With the new year just hours away, the odds are good that you’re thinking about organizing your life and eating healthier – I know that I am! For me, getting organized starts with meal planning because dinnertime is the most hectic part of our day. If I don’t have a menu guide or meal plan, our evening can quickly end up in chaos as I struggle to come up with a dinner idea. No plan = lots of time spent foraging through the cupboards, or even worse, running out to a drive thru (and that doesn’t work well for that “eating healthier” idea!).
To save myself lots of time and stress, I put together a “31 Days of Dinners” meal plan that will carry me through the entire month. Now when dinnertime rolls around, I just take a quick glance at my monthly menu and have a whole month of options right in front of me. You can choose to follow the guide in order so that the date matches the meal number on the list below, or you can pick and choose meals from the list each week as desired. I tend to follow it week-by-week and then rearrange the meals during the week according to our schedule. Having a meal plan makes dinnertime so much easier. Bonus: You’ll save yourself a lot of money (and waste) when you’re only grocery shopping for items on your menu guide!
You can view our previous monthly meal plans by CLICKING HERE.
Anton Dwyer says
Hello, thank you for sharing all the great ideas. I run a kitchen facility for 50 seniors in a assisted living community. I’ve taken many great ideas from you and presented them for meals with a warm welcome. Thanks again.
Anton
Heidi says
Thank you so much for the kind words, Anton! I am so happy to hear that you’ve found them helpful! 🙂
Anthony Newman says
Hi there, thanks for sharing your meal plan and those dinners seems awesome! I will definitely try them one by one cause they look so yummy!
Travis says
This is awesome! I’ve just joined the meal plan bandwagon and I’m already out of ideas just one week in! Thanks for sharing these recipes. 🙂
James says
Hi Heidi,
Thank you for posting this! This is heaps of help. I’ve got 5 kids and it’s such a life saver. Can you please make school lunch pack ideas? Bless you!
Joan Wokefield says
Hey Heidi, I’ve got three boys too! We tried homeschooling for 6 months, and although we loved it, it wasn’t right for us at the time. I’m hoping to homeschool again rather than send them to secondary school (we are in the UK). I’m bookmarking your site to browse around for ideas in the future. All the best! Joan.