Use my weekly meal plans to take the stress out of dinnertime! These premade meal plans and grocery shopping lists are the best way to save time and money while feeding your family healthy and nutritious meals. With a daily main course and mix and match sides, dinner just got a whole lot easier!
This week’s meal plan includes: This week we are making marry me chicken, browned butter ravioli with crispy sage, homemade hamburger helper, Greek lemon chicken soup, and my mom’s super easy pot roast, with mix and match sides, and a Dutch baby pancake for a weekend breakfast or brunch.
To simplify your grocery shopping list:
- Make your own croutons for the Caesar salad with leftover bread, or make things easier and buy a premade bag from the store.
- Use spinach in marry me chicken, hamburger helper, and throw some in the Greek lemon chicken soup so you don’t end up with half a bag of slimy spinach to throw out at the end of the week.
- Use pre-cooked chicken or a rotisserie chicken for the Greek lemon orzo soup.
- If using mushrooms for the pot roast, add some into your hamburger helper, along with any of your other favorite veggies or ones you have on hand (shredded carrots, bell peppers, spinach, frozen peas).
- Use a good Parmesan for the Casesar salad, Greek lemon chicken soup, brown butter ravioli, and marry me chicken.
- If you don’t want to make mashed potatoes for the marry me chicken or pot roast, purchase pre-made ones. Or serve marry me chicken with buttery Parmesan noodles, zucchini noodles, rice, or polenta.
How to Print Shopping List
- Click on the shopping cart icon below.
- Select which meals you would like to include. You may also adjust serving sizes at this time.
- Click on the shopping cart logo again to generate your shopping list.
- Once your shopping list is generated, you can print it out by clicking on the printer icon.
Meal Prep & Leftover Tips
Marry Me Chicken: Butter is what gives the seared chicken its golden glow. Olive oil raises the butter’s smoke point so it doesn’t burn. Using the two together makes the perfect seared combination. Serve over mashed potatoes, rice, noodles, zoodles, or polenta.
Browned Butter Sage Ravioli: I have a tutorial on how to brown butter. The key thing to remember is to stay by your skillet and watch it closely. Butter browns in just a couple minutes, and a light-colored pan makes it easier to watch the color changing.
Homemade Hamburger Helper: For the healthiest hamburger helper, I recommend using ground turkey and adding veggies. Mushrooms, spinach, kale, and bell pepper would be my picks. Feel free to use a gluten-free pasta or less pasta as well.
Greek Lemon Chicken Soup: Instead of orzo, try using any small pasta or rice you have on hand like arborio, basmati rice, or broken pasta. Use shredded rotisserie chicken instead of cooking the chicken breast in the chicken broth.
Mom’s Pot Roast: My family likes pot roast served over fluffy mashed potatoes. You can also add the potatoes to the mix, just add quartered yellow potatoes or baby red or yellow potatoes with the other vegetables before going into the oven.
Dutch Baby Pancake: When right out of the oven, the Dutch baby looks like a giant popover, but will deflate after it sits for a couple of minutes. Don’t worry, you didn’t mess up, it’s supposed to come back down to earth.
Classic Caesar Salad: If you prefer a super thick Caesar salad dressing, make it in a blender or food processor. Blend all of the ingredients then slowly drizzle in ¼ cup of olive oil while the blender is running to emulsify and thicken the dressing.
Greek Chickpea Salad: Make extra chickpea salad and enjoy leftovers for a light lunch. “It kept in the fridge for a whole week as I ate it for lunches, and didn’t turn bad at all which was surprising with how fresh all the ingredients are.” ~Abigail, FoodieCrush reader
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