Free Weekly Easy Meal Plan – What’s For Dinner (Week 28)

Welcome to the new delicious week of Melanie’s FREE weekly family meal plans!   Bringing you easy and yummy dinner ideas every week to keep your cooking inspiration going! Here are this week’s delicious recipes:

• Easy Classic Cobb Salad
• Lemon Butter Fish In Foil Packets
• Spanish Tortilla Potato Omelette
• Chinese Sweet & Sour Chicken
• Crockpot Swedish Meatballs

And this week’s dessert is homemade flourless chocolate cake – so smooth, so rich, so chocolatey – it’s a chocolate lover’s dream!

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Monday Dinner Idea: Classic Cobb Salad

This Cobb salad looks so impressive with beautifully layered ingredients, and it’s really easy to make!  The way to remember the list of Cobb salad ingredients is the acronym E.A.T. C.O.B.B. – Egg, Avocado, Tomato, Chicken, Onion, Bacon, Blue cheese.  You’ll absolutely love this yummy salad!

Recipe link: Easy Cobb Salad Recipe

Tuesday Dinner Idea: Lemon Butter Fish In Foil Packets

This lemon-butter fish recipe is super easy – just put the fish, lemon slices and butter pieces into a foil, wrap the foil around the fish and cook.  You can either grill the foil packets or bake them in the oven!  When you unwrap the foil packet, you’ll reveal a perfectly cooked fish – delicious!

Recipe link: Fish in Foil Packets Recipe

Wednesday Dinner Idea: Easy Spanish Tortilla

This recipe makes delicious Spanish Tortilla – a potato omelette!  Spanish tortilla is delicious hot or cold – no matter which way you eat it, it’s so yummy!  This method of cooking Spanish tortilla is really easy, as you don’t have to flip the omelette since it’s baked in the oven!

Recipe link: Easy Spanish Tortilla Recipe

Thursday Dinner Idea: Homemade Sweet & Sour Chicken

You can have this mouthwatering sweet and sour chicken without having to order Chinese takeout!  Your homemade sweet and sour chicken will taste as good as the restaurant one, and will be much healthier too!

Recipe link: Homemade Sweet & Sour Chicken Recipe

Friday Dinner Idea: Crockpot Swedish Meatballs

These yummy Swedish meatballs are made in a slow cooker – so convenient for a busy cook!  Swedish meatballs are a perfect comfort food, and they are delicious served with mashed potatoes!

Recipe link: Crockpot Swedish Meatballs Recipe

Weekly Dessert Idea: Easy Flourless Chocolate Cake

This homemade flourless chocolate cake is really easy to make, even beginners can make it!  It tastes so delicious, it’s even better than the restaurant version!  Pure smooth delicious chocolate – this cake is simply amazing!

Recipe link: Easy Flourless Chocolate Cake Recipe

Meal Plan Shopping List

Classic Cobb Salad

• 2 cups of cooked chicken
• 4 slices of bacon
• 4 eggs
• 2 avocados
• 2 tomatoes
• 4 green onions
• 4 tbsp blue cheese, crumbled
• 4 cups of lettuce greens
• 2 tbsp Ranch dressing

Fish in Foil Packets

• 4 large fish fillets
• 2 lemons, sliced
• 4 tbsp butter

Spanish Tortilla

• 6 medium potatoes, peeled and sliced into ¼-inch slices
• 2 medium onions, chopped
• 6 eggs
• 2 tbsp oil
• 1 tsp salt
• ¼ tsp pepper

Chinese Sweet & Sour Chicken

• 2 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups cornstarch
• 4 tbsp oil
• 1 cup sugar
• ⅔ cup apple cider vinegar
• ¼ cup ketchup
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp Oyster sauce

Crockpot Swedish Meatballs

• 2 lbs ground beef
• 1 cup dry bread crumbs
• 1 onion, grated
• 2 eggs
• 1½ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp pepper
• 1 tbsp oil
• 4 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp flour
• 4 cups beef stock

Flourless Chocolate Cake

• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
• ¾ cup white sugar
• 3 eggs
• ½ cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
• 2 tsp espresso powder (optional)
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• ½ cup heavy cream