Check out the 10th edition of my weekly meal plan where I show you exactly what I feed my family and how it’s easy to prep and cook simple meals for a family!
It’s been forever since I have posted one of my meal plans, so I thought it was about time!
If you haven’t seen one of these before, it’s basically exactly what I feed my own family, NOT something I would write for someone else as what you might expect a “meal plan” to look like.
I mention this because once someone finds out I’m a dietitian and they are wanting to lose weight, they almost immediately ask if I can provide them with a meal plan.
I have never done that, nor would I since everyone’s tastes and preferences are so individual that I would guess wrong. And more importantly, long-term healthy habits will only be formed if the person knows how to plan meals for themselves.
On that note, I’ll try to post my family’s weekly meal plans more often to give you ideas or inspirations for what to feed your own family.
And hopefully, this provides some insight into how to feed a family (mostly) nutritious foods while not spending much time in the kitchen.
Monday: Homemade Macaroni & Cheese (10 minutes prep, 45 minutes cook)
- Homemade Macaroni and Cheese: for this recipe, I have always used my friend Rachel’s recipe from Rachel Cooks. Most of the time I use whole wheat noodles and skim milk. It’s delicious, and 2 out of 3 of my kids enjoy it 🙂
- I served it with roasted broccoli and mixed vegetables (corn, carrots, green beans) that I microwaved in the bag itself.
Tuesday: Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings (10 minutes prep, 6 hours cook)
- Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings
- Raw carrots and bell peppers + hummus
Wednesday: Bean Burritos (25 minutes ahead of time-frozen, 5 minutes microwave from frozen)
- Bean Burritos (made ahead of time and frozen)
- Leftover Mac and Cheese (for the kids since they are not a fan of the bean burritos)
- Leftover Broccoli
Thursday: Corned Beef and Swiss Sliders (10 minutes prep, 20 minutes cook)
Friday: Carry Out Pizza (10 minutes)
- Pizza carry out!
- Raw veggies with hummus
Saturday: Chicken Tenders (10 minutes prep, 15 minutes cook)
- Chicken Tenders
- Spinach Salad
Sunday: Grilled Cheese & Leftovers (5 minutes prep, 10 minutes cook)
- Typically on Sunday’s I’m meal prepping for the week ahead so I’m not making a large Sunday night meal. Everyone is pretty happy with leftovers so it makes it easy. This week I made grilled cheese for a few of us on whole wheat tortillas.
Breakfast this week
- Homemade granola with Greek yogurt or skim milk: I double this batch and it lasts about a week
- Peanut Butter and Honey Oatmeal
- Cereal: Quaker Squares, Cracklin Oat Bran served with skim milk and/or vanilla yogurt
Lunch this week
- Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on whole wheat bread
- Deli turkey
- Greek yogurt
- Mandarin oranges (back in season!)
- Cherry tomatoes
- Applesauce
- Energy Bites
Snacks this week
- Mandarin Oranges
- Granola bars (typically BelVita)
- Chocolate Chip Energy Bites
This Healthy Weekly Meal Plan {Week Ten} post first appeared on Chocolate Slopes.
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