Monthly Menu and Meal Ideas for December
Most of these meal ideas for December are 30 minutes or less. See these easy monthly meals and the menu below.
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.
The meal ideas below are only the main dishes. If you need ideas for sides, you can find more ideas here.
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Weeknight Menu Ideas for November
If the menu idea is highlighted in brown, you can click it to get to the recipe.
- 12/01 – Chicken Strip Salads
- 12/02 – Pan Fried Tilapia
- 12/03 –Broccoli Cheese Soup
- 12/04 – Pepper Steak in the Crock Pot
- 12/05 – Nachos
- 12/06 – Weekend
- 12/07 – Weekend
- 12/08 – Chicken Pot Pie
- 12/09 – Lemon Shrimp Linguini
- 12/10 – Soft Tacos
- 12/11 – Taco Stuffed Bell Peppers
- 12/12 – BLTs
- 12/13 – Weekend
- 12/14 – Weekend
- 12/15 – Chicken & Dumplings
- 12/16 – Tamale Casserole
- 12/17 – Turkey Meatloaf
- 12/18 – Breakfast for Supper
- 12/19 – Cauliflower Pizza
- 12/20 – Weekend
- 12/21 – Weekend
- 12/22 – Creamy Tortellini Soup
- 12/23 – Corn Dogs with Macaroni & Cheese
- 12/24 – Christmas Eve Brunch
- 12/25 – Christmas Day
- 12/26 – Leftovers
- 12/27 – Weekend
- 12/28 – Weekend
- 12/29 – Baked Salmon
- 12/30 – Chili Dogs
- 12/31 – New Year’s Eve
- 1/01 – Baked Ham, Cabbage, Black-Eyed Pea Casserole or Black-Eyed Peas & Cornbread
- 1/02 – Fiesta Chicken Noodle Soup
Favorite Kitchen Items

These make working in the kitchen so much easier. Click the links below to get the details on each item.
- Meat Chopper I also use this for potatoes and most recently to break up the cornbread for my mom’s Southern Cornbread Dressing.
- Jalapeno Corer
- Crock Pot



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.
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
