For this week’s menu, I chose old favourites from our meal plan, and included one new recipe – Garlicky Cabbage Soup.
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There’s a rainy, cloudy, cool week of weather ahead, but at least there’s no snow in the forecast (yet!)
The new recipe, Garlicky Cabbage Soup, sounds like it could help protect us from those damp and chilly days. And it will defend us from vampires too!

The Weekly Plan
Here is our plan for the week starting Sunday, Nov 16, 2025. There are links for some recipes, and others are made “freestyle”.
- Note: Beside each recipe, I show the number of times that we’ve made this recipe, since I started keeping track in 2015.
Sunday — Rotisserie Chicken ( 15 times )
TIP: purchased
Monday — Garlicky Cabbage Soup DD ( 0 times )
TIP: 1/2 beans; coleslaw mix
Tuesday — Meat Loaf, Easy ( 101 times )
Wednesday — Meat Loaf, Easy ( 101 times )
Thursday — Chinese-Inspired Corn Soup ( 2 times )
Friday — Sheet Pan Lemon Garlic Salmon ( 37 times )
Saturday — Slow Cooker Apple Pork Roast ( 7 times )
TIP: add baby carrots
How It Actually Went
Here’s what we actually had this week – we made several changes, and the new soup fell off the menu. We’ll try that another time.
Sunday — Ribs, Barbecued Back
Monday — Rotisserie Chicken
Tuesday — Meat Loaf, Easy
Wednesday — Meat Loaf, Easy
Thursday — 15-Minute Wonton Soup
Friday – Burgers
Saturday — Slow Cooker Apple Pork Roast
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Weekly Meal Plan 2025-11-15

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