Happy Meal Plan Monday! There is nothing like having meals planned and ready for the week. With groceries bought on Sunday and all ready for the week- Monday doesn’t feel so Monday-y. When it comes to meal planning and prepping I have found a few tips and tricks that work great for our household. Feel free to use what works for you~ also I would love to hear something that is working for your family. I am always on the lookout for new ideas to add to my planning!
Some tips that I have learned along the way are:
- Prep ahead of time what you can
- If you have extra time on the weekend cook up taco meat or assemble a meatloaf
- Double up the recipe
- Freeze one for another night
- Wash and chop veggies ahead of time
- If you are short on time- buy shortcuts
- Frozen Cauliflower rice, Frozen veggies that you can microwave in the bag, pre-sliced veggies
- Buy all of groceries that you need for the week at one time
- Check your fridge, freezer and pantry when planning. Use up what you have & don’t let things expire
Monday:
Meatloaf
- 1# ground beef
- 1# sausage
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup of flour (I used Cassava Flour)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- bacon
- Mix all the ingredients except the bacon & put into a loaf pan
- Lay bacon across both ways with bacon and tuck it under the loaf
- Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes (until completely done and there is no pink in the center)
To reuse this meal:
- reheat as is
- crumble up a piece and put it over rice (for a rice bowl)
- have a Meatloaf sandwich
- cook up some diced sweet potatoes and crumble it in all together!
Tuesday:
This one is one of my favorite and most “go-to” recipes. I don’t do any pre-cooking here, everything just goes in the crockpot in the morning.
Cool Ranch Tacos (I make a few edits to her recipe)
These are super, super easy & here is what you need~
- Chicken Thighs
- 3 Tablespoons of Olive Oil
- 2 Tablespoons of Red Wine Vinegar
- 1 Taco seasoning packet (or click here for a homemade version)
- 1 Ranch seasoning packet (or use a homemade version-1T dried parsley, 1tsp garlic powder, 1tsp onion powder, 1tsp dried onion flakes, 3/4tsp dill, 1/2tsp pepper, and 1/2 tsp salt)
*Throw everything in the crockpot, Cook on low all day, at least 8 hours
Holy Cow- it doesn’t get much easier than that!
Wednesday:
Leftovers
Thursday:
Spaghetti Pie from PaleOMG (click here for the link)
Friday:
Event Dinner
Saturday:
Out of Town
Sunday:
Birthday Dinner
I’d love to hear your meal planning tips or share with me your favorite recipe.
Thanks for stopping by & Happy Meal Planning!! If you need even more meal planning ideas- check out Organizing Junkie by clicking here.
Faith ♥
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