I can’t believe we’re already a month into the New Year! I hope you are fully recovered from the holidays. We’ve made a few beneficial changes to our routine, but one thing we haven’t changed is our menu planning approach.
At the beginning of each month I plan our dinner menu for the coming weeks (you can see past menus here). Though it is sometimes difficult to think of so many dinners at one time, this approach is useful for my family because it saves us both time (I don’t have to find an opportunity to menu plan each week) and money (I can make bulk purchases of the foods we’ll use numerous times).
I only include dinners on our menus. We typically eat leftovers or simple things like peanut butter sandwiches, cheese broccoli soup, or avocado egg salad for lunch. We typically eat smoothies, scrambled eggs and toast, oatmeal, or fruit and yogurt for breakfast.
Here are the yummy dinners we will eat during February 2020.
Days 1-7
- Salad, breadsticks
- Nachos, corn with red and green bell pepper
- Spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans
- Parmesan buttermilk chicken tenders, carrot sticks
- Creamy ground turkey and noodle casserole, peas
- Chicken and noodles, salad, rolls
- Cheeseburger macaroni, green beans
Days 8-14
- Minestrone soup, bread sticks
- Soft tacos, corn with red and green bell pepper
- Chicken Alfredo, green beans
- Savory roasted chicken, seasoned rice, carrots
- Easy cheesy stroganoff, peas
- Turkey and wild rice soup, bread sticks
- Chicken sandwiches, carrot sticks
Days 15-21
- Salad, bread sticks
- Burrito bowls
- Tuscan tortellini skillet, green beans
- Crispy ranch chicken breasts, carrot sticks
- Hamburger gravy over egg noodles, peas
- Chicken noodle casserole, green beans
- Air fryer steak bites, potato wedges, carrots
Days 22-29
- Tomato soup, grilled cheese sandwiches
- Fajitas, corn with red and green bell pepper
- Chicken Alfredo, green beans
- Honey mustard chicken, seasoned rice, carrots
- Turkey Normandy casserole, peas
- Hawaiian chicken and rice casserole, green beans
- Cheeseburgers, carrot sticks
- Breakfast for dinner (waffles, sausage, scrambled eggs, etc.)
What dinners will you be making this February?
Shared at the following:
Encouraging Hearts and Home, Over the Moon, and Busy Monday.
Joanne says
Your meals always sound so delicious!! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Encouraging Hearts and Home. Pinned.
Shannon says
Thanks, Joanne!
Marilyn Lesniak says
Thank you for sharing at #OverTheMoon. Pinned and shared. Have a lovely week. I hope to see you at next week’s party too!
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Shannon says
Thanks, Marilyn!