“What’s for dinner?” Adults spend so much time answering that question! We have one quick, tasty solution. Our weeknight meal plan features 5 easy dinner recipes – with overlapping ingredients – and a shopping list.
The dinner ideas in this plan are family-friendly and can easily adapt to the needs of your household. And, while there’s a Mediterranean theme running through the recipes, there’s still variety: soup and salad, pasta, pitas and breakfast for dinner. Explore and enjoy!
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Easy Weeknight Meal Plan
The weeknight dinner recipes in our plan work together deliciously. We hope they’re useful, whether you’re a meal planning aficionado or browsing for dinner ideas in general!
Slow Cooker Italian Meatball Soup
This slow cooker meatball soup provides a cozy, hearty meal for everyone – and more convenience for you. It uses frozen meatballs and veggies, and you can adjust the cook time and temperature to your schedule. Pair with a bagged salad, and you’re set!
Fast Skillet Veggie Feta Pasta
Ready in less than 30 minutes, this is one of our favorite pasta recipes for busy weeknights! Cherry tomatoes, garlic and feta combine for a flavorful sauce, while zucchini and arugula offer an extra boost of veggies. It’s as easy as it is yummy.
Mediterranean Chicken Pita
Choose the mediterranean chicken pita for a light and bright weeknight recipe. Just build your pitas with hummus, sautéed chicken and fresh cucumber, tomatoes and olives. Serve with frozen fries or explore our recipes for easy sides that use fresh produce (shoutout to Crispy Baked Carrot Fries)!
Italian Sausage & Broccoli Rabe Pasta
Kids of all ages love their noodles – so we had to include two pasta recipes in this meal plan. Italian sausage and broccoli rabe pasta is bursting with rich, classic flavor your family will savor. Different vibe, same convenient, 30-minute cook time.
Potato Breakfast Bowl for Dinner
Bring breakfast goodness to the evening hours! This breakfast bowl recipe with potatoes and eggs is simple to make and oh-so-satisfying. It combines baked potatoes and peppers, cheesy scrambled eggs and avocado for a real crowd-pleaser.
Shopping List
If these weeknight dinner ideas sound good, we’ve got another shortcut: your shopping list. It includes everything needed for the 5 featured dinner recipes, including kitchen staples, just to ensure there are no surprises.
Take a look at the list, adjust any of the serving sizes as needed and check to see what ingredients you already have on hand. We hope it helps you spend less time planning and roaming the grocery aisles and more time doing … anything else!
Browse extra weeknight dinner ideas
We prioritized ease and convenience in this weeknight meal plan, but you may have different needs and preferences.
- Store-bought simplicity: Rotisserie chicken is so versatile. We love it in Weeknight Rotisserie Chicken & Loaded Veggie Nachos – tasty, zesty and just plain fun!
- Make-ahead meals: Using weekend time for weeknight prep? Try Slow Cooker Beef With Root Vegetables, which offers a different protein and another way to use your potatoes.
That’s just a small sample of what you’ll find in our upgraded recipe library, where you can now filter by multiple categories. For example, select both “dinner” and “quick & easy” for even more weeknight recipes. We hope you find some new favorites!
