Weekly Meal Plan 8/14/23 – 8/20/23

Notes from this week’s meal plan:

Instagram-worthy Fruit Bowl

• Get lots of variety – you want lots of different kinds of fruit
• Get fruits of varying colors – the more varying colors the better!
• Slice things nicely – no big sloppy chunks, take your time and slice things evenly
• Arrange fruit in rainbow colors – makes it very visually appealing
• Have a “star” or something super unique – in my case, I used a starfruit (they’re super sweet and found in most major grocery stores). When I was in Vermont, the fruit bowl I had there had a Cape Gooseberry with these beautiful leaves on it

Pesto Chicken Salad Bagel Sandwiches

• Use a rotisserie chicken for even faster meal prep!
• Only 5 ingredients!

5 ingredient cinnamon coffee

• This recipe can be made hot or iced

Banana Cinnamon Roll Muffins

• Recipe is great in the Air Fryer.
• If you don’t have an air fryer, bake muffins in a muffin pan in an oven at 350 for 28 minutes.

Chicken Spaghetti Casserole

• Optional: top finished dish with crumbled bacon and fresh parsley, if desired.
• I like using red/orange/yellow bell peppers for this recipe as they tend to be slightly milder/sweeter in flavor than green bell peppers, but green bell peppers work as well!

3 Ingredient Banana Pancakes

• Various topping options include: maple syrup, powdered sugar, fresh sliced strawberries or blueberries mixed with sugar, chopped toasted walnuts or pecans and honey, Greek yogurt mixed with honey
• Recipe can easily be doubled, tripled, quadrupled depending on how many bananas you have.

Lentil Cauliflower Burgers with Yogurt Sauce

• This recipe can be made vegan but omitting the egg and replacing with a flaxseed egg (combine 1 tablespoon flax seeds with 2 tablespoons water).
• If you can’t find cauliflower rice with herbs in it, you may buy plain cauliflower rice and add herbs.
• If burgers crumble while flipping, you can simply use them as a topping on a salad or bowl meal.

Scrambled Eggs and Toast 

• Use a good pan – we have this smaller nonstick pan, it’s a Caphlon pan and came with this set of two.
• Cook the eggs low and slow – for scrambled eggs, it’s best to cook them over medium-low heat, don’t rush it, if you cook them on high it will dry them out.
• Remove pan from heat – remove the pan with eggs from the heat as soon as they start to pull back from the pan, don’t let them overcook, because eggs continue cooking from residual heat of the pan.