Welcome to the latest Family Meal Plan (Real Life Edition) – a flexible, doable look at what we actually ate this week, as a family of 6. This isn’t a perfectly curated plan or a “cook every night” situation. It’s easy recipes, repeat meals, a pizza night or dinner out, and a plan that works around real life. This week there’s a lot of freezer meals! I share breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and a full cost breakdown so you can see how it all comes together during busy days.
Breakfasts this week
- Frittata with sausage and salsa, definitely a make-ahead meal prep one!
- On the weekend I made a double batch of these waffles so that there’d be plenty of leftovers for the freezer – for a quick breakfast for the kids!
Mains this week
- Chicken enchilada casserole – the recipe makes 2 so you can pop one in the freezer for another time!
- Speaking of freezer meals, I made the lemon garlic Mediterranean pork in the slow cooker (from this freezer meals post), you guys, it is SO GOOD, the whole family loved it. AND Freddie discovered his love of cucumbers with a little salt!
- Sheet pan meal I made from a cookbook – kinda – that had chicken sausage, broccoli, bell pepper, bread cubes and parmesan, it was ok, but I wouldn’t make it again, it needed a sauce situation with it!
- Frozen pizza night
- Harissa honey fish tacos, you guys, these are so good, we make them all the time! Served with watermelon
- I made a sheet pan meal with bread
- Sheet pan pizza with crispy from frozen broccoli – although we used fresh broccoli and it was still perfection!
- And we had a pizza night out (lots of pizza this week, not complaining lol)
Additional made:
- Made Zoe’s perfect chocolate chip cookies for the kids, they’re, well, perfect! I buy these fancy chocolate chips!
- Date turtles, they’re the perfect meal prep snack
The cost breakdown:
- Groceries: $185 – Aldi
- Restaurant: Pizza night out $150
- Total for the week: $335
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