July Meal Plan Week 2
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About the meal plan
- This meal plan typically serves 4. Some recipes will serve more than four, depending on your portion sizes. You can always increase the recipe to feed more.
- There are 7 dinner ideas each week, in no particular order.
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July Meal Plan Week 2
***Side Dishes are now listed at the end ***
1. Rotisserie Chicken Salad Easy Recipe
Pick up a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store deli and make dinner easy tonight.
Grocery List for entrée
- 1 rotisserie chicken, pulled off the bone and chopped
- 1 Cup sweet seedless grapes, sliced in half
- 1 Cup pecans chopped
- ½ cup chopped green onions (optional)
- 3.4 cup thinly sliced celery
- 1 Cup honey mustard dressing
2. Smothered Stuffed Chicken Breast
I used Blendabella to stuff nice, thick chicken breast before cooking. My easy recipe has you simmer the stuffed, browned chicken breasts in a homemade milk gravy for a tasty weeknight dinner.
Grocery List
- 6 Plump Boneless skinless Chicken breasts
- 1 (12) Jar Blendabella Rustic Tuscan
- ¼ Cup Olive Oil
- 2 Tbsp Butter
- ⅓ Cup All-Purpose Flour
- 2½ Cups Milk
- Salt & Pepper to taste
3. Southern Style Cabbage Soup
This light soup recipe is a great way to eat whole foods cooked from scratch. Seasoned with ham pieces, and no need to cook another meat.
Grocery List
- 1 head of cabbage
- 1 pkg. 8oz. Ham bits
- 2 Cups Chicken broth
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. sugar
4. Cheesy Potato-Topped Meatloaf
This classic meatloaf recipe is covered in mashed potatoes, then sprinkled with shredded cheese, which is then melted—a scrumptious weeknight dinner recipe for your meat and potato lovers.
Grocery List
- 2 large eggs, slightly beaten
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- Approximately 16 crushed saltine crackers
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 2 tsp. onion powder
- 2 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
- 2 lbs. ground beef
- 4 Cups prepared mashed potatoes
- 1 1/2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese
5 Air Fryer Buffalo Chicken Stromboli
Pizza dough is the secret to these tasty Buffalo Chicken Stromboli cooked in the Air Fryer.
Ingredients
- 1 lb. Shredded cooked Chicken
- 8 oz. shredded sharp cheddar or Mozzarella cheese
- 4 oz. softened Cream Cheese
- 1 pkg. refrigerated pizza dough
- 1/4 Cup Buffalo Sauce (wing sauce)
- 1 Tbs Basil, crushed
- 1 Tsp Garlic Salt
- 2 Tbsp Melted Butter
6. Slow Cooker 3-Ingredient Sweet & Savory Meatballs
Serve these yummy, sweet and savory meatballs with rice or make meatball sub sandwiches with them.
Grocery List
- 1 bag (14-16 oz.) of frozen meatballs
- 1 8 oz. jar of grape jelly
- 1 12 oz. jar of chili sauce
7 Lemon Shrimp Penne Pasta Dinner with Broccoli
For seafood night, I’ve chosen this recipe for Lemony Shrimp with Penne Pasta and Broccoli.
Grocery List
- 3 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
- ¼ cup. fresh lemon juice divided
- 2 Tbsp. honey
- 1 tsp. garlic powder
- ¼ tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 tsp Salt to taste
- 1/4 tsp. black pepper
- 1 12-oz. bag frozen broccoli florets
- ½ medium red onion, sliced
- 1 16-oz. box penne pasta
- 1 lb. shrimp peeled and deveined, tail removed
- 2 tsp. fresh lemon zest
- ½ cup. Parmesan cheese, freshly grated, divided
- 2 Tbsp. fresh parsley leaves, roughly chopped
Scroll down for all of this week’s menu plan recipe links.
July Meal Plan Recipes Week 2
- Rotisserie Chicken Salad Easy Recipe
- Smothered Stuffed Chicken Breast
- Southern Style Cabbage Soup recipe
- Cheesy Potato-Topped Meatloaf Recipe
- Air Fryer Buffalo Chicken Stromboli Recipe
- Crockpot 3-Ingredient Sweet & Savory Meatballs Easy Recipe
- Lemon Shrimp Penne Pasta Dinner with Broccoli Recipe
Sides Dishes for July Week 2
- Serve Homestyle Oven Baked French Fries with Stromboli or meatballs
- Potato chips with Chicken salad
- Homemade Copycat Honey Wheat Bread Recipe with soup
- Parmesan Roasted Spaghetti Squash Easy Recipe with meatloaf
- How To Make Italian Butter Easy Recipe with Lemon Shrimp Pasta
- How To Make Southern Deviled Eggs with meatloaf
Summer Beverage Recipes
- Homemade Lemonade Easy Recipe for Lazy Cooks
- Southern Sweet Tea Recipe
- Southern Brewed Ginger Peach Sweet Iced Tea Recipe
- Watermelon Mint Lemonade
Summer Desserts To Make At Home
- Cherry Cheesecake No Bake Dessert
- No-Churn Ice Cream Chocolate Toffee Flavor
- 3 Ingredient Crockpot Apple Dumplings
- 21 Homemade Frozen Summer Desserts
- Vanilla Milkshake with Sprinkles Best Ever Summer Dessert
- Homemade Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream
Your thoughts?
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