Meal Plan

This week's meal plan is listed here. A few notes. I provide in-home child care, so I list all snacks and lunches. My day care kids eat mostly vegan, but do occasionally have cheese or yogurt products. My family eats vegan. I always offer fresh fruit and a veggie tray with each meal or snack. We drink soy milk, water or decaf tea.

I try to make my meal plans DO-ABLE for anyone. I use products that I can buy in my small town grocery store and I make foods that I can handle while running around to swim practice, soccer, meetings, and personal training clients. We have a busy life, but we make every effort to sit together to eat all meals. Proper planning helps to make that happen. Otherwise, we would all eat separately. It also helps me to use up what produce we have on hand so I have minimal food waste. We save a ton of money when we stick to a food plan, so I try to do these weekly.

 

So many of these items can be cooked once and then used for leftovers or frozen for a future meal.  Think about cooking more than you need.  If you have good containers or ziplock type baggies, many items can be saved in meal-size packaging for future use.  This saves time, money and it really helps when the non-cooks in the house need to eat a healthful meal.  They can just heat up something quickly or grab leftovers.  This keeps us from running to local fast food places for greasy, unhealthful and expensive food.

 

Meals this week that are good for freezing: baked potato soup, pancakes, chili.  Meals good for the frig/leftovers: bean salad, mac 'n' cheese, sweetened couscous (I make a big enough batch for about 3 days), Brussels sprouts pasta (great the next day as a cold salad), chickpea salad (great to make ahead for a quick lunch with pitas, bread, buns, or greens).

 

Happy vegan cooking!

 

Date	Breakfast or  Morning Snack	Lunch	Afternoon Snack	Supper	Plan/Notes
Monday   Swimming Soccer	Cereal/pancakes   Cinnamon Toast	Veggie Pizza, colorful bean salad, strawberries	Peanut snack mix	Sloppy Joes, Sweet potato fries, salad
Tuesday   Open House at school	English Muffin/Cereal   Granola bars	Baked potato soup, peas, blueberries	Popcorn	Mac ‘n’ Cheese (cheese sauce) w/ Sauteed mushrooms, kale
Wednesday   Swimming PT	Sweetened Cous Cous/Cereal   Fruit choice	Chik’n patty, rice and veggies, apple slices	Bagels w/peanut butter	Pasta with Brussels sprouts, salad
Thursday   Swimming PT	Pancakes/Cereal     Yogurt w/fruit	Bean burritos, fresh fruit, corn	Blueberry Muffins	Tofu Scramble, Toast, fruit salad	Make muffins
Friday   Work mtg Babysitter	Oatmeal/Cereal     Applesauce	Broccoli cheese rice, veggie dippers, fresh fruit	Graham cracker sandwich, fruit choice	Italian Sausage (vegan) Pasta, veggie dippers
Saturday   Soccer game Soccer party Open house	French toast dippers, fruit salad	Chickpea salad sandwiches, leftover fruit, veggie, soup, etc.	Chips and salsa	Chili, jalapeno corn bread
Sunday   Swim Meet	Bagels w/peanut butter, fresh fruit, granola snacks at meet	Out	Out	Popcorn, smoothies, leftovers
EXTRA	In freezer: white bean enchiladas, refried beans, cabbage soup, chili	Frozen veggies, fruit for smoothies, potatoes and sweet potatoes