Free Weekly Healthy Meal Plan – Week 21 Recipes And Dinner Ideas

Welcome to week 21 of Melanie’s FREE weekly healthy meal plans!  Never wonder what to cook again with fresh homemade dinner ideas coming to you every week!  Here are this week’s recipes:

• Chicken Pasta Salad
• Fish Tacos With Mango Salsa
• Grilled Pizza
• Crab Salad Sandwiches
• Crockpot Chili

And this week’s dessert is Homemade Green Tea Ice Cream!  If you never made homemade ice cream, you’ve got to try it today!  No ice cream machine is needed – all you need is your freezer!

Dinner Idea For Monday: Chicken Pasta Salad

If you are thinking of a pasta salad as a side dish, this recipe will change your overall thinking!  This pasta salad is a MAIN DISH as it includes chicken and is very filling!  You are going to love this easy chicken pasta salad – this yummy main dish salad feeds everyone!  It gets even better the next day, so make enough to have delicious leftovers!  Best of all, there is no need to reheat it as pasta salad is served cold – just take it out of the refrigerator and dinner is served!

Recipe link: Easy Chicken Pasta Salad Recipe

Dinner Idea For Tuesday: Fish Tacos With Mango Salsa

Hello Taco Tuesday! Everything tastes good with mango salsa, and these yummy fish tacos are no exception!  Chopped sliced salmon is served inside flour tortillas and topped with mango salsa – amazing!  This delicious salmon recipe is so easy to make and very healthy!   You can now add more fish into your diet – in a taco form!

Recipe link: Easy Fish Tacos Recipe

Dinner Idea For Wedenesday: Grilled Pizza

Have you ever tried making pizza on the grill?  You’ve got to try grilled pizza, it’s so good!  Take a bread from grilling meat and grill something new :)  This grilled pizza margherita is topped with fresh mozzarella cheese and fresh tomato slices – amazing!

Recipe link: Easy Grilled Pizza Recipe

Dinner Idea For Thursday: Crab Salad Sandwiches

This super-easy crab salad recipe uses the imitation crab or canned crab meat, so it’s easy on your budget!  Crab salad sandwiches are super easy to make and taste so good!  The recipe shows you how to make a crab salad using just 4 ingredients – imitation crab, eggs, onion and mayo!  After you make the crab salad, serve it on the bread buns for delicious crab salad sandwiches!

Recipe link: Easy Crab Salad Recipe

Dinner Idea For Friday: Crockpot Beef Chili

Slow cooker cooks this meal while you relax – you’ll love it!  This easy chili recipe doesn’t require pre-cooking any ingredients – you won’t believe how easy it is!  Put all ingredients in a crockpot and walk away – oh yeah!  Your house will smell amazing!  This recipes tastes awesome with ground turkey too, so feel free to sub the ground beef!

Recipe link: Easy Crockpot Chili Recipe

Weekly Dessert Idea: Homemade Green Tea Ice Cream

This easy no-churn green tea ice cream recipe uses very simple ingredients and doesn’t require an ice cream maker!  Just combine the whipped cream, green tea powder and sweetened condensed milk, put in a freezer and you’ll have this amazing ice cream waiting for you!  This ice cream tastes just like the one in a Japanese restaurant!

Recipe link: Homemade No-Churn Green Tea Ice Cream Recipe

Meal Plan Shopping List

Chicken Pasta Salad

• 1 lb rotini pasta
• 1 store-bought rotisserie chicken
• 1 pint cherry tomatoes
• 1 large seedless cucumber
• 1 bell pepper
• 1 small red onion
• ½ bottle (8 oz) Italian dressing

Fish Tacos

• 1 lb fish
• 1 lime
• ½ tbsp oil
• 1 tbsp taco seasoning
• 8 8-inch flour tortillas
• 2 mangoes
• 1 small onion
• 1 bell pepper
• 1 jalapeno pepper

Grilled Pizza

• 1 can pizza dough
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• ½ can (4 oz) pizza sauce
• 1 cup fresh mozzarella cheese
• 1 tomato
• ¼ cup fresh basil leaves

Crab Salad Sandwiches

• 8 oz imitation crab meat or canned crab meat
• 4 hard-boiled eggs
• 1 onion
• ½ cup mayo
• 4 bread buns

Crockpot Chili

• 1 lb extra-lean ground beef
• 2 cans (15 oz each) black or pinto beans
• 1 can (14 oz) tomato sauce
• 1 can (14 oz) diced tomatoes
• 1 onion, chopped
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1½ tbsp chili powder
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

Green Tea Ice Cream

• 1½ tbsp matcha green tea powder
• 1 cup heavy cream, cold from refrigerator
• ⅓ cup sweetened condensed milk, cold from refrigerator