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 Italian meatball subs, thai chicken lettuce wraps, creamy tomato spinach tortellini, slow cooker creamy ranch pork chops, and teriyaki pasta salad.

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Monday: Meatball Subs $18.18

TuesdayThai Chicken Lettuce Wraps $11.20

WednesdayCreamy Tomato Spinach Tortellini $9.18

Thursday: Slow Cooker Creamy Ranch Pork Chops $12.53

FridayTeriyaki Pasta Salad $19.74

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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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Mongolian beef on a plate with rice and chopped green onion on top.Day 3
Chicken Fajita Pasta served in a skillet with a scoop of salsa on top.Day 4
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Lauren Allen

Welcome! I’m Lauren, a mom of four and lover of good food. Here you’ll find easy recipes and weeknight meal ideas made with real ingredients, with step-by-step photos and videos.

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  1. These have been absolutely amazing and a life saver I am a mother of four work full time and my husband works third we have been having atleast 3 to 4 of these a week and they are amazing thank you!!!

  2. Thank you for this effort of love you have provided to others in the form of weekly meal plans and grocery lists. I don’t dislike cooking, but I find the whole meal planning process to be very time consuming. I normally go to the grocery store as needed. Since we’ve moved to only picking up groceries weekly during the Covid-19 crisis, working full time at home, providing meals for my family, and not being able to go to the store whenever I want has made me resent the entire process and become an added stress. We used to pick up convenience food frequently on difficult days. Finding this makes me want to cry. The meals I have made thus far have been delicious and the time saved on figuring out what to make and what I need to buy has been a gift.