Like my Filipino weekly meal plans, this Month Long P100.00 Weekly Filipino Budget Meal Plan Challenge is long overdue. I may have not promised you a timeline as to when Ill publish this, but this has been in my “to write” list for the longest time. As you know, we have been publishing annually P100.00 Budget Ulam Ideas, and these blog entries have consistently been topping our stats. Which now brings me to this four-week meal plan challenge.

Four-week P100.00 Weekly Filipino Budget Meal Plan Challenge

The Filipino meal plans that I will be featuring in this blog post all cost P100.00 to prepare. Hence I call this set – the P100 Meals Month Long Challenge. Yes, all the dishes here can be prepared under P100.00 – enabling you, my fellow homemakers to stretch the family finances further.

Disclaimer though in these P100 meal plans is that there could possibly be some variations in pricing depending on:

1. Cost of Living in your area (for instance, groceries in the Makati area are much more expensive versus those in the provincial areas)
2. Where you choose to buy your food or ingredients (supermarket prices and wet market prices vary).
3. The season of the year – Fish and other seafood are usually pricier during lent. Meat is pricier during the Holiday Season, and Chicken is on sale during the New Year.
4. The year you read this post – I published this in Feb 2018, so if you are reading this after three years, well, costs have changed definitely.
5. The number of family members partaking of the ulam recipe. These cheap ulam recipes are for a family of four – two adults, and two grown children (not babies or toddlers – if you have babies and toddlers, they sure can share with the ulam too!). Of course the rice is not computed along with the P100.00 because it is for ULAM alone.

Another helpful way to achieve the P100.00 target expense for every ulam is to have a pantry that is well stocked. Condiments like pepper, salt, paprika, soy sauce, cooking oil, vinegar, bay leaf, hot sauce, patis or whatnot is assumed to be available in the cupboard. Other ingredients like black beans, cornstarch, flour, peas, raisins, ketchup, oyster sauce, or butter can be considered “investment ingredients” because you do not get to use up all of the contents of a single package for the recipe, and you can use the remaining contents for future dishes. Ingredients though like a whole can of evaporated milk, all-purpose cream, pineapple juice, tomato sauce, pineapple tidbits or slices, cheese, soda, or the like are computed together with the other ingredients to make it to the P100.00 ulam target.

So what I am saying is the cost can be a give or take P20.00 less or P20.00 more due to the above-mentioned factors. If you are not convinced that the recipe will just cost you a hundred, then by all means skip it and just browse our other pages for more budget meal recipes or choose from any of the meals in the weekly Filipino Meal Plan included in this challenge and just make a “repeat performance” the day it is scheduled.

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You may also want to read:

• One Month P100.00 Weekly Filipino Budget Meal Plan Challenge
• Budget Ulam Recipes under P100.00 – 2018 Edition
• Eight Filipino Recipes under P100.00 — 2016 Edition
• Seven Filipino Recipes Under P100 — 2015 Edition
• Lunch Baon Ideas for Kids Part 2
• Filipino Lumpia Recipes under P100.00
• Filipino Dessert Recipes under P100.00
• Filipino Veggie Dishes under P100.00
• Meatless Meals for the family
• Past Weekly Meal Plans
• How to Start Meal Planning

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So without further ado, here are the four meal plans, representing each week of our four-week P100.00 Weekly Filipino Budget Meal Plan Challenge. Pinoy weekly meal plan #1 features yummy heavy breakfasts that will surely perk up the whole family. It also features veggie and meat recipes. A great budget saving tip I have learned as a mother of three is to utilize left overs. Either you serve it a second time, or re-purpose the food for the next meal. Just make sure that left overs are immediately packed in a vacuum-sealed container and refrigerated or frozen accordingly.

Week #1 Meal Plan: P100.00 Ulam Recipes Month Long Challenge:

If you find it hard to save the meal plan from the website, please do not hesitate to head over to our Facebook Page because most likely, by the time you are reading this, I have already uploaded the album for this 100 Peso Ulam Monthly Challenge of ours.

Going back, here’s the matrix for our second week.

Week 2: 100 Pesos Pinoy Budget Ulam Guide for the week (second week of the four week long P100 meal challenge):

If you notice, I have included afternoon merienda in our weekly meal plan. This is because this is is really one thing that we cannot skip especially if we have children coming home from school. Most of the merienda items that I have specified are either available in groceries, supermarkets, and palengkes or your neighborhood panaderia or bakery.

Here’s our third meal plan, in our month-long P100.00 Budget Ulam Recipes.

Week 3: Filipino P100 Budget Ulam Recipes:

Our last meal plan also has select Pinoy recipes, that could even be comfort food for some. For vegetables, check out blanching techniques, or even wrapping veggies in brown paper to keep it fresher for a weekly shopping interval.

Fourth Weekly Meal Plan for the Budget Meal Plan Challenge:

So there you have it. I hope I have somehow helped you plan budget-friendly meals for at least a month-long period. If you have suggestions or new P100.00 budget meal ideas do let me know, you can reach me via FB or IG.

Again I will endeavor to resume my weekly posting of meal plans. I will be updating as well the meal plan album on our FB Page so if you have time, and you want a compilation you can save on your mobile devices, please check out our FB album here.

Meantime, if you wish to scour great dessert recipes, you may want to check out Good Housekeeping’s Dessert Cook Book featuring Brownie Recipes — buy it here

Please drop by my facebook page or Instagram Account for feedback, comments or recipe suggestions. Check out as well on Pinterest!

Looking forward to hearing from you. A Happy Homemaker is a Happy Pinay Mommy!

Leaving you with this video tutorial on how to cook a P100.00 meal idea – Arroz Caldo — from Kitz Clutzina, the husband of my favorite vlogger, Anne Clutz:

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