What We Ate & Loved – Mediterranean Diet Meal Plan Wk 18

A weekly series where we share our family’s actual Mediterranean diet meal plan, along with a few things we’ve been loving this past week. The goal is to simply share meal and recipe ideas. 

Our Mediterranean Diet Meal Plan

We share our family’s weekly meal plan simply for meal ideas and recipe inspiration for anyone else looking for suggestions. Please keep in mind that every family and person is different and this is just what works for us. 

We’ve saved all our previous weekly meal plans in one convenient location – Weekly Mediterranean Diet Meal Plans. 

How We Meal Plan

We go more in depth on how we go about planning meals in this post – Meal Planning Guide but just to quickly summarize – 

• Breakfast is usually pretty standard in our house so I don’t include it on our meal plan list
• My kids either bring a bagged lunch or buy hot lunch at school so I only meal plan for my lunch (and my husband if he is working from home that day)
• I include notes on some days to indicate if the meal is something we have to make quickly, on the go, etc. This really helps when it comes to planning meals and buying food to know our schedule in advance. 
• On Saturdays we typically eat leftovers and eat out for lunch or dinner. I indicate that on the meal plan each week but just in case you were wondering 

What We Ate This Week

This week had a lot of later than usual weeknight dinners due to extracurricular activities for the kids. For us to make it work with late night baseball games, evening gymnastics recitals, etc I had to rely on quick meals for the kids and then typically something different for Dan and I.

On a regular basis, I really try hard not to make separate meals for the kids. I’ll certainly adapt certain recipes to fit their likes (ie nothing spicy, my son doesn’t like fish, etc). However, this week they had to eat their “dinner” on multiple occasions before 5pm. On those nights, they had something quick, like these Homemade Lunchable Ideas, and then Dan and I had a late dinner.

We also went camping Saturday night and the KOA we stayed at had this beautiful restaurant on site so we ate there for dinner. It was delicious and I have to admit, that’s my ideal way to camp! Funny story – we’ve been there before and that restaurant was the inspiration behind this Lemon Vinaigrette recipe.

Recipe Links for What We Ate

Here are the links to the above meal plan items that have recipes.

• Chopped Lentil Salad
• Greek Salad

• Easy Watermelon Salad
• Spicy Breakfast Tacos

• Brain Boosting Smoothie
• Roasted Ranch Sweet Potatoes

We had these Mango & Black Bean Tacos one night, which come from my cookbook “The Mediterranean Diet Made Easy“. They are easy, fresh and budget friendly!