This week's dinner inspiration is filled with make-ahead and flavorful ideas. The lasagna, stuffed squash and turkey sausage are great ideas to double the recipe and use up during the week or freeze.
Tips For Meal Prepping and Using Leftovers
- Save some time and cook enough ground turkey for both the acorn squash and the lasagna at the same time. You can store the cooked turkey in the fridge for up to three days.
- The homemade turkey sausage patties are not just for breakfast. They taste great on a hard roll. They also freeze well after they are cooked, so make a double batch of these too! They are perfect to use for quick dinner.
- Make a double batch of lasagna and freeze it for another day.
- Chop up the vegetables for the sheet pan dinner when you are prepping another dinner. Or buy pre-cut butternut squash to save even more time.
How to Easy Peel and Cut a Butternut Squash into Cubes
Butternut squash isn't an easy vegetable to prepare. They are dense and difficult to handle. Here are a few tips for preparing a butternut squash for cooking:
- Slice off the ends (top and bottom) of the squash with a sharp kinfe. This will helpt to keep the squash stable when cutting it.
- Next, use a Y vegetable peeler to peel the skin off of the squash.
- Stand the squash in an upright position and cut the squash in half down the middle of the squash
- Use a spoon th scoop out the seeds.
- Cut the squash halves in half horizontally
- Cut each half into vertical slices, and then while holding the vertical slices, cut them horizontally to form cubes.
Flavorful Easy Healthy Meals
Tasty dinner ideas for the week
Baked Stuffed Acorn Squash with Sausage and Apples
Baked Stuffed Acorn Squash is sweet, savory and has all of the flavor of fall. It's perfect for a family meal or a holiday side dish that everyone will enjoy..
Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner
This delicious chicken sheet pan dinner is one that the whole family will love. It’s an easy dinner that is loaded with seasonally-inspired veggies and juicy boneless skinless chicken breasts tossed in a balsamic glaze.
Air Fryer Cauliflower BItes
Little cauliflower florets are coated in crumbs and air fried to make light and crispy cauliflower bites. These little bites are a perfect side dish or a snack.
Apple Cider Pulled Pork with Apple Slaw
Boneless pork is braised in a mixture of apple cider and spices then topped with apple slaw to make up this apple cider pulled pork with apple slaw.
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