Meal Plan 18
Aug 16, 2024
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My Free Meal Plans will help you save time, money, and enjoy wholesome, delicious meals! Week 18's Meal Plan highlights fresh summer produce and delicious recipes using homemade basil pesto!
Week 18 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: Balsamic Pork Tenderloin with Roasted Italian Vegetables
- Monday: Caprese Pasta Salad with Fresh Fruit
- Tuesday: Vegetarian Enchiladas with Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice
- Wednesday: Grilled Pork Tenderloin with leftover rice
- Thursday: Pesto Chicken with Roasted Red Potatoes
- Friday: Pesto Pizza with Side Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette
- 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 there are 2 recipes using pork tenderloin. If you have a large family, you will want to prepare 2 tenderloins each night and purchase a total of 4, or 2 packs of pork tenderloin. For a family of 4 average size eaters, 1 pack is enough.
- I find that the Caprese Salad is substantial enough to stand as a meal, especially paired with a side of fresh fruit. However, feel free to grill up some chicken breasts or chicken sausage (sundried tomato flavored is delicious!) and add to the pasta salad.
- Make extra rice on Tuesday to serve with the grilled pork tenderloin.
- Use basil to make pesto for pesto chicken, pesto pizza, and for caprese pasta salad.
- Use vine-ripened tomatoes for BLTs, and grape or cherry tomatoes for caprese pasta salad, pesto chicken, & pesto pizza (or dice and deseed garden tomatoes if you have a lot on hand.)
- Use red potatoes roasted veggies, potato salad, and roasted red potatoes. Add leftover roasted potatoes to a potato frittata.
- Bake bacon and use it to prepare BLTs and Bacon Ranch Potato Salad. Add leftover bacon to potato frittata if desired.
- If you have leftover pesto chicken, dice and add to pizza, but it is not necessary.
- Feel free to use fresh mozzarella for pesto chicken and pesto pizza OR shredded for caprese pasta salad.
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- 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
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I am so glad that I found you. My question is…. I am diabetic so I have to watch my sugars and carbs. I also love using my instant pot. Can you tell me how to convert some of your recipes? Also there’s only me and my husband. Thank you
Hi Jo! I am so happy you found my site as well! I don't have specific meal plans at this time for low-carb or sugar-free. Most of my recipes include modifications and I do have many low-carb meals to browse. As for the Instant Pot, I have tons of Instant Pot recipes and even a guide on how to convert recipes for the Instant Pot. I hope that helps 🙂