Recipes with Shredded Chicken are featured this week for our Weekly Meal Plan. I love how easy it is to get dinner on the table when we have it planned out ahead of time. Sometimes the easiest meals to put together require just a little planning.
Together with printable menus available for you to customize for your family’s dinner, you can use these recipes to inspire your meal planning this week.
Make sure you check out 10 Essentials Pantry Items and Freezer Meal Planning Tips to further help you customize your family’s dinner. Let’s talk about this week’s meal plan and shredded chicken.
How to make Shredded Chicken
There are a few ways you can make shredded chicken:
- Leftover chicken - use leftover chicken from another meal.
- Rotisserie chicken - stop on your way home from work and purchase a rotisserie chicken. You can even buy a few and freeze them.
- Make a whole roast chicken - then shred it up and use for the week's meal plan.
- Crock Pot Chicken Breasts - this is how I usually make shredded chicken. Making chicken in the crock pot is really easy and the chicken is very tender.
Meal Planning Categories
This is just an example of how I like to meal plan. You could also incorporate a “leftover meal” or even “clean out the refrigerator” night. This is something we do at least once a week or every 10 days.
Assign each day of the week a different category and then plan a meal according to that category.
- Monday - Meatless, Vegetarian or even Leftovers from the weekend.
- Tuesday - Taco Tuesday or Mexican Recipe
- Wednesday - Chicken, Beef or Fish
- Thursday - Pasta or Italian Night
- Friday - Sandwiches and Soup
- Saturday - Pizza or Eat Out, Order In
- Sunday - Comfort Food Meal
- Monday - Mini Tex Mex Chicken and Cheese Pies from Tablespoon
- Tuesday - Shredded Chicken Taco Salad from I Heart Naptime
- Wednesday - Creamy Chicken and Rice Soup from Macaroni and Cheese.
- Thursday - Monterey Chicken and Pasta
- Friday - Chicken Caesar Pitas from Together as Family.
- Saturday - White Pizza with Chicken and Fresh Herbs from Tara's Multicultural Table.
- Sunday - Skillet Chicken Pot Pie with Biscuits
Now, pick a side dish to serve with the recipes listed above. Side dishes should include potatoes or rice along with one or two veggies. A tossed salad with homemade ranch salad dressing is always nice too.
More Meal Planning Ideas
Make sure you check out previous Weekly Meal Plans or Family Favorite Chicken Recipes available. Here are a few of the popular meal plans:
There are quite a few printables to help you get dinner on the table for your family. The Weekly Meal Plan Printable, Pantry List Essentials, even the Keto Friendly Food Lists are all available once you sign up for my weekly newsletter, you’ll be able to download and print them out.
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Tara says
Great meal plan! Thanks for sharing my pizza!
Lois says
Thank you for creating such a yummy recipe! I love the idea of using shredded chicken on top of pizza! Thanks for the visit.