Take and Make Menu Plan #2: Meatless Meals
Our menu plan this week features some awesome economical meatless meals recipes. Sure to help out with your grocery budget, these vegetarian recipes for meatless meals get their protein from frugal ingredients like beans and tofu. Cutting out meat from even one meal a week can give you a large discount on your food expenses – try it!
Print out the free printable Take and Make Menu Plans each Sunday, which include:
- A printable grocery shopping list of ingredients. Print out the list, check off what you already have on hand, then take your shopping list to the store.
- A dinner meal for each day. Click the name of the meal to print the recipe and directions.
Take And Make Menu Plan:
Vegetarian Meatless Meals Recipes
Printable Grocery Shopping List:
Click the button below to view, download or print the shopping list. Grocery shopping checklist is divided into sections by type of food to make your shopping trip faster.
Meatless Meals with Recipes:
Monday
Dinner: Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie with Potato Crust. Makes 4 servings.
Tuesday
Dinner: Louisiana Style Meatless Jambalaya. Make this jambalaya as spicy hot or as mild as you like by adjusting the hot sauce. This meatless meal is healthy as well, at only 2 grams of fat per serving! Serves 4.
Wednesday
Dinner: Great Northern White Chili. This high protein meatless meal is great for low-calorie and low-fat diets, with only 220 calories and 2 grams of fat. Makes 8 servings.
Thursday
Dinner: Rick’s Mock Crab Cakes. Meatless crab cakes get their protein from tofu in this recipe. Serves 4.
Friday
Dinner: Vegetarian Oval Office Enchiladas. This meatless meal got its name from the fact that it was a regular on the White House menu for President Ronald Reagan! Serves 12.
Saturday
Dinner: Indian-Style Chickpeas. Try something a little different from your regular menu plan with this high-protein meatless Indian dish.Serves 4.
Sunday
Dinner: Leftover Love. Spread out a buffet table of all the leftovers from the week’s meals. This means a day-off for the chef!
Print out our other Take and Make Menu Plans or check out other menu plans at Menu Plan Monday. Originally published March 29, 2009.
If you’d like to suggest your recipes to be featured, email tips(at)homeeverafter.com.
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You’ve got a lot of great recipes going on here!
NAOmni
Glad I found this site! My 17 year old son is a vegetarian and I run out of ideas for meatless dishes.
@Naomni: Thank you!
@Rita: Fantastic- hopefully there are some options your son will like. Thanks for leaving a comment! We’re glad to have you here :)
Barbi
[...] Take and Make Menu Plan: Meatless Meals | Homemaker Barbi By Homemaker Barbi Cutting out meat from even one meal a week can give you a large discount on your food expenses ? try it! Our free printable Take and Make Menu Plans contain everything you need for an entire week?s dinners and all you have to do is the shopping and … Printable Grocery Shopping List: … Wednesday. Dinner: Great Northern White Chili. This high protein meatless meal is great for low-calorie and low-fat diets, with only 220 calories and 2 grams of fat. Makes 8 servings. … Homemaker Barbi – http://www.homemakerbarbi.com/ & [...]
OH! You’re my new favorite blogger fyi
I love the recipes. I saved them for my next months meal plans. I think I can pull off the crab cakes by calling them “crabbie patties”! My kids will love them!
Keep up the good work!
That is a wonderful menu and handy tool! Thanks for sharing…I printed off the enchilada recipe and can’t wait to try it next week!
I really need to make some meatless meals to stretch the grocery budget. Thanks for sharing!
~Liz
I just love your menu’s it gives me great ideas for the week and thanks so much for the shopping list I bookmark every week
great menu plan and print out list, pretty cool
@Terri- My husband made crabbie patties too! The leftovers were a huge hit for going to school in lunch :)
Barbi
@Christy @Liz @Pamela You’re more than welcome! I’m so glad that the menus are useful, and what a way to add variety to our regular rotation of meals! Thanks for popping in! Next week- recipes from celebrities :)
Barbi
I am visiting from MPM Mr. Linky. This is sooooo cool! I am so happy to find your blog. My MPM is also vegetarian. Stop by anytime! I am going to have to edit my post to include this great blog and its features.
@LaVonne – Welcome from Menu Plan Monday and thanks for the tip on your veg recipes. So great to meet you!
Barbi
You are sooo awesome!!!!
@Mama: Thank you!
Barbi
Those “crab” cakes sound really cool… I love an experiment!
Thanks for sharing.
Wow! These sound wonderful. I have such a hard time findiing meatless recipes. I am definately going to put a few of these dishes on our table. Thanks!
I get an error 404 page when I try to print out shopping list.
I am _very_ happy to have some good veggie recipes. We eat no animals whatsoever.
thanks for offering a great alternative menu
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@Crimson: Sincere apologies- the link is fixed now!
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