Meal Plan 38

Jan 03, 2025

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Week 38 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: Instant Pot Beef Stew and Homemade Italian Bread
Monday: Kale Pasta with Kale Salad
Tuesday: Vegetarian Enchiladas with Tropical Kale Smoothie
Wednesday: Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken with Steamed Broccoli or Green Beans and Instant Pot Brown Rice
Thursday: Instant Pot Vegetable Soup or Vegetable Beef Soup with Homemade Italian Bread
Friday: Baked Salmon with Kale Salad
Saturday: Sheet Pan Chicken Thighs with Roasted Red Potatoes

Breakfast Ideas

Lunch Ideas

Leftover Enchilada or filling over steamed rice
Mediterranean Chickpea Salad
Pita Pizzas

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.

No Instant Pot for Instant Pot Stew? For the beef stew, season beef and sear in a bit of oil in a large stock pan. Add in wine, stock, tomato sauce, horseradish, thyme, bay leaf, Worcestershire sauce, and salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and reduce heat. Let simmer, covered for 1 ½ to 2 hours. Add in potatoes and carrots and simmer for an additional 30 minutes. Whisk together cornstarch and water and whisk into the stew and let the stew thicken.
No Instant Pot for Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken? Prepare the sauce as directed, whisking in the cornstarch as well. Sear the chicken in a sauté pan. Once browned, remove the chicken, add the sauce and whisk until thickened. Reduce the heat to low and add back the chicken and continue to simmer for 5-10 minutes, to cook the chicken through.
Prepare 2 loaves of Italian bread on Sunday to have one for Thursday's soup. You can freeze one loaf of bread once risen and then thaw before baking for fresh bread. Make an extra batch of rolls to have for both the potato and chicken soup and serve both with a side salad.
This week calls for a lot of kale. Feel free to use baby spinach in place of the kale. I use it for the pasta, a large salad, in the enchiladas, and in the vegetable soup.
Use red or gold potatoes for the soup, roasted chicken thigh meal, and beef stew.
Follow the directions for boneless chicken thighs instead of bone-in chicken thighs for the Sheet Pan meal.
Instead of roasting Brussels sprouts for the chicken thigh meal, use carrots or leftover broccoli.

∗ 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

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