Four dinner recipe ideas to plan ahead
Four dinner recipe ideas to plan ahead

Four dinner recipe ideas to plan ahead

Two weeks, four recipes

Go forth, eat great things, have some wine.

— Me

I’m at work, tired and hungry. I think about what we have at the house…and realize I have to go to the store, then go home and cook. If we’re lucky, we’ll eat around 10ish; I’ll go to bed exhausted, and repeat the next day. Or maybe we can eat out?

Enter ‘meal planning’! Every couple of weeks, I research four recipes I’d like to try, or come up with my own. I’ll draft a list of ingredients, and either buy them all at once, or divide them to buy on the weekends. I hate throwing away food just because it spoiled waiting in the fridge.

We’re not vegan in our household just yet, but we’ve cut back quite a bit on meat. So I try to incorporate meatless recipes, or substitute ingredients in recipes I like for vegetarian or vegan options. With that in mind, I’m adding a PDF with the four recipes I chose for these last two weeks, and their corresponding ingredients list.

  • Pasta with Beef Marinara
  • Roasted chicken thighs, potatoes & veggies with pan vinaigrette
  • Szechuan Tofu with Cauliflower
  • Black bean ‘mamposteao rice’

PS I made a modification! When I published this, I hadn’t made the rice, so I didn’t remember I usually bake the ‘amarillos’. I made the update on the PDF. 🙂