I recently started a new feature here on Family Food on the Table with my January meal plan and February meal plan, giving you an entire month’s worth of recipe ideas for easy, healthy family dinners. I myself love to menu plan and schedule out our meals. It does not feel like a chore at all, and I really do enjoy it. I think it’s the type A scheduler in me coming out in full force. If you’re interested, I’ve got a whole post of my official guide to meal planning, with all my tips and tricks. And previously, I’ve shared a list of 30 easy healthy family dinner ideas that could work for any month of the year. But today, I’m trying to make it easy on YOU by giving you a March meal plan full of one month’s worth of ideas for healthy family dinner ideas. This will carry you through the entire month of March. I’ve included the photo of the meal plan here if you want to pin it, but there’s a free printable PDF link at the bottom as well, so you can easily save and print. So let’s dive right in.
March Meal Plan Notes:
Each day has its own recipe idea, complete with sides if needed to make a full meal. (Some things like tacos are more all-inclusive, though you could add sides if you like.) You can make easy swaps to suit your family’s tastes. Use whatever vegetables are you favorite to steam, make mashed potatoes instead of baked potatoes, choose white or brown rice, etc. Customize to your heart’s content. Saturdays are blank. This is intentional and meant to be reserved for either using up any leftovers from the week or ordering dinner in or going out to eat. Cause we all need a break! Of course, you can switch your “free” day around to Friday or Sunday or whatever works best for you.
The calendar and meal plan are ideas for prompts to get you started. If you also need specific recipes, I’ve got some included below. You can also grab recipes from your own collection, your favorite cookbooks, or from Pinterest or Google. (Many of the recipes below are from my site, but I’ve also included recipes from others.) Oh, and I included these ideas in order from March 1 on the calendar to March 31, with the date listed too, which will hopefully make things easier to find throughout the month.
March Recipes:
3 - Instant Pot pork tenderloin or balsamic pork tenderloin 4 - Quick and easy chicken and black bean soup 5 - Turkey tacos (with easy homemade taco seasoning) 6 - Honey dijon salmon or southwest baked salmon 7 - 15-minute paprika chicken 8 - Honey garlic pork chops 10 - Slow cooker chicken stew 11 - Crispy soy marinated tofu 12 - Easy chicken fajitas or sheet pan chicken fajitas 13 - Easy whole roasted chicken 14 - Healthy tuna noodle casserole 15 - Honey garlic chicken stir fry 17 - Irish beef stew 18 - Easy veggie burger or easy chickpea burgers 19 - Slow cooker stuffed peppers 20 - Mediterranean salmon 21 - Healthy orange chicken 22 - Instant Pot spaghetti or classic spaghetti dinner 24 - Shrimp and penne pasta with arugula 25 - Easy baked lemon chicken 26 - Beef burritos 27 - White chicken chili 28 - Italian baked chicken and pastina 29 - Balsamic herb grilled chicken 31 - Mom’s classic Southern deviled eggs OK then, hopefully are you all set now! Last thing, I would really appreciate your feedback. If this monthly meal plan is helpful, please leave me a comment below. Or if there’s things you wish I would change or add or do differently, let me know that, too! I want this to be a valuable resource, so let me know how I can make it even more helpful for you. (Also, I want to see whether these are useful and if I should continue to make them in the months to come. So please let me know below!) I hope you have a wonderful - and delicious - month!
* March meal plan PDF *
(You can download and print the March calendar from that link, or save this page to come back to. Whatever is easy for you.) XO, Kathryn P.S. Here’s the April meal plan if you are loving these and want to get ahead!
