This February meal plan has a full month of ideas for easy, homemade family-friendly dinners. Includes a free printable PDF calendar with each day’s menu idea for easy planning.
I’m so excited to bring you today’s post!
Mostly because I get weirdly excited to menu plan and schedule out our meals.
No really, it brings me joy.
I get excited to do it. I think it’s the type A scheduler in me coming out in full force.
If you’re interested, I’ve got a whole post of my official guide to meal planning, with all my tips and tricks.
And previously, I’ve shared a list of 30 easy healthy family dinner ideas that could work for any month of the year.
But today, I’m trying to make it easy on YOU by giving you a full month’s worth of ideas for healthy family dinner ideas.
This will carry you through the entire month of February.
(Update: Here's the March meal plan that's now available as well.)
I’ve included the photo of the meal plan here if you want to pin it, but there’s a free printable PDF link at the bottom as well, so you can easily save and print.
So let’s dive right in.
Notes on February meal plan:
- Each day has its own recipe idea, complete with sides if needed to make a full meal. (Some things like tacos are more all-inclusive, though you could add sides if you like.)
- You can make easy swaps to suit your family’s tastes. Use whatever vegetables are you favorite to steam, make mashed potatoes instead of baked potatoes, choose white or brown rice, etc. Customize to your heart’s content.
- Saturdays are blank. This is intentional and meant to be reserved for either using up any leftovers from the week or ordering dinner in or going out to eat. Cause we all need a break!
The calendar and meal plan are ideas for prompts to get you started.
If you also need specific recipes, I’ve got some included below. You can also grab recipes from your own collection, your favorite cookbooks, or from Pinterest or Google.
(Many of the recipes below are from my site, but I’ve also included recipes from others.)
Oh, and I included these ideas in order from Feb. 1 on the calendar to Feb. 28, with the date listed too, which will hopefully make things easier to find throughout the month.
February Recipes:
1 - Creamy tomato soup and grilled cheese
4 - Spaghetti dinner or Instant Pot spaghetti
5 - Shrimp and snow pea stir fry
6 - Turkey tacos (with homemade taco seasoning)
7 - Easy baked chicken thighs and 15-minute stovetop mac and cheese
8 - Slow cooker Mexican chicken stew
9 - Quick chicken curry (just 15 minutes!)
11 - The best game day chili (my Superbowl fave) and perfect cornbread
12 - BBQ salmon or honey dijon salmon
13 - Chicken enchiladas
14 - Twice-baked potatoes
15 - Sausage stuffed butternut squash
16 - Balsamic pork tenderloin or Instant Pot pork tenderloin
18 - One pot creamy chicken and mushroom pasta with peas
19 - Turkey sloppy Joe’s
20 - Mahi mahi fish tacos with salsa verde
21 - Southwest salmon burgers or easy salmon cakes
22 - Chicken penne pasta with broccoli
25 - Easy skillet pork chops with gravy
27 - Easy chicken fajitas or sheet pan chicken fajitas
28 - Cajun chicken pasta
29 - BBQ turkey burgers or BBQ chicken burgers
Whew, hopefully are you all set now!
Last thing, I would really appreciate your feedback.
If this monthly meal plan is helpful, please leave me a comment below.
Or if there’s things you wish I would change or add or do differently, let me know that, too! I want this to be a helpful resource, so let me know how I can make it even more helpful.
(Also, I want to see whether these are useful and if I should continue to make them in the months to come. So please let me know below!)
I hope you have a wonderful - and delicious - month!
* February meal plan PDF *
(You can download and print the February calendar from that link, or save this page to come back to. Whatever is easy for you.)
XO,
Kathryn
Jessica
Your monthly meal plans have been super helpful!! I’d love to see you continue to make them.
Kathryn Doherty
Oh I'm so happy to hear that Jessica! Thank you for sharing! I've got a monthly meal plan for every month of the year now and I'm updating each one this year. 🙂