Meal Plan Week 1
Updated May 16, 2024
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My Free Meal Plans will help you save time, money, and enjoy wholesome, delicious meals! Week One's Meal Plan celebrates spring produce and a few of my all-time favorite salads.
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!
I have been planning meals for decades now! In fact, that is exactly why I started this blog--as a place to share the recipes I sent to my family and friends in weekly meal plans I shared with them.
While I have been sharing meal plans via email for over 8 years now, after MANY MANY requests to have the Weekly Meal Plans all in one place, it is well past time I began to share them here for the masses.
I can't wait to reach more people and help more families sit down and enjoy delicious meals together without the stress!
Week One Meal Plan
This week's meal plan celebrates late April produce--asparagus, cabbage, broccoli, and peas.
Download the meal plan complete with meal plan tips and shopping list here or by clicking on the image below or simply find inspiration below.
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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.
Week One's Dinner Recipes
- Sunday: Chicken Gnocchi Soup with Olive Garden Salad
- Monday: Pasta with Peas and Olive Garden Salad
- Tuesday: Fish Tacos with Pineapple Mango Salsa and Mango Smoothie
- Wednesday: Crockpot Salsa Chicken or Instant Pot Salsa Chicken with Instant Pot Brown Rice or Jasmine Rice
- Thursday: Southwestern Chicken Salad
- Friday: Hunan Beef with Instant Pot Brown Rice or Jasmine Rice
- Saturday: Spring Rolls and Fried Rice
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 produce. Get a jump start on prep by washing and drying your produce to use through the week. Use any leftover produce to make Spring Rolls Friday night and for Thai Noodles and Ramen for lunches throughout the week.
- On Sunday, prepare a large Olive Garden Salad to enjoy with dinner Sunday and Monday. I recommend using red cabbage and several heads of romaine hearts or iceberg lettuce, as you will need romaine and cabbage throughout the week.
- If you don't have an Instant Pot, follow the modifications provided in the post to make Chicken Gnocchi Soup on the stove.
- If you have leftover bacon or pancetta from Pasta and Peas, add it to turkey wraps for lunch or egg cups for breakfast.
- The fruit salsa with the fish tacos is optional. I love the combo, but the tacos are delicious with the simple slaw the recipe provides.
- Use any leftover shredded salsa chicken to top the Southwest Chicken Salad, rather than grilling chicken to speed up dinner and creatively use your leftovers.
- Make extra rice on Wednesday to serve with Hunan beef Friday and make fried rice on Saturday.
- Adding shrimp to the spring rolls is totally optional, feel free to omit them. You can use the rice vermicelli to make Thai Noodles if desired as well.
Printable Meal Plan
DOWNLOAD THE MEAL PLAN WITH SHOPPING LIST HERE OR BY CLICKING THE PHOTO.
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