Weekly Meal Plan 2026-01-24

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

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There’s a cold, cloudy, wintery week of weather ahead, with the sun peeking out a couple of times, if we’re lucky.

The new recipe is Quick Garlic-Lime Marinated Pork Chops, and we’ll have that on Tuesday. It gets marinated for 20 minutes, then only takes 10 minutes to cook.

The Weekly Plan

Here is our plan for the week starting Sunday, Jan 25, 2026. 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 ( 33 times )

Total Time: 45 mins

Monday — Fettuccine Alfredo with Cauliflower Sauce ( 2 times )

Total Time: 30 mins

Tuesday — Quick Garlic-Lime Marinated Pork Chops ( 0 times )

Total Time: 30 mins

Wednesday — Carrot Apple Ginger Soup ( 28 times )

Total Time: 1 hr

Thursday — Chicken, roasted ( 185 times )
TIP: Use rotisserie chicken, for quick meal

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins

Friday — Chicken, roasted ( leftovers)

Saturday — Sheet Pan Lemon Garlic Salmon ( 40 times )

Total Time: 30 mins

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.

Sunday Jan 25 – Burns Night

Burns Night is an annual event to celebrate the life and legacy of Scotland’s National Bard, Robert Burns, who born Jan 25 1759. The traditional meal is haggis, served with mashed potatoes (tatties) and mashed swede turnip (neeps). You can learn more about Burns Night on Scotland’s official website.

And there are recipes on the BBC website:

Haggis, neeps and tatties

Thursday Jan 29 – Corn Chip Day

It’s not clear when or how corn chip day got started, but it sounds like fun! Corn chips are similar to tortilla chips, but corn chips are sturdier, and they have a stronger corn flavour.

Here’s a quick and easy recipe, if you’d like to join in the corn chip fun:

Corn Chip Chili Pie

Saturday Jan 31 – Eat Brussels Sprouts Day

This is another day that nobody seems clear on how it got started. But, if you like Brussels sprouts, or if you’ve never tried them, here are a couple of recipes for you to try.

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

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