  • Day 3: Southwestern Salad with Chicken
  • Day 4: Tortilla Soup
  • Day 5: Chicken Fried Rice
  • Day 6: Potato Nachos // Spinach Salad
  • Day 7: BLT's + Veggie Sticks

Vegetarian Meal Plan 1

  • Day 1: Black Bean + Corn Salsa Tacos // Cilantro Lime Rice // Cilantro Lime Coleslaw
  • Day 2: Spaghetti + Sauce // Steamed Frozen Carrots // Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuits
  • Day 3: Easy Double Bean Burgers with Avocado Basil Cream // Oven Roasted Potatoes
  • Day 4: Tuscan White Bean Skillet // Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuits
  • Day 5: Thai Pineapple Curry // Cilantro Lime Rice

What's the right membership for you?

Yearly
  • 200+ Meal Plans with Shopping Lists
  • 600+ Recipes 
  • Only One Flat Fee per Year

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  • 200+ Meal Plan with Shopping Lists
  • 600+ Recipes
  • Only One Flat Fee for Life
PLUS
  • Video Training Toolkits
  • Cooking Demonstrations
  • Curated Kitchen Hacks & Tips
  • Real-Life Resource Guides
  • Breakfast, Lunch, & Dessert Inspiration
  • Cook Fast Community

Over a years worth of meal plans are now in the Meal Plan Portal! 

Including:

  • Full Meal Plans - Each containing five meals complete with protein, plenty of vegetables, and ideas on using up leftovers. 
  • Mini Meal Plans - Includes three meals in each plan designed for Stress Free cooking, Slow Cooker meals, Instant Pot meals, Quick Wins, and much more.
  • Vegan and Vegetarian - Five meals tailored to plant based eating with options on how to add protein if desired.

What is 30 Minute Dinners?

Everything can be customized to fit your lifestyle:

  • Use our pre-made meal plans… or create your own
  • Use our recipes… or upload your own
  • Double or triple recipes and update the shopping list automatically!
  • Check off ingredients you already have to save more money
  • Upload your family's favorite recipes and include them in your plans!

We're living in unprecedented times. Grocery prices keep going up, the housing market has gone berserk and who knows what the world will look like in two months.

Our goal at Crumbs has always been - and always will be - to help you save money on real food. 

I looked up the most popular meal planning services on the internet and they range anywhere from $4.99 to $25 per month.

For some, it's worth every penny.

For others, it's just too much.

We've taken feedback from our meal planning membership, looked at what other meal plan services offer and decided to drastically restructure 30 Minute Dinners.


  • We've eliminated the monthly commitment.
  • We've eliminated the "one size fits all" menus.
  • We're putting every meal plan we've ever created (over 250!!) under one roof…


… and giving you access for one full year OR lifetime for one flat fee: either $49 for one year, or $89 for lifetime.

For the yearly option, that's the equivalent to $4 per month - less than the cost of ONE fast food meal. Lifetime access is just 35¢ per week!

We know that having a meal plan is one of THE BEST ways to save money on food. I know that having a meal plan personally saves me at least $100 every month!


Click here to view a Sample Meal Plan! 

Here's what members are saying: 


"This is exactly the kind of meal plan I was looking for -- clean eating, heavy on the veggies without being vegetarian, relatively frugal, tells me exactly what to do and in what order to get everything on the table in a reasonable amount of time." - Marjorie


"I am most excited to get fresh ideas for meal planning! I chose to do this because I don't want to be in the kitchen FOREVER. It's just me but somehow I can take up an hour for a simple meal. Organization and steps to follow are what I need." - Ann

"Big win this week - I made three dinners in 30 minutes!" - Gretchen

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Vella Aval Recipe – Sweet Aval with jaggery–Sweet Poha Recipe

Posted: 01 Jan 2022 12:08 AM PST

Vella aval recipe

Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year 2022 💓😍. Vella aval recipe / sweet poha can be prepared in different methods. Usually people make it for Gokulashtami festival. Its one of the easiest Gokulashtami recipes. I too prepared this vella aval for Many of you would have tasted this as evening snack in your childhood days after coming from school. Yes, my mom used to make it in a very simple way by washing the thin poha, mix with powdered jaggery, grated coconut and cardamom powder. Even my MIL makes the same for Sendhil. We love this instant sweet aval recipe.

