3/3 menu plan

sunday: 

• dinner:

  • grill and chill

  • slow cooker texas shredded fajita beef and/or chipotle chicken

    • for Quesadilla Night

  • slow cooker refried beans

    • I need to write down my recipe, but it’s looooooosely based on this recipe

  • queso + creamy jalapeno + guac

  • big salad with 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 rosemary bread or english muffin bread

monday:

• dinner:

  • picnic dinner at the park with friends

  • ridiculously good air fryer chicken breast + wraps + chips

    • or sub sandwiches

• meal prep:

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

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

    • or make baked oatmeal cups

  • make some sort of egg thing for the week

    • like these egg muffins

    • and/or a batch of ip hardboiled eggs

  • make a batch of chicken salad

tuesday:

• dinner:

  • build your own burrito bowl

    • instant pot cilantro lime rice or instant pot mexican rice

    • chopped red onions, jalapeno, green onions

    • frozen corn or copycat chipotle corn salsa

    • chipotle copycat pinto beans

    • leftover chipotle chicken

    • leftover slow cooker texas shredded fajita beef

    • leftover queso + leftover creamy jalapeno + avo

    • pico or chipotle copycat tomato salsa

    • I also heat up some tortillas. So people can make a taco, or eat it on the side.

  • big bowl of fruit

• meal prep:

  • here’s everything else I meal prep on Tuesdays and why

wednesday:

• some sort of pizza, pasta, or rice, prepped before we leave for our Weekly Playdate

  • instant pot pasta alfredo

  • leftover ridiculously good air fryer chicken breast

  • big bowl of fruit + rosemary bread (or frozen rolls)

  • salad with goooood salad stuff for the week

• meal prep:

  • make some sort of muffins - let’s do our favorite yogurt muffins

thursday:

• dinner:

  • eggs, some sort of bread, and a smoothie. repeat every Thursday.

    • here’s why.

• meal prep:

  • bake something seasonal for brett as one of my goals for this school year

    • m&m cookies with leftover valentine’s m&ms

  • freeze leftovers

friday:

• something frozen or mindlessly easy:

  • my chicken noodle soup

  • frozen garlic bread + leftover produce

  • salad with goooood salad stuff for the week

saturday:

• dinner:

  • snack dinner saturday + movie night

    • why this weekly combo is crucial for me as a mom

• meal prep:

  • clean out the fridge

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2/25 menu plan

sunday: 

• dinner:

  • no grill and chill - we’re getting ready to go on a college friends’ trip!

  • let’s prep some instant pot mac and cheese, instant pot pasta alfredo, and a bunch of produce for my kids to eat with my parents this week. I’ll also send a tub of yogurt and a loaf of bread for toast and call it good.

monday-wednesday:

• BLTs + ip potato soup

• or leftover pasta

• or leftover pizza

• leftover fruit + leftover salad

thursday:

• dinner:

  • eggs, some sort of bread, and a smoothie. repeat every Thursday.

    • here’s why.

friday:

• something frozen or mindlessly easy:

  • library + takeout pizza

saturday:

• dinner:

  • snack dinner saturday + movie night

    • why this weekly combo is crucial for me as a mom

• meal prep:

  • clean out the fridge

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2/18 menu plan

sunday: 

• dinner:

  • grill and chill

  • brett grills those chicken patty things in our freezer for chicken sandwiches for his lunches

  • and we make those costco hot honey meatballs that have been sitting in our freezer FOREVER with a big batch of ip brown rice

  • bigggg bowl of fruit

  • easy roasted carrot “fries”

  • big salad with goooood salad stuff for the week

  • rosemary bread

• 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 rosemary bread

monday:

• dinner:

  • framily dinner

• meal prep:

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

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

    • or make baked oatmeal cups

  • make some sort of egg thing for the week

    • like these egg muffins

    • and/or a batch of ip hardboiled eggs

  • make a batch of chicken salad

tuesday:

• dinner:

  • build your own burrito bowl

    • using the meal prepped components linked below

    • I also heat up some tortillas. So people can make a taco, or eat it on the side.

  • big bowl of fruit + big bowl of mashed avo

• meal prep:

  • here’s everything else I meal prep on Tuesdays and why

    • pinto beans / “refried” black beans - recipe coming soon!

    • instant pot mexican rice

    • queso

    • creamy jalapeno

    • fajita vegetables

    • caramelized onions

    • chopped red onions, jalapeno, green onions

wednesday:

• some sort of pizza, pasta, or rice, prepped before we leave for our Weekly Playdate

  • general tso’s ground chicken + rice

  • big bowl of fruit + leftover rosemary bread

  • salad with goooood salad stuff for the week

• meal prep:

  • make some sort of muffins - let’s do our favorite yogurt muffins

thursday:

• dinner:

  • eggs, some sort of bread, and a smoothie. repeat every Thursday.

    • here’s why.

• meal prep:

  • bake something seasonal for brett as one of my goals for this school year

    • m&m cookies with leftover valentine’s m&ms

  • freeze leftovers

friday:

• something frozen or mindlessly easy:

  • BLTs

  • ip potato soup

  • leftover fruit + leftover salad

saturday:

• dinner:

  • snack dinner saturday + movie night

    • why this weekly combo is crucial for me as a mom

• meal prep:

  • clean out the fridge

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new posts this week

• still taking it gently because I miss Robbie so much

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