Looks great! Flipping through the recipes now. Any chance you’ll bring back the gram measurements for all recipes? I see it on some, but not all. That made cleanup so much easier by just using my food scale instead of using all my measuring spoons and cups! Thank you!
This week looks so good! I haven’t made areyes in a while, but I remember them being so good for weeknights.
I love the cookbook collabs, such a fun way for us to get a new perspective and introduction to a book we might want to check out. Folks, you can get cookbooks from your library which is a great way to test run them to see which ones you want to add to your collection :)
Notes: Calories & macros listed are per 1 serving (1/2 recipe), assumptions are per 2 servings (full recipe). Assumes 1 tsp vegetable oil per 2 servings for each "neutral oil" or oil used to saute.
1. Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad: 1233 calories/69 P/107 C/55 F
-Notes: Only accounts for a portion of the marinade since there should be some leftover.
-Adjustments: I plan to cut parmesan in salad to 2 oz per 2 servings and only use 1/3 batch of croutons per 2 servings to reduce to 723 calories per serving.
2. Arayes: 638 calories/37 P/54 C/28 F
-Notes: Assumes 1/2 cup tzatziki per 2 servings and 1/4 cup hummus per 2 servings
3. Lemon Oregano Chicken Skewers: 988 calories/44 P/67 C/58 F
-Notes: Only accounts for a portion of the marinade since there should be some leftover, assumes 10 tbsp of sun-dried tomato vinaigrette per 2 servings, 1/4 cup hummus per 2 servings, and 1/2 cup tzatziki per 2 servings
-Adjustments: I plan to only use 5 tbsp of sun-dried tomato vinaigrette per 2 servings to reduce to 789 calories per serving
4. Parmesan Chicken Cutlets: 751 calories/46 P/56 C/35 F
5. Sun-dried Tomato Gnocchi: 1082 calories/52 P/94 C/54 F
-Adjustments: I plan to reduce butter used in the velouté to 1.5 tbsp and only use 0.25 cup of parmesan in the parmesan meatball recipe to reduce to 952 calories per serving
Doing my first week of restaurant drop out and was looking for the macros. Thank you for sharing! Would love to have this included in the recipe information!
This menu looks amazing!! Cannot wait to cook and eat!!
@Zoe, I wanted to share that last night we went out to dinner to a lovely restaurant with friends and had a wonderful meal. On the way home, talking about how great it was, my husband said "yes it was great, but it was my least favourite thing I ate this week" Thank you for creating such wonderful menu plans ❤️
With that in mind (and all the love and gratitude) boo to 3-meal weeks. International subscriber, our holidays don't mesh and honestly and I just want you to tell me what to eat the entire week. Again, said with all the love, and knowing I can easily add in a couple of our previous fam-favs that seem to jive with the weeks menu, just offering up a different perspective to consider. xoxo
I’m in the US and I also want Zoe to tell me what to eat! I love eating, I like cooking, and I HATE making decisions about what to eat. We need to eat on holidays too! I spent my Mother’s Day prepping 😂
But probably Zoe is looking for a little break which is fair enough. This is only my third week now and although I’ve just finished my prep and I am DEAD, this is the best I’ve eaten in a LONG time and is probably the only way I’ve ever found to consistently get good dinners on weeknights since having children (almost 8 years ago!!)
A million cheers from my household when I read the menu! Can’t wait to prep and have these dinners. Definitely making the whole batch of hummus because we eat hummus like it’s free around here!
Made this week! It has been exceptional so far, my fiance is blown away. You have made my life SO MUCH EASIER! I can now pull together gourmet meals every night of the week without much effort. Bless your heart for what you're doing!
My only suggestion would be that the meat portions are way too small (1/2 lbs for two people...). We can eat 0.4 - 0.5 pound per person, but maybe that's just us.
On top of it all, our grocery bill was <$100 despite doing double the meat and living in NYC which is a HUGE win!
Agree! I skipped a couple of the prep steps this week and was kicking myself last night at having to take extra time before cooking. Never again!! The hours spent bulking prepping are so worth it for the quality of meals we get to eat every night.
My husband just took the bottle of the sun dried tomato vinaigrette and squirted it directly into his mouth… so… take with that what you will 😂 another week of hits!
Never had arayes before and I did them last night and OMG. I was super proud of myself for making those, they were incredible. I used ground pork cause that’s my personal fave ground meat. 10/10 (but my kids still refused to eat them 🤣)
Looks great! Flipping through the recipes now. Any chance you’ll bring back the gram measurements for all recipes? I see it on some, but not all. That made cleanup so much easier by just using my food scale instead of using all my measuring spoons and cups! Thank you!
Yes please, seconding this!
This week looks so good! I haven’t made areyes in a while, but I remember them being so good for weeknights.
I love the cookbook collabs, such a fun way for us to get a new perspective and introduction to a book we might want to check out. Folks, you can get cookbooks from your library which is a great way to test run them to see which ones you want to add to your collection :)
Calories/Macros:
Notes: Calories & macros listed are per 1 serving (1/2 recipe), assumptions are per 2 servings (full recipe). Assumes 1 tsp vegetable oil per 2 servings for each "neutral oil" or oil used to saute.
1. Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad: 1233 calories/69 P/107 C/55 F
-Notes: Only accounts for a portion of the marinade since there should be some leftover.
