In the meantime, let\u2019s dive into our favorite dinner recipes! (They are divided into daily anchors which you can find more about here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n I crave quick on Mondays because it\u2019s just an off day trying to catch up from the weekend and planning ahead for a new week. Enter sandwiches\u2026whatever sandwich sounds good that day, that\u2019s what we\u2019re having!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gilled Cheese<\/a> and Tomato Soup<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sloppy Joes<\/a> with potato chips and salad<\/p>\n\n\n\n Philly Cheesesteak Sloppy Joes<\/a> with homemade fries<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pulled Pork<\/a> with corn bread<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quick French Dip Sandwiches<\/a> with homemade fries<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cold Cuts<\/a> with potato chips and salad<\/p>\n\n\n\n Burgers<\/a> with homemade fries<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wraps<\/a> with potato chips and salad<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Can Tuesday be anything else? I like this one because we have several good taco and Mexican recipes. Here are some of my favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Taco Salad<\/a> with chips and salsa<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fajitas<\/a> with mexican rice<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fajita Quesadillas<\/a> (a favorite for that left over fajita filling) with chips and salsa<\/p>\n\n\n\n Southwest Quinoa Stuffed Peppers<\/a> with chips and salsa<\/p>\n\n\n\n Street Tacos (Chicken<\/a> or Carne Asada<\/a>) with cilantro lime rice and Mexican Street Corn Salad<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Taco Casserole<\/a> with chips and salsa<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nachos Grande<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div> Another day that I\u2019m desperate for a quick meal\u2026because prayer meeting and Bible Study! Think a quick chicken salad meal with rotisserie chicken and bagged chopped salad from the deli section at your local grocery store. This is my current favorite because it\u2019s very quick and pretty healthy to boot! Add a slice or two of buttered bread to fill up your husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know smoothies aren\u2019t a very winter-y choice, but we can still get away with them here in VA during the fall. They probaby won\u2019t be my first choice for dinner when frigid temps hit, unless I\u2019m sitting cozy in front of the fire!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chicken Salad (Rotisserie Chicken and Bagged Salad)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smoothies (Strawberry\/Banana; Berry; Pineapple Mango; Mango Blueberry)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Baked Potato Bar<\/a> (butter, salt, sour cream, shredded cheese, bacon, green onion)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ham and Cheese Quesadillas (literally ham, cheese and BBQ sauce\u2014so easy, but here\u2019s a similar recipe<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Naan Pizzas<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Does anything scream fall more than a savory bowl of warm soup?! I have been looking forward to this season just for the soups. I mostly use my instant pot for these, and can I convince you to make your own bone broths? It\u2019s so much healthier and tastier and not hard at all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, I can\u2019t talk about soup or broth without sharing this fantastic tool<\/a> for leftovers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whole Body Chicken Soup (I have my own recipe, but this is very similar<\/a>, just watch cook time. You want 6 minutes per pound of chicken.) with homemade bread and salad<\/p>\n\n\n\n Butternut Squash Soup<\/a> with sourdough and salad<\/p>\n\n\n\n White Chicken Chili<\/a> with tortilla chips<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ham, Potato, Corn Chowder<\/a> with sourdough and salad<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cheeseburger Soup<\/a> with homemade fries<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zuppa Toscana<\/a> with sourdough and salad<\/p>\n<\/div> Friday night is the best night for us to have company over. Here are our favorite crowd pleasing, belly-filling meals. If we\u2019re not having company, it\u2019s family night\u2026and with that comes homemade pizza!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grilled Pizza Dough<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chicken Shawarma<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Million Dollar Spaghetti<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Baked Potato Bar (See Above under Quickies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Street Taco Bar\u2026or any kind of taco bar (See Above under Tacos)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n My husband is a meat and potato man. This meal is especially for him. A roast, honey mustard or garlic honey chicken, mini meat loaves, any kind of meat goes. Potatoes really means starches. You\u2019ll mostly find potatoes or rice making up the starches in these well-rounded dinners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bacon Cheeseburger Casserole<\/a> with homemade fries and favorite fry sauce<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pot Roast with Veggies<\/a> and homemade bread<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roast Chicken<\/a> with roasted veggies and Rice<\/p>\n\n\n\n Honey Mustard Chicken and Veggies<\/a> over Rice<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mini Meat Loaves<\/a> and Baked Potatoes or Mashed Sweet Potatoes<\/p>\n\n\n\n Honey Mustard Chicken (Recipe shared on Instagram)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Egg Roll in a Bowl<\/a> with Rice<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole<\/a> with blistered green beans<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Beef and Potato Casserole<\/a> (no canned soups)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Million Dollar Spaghetti (See recipe above) with Caesar Salad and Texas Toast<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pork Chops with mashed sweet potatoes and blistered green beans<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tater Tot Casserole<\/a> with salad<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instant Pot Beef Stew<\/a> (This is another good recipe<\/a> I like to use as well.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Filipino Chicken Adobo<\/a> with Rice<\/p>\n<\/div> Sundays are a crazy day for us. We are typically home on Sundays for a whopping one hour in the afternoons\u2014two if we are lucky. Because of this, I make it a point to cook a good, big meal on Saturday so that we have some quick, easy leftovers that still feel like a special Sunday dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sunday Snack: Since we usually eat at weird hours on Sundays, we are usually starving by the time we get home from church in the evening. Our go-to Sunday evening snacks are chips and salsa (might even get fancy and make Nacho Grande by spreading some chips out on a baking sheet and sprinkling them with cheese and onion, then baking till cheese melts and serving with sour cream, salsa, and whatever other good toppings we have on hand), or if we get home early enough, my husband also enjoys making us kettle corn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope you found some new meal ideas. Here\u2019s to an enjoyable, cozy fall season filled with delicious and savory food! Happy Cooking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s fun getting older. You figure out what works and what doesn\u2019t work for you, and you can really hone in on having a life that {mostly} runs smoothly using the systems you\u2019ve put in place for your home! A meal plan is one such system that helps life run a little better without always having to think about what the family is going to eat next.<\/p>\n You\u2019ve heard me say it before, I loathe meal planning\u2026with a passion! I don\u2019t want to do it\u2026AT. ALL! That hasn\u2019t changed over the past fifteen years, but what has changed is HOW I plan. I was in need a meal plan that I don\u2019t have to plan! Ha! Is that even possible?<\/p>\n Well, it is kind of\u2026if you\u2019re willing to put in a chunk of time all at once at the beginning to set yourself up for the season, then you don\u2019t have to worry about meal planning until the next season. (I typically revisit twice a year for spring\/summer meals and fall\/winter meals to add in some new recipes or take out ones we\u2019re tired of.) So I\u2019m really planning twice a year instead of every single week. 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