Build practical menu math, personal finance, consumer math, and budgeting skills with this engaging FREE Taco Vista menu math and budgeting worksheet set. Students use a realistic taco restaurant menu to compare prices, calculate meal totals, make spending decisions, and stay within a budget.

This free menu math activity includes two budgeting worksheets that also support financial literacy, functional math, money management, calculator skills, and independent living skills through realistic restaurant scenarios.

Students practice choosing food items, adding prices, comparing meal costs, and making thoughtful purchasing decisions while working within a spending limit.

This free activity can be used as part of a personal finance curriculum, consumer math curriculum, financial literacy curriculum, functional math curriculum, life skills curriculum, Adulting Made Easy instruction, or transition program.

This FREE sample comes directly from Menu Math & Budgeting Worksheets Volume 2, so you can try the activity format before purchasing the complete resource.

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What's Included

• 1 Taco Vista Restaurant Menu

• 1 Budget Challenge Worksheet

• 1 Complete the Meal Worksheet

• 3 Printable Activity Pages

Budget Challenge Worksheet

Students use the Taco Vista menu to create two different meal options while staying within a $12.00 budget.

They choose a favorite item, side, drink, and dessert, calculate each total, compare their two orders, and decide which meal they would choose.

Complete the Meal Worksheet

Students are given a budget and part of a customer's order. They use the restaurant menu to choose the remaining items and complete each meal without going over budget.

The worksheet includes three customer scenarios with different spending limits, providing additional practice with menu reading, calculating totals, and making purchasing decisions.

Students Will Practice

• Menu Math

• Budgeting

• Personal Finance

• Personal Finance Curriculum

• Consumer Math

• Consumer Math Curriculum

• Financial Literacy

• Financial Literacy Curriculum

• Functional Math

• Functional Math Curriculum

• Money Management

• Reading Restaurant Menus

• Adding and Comparing Prices

• Calculating Meal Totals

• Staying Within a Spending Limit

• Making Purchasing Decisions

• Real-World Problem Solving

• Independent Living Skills

Love This Freebie? Get the Complete Menu Math & Budgeting Series!

Start with Menu Math & Budgeting Worksheets Volume 2, which includes Taco Vista along with five additional restaurant menus.

Volume 2 includes:

• 6 Restaurant Menus

• 6 Budget Challenge Worksheets

• 6 Complete the Meal Worksheets

• 12 Menu Math & Budgeting Worksheets

• 18 Printable Pages

For six more restaurant menus and 12 additional activities, explore Menu Math & Budgeting Worksheets Volume 1.

Save with the Menu Math & Budgeting Worksheets Bundle!

Get both volumes together in the Menu Math & Budgeting Worksheets Bundle.

The complete bundle includes:

• 12 Restaurant Menus

• 12 Budget Challenge Worksheets

• 12 Complete the Meal Worksheets

• 24 Menu Math & Budgeting Worksheets

• 36 Printable Pages

Students get even more opportunities to practice menu math, budgeting, personal finance, consumer math, financial literacy, functional math, and money management through a variety of realistic restaurant scenarios.

Looking for More Real-World Budgeting Practice?

Explore the Real-Life Budget Practice MEGA Bundle, featuring 44 real-world budgeting worksheets across Volumes 1–4.

Students practice making purchasing decisions, choosing items within a budget, calculating spending totals, and working with realistic everyday money situations.

It's a great companion resource for building personal finance, consumer math, functional math, financial literacy, money management, and independent living skills.

Looking for Another Menu Math Series?

Try the Menu Math Restaurant Ordering Bundle.

This is a different Menu Math series where students practice:

• Reading Restaurant Menus

• Finding Menu Prices

• Completing Customer Orders

• Adding Prices and Calculating Totals

• Using a Calculator

• Creating Their Own Restaurant Order

It's a great companion resource for students working on menu reading, restaurant ordering, consumer math, functional math, calculator skills, and independent living skills.

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Paying Bills Simulation Bundle

Students practice reading realistic bills, identifying payment amounts and due dates, preparing payments, writing checks, and addressing envelopes.

Everyday Financial Documents Bundle

Students develop practical financial literacy and functional reading skills by interpreting everyday financial documents.

Perfect For

• Menu Math

• Budgeting

• Personal Finance

• Personal Finance Curriculum

• Consumer Math

• Consumer Math Curriculum

• Functional Math

• Functional Math Curriculum

• Financial Literacy

• Financial Literacy Curriculum

• Money Management

• Life Skills Curriculum

• Adulting Made Easy

• Special Education

• Transition Programs

• Autism Support Classrooms

• Anyone Practicing Budgeting

• High School Life Skills

• Adult Education

• Independent Living Instruction

• Resource Rooms

• Homeschool

• Tutoring

• Math Centers and Stations

• Independent Practice

Give students an engaging way to practice menu math, budgeting, consumer math, and everyday money management skills while building confidence with real-world spending decisions.

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