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Meal Plan – Week 4

Week 4 grocery list I minus side dishes

BEVERAGES

  • Water (1 ¾ cup)

CONDIMENTS & DRESSINGS

  • Ketchup (1/2 cup)
  • olive oil (1 Tbsp)
  • olive oil (divided) (3 Tbsp)
  • Soy Sauce (2 Tbsp)

COOKING & BAKING

  • all-purpose flour or 1:1 gluten-free flour (2 Tbsp)
  • Brown sugar (4 Tbsp)
  • Brown Sugar (1/2 cup)
  • garlic (minced) (3-4 cloves)
  • Italian seasoning (2 tsp)
  • Minced Garlic (1 Tbsp)
  • of red pepper flakes (pinch)
  • Salt & pepper to taste
  • smoked paprika (2 tsp)

DAIRY

  • Butter (4 Tbsp)

FROZEN FOODS

  • Frozen Corn (1 cup)
  • Gluten-free meatballs (30)

GRAINS, PASTA & SIDES

  • store-bought or homemade gnocchi ((we used gluten-free)) (1 × 16 oz package)

MEAT

  • Ground Beef (1 lb)
  • Italian sausage (mild or spicy) (16 oz)
  • Ham steak (4)

PRODUCE

  • fresh baby spinach (roughly chopped) (3 cup)
  • fresh chopped thyme (1 Tbsp)
  • green bell pepper (1)
  • onion (1 ½)
  • Pineapple tidbits (1 can)
  • red, orange, or yellow bell pepper (1)
  • ribs celery (diced) (3)
  • yellow onion (diced) (1 small)

SEAFOOD

  • thawed, frozen shrimp – peeled and deveined (8 oz)

SOUPS & CANNED GOODS

  • diced tomatoes (1 × 14.5 oz can)
  • Diced Tomatoes (2 cans) (15 ounce cans)
  • heavy cream or canned coconut cream (1 cup)
  • Kidney Beans (1 can) (15 ounce)
  • Tomato Sauce (1 can)(15 ounce)
  • Taco seasoning (1 pkg)
  • Taco seasoning or one packet of taco seasoning (2 Tbsp)
  • chicken broth/stock (6 cup)
  • flour or corn tortillas, warmed (4)

Recipes

Brown sugar ham

Sweet and sour meatballs

Shrimp Fajitas

Creamy sausage gnocchi soup

Taco soup

Side Dishes

buttered noodles

Spanish rice

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Meal Plan 3

This upcoming week has some delicious food. These are some of our family’s favorite meals.

I chose a sweet bourbon pork bratwurst at the local grocery store for the sausage, peppers and onions. You can chose whatever sausage you like best: mild or hot, sweet or savory.

My family loves meatloaf. Making meatloaf muffins makes sure there is portion control. Everyone gets a few meatloaf muffins at dinner. Oldest doesn’t like the meatloaf glaze on his meatloaf, so this helps with his food aversions.

Meal prepping for the week:

  • Cut up the peppers and onions for the sausage and peppers or get the peppers and onions from the freezer section.
  • Make the rice. I do 1 cup rice, 1 & 1/4 cup of water or broth. Cook in Instant Pot or electric pressure cooker for 3 minutes. Allow to naturally release pressure for 10 minutes.
  • Make the meatloaf muffins and mashed potatoes. Use frozen broccoli for the steamed broccoli to make it an easy meal.
  • Go ahead and make the taco meat. Cut up the lettuce.

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