Winter Meal Plan #5
Cook the chicken once, eat it twice — Cozy dinners that actually fit in a weeknight.
If you’ve been around here for a while, you know the goal is always the same: get a delicious dinner on the table without it taking over your entire evening or your entire Sunday. We love this week’s plan because it does a lot of the thinking for you and gives you work ahead notes that will make your life so much easier.
We’re making chili and chicken early in the week, and both of them are pulling double duty later — the chicken shows back up in your caesar wraps, and if you want to add meat to your lasagna, you can brown it while the chili comes together and barely notice you did it. Four dinners, a make ahead breakfast, and a whole lot of overlap on the ingredients list.
As always, treat this as a starting point. Swap the greens, skip a meal, double the chili and put half in your freezer. You know your week better than we do.
You’ll find the grocery list and Walmart Add to Cart at the bottom of the page. Just delete what you have and add your extras and you are good to go!
DINNER #1: Chili & Cornbread
Total time: 25 minutes | Serves: 4 | Freezer - Friendly | Easy to Double
Every person we’ve made this chili for asks for the recipe and then is shocked when we share it with them. It’s one of the easiest things we’ve ever made which means we usually have the margin to make our very favorite cornbread to go with it (coming from people who don’t really like cornbread)
Notes:
Double it: Because this recipe is so easy it’s perfect to double or triple and freeze or give away.
Work ahead: if you want to add ground meat to your Lazy Girl Lasagna. You can brown it here and just reserve the portion for the lasagna before you add the other chili ingredients.
