Meal planning is not my favorite thing to do.
There, I said it. haha!
After years of trying to set a weekly meal plan…then a monthly meal plan…I finally settled on a good compromise.
Nowadays I plan for 2 weeks at a time. It’s great, because I don’t have to do it every stinking week.
But I also don’t have to manage the sometimes overwhelming task of an entire month at a time, either.
The plan looks like this: meals that fit our busy lives, that are frugal, and that are simple.
I don’t feel like I need to reinvent the wheel each week, or scour Pinterest for 14 brand new meals we’ve never tried before.
So we use a lot of our tried and true favorites over and over.
Your 2 Week February Meal Plan Is Done!
Simple and easy is a non-negotiable for me.
It’s the easiest thing ever! When I jump in the car after leaving the store, I just snap a pic of my receipt and boom, I get free points.
Breakfast
- cereal
- homemade granola
- pancakes
- pumpkin french toast bake (the kids devoured this last time I made it!)
- easy oatmeal breakfast bars
(Here’s a list of our favorite easy make ahead breakfast ideas.)
Lunch
- sandwiches (PB&J, Nutella, PB&honey, lunchmeat, apple butter)
- quesadillas
- leftovers (This is what most of us usually choose, but I homeschool 3 kids and that helps.)
- hot dogs (They can’t all be winners…)
- soup
- eggs
- French toast
Supper (with sides of potatoes, rice, noodles, and fresh cut veggies)
If you need meatless meal suggestions for Lent (or just because!), check out this post. If you can’t convince the family to go meatless, I can help you with that, too!
- steak (Here’s the story about why you keep seeing steak on a frugal menu.)
- 3 Bean Chili Chowder
- fish tacos
- Taco Dump Soup
- grilled chicken
- healthy black bean casserole
- “chicken slop” in the crock pot
- baked or grilled chicken
- spaghetti
- breakfast for dinner (brinner!) Usually ends up being sausage gravy, sometimes pancakes.
- leftovers
- roast beef
- homemade pizza
- lasagna
Our snacks and extras include:
- fresh fruit
- cookies
- popcorn
- soft pretzels
- ice cream
- buffalo chicken bombs
Those are the meals we love and the new ones we can’t wait to try this week!
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What’s on your meal plan?
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