Episode 4 Weekly Plan and Prep Double Batching

Description: Weekly Plan and Prep- Double Batching

 

Summary:

-Do a little inventory, look in your pantry, fridge, freezer and see what you have and need to use up

-Grab your calendar and see what you have coming up this week

-Look at previous meal plan and see if any meal didn’t get made, and plan to add to this week

 

Weekly Meal Plan:

Sunday - (parents are coming) Roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, Caesar salad and white chocolate pudding, cool whip and graham pie

Monday - Dumplings and Fried Rice

Tuesday- Instant pot mac and cheese

Recipe:  https://thesaltymarshmallow.com/instant-pot-mac-and-cheese/

Wednesday- Butter Chicken and Rice- just use Costco jarred butter chicken sauce

Thursday - Shepherds pie

Recipe: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/24202/shepherds-pie-vi/

Friday (Dirty Dancing- out for dinner) Dad will probably order pizza

Saturday - Burritos and taco salad

 

Instant pot hacks:

• Put roast in an instant pot from frozen, rinse and sprinkle with seasoning salt.  Put on a trivet with 2 cups of beef broth and sliced onions.  On high for 1 hour and 40 minutes, and natural release for 45 minutes.  Perfect every time
• Rice- 1 cup rice and 1 cup water, 3 minutes on high and 10 minutes natural release
• Hard Boiled Eggs- 5-5-5 method.  Put eggs in a trivet with about 1 cup water.  High pressure for 5 minutes, Natural release for 5 minutes and Ice water bath 5 minutes.  Peel will literally slip off

 

Double Batch:

-Double mashed potatoes to make 2 meals.

1. Mashed potatoes and gravy with roast
2. Shepard's pie

-Double batched rice (about 3 ½ cups dry rice)

1. Fried rice with dumplings
2. Rice for butter chicken

-Double browned ground beef (2 lbs)

1. Shepherds pie
2. Burritos and taco salad

Weekly Prep:

-Lunchables- genoa salami, cheese and pickles

-chicken tenders and romaine lettuce for chicken Caesar salad

-rice pudding- milk, cinnamon, sugar and rice

-Brussel sprouts- olive oil, parmesan cheese, salt and pepper and bake 400 degrees for 20 minutes

 

Other tips to save time and energy:

• Carve out time to prep and plan

• Double batch where you can. I.e.. double mashed potatoes, rice and ground beef
•  Pantry fridge, freezer shop and use what you have
• Didn’t make all your meals you planned-no biggie, make them this week
•  Let your gadgets do the hard work for you
•  Multi-task where you can
• What are a couple simple things you can prep for breakfast, lunch even dinner
• Keep a sink of soapy water to wash and rinse as you go-saves time on clean up

Here’s what to do next:

Step #1: Follow me on Facebook for more dinner and meal planning tips and hacks  @busymamamealplanning

 

Step #2:  Be sure to get your free 5 Meal Method Planner to help you facilitate your meal planning journey. It’s free and you can get it at:  https://bit.ly/5mealmethod

 

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Happy to help! Have questions, send me a DM @blagagoertzen.

 

Again, thanks again for being here! I’m so grateful for you! And I’ll be waiting for you in my next episode!

 

Xx Blaga