Seasonal Weekly Menu Plans
Easy recipes Fresh ingredients
Shopping list Planned leftovers
Pick your Season; Choose a Menu
or just go to the recipes....
Thyme for Cooking: Make 'dinner-time' easy
It's time for Spring II Menus...
This week's menu features Asparagus & Green & Garlic Pastry, Baked Snapper, Artichokes, Prosciutto Wrapped Chicken Breasts, Pasta with Ham & Asparagus, Rosemary Pork Chops, Ham & Red Pepper Quiche
Do you want to eat healthier meals?
Eat more vegetables?
More whole grains?
Less processed food?
Do you want to relax; have fun in the kitchen?
But don't have time to do the planning?
Do you want to stop making (and eating) too much food?
A Weekly Menu Plan can help
It's easy: choose your season and choose a menu
The menus are seasonal, helping you use all the wonderful produce from your garden or CSA.... without repeating the same few recipes.
There are soups and stews in winter; salads and grill recipes in summer
If you follow the menus in order you will see that the 1/2 red pepper left from one week is used in the next week.
7 Day Menu
- 7 full dinner menus, including 2 days with First Courses and all side dishes.
- Recipes and step-by-step meal preparation instructions
- A coded shopping list for all ingredients
6 Day Menu
- 6 full dinner menus, including all side dishes.
- Recipes, instructions and shopping list
6 Main Courses
- 6 main course recipes
- Shopping list
All recipes use fresh, seasonal produce.
Shopping lists help use your time more efficiently and control costs.
Enjoy menus with variety - recipes are rarely repeated within the year.
Plan ahead - many weeks include one or two (or more) items that are planned for more than one meal.
And now..... The details:
The Shopping List:
- The Menu for the Week is in the upper right quarter
- Items for the current Weekly Menu are grouped by category for easy shopping
- Pantry Items are grouped so that you can easily check what's on hand.
- There are numbers next to each item to tell at a glance what day it's for.
The Recipes:
- Recipes are 'healthy, easy, gourmet' using fresh, seasonal ingredients and a variety of grains.
- Quantities: The recipes are for 2 servings - or 2 servings for 2 meals. It's simply a matter of increasing the ingredients to account for how many you want to serve..... increasing is easier than decreasing.
You will see recipes that use 1/4 cup of polenta, or 1/3 cup of rice. I plan carefully to not make too much food. We have 'planned-overs' not leftovers.
Need help planning dinner? Do you have a garden? A CSA for fresh veggies?
Try our Weekly Menu Plans: Healthy Gourmet Dinners; Quick, Easy Recipes.
Each week carefully planned to reduce waste and use a lots of fresh, seasonal veggies.
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