In this week’s meal plan, of course, we have great recipes that are sure to make your week easier. But in case you’re new – or haven’t used our meal plans yet – you can easily print recipes, create a grocery list and even tweak quantities so you can customize the meal plan to your family’s needs. Perfection!
Notes from this week’s meal plan:
Mexican Chicken and Quinoa Bowls
- Quinoa is a great source of protein and you can basically put anything on top for a healthy meal.
- For more flavor, you can cook your quinoa in chicken stock or 1 tsp. Better than Bullion instead of water.
Chicken Tacos with Pineapple Salsa
- You can marinate the chicken ahead of time and store in the refrigerator or make the chicken right away.
- Mango salsa is a great alternative to pineapple salsa if you don’t have the right ingredients
- Cook the chicken in a skillet or on the grill
- You can use chicken breasts or chicken thighs
- Use corn or flour tortillas
- You can use green onions instead of cilantro
- Cutting chicken into strips helps it cook faster
The Easiest Banana Bread Muffins
- They also freeze well, so they make a great on-the-go snack and a great make-ahead snack for the freezer!
- Great kids snack or breakfast
Air Fryer Fish Sandwich
- This recipe is a fast food copycat recipe, made healthier.
- Adapted from the amazing Skinnytaste Air Fryer Dinners cookbook
Grilled Pineapple Chicken Burgers
- To keep these burgers juicy and add a ton of flavor, teriyaki sauce plays an important role. Not only does it act as a binder, but gives the burger the perfect flavor.
- Coconut oil gives these burgers an extra bit of island flavors, but you can use any other oil if you’d prefer.
Eggless Chocolate Chip Waffles with Strawberry Cream Cheese Sauce
- When making the waffles, you can either use buttermilk or make your own! To make your own, you simply combine milk and lemon juice and let it sit for 5 minutes.
- The recipe calls for using frozen strawberries. The water content in the frozen berries will help the sauce be more liquid. If you want to use fresh strawberries, the sauce will just be thicker.
- The strawberry cream cheese sauce was originally inspired by one that Ben picked out of the Let’s Cook: Elmo Cookbook (a cute kids’ cookbook). It was a recipe for strawberry cream cheese stuffed French toast, but we didn’t have 1/2 the ingredients, so we made a sauce and waffles instead.
- Try using a pizza pan like this one!
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