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Meal Plan 52: December 17 - 23

Published: Dec 3, 2022 by Marye

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It's the week before Christmas and everyone is way too excited to eat big dinners. Enjoy easy, classic comfort foods while you finish your last minute holiday preparations.

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Table of Contents
  • 📅 Food Holidays
  • 🍹This week's cocktail
  • December 17
  • December 18
  • December 19
  • December 20
  • December 21
  • December 22
  • December 23
  • 📚 Related recipes
  • Get the Book!
  • 💬 Comments

📅 Food Holidays

We celebrate a couple of fun food holidays this week. They're silly little holidays but it gives us an opportunity to make some memories and have some fun!

  • December 20 is National Sangria Day - so enjoy this easy, classic sangria, this apple cider sangria, or this tropical pinreapple sangria!
  • December 23 is National Bake Day... and there's SO much to choose from. Breads, cakes, cookies... what will you choose?

Here are some tips for this week -

  • When you're baking the green chile chicken go ahead and bake some plain chicken to use in the chicken Alfredo lasagna.
  • If you have leftover sweet potatoes you can use them to top the shepherd's pie instead of mashed potatoes.
  • Leftover angel biscuits? Warm them up and spread with honey butter to go with the smoked sausage shepherd's pie.
  • Move the days around as you need to. Don't forget there are more meal plans here.

🍹This week's cocktail

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Chocolate Peppermint Martini

The chocolate peppermint martini is creamy and sweet with an adult kick. Delicious dessert cocktail!

December 17

Meatloaf Stuffed Peppers

Meatloaf Stuffed Bell Peppers

Meatloaf stays tender and juicy when it's wrapped in bacon and baked in peppers!

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Whipped Sweet Potatoes

Light and fluffy with just a touch of smoky chipotle - you'll love these easy sweet potatoes.

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Vanilla Brownies

Vanilla Brownies Recipe

Chewy vanilla brownies have all the texture and goodness of the chocolate kind but are SO pretty for the holidays.

December 18

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Green Chile Chicken

Green chile chicken is tender chicken breast with a creamy, green chile sauce... believe it or not it's just 3 net carbs!

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Marinated Green Bean Salad

This marinated green bean salad brings tons of Italian flavor to the table.

biscotti

Pumpkin Biscotti

Crunchy sweet biscotti has a spicy pumpkin flavor. So good with after dinner coffee.

December 19

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Perfect Pot Roast

This pot roast with carrots and potatoes is super easy in the slow cooker.

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Angel Biscuits

Angel biscuits are a light and fluffy cross between a biscuit and a dinner roll.

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Banana Pudding

Classic, creamy, homemade from scratch banana pudding... there's nothing like it!

December 20

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Smoked Sausage Shepherd's Pie

Easiest shepherd's pie ever! Make it with smoked sausage ... it's so good!

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Roast Carrots

Maple chipotle roasted carrots add a little excitement to the meal! Sweet and spicy.

Red velvet Hershey's Kiss cookies on a baking sheet.

Red Velvet Peppermint Kisses

Red Velvet Peppermint Kiss cookies are so pretty for the holidays!

December 21

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Chicken Alfredo Lasagna

Your favorite chicken alfredo in lasagna form! Creamy, cheesy comfort food that is make-ahead easy.

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Garlic Breadsticks

Soft garlic breadsticks are even better than your favorite Italian restaurant.

Easy Mexican chocolate cobbler

Hot Chocolate Cobbler

Make this easy hot chocolate cobbler in the microwave in 10 minutes.

December 22

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Potato Soup

Creamy old fashioned potato soup is so creamy and comforting when it's cold and blustery outside.

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Irish Soda Bread

Irish soda bread is a quick and easy side for soups and stews.

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Coconut Pie

This gooey coconut pie is more like a pecan pie! It's SO different and so good!

December 23

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Fiesta Chicken

This slow cooked south of the border chicken recipe is creamy and perfect for spooning over rice or tortilla chips!

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Buttermilk Cornbread

Classic southern cornbread is so good with just about any meal but especially with this hearty soup.

The finished tres leches cake in a pan.

White Chocolate Lime Tres Leches Cake

You'll need to make this yummy tres leches cake a day ahead of time but it's so delicious.

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