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Healthy dinner plan for August 24-30

August 22, 2020

I can’t believe this is the last week of August. We’re still finding a routine with distance learning with my girls, so I’m keeping dinners super simple and easy again this week. I hope you find these healthy dinner ideas helpful for your family too. Here’s what we’re planning for dinners this week: Corn, Tomato […]

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I can’t believe this is the last week of August. We’re still finding a routine with distance learning with my girls, so I’m keeping dinners super simple and easy again this week. I hope you find these healthy dinner ideas helpful for your family too.

Here’s what we’re planning for dinners this week:

Corn, Tomato & Avocado Chickpea Salad from Half Baked Harvest with naan. Doesn’t this look delicious?!

Healthy dinner plan for the week: Corn, Tomato & Avocado Chickpea Salad from Half Baked Harvest.
Image and recipe from Half Baked Harvest

Taco Tuesday! Ground turkey tacos with homemade taco seasoning topped with avocado, salsa, lettuce and a sprinkle of cheese. Quick & easy & delicious! I’ll also make a side garden salad with my favorite homemade red wine vinaigrette. This recipe from Kay’s Clean Eats is a great simple one.

Dinner plan ideas: Taco Tuesday ground turkey tacos from Kay's Clean Eats.
Image from Kay’s Clean Eats

Veggie curry. This is such an easy dinner. I have some Trader Joe’s Teeny Tiny Potatoes that I’ll add to a pan with bell pepper and cauliflower, a can of diced tomatoes, a can of coconut milk (TJs has a great guar gum-free one), yellow curry, turmeric and salt and pepper to taste. Let it simmer until the potatoes are tender and then serve it over brown jasmine rice. Topped with a squeeze of lemon or lime and some cilantro. Yum! I love following this recipe from Jo Cooks for the curry sauce.

Simple and delicious curry sauce from Jo Cooks
Image from Jo Cooks

Roasted salmon and veggies with a tahini sauce. A simple salmon recipe I like is this one from Tone It Up. I’ll also roast some broccoli, cauliflower and brussel sprouts and then make a tahini sauce with lemon and garlic.

Tone It Up Baked Salmon
Image from Tone It Up

Cheesy Enchilada Rice Skillet from Damn Delicious. This is such an easy, throw-everything-together dinner and it’s delicious too.

Image and recipe from Damn Delicious

I hope you find these weekly healthy summer family dinner meal ideas helpful for dinner meal planning for your family.  You can check out past weekly dinner plans HERE. (I typically plan for 5 dinners a week, with room for leftovers, takeout, other plans, etc.)

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