Using a weekly meal plan is the best way to cook healthier for your family, save money, and time! This week’s menu includes our popular chicken quesadillas, vegetarian enchiladas, chicken with 40 cloves garlic, ham and cheese sliders, and one pan pesto chicken and vegetables.
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Monday: Chicken Quesadillas $12.90
Tuesday: Vegetarian Enchiladas $19.63
Wednesday: Chicken with 40 Cloves Garlic $11.32
Thursday: Ham and Cheese Sliders $12.70
Friday: One-Pan Pesto Chicken and Vegetables $13.55
We’ve been sharing 5 day weekly meal plans for many years now and we love the feedback we get from those of you who found our meal plans and who are using them regularly.
Each meal plan has 5 dinner recipes that will serve approximately 4 adults. We’ve tried to be thoughtful about including recipes that the whole family will love as well as varying the recipes to include a variety of different meals so that you’re not having chicken every night!
Why Meal Plan?
If you’re reading this, you probably already have your own ideas about why meal planning is a good idea for your family, but here’s what we think:
1. Save Money:
We’ve included the estimated cost per recipe and cost for the entire meal plan, making it even easier to budget and see exactly how much you’re saving when you cook from scratch and use a meal plan! You’ll also save money by dining out less often, avoiding impulse purchases, and wasting less food!
*note that recipe costs are an estimate based on ingredient prices at my local grocer. They will likely vary depending on where you live.
2. Eat Healthier:
Cooking from scratch is a great way to manage your health goals. Both take-out and pre-made meals from your local grocer are going to have more fat, sugar, and sodium than the same foods cooked at home.
3. Save time:
The hardest part of meal planning is finding the ideas and creating a shopping list, and we’ve done that for you! Our Shopping lists include categories like “pantry staples”, and “spices,” and hopefully those are items you already have on hand so you can cross them off of the list. Then you can use the categories to help you find what you need quickly and easily.
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**NOTE: You’ll notice the shopping list includes categories like “pantry staples”, and “spices”. Hopefully, those are items you already have on hand, and you can cross them off of the list.
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I love your meal plans ! Makes my life so much easier!!
Love your meal plans – looking forward to this one!
Thank you so much for this! Veggie enchiladas were a HUGE hit and I’m excited to have a plan and the ingredients I need to make weeknight meals. You’ve helped me tremendously.
Oh my goodness! I am SO GLAD i found your site! I love your meal plans (your recipes are awesome), and I love that you put together the shopping list for us. Thank you so much for making this easily accessible. It has been such a time saver for me. I can actually provide nice meals for my family while working full time. I and my family thank you! 🙂
That is so nice of you to say, and I’m really happy they’ve been helpful for you! Thanks for your comment!
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