10/22 menu plan

sunday: 

• dinner:

  • grill and chill, explained in this ig post about our latest dinner themes

  • Brett smokes sausage for sausage wraps

  • baked parmesan sweet potato cubes + rudy’s creamed corn

  • big bowl of fruit

• meal prep:

  • unload groceries for the week

  • prep any fruit for easy snacking + easy dinner sides

    • here are my produce boxes

  • assemble our veggie box

  • prep goooood salad stuff for the week

monday:

• dinner:

  • friend dinner, explained in this ig post about our latest dinner themes

  • our turn to host!

    • ip spaghetti

    • ip pasta alfredo

    • bagged caesar salad

    • frozen garlic sticks

    • big bowl of fruit

tuesday:

• dinner:

  • something with beans

    • Tuesdays are my day I meal prep all this. so Tuesday Dinner is something with all that, and something with beans.

    • Quesadilla Night or Pinto Bean Bowls or Build Your Own Tostadas, or Burrito Bowls again. We can’t get enough lately.

  • big bowl of fruit + big bowl of mashed avo

• meal prep:

  • here’s everything else I meal prep on Tuesdays and why - Tuesday is a very, very important cooking day and it takes care of us the entire rest of the week

wednesday:

• brett’s favorite sliders

• big bowl of fruit

• chips

• leftover rudy’s creamed corn

make cinnamon swirl quick bread for Brett

thursday:

• dinner:

  • one pot homemade hamburger helper

  • salad with our goooood salad stuff for the week

  • easy homemade bread or 30 minute dinner rolls

  • big bowl of fruit

friday:

• eggs + pancakes + fruit

• or leftovers

saturday:

• dinner:

  • snack dinner saturday, explained in this ig post about our latest dinner themes - lately we love some sort of cheese, cracker, and smoothie combo

    • usually a toddler-friendly movie is involved, too

• meal prep:

  • clean out the fridge

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new posts this week

• why we love Build Your Own Tostadas as a stupidly easy dinner

• how I use months of the year to prioritize my health

  • (and my yearly list)

• a case for why Build Your Own Biscuit for Dinner is the best

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10/15 menu plan

sunday: 

• dinner:

  • grill and chill, explained in this ig post about our latest dinner themes

    • chipotle - recovering from sickness

monday:

• dinner:

  • leftovers - my chicken noodle soup + sandwiches + grapefruit

tuesday:

• dinner:

  • grilled cheese + grapes + leftover soup again

  • (finallyyyy feeling better, but we’re still having easy dinners to clean out the fridge)

wednesday:

• pull our favorite taco meat in the freezer for our favorite ground beef tacos

thursday:

• dinner:

  • BLTs (and/or leftover biscuits) and potato soup

  • and let’s do our apple tasting dinner tradition! with this salted caramel sauce

friday:

• dinner:

• build your own biscuit bar

  • my favorite biscuits

  • scrambled eggs

  • butter, jam, honey, slices of cheese

  • sausage gravy, sausage patties, and/or leftover bacon

saturday:

• dinner:

  • leftovers, Snack Dinner Saturday

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new posts this week

• none - recovering from a nastyyyy few weeks of sickness

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10/8 menu plan

sunday: 

• dinner:

  • grill and chill, explained in this ig post about our latest dinner themes

    • let’s grill some easy chicken and caramelized onion burgers I grabbed at costco (here’s a homemade version).

      • I’ll make some some garlic aoili and/or buttermilk dressing or honey mustard dressing?

      • steamed broccoli + baked sweet potato cubes (or frozen sweet potato fries) + big bowl of fruit

      • big salad with our goooood salad stuff for the week

• meal prep:

  • unload groceries for the week

  • prep any fruit for easy snacking + easy dinner sides

    • here are my produce boxes

  • assemble our veggie box

  • prep goooood salad stuff for the week

  • make bread

monday:

• dinner:

  • friend dinner, explained in this ig post about our latest dinner themes

    • if it falls through for whatever reason, we’ll do build your own sandwich bar, build your own breakfast tacos, or my favorite, easyyyyyy build your own bar of all time

• meal prep:

  • make a big batch of our favorite ip oatmeal for the week

    • here’s why this serves us well all week long

  • make a few yogurt parfaits

tuesday:

• dinner:

  • something with beans

    • Tuesdays are my day I meal prep all this. so Tuesday Dinner is something with all that, and something with beans.

    • Quesadilla Night or Pinto Bean Bowls or Build Your Own Tostadas, or Burrito Bowls again. We can’t get enough lately.

  • big bowl of fruit + big bowl of mashed avo

• meal prep:

  • make some sort of egg dish for the week

    • broccoli egg bites

  • and here’s everything else I meal prep on Tuesdays and why - Tuesday is a very, very important cooking day and it takes care of us the entire rest of the week

wednesday:

• dinner:

  • leftovers

    • because it took me awhile to realize Leftover Night can be any night of the week. And because I have a standing weekly playdate with my BFFs Wednesdays after nap, cooking dinner wasn’t working. Wednesday Leftover Night it is!

    • butttt I do make a pasta earlier in the day on Wednesday as part of my weekly meal prep, so a big bowl of leftover pasta is usually our go-to

• meal prep:

  • brett roasts a chicken like this

  • make a batch of mini muffins (and/or other baked good) for the week

    • pull banana muffins from freezer

  • make some sort of pasta (or soup)

    • that Costco tortellini in my freezer + that Trader Joe’s bruschetta sauce in my freezer

    • prep a salad using our goooood salad stuff for the week

    • prep garlic bread and my favorite canned green beans, too

thursday:

• dinner:

  • something with fish

    • bbq salmon with mango salsa

      • leave some mango, avo separate for kids

    • big bowl of fruit + leftover bread

    • salad using our goooood salad stuff for the week

• meal prep:

  • bake a treat for brett - peanut butter cookies :) :) :)

  • brett makes stock like this

  • do this quick little routine of seeing if there’s any leftovers from the week I can freeze + throw any lurking produce into these containers to make smoothie cups

friday:

• dinner:

  • something easy, frozen, or IP

    • eat with my sister

• meal prep:

  • make croutons

saturday:

• lunch:

  • my chicken noodle soup

  • big bowl of fruit + leftover bread

  • some Trader Joe’s cheese + crackers

  • salad using the rest of our goooood salad stuff for the week

• dinner:

  • flu shots, so let’s grab Chickfila after

• meal prep:

  • clean out the fridge

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new posts this week

• none this week

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want more?

i’m always sharing our favorite routines, our favorite systems, and our favorite dinners on Instagram.
and know that when you share kind words with me or share my page with your followers, I do a happy dance. your support means everything, and your support allows me to spend time creating free content, like this menu plan. xo.