Weekly Meal Plan Ideas: Eating from the Pantry (Week 200)
What are you cooking this week? Have you sat down and mapped out your meal plan?
Each week my friend Kim and I make a trip to Trader Joe’s. I have fallen in love with this place. It is a bit of a drive- about 25 minutes from my house. Anything I cannot get at TJ’s from my shopping list I pickup at Target.
This week our trip is not going to work out but I knew this in advance last week when we made our trip. I stocked up on a few things and I am going to try to utilize as much as I can from my pantry and just grab fresh fruits, veggies, dairy, etc., this week at Target. We still have a nice stockpile of beef and we have a fair amount of chicken in the freezer too.
Weekly Meal Plan Ideas
Quick Spaghetti Recipes– this is super easy and everyone loves it. I have some fresh butternut squash and broccoli that I have to use up before they go bad, so we will have those as sides. Usually we serve this with salad and bread.
Chicken Orzo Soup– I have everything on hand. Served with crescent rolls of the refrigerator variety because I have them on hand.
Beef Stir Fry– super easy stove top recipe that cooks in 30 minutes. Maybe Anthony can make homemade egg rolls again? That will require grabbing cabbage and egg roll wrappers.
Crockpot Sunday Chicken– all I need for this is organic potatoes. Kicking myself for not grabbing these a TJ’s last week. Luckily, Target carries them, it is just pricier.
Steak– on the grill with crockpot mashed potatoes and a lentil feta salad (I’ll share the recipe).
Leftover Buffet– use ’em up!
Free Meal Planning Printable and Inspiration
Make sure you print out my free printable meal planner that is themed for January! You’re gonna love it!
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We just had spaghetti last night. Had leftovers today for lunch 🙂 i love this printable. This should make my shopping trip a little easier.
Yeah, I made enough sauce tonight that I can freeze and heat it up one day next week for lunch. Yum!