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Weekly Meal Plan / 01-18-16

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Sorry I’ve been a little bit MIA the past week or so – I’ve been a little caught up in the crazy amount of work I already have this semester. (It’s seriously crazy – can’t wait to graduate in just over 3 months wahoo!) Scott was gone most of last week for a business trip, and I actually visited my mom, so we didn’t end up doing very much cooking. Although, we aren’t doing too much real cooking this week either. (It’s one of those weeks where I’m mad craving junk food, and every one of our meals this week takes less than an hour start to finish.) I’ve been working on some really fun blog posts for the next few weeks, and I have been writing a lot to make sure I can keep up when school actually gets pretty intense, so I’m excited to share some of that with you in the next weeks and months!

Meal Plan – Week of 1/18/16

  • monday – date night at chick-fil-a
  • tuesday – baked chicken + green beans + potatoes (you can even cook them all in the oven at once – I used cajun seasoning and paprika on the chicken + potatoes)
  • wednesday – sausage with pasta and peppers (recipe coming soon)
  • thursday – taquitos + rice + black beans (super easy – use lots of black beans and only a few taquitos to make it relatively healthy)
  • friday – stir fry
  • saturday – lemon chicken + broccoli
  • sunday – pizza

Weekly Meal Plan (and Recipe) / 01-04-15

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I start school back up this week, so there are a lot of quick and easy meals planned for this week! My schedule is a little different this semester (I start and finish class earlier in the day), so it might take a little while to get settled into the new schedule, but it should be good to get home earlier! I HATE when I get home from school and it’s already dark – it’s the worst. I also have a little bit of a lighter schedule this semester, which should hopefully mean I get some more time to do things other than study – but I’m working on an honors thesis so that’ll probably suck up all of my free time. It’s crazy to be looking ahead to 16 weeks from now when I’ll be done with school (although grad school is still a possibility at this point)! Anyways, I digress. Here’s our meal plan for this week!

Meal Plan – Week of 1/4/15

monday – honey sesame chicken
tuesday – caribbean jerk baked chicken (see below for recipe!)
wednesday – stir fry
thursday – stew meat and noodles
friday – southwest casserole
saturday – mom’s birthday dinner
sunday – white chicken chili

Carribean Jerk Baked Chicken

I also wanted to include a quick recipe for the caribbean jerk baked chicken, since it’s super easy and delicious! I just take 2 small boneless/skinless chicken breasts, brush on olive oil or butter, then top with a generous amount of caribbean jerk seasoning. We got ours while in St. Maarten, but we also have this one* and it’s good too! We bake ours in the oven for around 35-45 minutes at 350ºF or until the internal temperature is at 165ºF or above.

We typically serve this meal with potatoes or green beans, and this meal also works really well with Southwest* or Cajun seasoning if that’s more your style! A quick tip for getting juicer chicken – cover with a piece of parchment paper! It helps seal everything in and makes this meal extra delicious.

 

Weekly Meal Plan / 12-28-15

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Our meal plan this week was so easy to make – Scott and I had way too many things we wanted to eat last week, so we already had most of our list done when it came time to plan for this week! Since I have off school this week and Scott is only working part-time, we are really looking forward to being able to eat at a relatively normal time this week (when we’re both busy, we often don’t eat until 8pm or later)! We kept meals pretty low-key and easy this week since we’re both off school and work. I have a recipe for the lemon garlic chicken coming this Wednesday, so be sure to come back and check it out – it’s one of our favorites!

meal plan – week of 12/28/15

monday – lemon basil chicken pasta (one dish)
tuesday – italian stuffed chicken (one dish)
wednesday – chicken divan casserole
thursday – new year’s eve dinner
friday – cheesy chicken and carrot soup
saturday – stir fry
sunday – pizza