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weekly meal plan 10/31/16
What is on the menu this week?
About how many dinners per week do you go meatless?
About how many dinners per week do you go meatless?
Re: weekly meal plan 10/31/16
I'll give this a try, I stink at planning
Mon- Leftover rotisserie chicken, stuffing, and a veg
Tues- Hot dog casserole
Wed- Soup, grilled cheese
Thurs-Pasta
Friday- Pizza
It's probably 50/50 on the meatless thing...I'm not a big meat eater but H likes it
And meatless? Rarely. Though I am picky about the quality of my meat. Fortunately though, my mom and brother help stock our freezer every year from their small town meat locker or directly from the farmer.
Tuesday - chicken parm stuffed spaghetti squash if I don't make it tonight
Wednesday - crockpot chicken and dumplings
Thursday - Leftovers
Friday - Taco night
Saturday - we'll go out to dinner. I won tickets to a beer tasting event that day so we'll make a date day out of it.
We rarely go meatless. H feels like he has to have chicken/beef/pork with every dinner in order to feel satisfied. Occasionally I can get away with things like black bean burgers but it's not often. I'd love to meatless a few times a week. It would save money and force us to be a little more creative & healthier.
Monday - Grilled marinated turkey with leftover pasta salad and beans
Tuesday - Leftover turkey with salad
Wednesday - either chicken stir fry or go out with friends
Thursday - frozen macadamia fish with veggies
Friday - grilled chicken and veggies
Saturday - Grilled cheese and soup
H isn't a fan of going meatless so we maybe average .5 per week (or 1-2 times per month). Grilled cheese and mac and cheese are the two regular meals we have that are meatless and those are more frequent in the winter. When H was unemployed I added 1 meatless dinner per week to menu planning to cut down on groceries.
Monday - chicken sausage and farro stuffed acorn squash and sauteed spinach
Tuesday - egg roll bowls with shrimp
Wednesday - beet and scarlett turnip gallette
Thursday - either out (we are both off work) or scallops and roasted vegetables
Friday - baked double crunch chicken with roasted vegetables
Despite the above meal plan we actually eat meatless a lot. Last week we ate meatless for 6/7 nights. This recipes I picked based on the CSA veggies I have on hand, and some recipes H requested, we have ended up with only 1 meatless night. Average is probably 4 nights meatless.
Monday -- Pizza (mystery shop)
Rest of week -- marinate chicken breasts, that will be a few meals this week, match with green beans or salad. Cook up hamburgers (lean ground beef). Probably go out for dinner one night.
I'm not a very good meal planner, lol.
Both my H and I are serious meat eaters. We rarely have a meatless meal.
I honestly have nothing planned at this point but this is a good place for me to start thinking...
Monday - Pizza (if our family comes over for trick or treating) otherwise probably leftovers from grilling yesterday
Tuesday - Maple Dijon Chicken w/ Rice and veggies
Wednesday - Chili with corn bread
Thursday - Leftovers
Friday - I think we're planning to do steak and steamed shrimp
Saturday - Good chance we will eat out
Sunday - H will be at a football game all day so we'll probably just do left overs when he gets home
We hardly ever have a meatless dinner. H and I both really love meat and he hates 99% of veggies so it would be difficult to make him dinner without meat. Plus I need protein to feel satisfied.
Tuesday - Grilled chicken thighs and a vegetable.
Wednesday - Leftover thighs and veggies.
Eek...I just realized I need to plan out the rest of the week. We have plenty of stuff in the freezer so I just need to start defrosting some chicken.
It really depends on the week. Sometimes we don't have meat at all, sometimes it's with every meal. It's not something I really think about a lot. A meal feels complete to us with or without.
Tuesday- pesto pasta, asparagus, vegan sausage, feta, lemon.. it's really good!
Wednesday- spaghetti, homemade sauce with zucchini, peppers, onions, tempeh metaballs
Thursday - tofu, salad, sweet potato fries
Friday- homemade pizza with broccoli, salad.
That is a meatless week for us- we usually only eat meat 1-2 days a week. DH and I love fish, especially salmon, but the girls haven't warmed up to it yet, so we usually save it for dinners out.
Tomorrow I'm going to try a new crock pot recipe -chicken taco chili
That's all I got so far
Monday - H's family's goulash. I actually don't like it much (uses a ton of Velveeta) so I may just have a sandwich.
Tuesday - One pot Mexican Chicken and Rice
Wednesday - Flat Iron steak, baked potato, asparagus, may grill this, we got a new grill on an awesome sale, it's being put together today.
Thursday - Something asiany with chicken, rice, and snap peas.
We pretty much never go meatless. I do better on a higher protein diet, and H's last blood work showed he was low on iron (common for his Crohn's) so in addition to supplements we're trying to eat more iron-laden foods, which is a lot of meat.
Monday: rotini with white beans & escarole (new recipe)
Tuesday: some sort of pork chops, & veggies
Wednesday: spinach parmesan linguine (new recipe)
The rest of the week isn't planned yet, and actually the meals above were planned for last week but didn't happen. H likes meat a lot but I do try to plan at least 1 meatless meal per week, mostly to keep costs down.
1. Chicken piccata
2. Spinach salads
3. Roasted veggies and some protein (TBD from the freezer)
4. Pantry pasta (I have a few different options, usually involving artichokes, anchovies, sundried tomatoes, capers, etc.)
5. Grilled cheese and soup
We eat a decent amount of meat/fish but we aren't the type of people that feel like it doesn't count as dinner without a slab of meat on the plate.
This week's menu (I plan Saturday-Friday):
Saturday: went out
Sunday: pasta with marinara and sauteed veggies (peppers, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, broccoli)
Monday: baked quinoa and chicken parm with roasted broccoli
Tuesday: teriyaki shrimp and veggie stir fry over rice
Wednesday: sloppy lentils, cut up veggie sticks, oven fries
Thursday: southwestern farro (farro with black beans, peppers, onions, corn, salsa, avocado and cheddar cheese)
Friday: leftovers
Tonight-Arugla pesto pasta
Wednesday-Homemade pizza
Thursday-Bean and rice dish
Friday-Blue Apron (fish)
Saturday-I will be out, H will probably make a chicken Blue Apron
Sunday-Blue Apron (vegetarian)
As you can see, we go meatless a lot! I'm pescatarian but really lazy about cooking fish at home. H is fine with eating meatless most nights, but prefers really high quality (read: expensive!) local meat when he does have it.
Special diets are definitely no problem. I'm pescatarian, so we usually chose either meatless/meatless/fish or meatless/fish/chicken. They only let you chose certain combos so I'm not sure if you can do a chicken/chicken/fish or not. Some of the flavors have been on the "exotic" side (curry, a little bit of spice that you can modify to your taste, etc.) but we're on the two person plan. The family plan seems a bit more mellow. You can always skip a week if nothing appeals to you. We really just do it every other because it's pricy.