Meal planning for your family is one of the simplest ways to save time and money, while lessening stress. As a dietitian, I designed this one-month meal plan to reflect the way I approach feeding my family - approachable, flexible, simple, nutritious, and delicious!

Why it Might Help to Meal Plan for Your Family

Even as a Registered Dietitian, I never fully understood how a meal plan might help busy families until I started to follow a running plan... and had success. Sounds strange, right?

Even if you only meal plan for one month, I think you'll see more variety as well as new pattern and habits forming around mealtime. And this is the goal 🙂

Monthly Meal Plan - Dinners Only

Here you will find dinners planned out for four weeks. Use the scrollbar on the right side of the meal plan to view an entire month's worth of meals.

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Monthly Meal Plan - Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

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Helpful Tips

This meal plan is a framework to go from. If a meal doesn't appeal to you, make something different.
This meal plan takes into account seasonal produce found at the end of summer, beginning of fall, as we can still find corn on the cob, watermelon, and bell peppers at local farmers markets. Feel free to swap the produce out for what's in season.
Consider your weeknight schedule, when planning out your meals. I like to make extras on nights I have a little more time so we can have leftovers on the busiest nights.