Easy Monthly Meal Ideas and Menu for October
Fall is my favorite season, and I love fall meals just as much! See the easy monthly meal ideas and menu for October below.
Most of these meal ideas can be prepped or completely made in 30 minutes or less. Enjoy!
You can use the Table of Contents to jump directly to the menu if you want.
What is a Monthly Meal Plan
This monthly meal plan is filled with ideas for quick and easy weeknight meals. Since the planning can be the most challenging part, use this as a guide for ideas.
These are weeknight meals only. I try my best to plan meals where you can “double dip” some of the work. You will notice a few notes about making extra for another meal later in the week. Why do the work twice?
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Weeknight Menu Ideas for October
New Recipe Coming Soon
I am not even sure what to call this besides delicious! It is like tacos and stuffed bell peppers got married! I will send the recipe out soon.
October’s Menu
If the menu idea is highlighted in brown, you can click it to get to the recipe.
- 10/01 – Baked Ham
- 10/02 – Chef Salad (Use leftover ham.)
- 10/03 – Sub Sandwiches
- 10/04 – Weekend
- 10/05 – Weekend
- 10/06 – Turkey Meatloaf
- 10/07 – Fajitas
- 10/08 – 15 Minute Meal
- 10/09 – Baked Chicken (Make extra.)
- 10/10 – Fiesta Chicken Noodle Soup (Use the extra chicken from Thursday.)
- 10/11 – Weekend
- 10/12 – Weekend
- 10/13 – Poblano Chicken
- 10/14 – Lemon Shrimp Linguini
- 10/15 – Poblano Chicken Soup (Use Monday’s leftovers to make a soup.)
- 10/16 – Brisket
- 10/17 – BLTs
- 10/18 – Weekend
- 10/19 – Weekend
- 10/20 – Pan Grilled Tilapia
- 10/21 – Tacos (Make extra taco meat.)
- 10/22 – Taco Stuffed Bell Peppers (Use Tuesday’s extra taco meat.)
- 10/23 – Pepper Steak in the Crock Pot
- 10/24 – Frito Chili Pie
- 10/25 – Weekend
- 10/26 – Weekend
- 10/27 – Baked Salmon
- 10/28 – Pork Roast (Leftover pork roast makes great sandwiches.)
- 10/29 – Salmon Bowl (Use Monday’s leftovers.)
- 10/30 – Pulled Pork (Use Tuesday’s leftovers.)
- 10/31 – Halloween
Favorite Kitchen Items
These make working in the kitchen so much easier. Click the links below to get the details on each item.
Menu and Meal Planning Tips
There are so many ways to make meal planning and prepping go faster and smoother. I have put together some tips and ideas to help. Check out the link below for all of the tips.
Link to Menu and Meal Planning Tips
I hope some of these meal ideas work for you and your family. They are easy to tweak to meet any special needs.
If you have other quick and easy meals, I would love to hear from you. Please share.
Ideas from Pinterest
You can find so many ideas on Pinterest, as you probably already know. I have several ideas pinned on my Main Meals Board. Feel free to take a look.
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Until next time,
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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
Tacos and stuffed bell peppers got married? Yum! Can’t wait for the recipe.
Oh my goodness – it was so good!!
Such a fabulous list of delicious meals, Susan! I can’t wait to try these recipes. Hugs, CoCo
I hope you enjoy them!
WOW, do you always prepare a monthly menu? Amazing, you’re incredible. As its only two of us in the house now, we tend to check what we have in the fridge/freezer and go from there.
Thank you for linking to SSPS 380 See you again Monday
Well, there’s only two of us now also, so I don’t always stick to it. 😂 because we don’t eat as much as when we had the family at home, I try to morph a few more meals, but many times it is just like you say, grab whatever’s in the refrigerator.