-Adjustments: I plan to cut parmesan in salad to 2 oz per 2 servings and only use 1/3 batch of croutons per 2 servings to reduce to 723 calories per serving.
2. Arayes: 638 calories/37 P/54 C/28 F
-Notes: Assumes 1/2 cup tzatziki per 2 servings and 1/4 cup hummus per 2 servings
3. Lemon Oregano Chicken Skewers: 988 calories/44 P/67 C/58 F
-Notes: Only accounts for a portion of the marinade since there should be some leftover, assumes 10 tbsp of sun-dried tomato vinaigrette per 2 servings, 1/4 cup hummus per 2 servings, and 1/2 cup tzatziki per 2 servings
-Adjustments: I plan to only use 5 tbsp of sun-dried tomato vinaigrette per 2 servings to reduce to 789 calories per serving
4. Parmesan Chicken Cutlets: 751 calories/46 P/56 C/35 F
5. Sun-dried Tomato Gnocchi: 1082 calories/52 P/94 C/54 F
-Adjustments: I plan to reduce butter used in the velouté to 1.5 tbsp and only use 0.25 cup of parmesan in the parmesan meatball recipe to reduce to 952 calories per serving
Doing my first week of restaurant drop out and was looking for the macros. Thank you for sharing! Would love to have this included in the recipe information!
This menu looks amazing!! Cannot wait to cook and eat!!
@Zoe, I wanted to share that last night we went out to dinner to a lovely restaurant with friends and had a wonderful meal. On the way home, talking about how great it was, my husband said "yes it was great, but it was my least favourite thing I ate this week" Thank you for creating such wonderful menu plans ❤️
With that in mind (and all the love and gratitude) boo to 3-meal weeks. International subscriber, our holidays don't mesh and honestly and I just want you to tell me what to eat the entire week. Again, said with all the love, and knowing I can easily add in a couple of our previous fam-favs that seem to jive with the weeks menu, just offering up a different perspective to consider. xoxo
I’m in the US and I also want Zoe to tell me what to eat! I love eating, I like cooking, and I HATE making decisions about what to eat. We need to eat on holidays too! I spent my Mother’s Day prepping 😂
But probably Zoe is looking for a little break which is fair enough. This is only my third week now and although I’ve just finished my prep and I am DEAD, this is the best I’ve eaten in a LONG time and is probably the only way I’ve ever found to consistently get good dinners on weeknights since having children (almost 8 years ago!!)
Excited for this week! My grocery store doesn’t have Lacinto Kale, can we sub normal kale?
Sure thing!!!!!! That shouldn’t be a problem at all :)
This looks soooo good! I want to ask, as I heavily rely on the mini menu suggestions, what 3 meals you would do for this weeks menu?!
Great question!!! Adding a few updates (with the videos) to this week, so we’ll have that mini menu up here momentarily!!! 😊
Thank you so much!! You have literally saved my husband and I from arguing about "what's for dinner?" and saved our grocery bill!!
A million cheers from my household when I read the menu! Can’t wait to prep and have these dinners. Definitely making the whole batch of hummus because we eat hummus like it’s free around here!
Yay!!!!! Can’t wait to hear what you think Ebony!!!! ❤️
Mmmhmmm!!! Just a heads up that we already cut the recipe in half in our RD docs, so you'll wanna download Casey's version of the recipes! 😋
Noted! Thanks so much!
I made arayes a couple of months ago, it’s so good. Everyone’s going to love it!
Made this week! It has been exceptional so far, my fiance is blown away. You have made my life SO MUCH EASIER! I can now pull together gourmet meals every night of the week without much effort. Bless your heart for what you're doing!
My only suggestion would be that the meat portions are way too small (1/2 lbs for two people...). We can eat 0.4 - 0.5 pound per person, but maybe that's just us.
On top of it all, our grocery bill was <$100 despite doing double the meat and living in NYC which is a HUGE win!
Agree! I skipped a couple of the prep steps this week and was kicking myself last night at having to take extra time before cooking. Never again!! The hours spent bulking prepping are so worth it for the quality of meals we get to eat every night.
Oh WOW I am so excited to cook (aka eat) this week!
Oh wow, this one looks REALLY good 😍
My husband just took the bottle of the sun dried tomato vinaigrette and squirted it directly into his mouth… so… take with that what you will 😂 another week of hits!
Pita with some tzatziki and the sun-dried tomato vinaigrette is *chefs kiss*.
I’ve been snacking on the croutons with a drizzle of the vinegarette😅😅
Never had arayes before and I did them last night and OMG. I was super proud of myself for making those, they were incredible. I used ground pork cause that’s my personal fave ground meat. 10/10 (but my kids still refused to eat them 🤣)
Made the grilled chicken skewers and kale tonight. I ended up steaming the kale and serving it warm. It was so good with the vinaigrette!
Love this adapation!
….did anyone else’s sundried tomato vinegarette turn into a smoothie? Just mine?😂
Considering some people have reported in the chat that their husbands are apparently drinking it... maybe not lol
Not sure what I did wrong but sure tastes good anyway lololol
Mine is so thick could hardly get it out the bottle! But so tasty nonetheless
The gnocchi dish was our favorite dish. The veloute sauce is simple to make but full of flavor. This will become a staple meal in our house