Real Food Dinner Plan: Week 1

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Need some ideas for dinner this week? Take a peek at what I feed my family with this FREE Weekly Real Food Dinner Plan, complete with 5 dinners, side items, and a treat.

Weekly Dinner Plan 1 on 100 Days of Real Food

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Table of Contents
  1. Why Meal Plan?
  2. Meal Planning Resources
  3. This Week's Free Dinner Plan
  4. Want meal planning to be EVEN EASIER?

Why Meal Plan?

Not only does meal planning save you time and money, but I quickly learned the key to cutting out processed food is planning ahead! If you don’t have at least an idea of what your next meal is going to be, chances are you’ll end up starving and at the drive-through out of desperation.

Meal Planning Benefits:

  • Save time – Look at you, so organized! When you have a plan, you can make just one trip to the grocery store for the week, and always have an answer to “what’s for dinner.”
  • Reduce stress – With planned recipes and ingredients on hand, there are fewer surprises, and you might just get some help in the kitchen.
  • Eat better – It’s easier to enjoy a variety of delicious, healthy meals and discover some new favorites along the way when you take the time to plan ahead.
  • Save money – Buy only what you need and waste less food.

Meal Planning Resources

I’m not gonna lie, while I enjoy the results, planning out our meals is a chore that I do not look forward to each week. So, to make it easier on you (and myself, ha!), I’ve worked hard to create these resources:

  • Meal planning guidance and easy recipes in ALL of my three best-selling real food cookbooks.
  • My complete meal planning system in my Meal Planner Workbook (I use my personal copy every week!) plus 52 weeks of blank templates.
  • My partnership with Real Plans for customizable meal plans made for you each week from over 400 of my real food recipes (+ over 1,000 others)—based on YOUR family’s preferences—in a convenient app, complete with grocery lists.
  • Free weekly dinner plans, like the one below (fill out the form and I’ll send them to your inbox each week).

This Week’s Free Dinner Plan

Each Friday I’ll share a dinner plan, like the one below, complete with 5 dinners, side item suggestions, and a treat. Just click on the links and print each recipe, and you’ve got a great head start for the week! If you need additional side ideas, I’ve got you covered with my list of Go-to Basic Sides (and more).

Feel free to share this dinner plan (and recipes) with friends and family using the sharing buttons at the top/bottom of each post, and don’t forget to subscribe using the form above to keep the plans coming.

Day 1: Greek Chicken Lemonato

Greek Chicken Lemonato in a baking dish.

Day 2: Easy Taco Pie

A portion of homemade Easy Taco Pie on a white plate.

Day 3: Potato and Broccoli Fritatta

Potato and Broccoli Frittata in a cast iron skillet.

Side Dish: Side salad and garlic toast

Day 4: The Best Pulled Pork in a Crock Pot

Homemade pulled pork on a plate with a side of coleslaw sitting on red and white napkin.

Side Dish: Southern Potato Salad (without mayo) and fresh fruit

Southern Potato Salad in a white bowl sitting on top of a red and white napkin.

Day 5: Super Quick and Easy Fried Rice

Homemade fried rice in a wok being made on the stove.

Treat: No-bake Peanut Butter Dessert Bars

A large pile of No-Bake Peanut Butter Dessert Bars stacked on a teal plate.

I hope you enjoy your dinner plan and are back for more next week!
:)
Lisa

Lisa Leake, #1 NYT best-selling author

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Lisa is a wife, mother, foodie, blogger, and #1 New York Times Best-selling author who is on a mission to cut out processed food.

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  2. Tanya

    Hey Lisa and team, just FYI the link for Easy Taco Pie leads to your recipe for baked rigatoni ricotta and not the recipe you have listed. I’m in dire need of some new menu plans so this series is great timing for me. Thanks!

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    1. 100 Days Admin

      Thank you for catching that. We have corrected the link. So glad to hear these weekly plans are helping you out! – Nicole

      Reply
  3. Debbie Smith

    I just signed up for the 6 weeks of meal planning quarterly. I went into the real plan app are these your recipes Lisa? I was looking for a meal plan like the beginning one I did, but don’t need beginning anymore. This does not seem like what I was thinking. Any help would be much appreciated.

    Thank you
    Debbie

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    1. 100 Days Admin

      Hi Debbie, Yes, you should be seeing 12 different simple meal plans from Lisa’s recipes. If you are not seeing these, please contact Real Plan support. – Nicole

      Reply