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With supermarket prices now in the stratosphere, it’s getting harder and harder to whip up tasty meals that are also good for you. Here are some tips for keeping meals nutritious, delicious and on budget.

• Stretch tacos with vegetable to save money and pack in extra nutrients. If you’re making them with ground beef, and chopped onion, corn, green chillies and black beans. Spoon into whole wheat tortillas and garnish it with a little cheese.
• Think of meat not as a main course, but as an ingredient. Slice up cooked stake and fan it out across a bed of vegetable pilaf. Make chicken kebabs by alternating one cube of chicken with three cubes of cut-up vegetable.
• Cold cuts are perishable and also expensive. Buy when on sale, and then use a couple of slices of meat on a sandwich. Pile it high with shredded lettuce, slice cucumber, tomato and mustard. Remind your kids that this is how it’s done in fast-food shops that specialize in subs.
• Slice an eggplant thickly, grill, and add pasta sauce; its meaty texture adds fiber and vitamins, but not fat.