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 Fall I Menus...
This week's menus features Spinach Strudel, Pesto Shrimp & Pasta, Butternut Squash Soup, Roast Cornish Hens, Pissalidière, Pork Chops with Capers, Creamy Barley Chard Gratin, Stuffed Peppers Italian Style
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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