In this week’s meal plan, we have plenty of fall favorites for this week leading up to Halloween! Great breakfast, lunch, dinner and even a special Halloween treat!🎃
Notes from this week’s meal plan:
Pumpkin Spice Pancakes
- Baking powder note: check to make sure your baking powder doesn’t contain any aluminum in the ingredient list. Sometimes they add aluminum in the form of sodium aluminum phosphate and/or sodium aluminum sulfate – it’s sometimes added to double-acting baking powder to make it heat sensitive. Aluminum in baking powder is not harmful, but it can leave a slightly metallic and bitter taste in your mouth.
Butternut squash soup
- There is one major time saving trick to this recipe! Buy already chopped butternut squash – it comes already cubed and peeled.
- If you want to play with the flavors a bit, you can add a touch (½ teaspoon) of nutmeg/cloves instead of cinnamon or use chili powder to give it a more smokey flavor.
- Depending on the size of your blender, you may need to blend in batches.
- This recipe is designed to be made ahead to freeze. I like to store this soup in jars like these.
5 ingredient spaghetti squash pesto “pasta”
- Spaghetti squash is a great, healthy alternative to traditional pasta
- Spaghetti squash can be cooked in the microwave, which cuts cooking time way down!
Quick pickled eggs
- Quick pickling is refrigerator pickling
- This recipe is very vinegar forward
- Marinate for 1-2 days or eat them as soon as one hour after putting them in the refrigerator
Avocado toast with hard-boiled eggs and roasted tomatoes
- I love to use these balsamic roasted tomatoes on this toast, but you could also use sun-dried tomatoes
- I love this recipe for breakfast, lunch or light dinner
- This recipe is straight from my childhood and I have fond memories of my Mom making it.
- If you don’t have an Instant Pot, you can use a slow cooker for this recipe. Cook for 8 hours on low before adding the gravy.
Slow cooker cinnamon rolls
- This dough doesn’t require a long rising time because the slow heat from your slow cooker does the work for you.
Sweet and spicy turkey sloppy Joes
- These sandwiches can be served on Kings Hawaiian sweet rolls as sliders, or on regular buns for more of a hearty dinner
- The sloppy joe filling can be made ahead of time and frozen to reheat when your’e ready to use.
- When making these fresh (not frozen), dinner can be ready in 20 minutes!
Steak and roasted vegetable bowls
- This is a great gluten free dinner
- If you want to make this dinner, but your steak is frozen, try defrosting in a bath of cold water. You simply let the steak (which should be in plastic wrap or a plastic bag) sit in a bowl of water for half an hour or so and viola, it’s ready to be cooked.
Remoulade sauce recipe
- I love using this sauce on burgers, dipping in fries, on sandwiches, on vegetables, with fish and more!
5 ingredient salmon with green beans and rice
- This is a pesto salmon recipe
- A great make-ahead recipe to bring to new moms or any friend needing a healthy dinner.
- If bringing this dish to a friend’s house, make it in a throw-away foil pan so you don’t have to worry about getting your pan back.
- You can easily swap out green beans with whatever vegetables you have on hand – bell peppers, zucchini or any combination of your favorite vegetables.
- This also holds true for the rice. You could swap out with quinoa or potatoes etc.
Frankenstein cookies
- A great (and fun!) recipe to make with the kids. They can help mix and decorate.
- I use a store-bought bag of sugar cookie mix for this recipe, but you could use this recipe if you prefer to make them from scratch.
- You could add mint to this recipe and use melted Andes candies to decorate
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