A new year to begin meal planning and getting organized! This year we are going to go on a journey and meal plan our dinners using the 200 Weeknight Dinner E-Book.Each week as you join in you will find my time saving and money saving tips! Please feel free to join in with your own tips! We can all learn together as we provide wonderful food and dinner time memories with our families!
Sweet Chilli Chicken
Pasta Pomodora
Roast Vegetables & Couscous
Salsa Fish & Vegetables
Honey Beef
- To save time you can marinade the Sweet Chilli Chicken chicken thighs overnight.
- Lettuce leaves, capsicum and cucumber can all be prepared and sliced the night before
- Pasta Pamodra sauce can be made weeks prior and frozen
- Freeze Pasta Pomodora sauce in 2 cup portion sizes in zip lock bags.
- Roast Vegetable Dressing can be prepared on the weekend.
- Make extra Roast Vegetable dressing for your other salads during the week as well as a marinade for your streaks on Friday night.
- Prepare extra roast vegetables for a quick healthy lunchbox snack the following day.
- If you forget to buy salsa simply use extra Pasta Pomodora sauce for your fish
- Serve Salsa Fish with some of Wednesday nights extra roasted veggies
- Marinade sirloin steaks in the extra Roast Vegetable and lime couscous dressing
- Buy extra garlic bread and keep it in the cold box
- Buy some pecans and keep them in your pantry box
- Buy a bottle of lime juice and add this to pantry box
- If you organize your pantry, flavor and cold boxes you will only have to buy 11 ingredients for the week!
Just browsing the site over the last few minutes, I have printed a few of the printables. I checked out the many different menus and recipes available. This was right up my alley as I’m “slightly” a fan (ok, I’m addicted) to lists! The thing I love the most so far is the fact that there are SO many recipes to choose from in the categories that I needed the most at my finger tips without have to go SEARCHING every where for them on a daily basis. I actually did not notice before in the description of the site or previous videos about it, but there are the gluten-free, sugar-free and egg-free recipes. I was highly excited about this. It will definitely help me out in stress free meal planning as well as our family eating healthier dinners. Now I’m off to plan my first week, possibly month’s worth, of meals!