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 buffalo chicken wrap, porkolt, pork carnitas, creamy pesto tortellini pasta salad, and chicken divan.
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Monday: Buffalo Chicken Wraps $9.86
Tuesday: Pork Carnitas $17.98
Wednesday: Porkolt $20.67
Thursday: Creamy Pesto Tortellini Pasta Salad $17.35
Friday: Chicken Divan $10.82
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.
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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.
Don’t forget to search for appetizers, sides, or dessert recipes to add to your list. Often a post will offer suggestions for sides that might accompany the recipe, and if you would like to swap any meals for a different meal, visit our main dish recipes or search our recipe index.
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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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Your meal plans are excellent and so helpful. I just made the creamy pesto tortellini salad and it was delicious! Although my children are grown and I’m only preparing meals for 2, I still find these plans so helpful. I just cut the recipes in half or freeze half. Thanks for all of your work and coordination.
Cant wait to try some of these recipies! You rock
Thank you. Since this stay at home pandemic we started cooking more at home. I was looking to change our weekly dinner ideas. I came across this website to find the recipes look so easy, I can’t wait to make dinner.
Hi. I just found this site and it’s awesome! Is there any way to get a grocery list for only certain meals and not the whole week? Was thinking of doing 2 of these meals a week. It’s just the two of us, so we’d have extra for each meal to eat for the next day. Thanks!
Hi Laura,
You’ll notice a button on each recipe card that says, “add to my meal plan” – this feature lets you create your own meal plan with a shopping list!
This website, these recipes, meal planning and grocery lists are beyond amazing. I have been looking for something to help me take my dinner levels to a new level. I have my tried and true dinners, but sometimes it gets boring after awhile. My 5 week meal plan and grocery list is going to save me so much time! Im very excited to get started!
Thanks so much Amanda! I’m happy you found me and I hope you your family enjoys many recipes here!