5 - Day Meal Plan
By Tina Wilder
Download these recipes into your Cook'n software. Then, you can save time and money by using your Cook'n software to make a grocery list! Save time by using the dovetailing and "prepare-ahead-of-time" features designed into this menu!
Weekly shopping tips:
- Several ingredients are common throughout this week's menu, so buy in bulk!
- Buy about 2 pounds of shrimp
- Buy 2 pounds of pork roast
- You will use bell peppers for both curry and the chicken kabob
- You'll need between 2 to 4 mangos
- Buy 1 bunch of green onions
- Don't be afraid of the Asian ingredients--you may have many already on hand:
- sesame oil
- soy sauce
- rice vinegar
- chili garlic sauce
- green curry paste
- fish sauce
- mirin
- hoison
- five spice powder
Monday
- Grilled Shrimp Cocktail
- Yummy Honey Chicken Kabobs
- Iceberg Wedge with Warm Bacon and Blue Cheese Dres...
Dovetailing Tips:
- Cook extra shrimp to use in the fresh spring rolls tomorrow night
Tuesday
- Fresh Spring Rolls with Thai Dipping Sauce
- Thai Noodles with Spicy Peanut Sauce
- Thai Coconut-Mango Sticky Rice Recipe
Dovetailing Tips:
- Use extra shrimp from last night in the spring rolls recipe
- Cook extra rice to use in fried rice tomorrow night (my mother says day old rice makes the best fried rice)
- Save one or two mangos for Thursday night
Wednesday
Dovetailing Tips:
- Use the leftover rice from last night in the fried rice recipe
- Char Siu is a delicious Chinese barbeque dish that will made easy by using your crock pot. Be sure to reserve about 1/12 cups of the cooked pork for use in tomorrow's appetizer
Thursday
Dovetailing Tips:
- Use remaining cooked pord from last night in tonight's Char Siu Bao (Pork Buns) recipe
- Use the extra mangos for tonight's Mango Lassi recipe
- For stuffed pork buns--skip the directions for making the meat and sauce
- Simply make the dough and stuff it with reserved char siu from last night
Friday
Download the meal plan here!
Tina Wilder
Weekly Newsletter Contributer since 2013
