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Weekly Meal Plan Week 17

A healthy family friendly menu plan for five weeknight meals, and dessert idea. Each featured recipe includes link to complete recipe.

Each week I will share with you our healthy family menu plan for the week. My goal with these posts is to offer you healthy easy to make recipe ideas. Please let me know if this is helpful or any suggestions you might have that would make this more useful.

How to use the healthy menu plan.
1. Click through and print the recipes.

2. Make sure you read the recipes before you shop, and check your pantry for staples too.

WEEKLY MENU PLAN WEEK 17

White Bean Mushroom Bacon Soup

PREP TIME: 10M | TOTAL TIME: 20M | GLUTEN FREE | VEGETARIAN | VEGAN | NUT FREE
White Bean Mushroom Bacon Soup is creamy, spicy, rustic soup that is healthy, gluten free and loaded with fiber and protein. Simple and quick to to prepare with robust flavor that is so satisfying on a cold day. Perfect alone or a first course during the holidays.

SKINNY GREEK-STYLE TURKEY MEATBALLS via The Busy Baker

PREP TIME: 10M | TOTAL TIME: 46M | GLUTEN FREE | NUT FREE | DAIRY FREE

Beautiful and golden with those little green flecks from the zucchini.

Marinated Shrimp Salad

PREP TIME: 5M | TOTAL TIME: 5M + MARINADE TIME | GLUTEN FREE | DAIRY FREE | PALEO | NUT FREE
Marinated Shrimp Salad is an easy, fresh, healthy, make ahead salad that is perfect as a first course, or lunch or a light salad for your celebration of the Feast of Seven Fishes this Christmas Eve. Great flavors of olives, crisp celery, garlic and lemon brighten and highlight the shrimp. Prep only takes minutes and then you leave it to marinate overnight. Gluten free, dairy free, nut free and paleo friendly.

Blueberry Pork Corn Tacos

PREP TIME: 8M | TOTAL TIME: 53M | GLUTEN FREE | DAIRY FREE | NUT FREE
Blueberry Pork Corn Tacos are loaded with grilled pork tenderloin, fresh corn, cucumber, jalapeno and ciclantro. Making them sweet, spicy and succulent. If you are on a low carb, skip the tortilla and enjoy the recipe as a taco bowl.

Beef Wellington Burgers via Melanie Makes

PREP TIME: 20M | TOTAL TIME: 40M | GLUTEN FREE | DAIRY FREE | NUT FREE
Melanie makes these Beef Wellington Burgers with puff pastry squares and then is layers each with salad greens and cheeseburger spiked with horseradish and Dijon mustard before being topped with mushrooms, tomato, french fried onions and a horseradish Dijon mayonnaise.

DESSERT IDEA FOR THE WEEK:

Cranberry Orange Holiday Bars

PREP TIME: 10M | TOTAL TIME: 35M | GLUTEN FREE | VEGETARIAN | NUT FREE
Cranberry Orange Holiday Bars are gluten-free with a gooey sweet tart flavor that you and your family are sure to love.