Meal Planning with 200 Weeknight Dinners Week 2 of 40

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!

Vietnamese Chicken & Veg Salad
Pasta Napolitana
Ginger Beef with Noodles
Cajun Fish & Salad
Potato & Bacon Fritatta

• Buy a BBQ chicken if you do not have time to boil your Vietnamese Chicken.
• You can buy BBQ chickens on special and shred them.
• Place the shredded chicken into one cup portion sized zip lock bags and freeze.
• If you made extra Pasta Pamodra sauce from the previous week then this can be used as your base.
• Simply fry up your onion, carrot, celery and parsely to this tomato based sauce and you will have your Pasta Napolitana sauce all ready.
• Make extra Pasta Napolitana and freeze
• Marinade Ginger Beef overnight and chop chives ready to quickly prepare the following dinner.
• Trim and half beans and dice your red onion the night before and keep covered in the fridge overnight for the Cajun Fish dinner recipe.
• Buy a bottle of lemon juice and keep it in the fridge.
• Wash and use your food processor to cube your potatoes.

• Buy a bag of onions and with a food processor chop your onion.
• Freeze the onions in zip lock bags
• Buy a bunch of lemons while on special and squeeze into ice cube trays ready for dressings and baking recipes.
• This week mint, chives, cilantro or coriander and parsley are required.
• Consider growing your own as a start to your herb garden.

• Buy extra garlic bread and keep it in the cold 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 14 ingredients for the week!