Today I have made this sweet poha recipe in a slightly different method. I used boiled and strained jaggery syrup instead of powdered jaggery as mine had lot of impurities. If your jaggery is pure, you can directly add grated jaggery to the soaked poha like my mom does it.

Soon I will try to post Kerala style sweet aval recipe. In the mean time, do check out my easy sweet aval – a no cook recipe I learnt from my MIL and also my aval puttu recipe. You can make any one of these recipes for Gokulashtami prasadam.

Vella aval recipe

Vella aval recipe / Sweet poha recipe / Sweet aval with jaggery


Vella aval recipe / Sweet poha recipe / Sweeta aval with jaggery

Vella aval recipe / Sweet poha recipe / Sweet aval with jaggery


 
Cuisine: Indian
Category: Sweet
Serves: 3
Prep time: 10 Minutes
Cook time: 20 Minutes
Total time: 30 Minutes
 


INGREDIENTS
1 cup = 250ml
  • Thick poha / rice flakes / aval - 1 cup
  • Powdered jaggery - 3/4 cup
  • Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
  • Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
  • Cashew nuts & dry grapes - 5 each
  • Cloves - 1
  • Edible camphor - a pinch
  • Ghee - 1 tbsp
HOW TO MAKE VELLA AVAL
  1. Wash and soak the thick aval for 10 to 15 minutes adding water 1 inch above it.
  2. Boil and melt jaggery adding 1/2 cup of water. Strain the syrup and add to a kadai.
  3. Let it boil till frothy. Switch off the flame and add soaked aval, coconut, cardamom powder. Mix well.
  4. Aval becomes thick by absorbing the syrup. Lastly roast cashews, dry grapes in ghee and add to aval.
  5. Mix well and serve hot ! Offer God and enjoy.
METHOD - STEP BY STEP PICTURES
  • Wash and soak the thick aval for 10 to 15 minutes adding water 1 inch above the aval. Aval absorbs all the water and becomes fluffy. Set aside.
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  • Heat a kadai and add powdered jaggery, 1/2 cup of water. Boil and melt the jaggery. Strain the syrup and add to a kadai.
  • Vella aval recipe
  • Boil the syrup till frothy and switch off the flame. Add the soaked aval, grated coconut, cardamom powder. Mix well and leave the mixture in the kadai till it becomes thick.
  • Vella aval recipe
  • Heat ghee in a small kadai. Roast cashew nuts, dry grapes, cloves and add to aval. Add a pinch of edible camphor and mix well. Offer God and enjoy !
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  • NO COOK VERSION : Take the soaked poha in a bowl. Add powdered jaggery, cardamom powder, grated coconut and a pinch of edible camphor. Mix well and serve immediately.

Note

  • You can use thin poha / paper aval too but no need to soak it. Just wash it thrice, drain all the water and use it.
  • Do not cook the soaked aval after adding to the jaggery syrup. It may become hard and chewy. So switch off the flame and add to the syrup.
  • Adjust the quantity of jaggery as per your taste. You can use 1/2 cup for mild sweetness.


Try this easy, yummy, sweet aval / vella aval and enjoy !

Vella aval recipe

Introducing our new nutritionist approved plant-based meal plans

Healthy, simple and delicious recipes to help you feel better this January

EASY Healthy Chicken, White Bean and Kale Soup


​Chicken, Kale and White Bean Soup is EASY, hearty, and healthy.

Ready in 30 minutes!

There's kale for health, beans on New Year's for good luck, and this soup has been a reader favorite for 6 years now!

It's packed with flavor, texture, and is a full meal in itself!

large pot of white bean and kale soup
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If you make this recipe, please leave a COMMENT AND A STAR RATING on the actual blog post in the comments section at the bottom and tag me in your Instagram stories!

Happy Cooking,
Averie