31 Days of Dinners: A Meal Plan for January (Free Printable)

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Meal planning comes second nature to me as I am one of those people who likes to be organized & prepared for the busy week ahead.  Last winter, I started monthly meal planning & I loved it.  It’s efficient, organized, & makes grocery shopping so much easier.  But then spring came & life started to get crazy for us.  My husband took a new job & we bought a house across town.  Since the start of summer, we have been crazy busy traveling, settling into a new house, & adjusting to new schools and routines which means that we have been on a more day to day meal planning basis as we ended the year of 2015.  Trying to get organized over the winter break,  I sat down and planned out meals for the whole month of January.  All the meals are kid-friendly & can be modified to please even my pickiest eater.  Many of the weekday meals are simple to prepare.  With a husband that works late (especially in January, thanks to the busy season of accounting), I cook most meals with all three kids underfoot during the infamous witching house so I try to keep meals quick and easy.  I thought it would be fun to share the monthly meal plan with you all to help inspire & give you a full meal plan for the month.  You can modify as needed based on what is in your pantry, what is on sale at the store, & what you have planned for the week but no more searching cookbooks and Pinterest every night for something to make for dinner.

Click here to download the January meal plan to print or right click on each individual image to open it in a new window.  You can save it or print from there.  Make sure to scale it to size when printing!  (You can also pin the calendar here to save for later)

Below are some links to the recipe that are featured this month:

BBQ Chicken Sandwiches

Chili

Hamburger Soup (Pin it)

Mini Meatloaves

Spaghetti & Meatballs

Taco Soup (Pin it)

Quick and Easy Slow Cooker Pot Roast (Pin it)

Slow Cooker Chicken with Dried Beef (Pin it)

Sloppy Joes

Sausage & Broccoli Pasta (Pin it)

Chicken Parm

Minestrone Soup

Sausage & Tortellini Soup (Pin it)

I also realized that I am missing January 31st as it didn’t fit on my printable calendar,

so my vote is to head out to eat or get some take out!