Weekly Meal Plan 2025-12-06

For this week’s menu, I chose old favourites from our meal plan, and included one new recipe.

Click here to get your copy of this week’s Excel Weekly Meal Plan.

There’s a cold and snowy week of weather ahead, with extra cold, but sunny, on Monday. And there’s almost 3 weeks until Christmas, so there’s no need to panic yet, right?

The new recipe is Fettuccine Alfredo with Cauliflower Sauce. We like cauliflower, so I hope this sauce turns out well! Or, Keith might make an impulse purchase at the grocery store, to avoid trying it! We’ll see.

And for a few fun food ideas, check out the Food Celebration Days section, below the weekly menu.

The Weekly Plan

Here is our plan for the week starting Sunday, Dec 07, 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 — Sheet Pan Hot Italian Meatballs ( 29 times )

Prep: 0.25 hr, Cook: 0.50 hr

Monday — Chinese-Inspired Corn Soup ( 2 times )

Prep: 0.25 hr, Cook: 0.25 hr

Tuesday — Fettuccine Alfredo with Cauliflower Sauce ( 0 times )

Prep: 0.33 hr, Cook: 0.17 hr

Wednesday — Sheet Pan Pork Chops & Brussels Sprouts ( 128 times )

Prep: 0.25 hr, Cook: 0.33 hr

Thursday — Rotisserie Chicken ( 16 times )
TIP: purchased

Prep: 0.00 hr, Cook: 0.00 hr

Friday — Rotisserie Chicken ( 16 times )
TIP: leftovers

Prep: 0.00 hr, Cook: 0.00 hr

Saturday — Meatballs with Sweet and Sour Sauce ( 1 times )
TIP: slow Cooker 3 hrs

Prep: 0.00 hr, Cook: 3.00 hr

Food Celebration Days

Almost every day of the year has a food celebration that we can enjoy, or ignore! Here are a few of the food days for the upcoming week, with recipe ideas for you.

Monday, Dec 8th – National Brownie Day / National Lard Day

This food day could be dangerous, if we stuff ourselves with brownies and lard! We don’t eat either of those food items these days, but I’d have brownies at someone else’s house, just to be polite.

If my grandkids asked for brownies, I’d try this One Bowl Fudgy Cocoa Brownies recipe
And we love these Butterscotch Brownies, on my old food blog
For Lard Day, you can try the Fèves au Lard (Baked Beans) recipe, on my old food blog

Tuesday, Dec 9th – National Pastry Day

It’s been a long time since we last had them, but Keith used to make a delicious pastry supper. Maybe I can convince him to make them again!

Instead of pie crust pastry, these Flaky Mushroom and Gruyere Tarts are made with store-bought puff pastry, and filled with cheese and mushrooms. Yum!.

Thursday, Dec 11th – International Mountain Day

We’ve got Rocky Mountains here in Canada, and Switzerland is also famous for its mountains. There are two yodel-icious recipes for Swiss steak on this blog – slow cooker and stove top versions.

Tip: To create your own meal plan, get my free Excel Weekly Meal Planner template.

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