Week 36 Summary |
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Notes for this week |
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Day 1 |
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Savory One-Pot Shrimp & Rice | Fruit Cocktail | |
Day 2 |
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Easy Crockpot Chicken & Dumplings | Green Salad | |
Day 3 |
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Skillet Ramen | Mandarin Oranges & Pineapple Tidbits | |
Day 4 |
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Crockpot Savory Swiss Steak | Mashed Potatoes | Caesar Salad |
Day 5 |
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Spiced Fish Bake | Baked Rice | Green Peas with Butter |
🗓️ Day 1
- Savory One-Pot Shrimp & Rice
- Fruit Cocktail
Savory One-Pot Shrimp with Rice
Shrimp and red bell peppers combine with garlic and onions to make a simple but satisfying one-pot meal.
Ingredients
- 1 onion, chopped
- 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 bell peppers, any color, sliced into thin strips
- 1 Tbsp. vegetable oil, or as needed
- 2 medium tomatoes, chopped
- 3 C chicken broth
- Salt-free seasoning to taste
- 1 ½ cups long grain white rice, uncooked
- 1 lb. raw shrimp, deveined, tail-off
- Monterey Jack cheese for garnish
Instructions
- Sauté the onions, garlic, and peppers in oil until the onion is cooked through. Add in the shrimp and cook for 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
- Add the tomatoes and chicken broth. Season to taste. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Once it comes to a rapid boil, add the rice and stir.
- Cover and cook over low heat for about 20-25 minutes or until the rice is cooked through and the liquid is absorbed.
- Garnish with cheese before serving.
Notes
1 tablespoon Monterey Jack cheese per serving used in nutrition calculation.
Nutrition per serving
Calories: 506 calCarbohydrates: 66.36 gProtein: 34.2 gFat: 10.57 gSodium: 1616.19 mgFiber: 3.45 gSugar: 5.48 g
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🗓️ Day 2
- Easy Crockpot Chicken & Dumplings
- Green Salad
Easy Crockpot Chicken & Dumplings
This easy and delicious crockpot chicken and dumplings with canned biscuits is a family favorite. The rich, creamy sauce with shredded, tender chicken is a winning combination even before adding the dumplings. Using cream of chicken soup and canned biscuits make this yummy dinner so easy to prepare that makes it look like I'm a great cook with virtually no effort.
Ingredients
- 5 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoon butter, softened
- 21 oz condensed cream of chicken soup
- 1 ½ cups chicken broth plus extra for thinning
- 1 onion, diced
- 6 refrigerator biscuits, from can
- 1 tablespoon parsley
- salt & pepper to taste, if needed
Instructions
- Spray a large slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray. Place chicken in bottom of crock pot.
- In a medium bowl, mix together butter, soup, broth, onions, and parsley. Pour over chicken.
- Cover and cook on high for 4-6 hours.
- After cooking time has elapsed, turn off slow cooker and break chicken into pieces using a fork. Using a sharp knife or kitchen shears, cut each biscuit into 9 pieces.
- Stir biscuit pieces into hot chicken mixture.
- Turn crock pot back on to high and continue cooking for 30 minutes. If your mixture is too thick when you add the biscuits, add about ½ to 1 cup of hot chicken broth or water to thin the mixture.
- Add salt & pepper to taste if needed.
- Serve hot garnished with parsley if desired.
Notes
You can give this dish some extra color by adding 12 oz. of fresh or frozen vegetables at the beginning (like peas and carrots).
If you like extra flavor, add poultry seasoning at the beginning as desired.
Nutrition per serving
Calories: 255 calCarbohydrates: 17 gProtein: 18 gFat: 12 gSodium: 983 mgFiber: 1 gSugar: 2 g
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🗓️ Day 3
- Skillet Ramen
- Mandarin Oranges & Pineapple Tidbits
Easy Skillet Ramen
Tomatoes, corn, peas, and ground beef perk up ramen noodles in this easy one-pan dish.
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 6 oz Ramen, any flavor
- 15 oz can diced tomatoes, undrained
- 15 oz can corn, undrained
- 1 cup frozen peas
Instructions
- Brown ground beef.
