Express & Organized Menu Week of March 10 to 14

04 March, 2025

Simplify your planning!

Simplify your planning! Write this menu in your Les Belles Combines weekly planner or use the weekly menu already set up in Octave. Bonus: the grocery list is already generated in the app! All that's left to do is adjust the number of servings to suit your needs and customize your weekend meals.

With Octave, you can see all your meals for the week at a glance, including packed lunches and snacks. The app also lets you adjust the portions based on how many people are at the table, automatically adding the required ingredient quantities to your grocery list. You can also adapt your weekend meals to your family activities and whatever you feel like eating, while keeping things well organized for the busier days of the week.

This week's menu

Roast chicken is the star of this week! Made in a big batch on Monday, it turns up as a comforting hot chicken sandwich, a Mediterranean meal bowl flavoured with tzatziki, and a fresh pasta salad. The Asian coleslaw cleverly goes with two meals, while the tomatoes do double duty in both the soup and the polenta. A week that combines efficiency and flavour!


Dinners

  1. Monday: Oven-roasted chicken (in French)
  2. Tuesday: Tzatziki meal bowl (in French)
  3. Wednesday: Asian pork tenderloin with coleslaw and basmati rice
  4. Thursday: Polenta with Italian sausage (in French)
  5. Friday: Spaghetti Carbonara


      Additional packed lunches

      Snacks for the week

      • Raw veggies
      • Fresh fruit cup
      • Rice cake with WowButter
      • Dried fruit
      • Oatmeal cookie

       

       

      Prep strategy for the week 


      Our plan relies on three key moments:

      • Sunday: Snack prep
      • Monday: Strategic chicken cooking
      • Wednesday: Making a big batch of coleslaw

       

      Optimizing Sunday


      Sunday prep lets you:

      • Portion out the snacks for the week
      • Organize the ingredients for the packed lunches
      • Open the canned tomatoes for the soup and the polenta

      Monday's chicken: a strategic base!

      Cooking the chicken is central this week because it lets you:

      • Prepare the base for the hot chicken sandwiches
      • Top the tzatziki meal bowls
      • Make the chicken pasta salad
      • Save time and energy

       

       

      Detailed prep plan

      Sunday: Prep day

      1. Snack prep:

        • Individual portions of:

          • Raw veggies

          • Fresh fruit

          • Rice cakes with WowButter

          • Dried fruit

          • Oatmeal cookies

      2. Organization:

        • Set up the snack bin

        • Divide the canned tomatoes for the week

      Monday: Chicken day (estimated time: 1 hour 30 minutes)

      • Roast a big batch of chicken:

        • For dinner

        • For Tuesday's hot chicken sandwich

        • For the tzatziki meal bowl

        • For the pasta salad

      Wednesday: Coleslaw day

      • Make a big batch of coleslaw:

        • To go with the Asian pork

        • For Thursday's egg rolls

      Extra tips:

      • Keep the leftover chicken in the fridge for the week's meals

      • Make a big batch of tzatziki sauce for several meals

      • Divide the canned tomatoes as soon as you open them, for the soup and the polenta

       

      Put these tips into practice

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