Meal Plan #98 – Low Calorie

January 3, 2025

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Collage of low-calorie meals including a sandwich, soup, and shrimp lettuce wrap, titled Meal Plan #98 by Rachel Cooks.

Maintain scrolling for extra particulars, facet dish concepts, and the obtain hyperlink for the free printable menu plan and grocery listing!

Disclaimer – I’m not a dietician, and all of our dietary info is an estimate and can differ primarily based on manufacturers, measurements, and so on. Please seek the advice of with a doctor earlier than making any main modifications to your eating regimen.

Need extra? Take a look at all of our meal plans.

Why Meal Plan?

Meal planning simplifies your life and saves time. It takes the guesswork out of busy nights. It’s one much less factor to consider every night. You might have a plan and all you might want to do is execute it. Put up the meal plan on the fridge so everybody is aware of what to anticipate. It’s a great way to get the household concerned.

Meal planning saves cash. If in case you have a plan and purchase solely what you want from the grocery retailer, you’re a lot much less seemingly to purchase gadgets you don’t want which can be wasted. You’re additionally much less more likely to eat out and that may save a bunch of cash.

Meal planning is more healthy. Planning meals forward offers you time to consider incorporating wholesome greens, fruits, legumes, and grains. As well as, making ready your individual meals at house is all the time more healthy than eating out.

What Makes Rachel Cooks Meal Plans Completely different?

I do know there are a whole lot of meal plans obtainable. Some are free (ours are free!) and others price cash. So why select ours?

We plan them with a busy schedule in thoughts. Our primary purpose is to make these meal plans affordable and lifelike. Meaning we’re not simply grabbing 5 random recipes and sending you off to the shop with a ridiculously lengthy grocery listing. We take into consideration what works effectively collectively and find out how to prevent time.
Steadiness: As you most likely already know, nearly all of the recipes on Rachel Cooks are simple to organize. Nevertheless, some recipes simply naturally have longer ingredient lists than others. We’re preserving that in thoughts, and balancing the extra sophisticated recipes with less complicated recipes which have shorter ingredient lists.
Enjoyable Fridays! We’ll take it simple on you each Friday (TGIF!) with a enjoyable, easy-to-prepare meal. Suppose tacos, pizza, or different kid-friendly recipes you possibly can throw along with a number of store-bought shortcuts.
Categorized Grocery Listing: Not solely is the grocery listing categorized to make procuring simple, however it additionally signifies which day the ingredient is required. Meaning if you happen to aren’t consuming house on Friday, you possibly can simply undergo the listing and cross off the Friday elements. Possibly you suppose Monday’s recipe sounds…gross. We disagree, in fact, however you possibly can cross off these elements with out having to comb by way of every recipe to determine what you do or don’t want.
Meal Prep/Make Forward: A lot of our recipes embrace concepts to get a head begin on recipes. That is non-compulsory, in fact, however generally doing a bit of meal prepping forward of time (possibly on Saturday or Sunday) could make an enormous distinction on weeknights!

What To Count on

One meal plan every week (on Thursdays – to present you time to plan, prep, and store). The recipes serve 4 individuals except in any other case acknowledged.
Every meal plan consists of:
- 5 primary dish recipes, normally one meatless meal
- 1 bonus recipe: one thing you possibly can prep early within the week and luxuriate in all week lengthy. It could be a recipe for breakfast, a wholesome snack, or a dessert.
- Printable grocery listing
Sometimes, seasonally centered meal plans in addition to some specialty meal plans (gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, and so on.).

Every meal plan shall be proceed to be obtainable after the week it’s printed, so if you happen to discover a favourite, you’ll all the time be capable of come again to it many times!

How To Use The Meal Plans

Right here’s what you’re going to do!

Print the meal plan together with the grocery listing.
Head to every recipe, and print the recipe. You’ll be able to simply use the “leap to recipe” button on the high of the put up if you happen to like, or you possibly can learn the put up for extra details about the recipe. A lot of our posts embrace info on find out how to make the recipe your individual. In case you plan to make modifications, simply keep in mind to jot down what you want on the grocery listing.
Have a look at the grocery listing and cross off any elements you have already got or which are for recipes you don’t plan to make.
Head to the grocery retailer to get your groceries. You’ll discover that grocery procuring is much less disturbing and sooner when you might have a superb listing.
Cook dinner and luxuriate in! Don’t neglect to share on social media whenever you make considered one of my recipes. I like to see that and infrequently re-share your posts! I additionally actually love and recognize feedback and opinions on the recipes. At all times be at liberty to ask questions, too. We’ll reply them to the perfect of our capability.