- Add tomatoes, ramen seasoning packet, corn, and peas. Break up the noodles and add. Add water if needed to cover the noodles.
- Bring to a boil then cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer 10 minutes or until noodles are fully cooked.
Nutrition per serving
Calories: 467 calCarbohydrates: 50 gProtein: 34 gFat: 14 gSodium: 1268 mgFiber: 4 gSugar: 5 g
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🗓️ Day 4
- Crockpot Savory Swiss Steak
- Mashed Potatoes
- Caesar Salad
Savory Swiss Steak
Easy slow cooker Swiss steak recipe that can be prepped in the morning and is ready to eat when you get home.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ lbs round steak, approx. 1 inch thick, cut into 6 pieces
- ¼ cup flour
- 2 teaspoon dry mustard
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoon butter, divided
- 2 tablespoon oil, divided
- 2 carrots, sliced
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 1 onion, chopped
- 14 oz can diced tomatoes
- 2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 2 teaspoon brown sugar
Instructions
Crockpot Instructions
- Coat steak with a mixture of flour, mustard, salt, and pepper. In a skillet, brown the meat in 1 tablespoon butter and 1 tablespoon oil. Transfer to a slow cooker.
- Heat remaining butter and oil in same skillet. Sauté onion, carrots, and celery until almost tender, then add to crockpot with meat.
- In the same skillet, combine tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce, and brown sugar. Heat, scraping up drippings, until skillet is deglazed. Pour tomato mixture over meat.
- Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours, or until tender. Serve meat with vegetable sauce spooned over the steak.
Instant Pot Instructions
- (Instant Pot instructions are courtesy of Carolyn, who converted the recipe for use in her IP. Note that the venting instructions are *not* tested.)
- Coat steak with a mixture of flour, mustard, salt, and pepper. On sauté mode, brown the meat in 1 tablespoon butter and 1 tablespoon oil.
- Remove the steak from the pot and set aside.
- Sauté onion, carrots, and celery until almost tender.
- Add the tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce, and brown sugar and use it to deglaze the pot.
- Add the beef back to the pot and stir gently just enough to cover the meat in sauce.
- Add cover and seal. Cook on Stew mode for 30 minutes.
- Vent as preferred; NPR was used in Carolyn's conversion but venting immediately would probably work fine. (Let us know how your method worked in the comments.)
Notes
Nutrition data does not include buttered potatoes.
This recipe is courtesy of Marilyn Moll, who did a guest stint for our meal plans for a week way back in 2005 (when we were doing free meal plans as Menus4Moms), and this is one of the delicious recipes she contributed.
Nutrition per serving
Calories: 292 calCarbohydrates: 13 gProtein: 27 gFat: 14 gSodium: 265 mgFiber: 2 gSugar: 5 g
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🗓️ Day 5
- Spiced Fish Bake
- Baked Rice
- Green Peas with Butter
Spiced Fish Bake
No marinating is required for this flaky, seasoned baked fish. Just sprinkle the seasonings over the fish, drizzle with melted butter, and in under 30 minutes it’s ready to eat.
Ingredients
- 6 tilapia fillets
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon lemon pepper
- ¼ teaspoon dry mustard
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- ⅛ teaspoon poultry seasoning
- dash cayenne pepper
- 3 tablespoon butter, melted
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- Place fish in a lightly greased baking dish. Combine the spices and sprinkle evenly over fish.
- Drizzle with the melted butter and bake at 350ºF for about 20-25 minutes or until fish flakes easily.
Nutrition per serving
Calories: 162 calCarbohydrates: 1 gProtein: 23 gFat: 8 gSodium: 304 mgFiber: 1 gSugar: 1 g
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Baked Rice
Richly flavored with French onion soup and beef consommé, this delicious rice bake is a family favorite. It makes an easy side dish for roasts, steak, and burgers.
Ingredients
- 10.5 ounces condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 10.5 ounces canned beef consommé
- 10.5 ounces canned French onion soup
- 2 cups instant rice
- 4 tablespoons butter, melted
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a baking dish. Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes until bubbly and heated through.
Nutrition per serving
Calories: 171 calCarbohydrates: 21 gProtein: 4 gFat: 7 gSodium: 646 mgFiber: 1 gSugar: 1 g
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