Meal Plan 17

Aug 08, 2024

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My Free Meal Plans will help you save time, money, and enjoy wholesome, delicious meals! Week 17's Meal Plan highlights late summer produce with delicious recipes!

Week 17 Meal Plan

This Meal Plan includes 7 delicious dinners, ideas for breakfast, lunch, and snacks, meal-prep ideas and a shopping list. I truly want to help you make home-cooked meals easier! This week's plan not a fit? Browse my full collection of meal plans to find one right for you.

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Dinner Recipes

Sunday: Baked Meatballs with Pasta, Spaghetti Sauce, and Greek Salad
Monday: Gluten-Free Eggplant Parmesan or Air Fryer Eggplant Parmesan with leftover pasta and leftover salad
Tuesday: Turkey Taco Skillet with Pina Colada Smoothie
Wednesday: Meatball Subs with Zucchini Fries
Thursday: Ratatouille with Italian Bread
Friday: Tomato Pizza with Fresh Fruit
Saturday: Hamburgers with Grilled Vegetable Kabobs

Breakfast Ideas

Lunch Ideas

Snack/Dessert Ideas

Meal Plan Tips

These tips are designed to help you cut down on food prep and food waste, by using up leftovers.

This week uses a lot of summer produce like zucchini, peppers, eggplant, and tomatoes. Whether homegrown, purchased at the farmer's market, or grocery store, everything should be relatively easy to find in season and hopefully on sale (or free from your garden.)
On Sunday, save half the meatballs and 3 cups of the spaghetti sauce. Use the leftover sauce for Eggplant Parmesan and the meatballs for meatballs subs later in the week.
Make a large Greek salad on Sunday (or tossed salad of your choice) and serve throughout the week as desired.
For the zucchini fries, there are directions on the post for using the oven or air fryer.
Serve bread with the Ratatouille. You can use leftover sub buns toasted or prepare or purchase Italian bread. If you have leftover Italian bread, use it to make Air Fryer Pizzas for lunches.
Friday's pizza is one of my favorites--be sure to enjoy it while the tomatoes are fresh!
On Saturday, use any leftover vegetables to make veggie kabobs. Leftover eggplant, peppers, zucchini, squash, onions, etc.
Use Kalamata olives for both for Greek salad and Ratatouille. Any leftovers, use them to make chickpea salad for lunches.
Use mozzarella for pizza and eggplant parm. Feel free to replace the provolone with fresh mozzarella if you have enough for the subs.

∗ How to Use Meal Plans∗

Each meal plan includes a printable guide complete with a shopping list and tips to cut back on prep and minimize food waste. I also base each meal plan based on seasonal produce.

Keep in mind the following tips when using these meal plans.

Print the meal plan to hang on your fridge and print each recipe to make your grocery list and prepare dinner! You can hit the name of each recipe on the meal plan and it will take you directly to that recipe!
Right-click each link and hit open in a new tab so you have all the recipes open at once. Hit the jump to recipe and print off recipes. There is a check box to check off ingredients you already have. This will make shopping a bit easier.
Be sure review meal plan for time-saving tips and key grocery lists. Keep in mind I only create the grocery lists based on dinner and assuming your spice cabinet is stocked with common spices.

Printable Meal Plan

DOWNLOAD THE MEAL PLAN WITH SHOPPING LIST HERE OR BY CLICKING THE PHOTO. Click HERE if you want a meal plan without photos and that is ADA accessible.