Easy Monthly Menu for August

This quick and easy monthly menu for August is a guide to help with planning weeknight meals. With a little meal planning and preparation, your meal time preparations don’t have to take up so much of your family time.

Most of these weeknight dinner ideas are 30-minute meals (or less). Enjoy!

What is a Monthly Meal Plan?

Here is the monthly meal plan and recipes for the month of August. This menu plan includes main dish recipes for easy dinners with a few mentions of side dishes for the entire month.  

I do my menu planning for weeknights only, and Friday nights are usually something quick and easy.  All you need to do is add in the sides, and you are set.  I hope this guide is helpful for you and your whole family. 

I also send out reminders of the weekly menus each Monday in my weekly newsletter. If you would like to receive these reminders, along with other recipes and information, please join here.

Menu Tips

Tips for Using This Monthly Menu:

• Print or take a photo of the meal plan and keep it visible.
• It is a great idea to keep certain staples on hand (baking items, seasonings, etc.)
• Buy in bulk when possible.
• Look at the monthly meal plan and make a grocery list of all items you can get in advance. If possible, buy all of these items once instead of making multiple grocery trips. (Grocery Delivery is wonderful too!)
• It is a good idea to keep a master list of the main grocery items you use on a regular basis. Having a ready made grocery shopping list can save you time, and help you remember items you need to purchase.
• Set aside time at the beginning of the month for meal prep, to prepare food (cut vegetables, divide bulk items and freeze when necessary, etc.)
• Look at your weekly meal plan over the weekend, and write out your weekly shopping lists so you can make one trip to the grocery store or farmers markets to get fresh produce and other items you will need.
• Remember that this is just a guide with recipe ideas – use what you want and skip the rest.

New Menu Item

This is not my recipe, so I am directing you to the website where I found this. Talk about delicious! This is the meal on August 5th.

Monthly Menu for August

This full month of ideas includes some of our favorite meals. Enjoy these delicious recipes!

Favorite Cooking Products for These Meals

• Taco Stands – These make it so much easier to have regular or street tacos.
• Pyrex Baking Dish
• Cheese Grater – I love freshly grated cheese, and this makes it so quick and easy! Make sure the cheese is cold though.

Pinterest

There are such a wide variety of meals and ideas on Pinterest. I have found so many wonderful new recipes this way and have pinned many of them on Pinterest boards. If you are looking for other ideas, here is a link to my:

Main Meals Board
Side Dishes Board

I hope you enjoy these recipes, and that they help you save precious time each night. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.

If you have other quick and easy meals that you would like to share, I would love to hear from you.

Related Post

Here is a delicious and refreshing dessert to take you through August.
How to Make the Creamiest Red, White, and Blue Berry Trifle

Until next month…

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“Every living creature will be food for you; as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything.” Genesis 9:3