What We Ate & Loved

A weekly collection the place we share our household’s precise Mediterranean weight-reduction plan meal plan, together with a number of issues we’ve been loving this previous week. The purpose is to easily share meal and recipe concepts. 

Our Mediterranean Weight-reduction plan Meal Plan

We share our household’s weekly meal plan merely for meal concepts and recipe inspiration for anybody else searching for recommendations. Please understand that each household and individual is totally different and that is simply what works for us. 

We’ve saved all our earlier weekly meal plans in a single handy location – Weekly Mediterranean Diet Meal Plans. 

How We Meal Plan

We go extra in depth on how we go about planning meals on this put up – Meal Planning Guide however simply to rapidly summarize – 

• Breakfast is often fairly normal in our home so I don’t embrace it on our meal plan checklist
• My youngsters both deliver a bagged lunch or purchase sizzling lunch at college so I solely meal plan for my lunch (and my husband if he’s working from house that day)
• I embrace notes on some days to point if the meal is one thing we’ve to make rapidly, on the go, and so on. This actually helps on the subject of planning meals and shopping for meals to know our schedule prematurely. 
• On Saturdays we usually eat leftovers and eat out for lunch or dinner. I point out that on the meal plan every week however simply in case you have been questioning 

What We Ate This Week

This week had plenty of later than traditional weeknight dinners attributable to extracurricular actions for the youngsters. For us to make it work with late evening baseball video games, night gymnastics recitals, and so on I needed to depend on fast meals for the youngsters after which usually one thing totally different for Dan and I.

Frequently, I actually strive exhausting to not make separate meals for the youngsters. I’ll actually adapt sure recipes to suit their likes (ie nothing spicy, my son doesn’t like fish, and so on). Nevertheless, this week they needed to eat their “dinner” on a number of events earlier than 5pm. On these nights, that they had one thing fast, like these Homemade Lunchable Concepts, after which Dan and I had a late dinner.

We additionally went tenting Saturday evening and the KOA we stayed at had this lovely restaurant on website so we ate there for dinner. It was scrumptious and I’ve to confess, that’s my excellent approach to camp! Joke – we’ve been there earlier than and that restaurant was the inspiration behind this Lemon Vinaigrette recipe.

Recipe Hyperlinks for What We Ate

Listed below are the hyperlinks to the above meal plan gadgets which have recipes.

We had these Mango & Black Bean Tacos one evening, which come from my cookbook “The Mediterranean Diet Made Easy“. They’re simple, recent and finances pleasant!

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Final modified: Might 26, 2022