Meal Plan: March Week Four

Meal Plan: March Week Four

Well… it’s possible that it could be baby week! Or she could wait until next week. So the plan for this week is to be as prepared as possible and not put too much on our calendar. For meals, it’s our goal to continue to keep it simple and make meals that will do well as frozen leftovers for meals once the baby arrives.

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Meal Plan: March Week Three

Meal Plan: March Week Three

We are less than 3 weeks away from meeting our precious baby girl, so we’re starting to think about meals that we can make and freeze for easy lunches or meals after the baby is here. Other than using up some salad greens that we still have and making one of our favorites (the Chicken BLT Salad), the other three meals this week are great for freezing to pull out at a later time! Plus, the Shepherd’s Pie is a great nod to St. Patrick’s Day that we will likely make for dinner on Thursday.

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Meal Plan: March Week Two

Meal Plan: March Week Two

We have a few different things going on this week - we have some friends coming over for dinner one night this week and then an event at church another night, which means we will either do takeout or a super quick meal before heading to that event. So most of our meals this week are ones that can be quick and easy dinners for our family.

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Meal Plan: March Week One

Meal Plan: March Week One

We did a pantry clean-out over this past weekend and threw away a lot of expired food! Major bonus - now we know what we actually have to work with in our cupboards. Then we spent our Sunday post-church with our small group for brunch and I took two different baked egg dishes - they were a big hit! The main dish was a new-to-me recipe with hashbrowns and it was SO delicious! The rest of the meals that we put on our meal plan were intentional to use up extra ingredients that we had on hand from the breakfast casseroles or that we found in our pantry over the weekend.

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Meal Plan: February Week Four

Meal Plan: February Week Four

We don’t have anything special really going on this week (hooray), so I’m looking at meals that can use up some ingredients that I know I already have on hand or meals that we maybe haven’t made in a long time. Especially looking forward to the Philly Cheesesteaks that I have on the menu for the weekend!

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Meal Plan: February Week Three

Meal Plan: February Week Three

It’s Valentine’s Day today! So I’m kicking off our meal plan for this week with some heart-shaped pizza - we love this meal for Valentine’s Day and is a fun tradition for our family. Tonight, we’ll be making some homemade pizza crust and shaping our own heart-shaped pizzas for our 2-year-old to have a little “dinner date” with his auntie this evening while my husband and I go to Bible Study. The rest of our meals this week will be simple menu items that won’t take too much time to make so that we can take it easy, especially since my husband will be getting his booster vaccine at the end of this week and we will want to keep it super simple this weekend!

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Meal Plan: February Week Two

Meal Plan: February Week Two

This week’s Meal Plan is all about using up ingredients we already have or planning smartly to make plenty of meat for one meal that can also be used again later in the week as quick and easy party food for the Big Game on Sunday!

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An Entire Year of Meal Ideas

An Entire Year of Meal Ideas

I previously did a whole post with my best tips for meal planning, and in that process, I asked for feedback from my followers about their pain points when doing their own meal planning. And you know what they said? Meal ideas! So I’m sharing an entire year’s worth of meal ideas to help you with your meal planning.

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Meal Planning Tips + Meal Ideas

Meal Planning Tips + Meal Ideas

Are you ready to take your Meal Planning skills to the next level?! Follow my Top 3 best meal planning tips and I promise you will find that meal planning becomes almost second nature and less overwhelming the longer that you do it! You will also find an entire year’s worth of Meal Ideas and recipe inspiration, updated every month with new recipes.

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Favorite Things: February 2021

Favorite Things: February 2021

I wanted to share with you a few of my favorite things that I have been enjoying the most over the past month or that my family has found to be super useful! It is my hope to share with you a few items every month and pass along some recommendations or joy to other families! This month has been all about staying cozy during some extremely cold days and bringing some sanity to this crazy little home in the middle of winter during a pandemic. Hope you find something helpful here!

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Using Trello for Meal Planning

Using Trello for Meal Planning

I know there are many methods for meal planning that include paper or whiteboard that will work great for many people… but it’s just not long-lasting for me. I need something digital. And this is where Trello is a dream meal planning organizer for me! I like to think of it as my digital recipe box… I can have lots of recipe cards (with all kinds of labels or listed in all sorts of categories), including links to the recipe source if it’s something I found online, added photos of what the meal is “supposed” to look like, and even leave notes for myself in comment form after I have made that recipe and want to remember something that I did differently or a comment that my husband or kids have made about that meal.

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