Weekly Meal Planner | Free | Easy Recipes | Little Dairy On the Prairie

Here’s my Free Weekly Meal Planner for this week! It’s the easiest way to come up with fun new recipes and menu ideas for families! I’ve got you covered with 1 breakfast recipe, 5 main dish recipes, 1 side dish recipe, and 2 desserts!

four images - a glass with pudding an fruit, a pineapple and chicken pizza, shredded pork, and a huge baked cookie

I love this easy weekly meal plan! It’s perfect for families with busy lives! Go ahead and choose from the list and add them to whichever day works best for you!

The best weekly meal planner includes lots of variety, uses pantry staples, is inexpensive, and has recipes kids love!

This easy meal plan has plenty of options to choose from! Because there’s pork, beef, chicken, and seafood you’re guaranteed to find something everyone will love.

Choose from main dish salad, pizza, tacos, casserole, and more!

For instance, I usually decide what to make for dinner depending on how much time I have. Some of these recipes use leftover chicken or rotisserie chicken. Others can be made ahead of time. And one is an instant pot main dish that can be made in minutes!

Talk about an easy weekly meal planner!

Meal Planning- breakfast recipe

Here’s a super easy breakfast recipe that even better made ahead! The perfect kind of recipe for meal planning!

a short glass with chia pudding topped with chopped kiwi, blackberries, and sliced almonds

Overnight Chia Pudding with Fruit

This Overnight Chia Pudding with Fruit is an easy make-ahead breakfast that’s packed with protein and perfect for meal prepping!

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Weekly Meal Planner – Five main dish recipes

Here are five main dish recipes that create an easy and well rounded weekly meal plan! You’ve got tacos, pizza, main dish salad, a casserole, and a quick instant pot meal!

Choose from beef, pork, chicken, and seafood this week!

square pizza with pineapple and parmesan cheese

Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Pizza

Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Pizza is a quick and easy meal that thw whole family will go crazy for! It has barbecue sauce, sweet pineapple, grilled chicken, and plenty of cheese! I used a flatbread crust because it's so fast!

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Chicken Pasta Salad

Chicken Pasta Salad is full of colorful fruits and vegetables; mandarin oranges, pineapple chunks, grapes, celery, and onions. It's tossed in a tangy and creamy dressing that makes all the flavors shine, then is topped with crunchy cashews!

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a white casserole dish with baked pasta that has hamburger, green onions, and cheese

HAMBURGER HOTDISH

This eight ingredient Hamburger Hotdish is a classic family recipe combining beef, egg noodles and creamed corn in this bubbly, cheesy comforting casserole

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a sheet pan with baked shrimp, red and yellow peppers, onions, and lime wedges

Sheet Pan Shrimp Tacos

Sometimes it’s better to share something, however humble, than to share nothing at all. Today I’m sharing a recipe for these easy 30 minute Sheet Pan Shrimp Tacos

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3- INGREDIENT KALUA PORK

Kalua Pork is the most tender and juicy pork you’ll ever eat! It only takes 3 ingredients, 5 minutes prep time, and can be made in the slow cooker or Instant Pot.

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Easy side dish recipe

These muffins are divine with just about any meal! But, they are especially good with the main dishes for this week! For instance, they’d be amazing with the pork!

And, serve the extra for breakfast with honey butter!

Marie Callender’s Cornbread

Marie Callendar’s Cornbread is easy to make into muffins or in a pan! Check out my post for my trick for making these the sweetest, softest, most incredible cornbread in the world! You’ll find yourself serving it with everything!

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Easy family dessert recipes

Dessert is my very favorite part of the day and is a really important part of any weekly meal plan! Make a batch of cookies to add to lunches for the week!

two baked snickerdoodle cookies on a white paper

Soft and Chewy Snickerdoodle Cookies

Hands down, this is the best Soft and Chewy Snickerdoodle Cookies recipe! These thick cookies are a little crispy on the edges and perfectly soft and chewy on the inside. Plus they’re loaded with cinnamon chips just to be sure you get plenty of warm cinnamon flavor in every single bite!

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