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    Home » Meal Planners » Plan Your Weekly Meals | Meal Planners

    Plan Your Weekly Meals | Meal Planners

    Posted on October 13, 2019 · Last Updated on October 13, 2019 · By Srividhya G · 6 Comments

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    Plans your meals/menu well ahead for stress-free cooking. Here is my ninth weekly meal planner for this academic year with some kid-friendly dishes. Read further to check the meal prep tasks and the recipe links.

    I know I am late in publishing this week’s meal planner. These days weekends are much busier than weekdays. Finally, I did grocery shopping, planned my weekly meals. Then I prepared the idli/dosa batter and chopped the veggies and all set for this post here on my blog. It’s better to be late than never, huh?

    Meal Prep Days:

    Even though weekends are busier, try to set aside some time for meal preparation. The basic prep-work includes menu planning, chopping veggies, making some sauces (curry sauce or pasta sauce), cooking toor dal for sambar or other dal varieties, making idli batter, kneading the dough for roti, etc. 

    For this week, I chopped my broad beans, cauliflower, and carrots. I usually cut potatoes and cucumbers when required. Also, prepared the idli/dosa batter and also pressure cooked some dal for the sambar tomorrow. 

    The meal prep always makes cooking easy during the busy weekdays. Once you get into the routine, it will definitely become easier every week. I will share how we do meal prep as a family activity next week. 

    Menu Planners:

    So far, I have nine menu planners (including this one) on my blog. Don’t forget to check out my other meal planners. You can find quite a few on my Instagram as well. You can find them on IG with this hashtag – VVK Meal Planners.

    Now without any further ado, here is the meal planner for the upcoming week. And find the recipe links below that. 

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    Monday:

    • Sambar Idli
    • Popcorn (I am planning to use sambar powder to spice it up)
    • Vathal Kuzhambu
    • White Pumpkin Kootu. (I have white pumpkin chana dal kootu, but planning to make a stew kind with coconut milk. I will share the recipe soon, but I have linked it to the pumpkin kootu now)

    Tuesday:

    • Oats and Dates Smoothie
    • Tomato Rice
    • Cauliflower Kurma Kuzhambu
    • Potato Curry
    • Masala Pori / Spicy Puffed Rice

    Wednesday:

    • Overnight Oats
    • Broad Beans Curry (You can make it like any other stir-fry. I am planning to make it like this okra curry with peanuts)
    • Kerala Style Rasam without rasam powder

    Thursday:

    • You can either buy store-bought pav buns or make it at home. I have whole wheat pav buns recipe on my blog. I am yet to share the regular ones.
    • Bhaji. Usually, on Thursdays, I skip onion and garlic.
    • Pav Bhaji pulav. I am planning to use the leftover bhaji to make the pulao, more like tawa pulao style. 

    Friday:

    • Aloo Paratha
    • Pressure Cooker Biryani
    • Maaladu

    I hope you are all finding these meal planners useful. If I have missed any recipes, kindly let me know. Also, please share your feedback and thoughts. 

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    1. Vindhya says

      February 27, 2020 at 5:10 pm

      Started meal planning since 2 months, was definitely inspired by your meal planning. I have made a point to follow it every week. That “prep work” is literally the best part ever, saves so much time. Thanks for sharing Vidhya :)

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      • Srividhya G says

        February 28, 2020 at 8:06 am

        Thanks a lot. Meal planners are lifesavers, right? :-)

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    2. Disha Shengale says

      October 15, 2019 at 8:09 am

      Hey Srividhya, loved your meal plan. It gave me some really good ideas on how to plan day-to-day meals for my family. Thanks for sharing.

      Disha Shengale

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      • Srividhya G says

        October 15, 2019 at 9:02 am

        Thanks. Glad you like it.

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    3. Shantala says

      October 14, 2019 at 7:02 am

      I am a dedicated meal planner too! It’s the only way I can keep my sanity while juggling multiple roles & tasks.

      Love how your meal plans include prep work for the next day. I do that too, and I rarely see it in other planners.

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      • Srividhya G says

        October 14, 2019 at 9:29 am

        I second you on that. I am glad you love my meal plans. Yes, without the prep work its really difficult for me. :-)

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