February meal plan

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 this 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.

Recipes for February meal plan

1 - Creamy tomato soup and grilled cheese

2 - Turkey tacos (with homemade taco seasoning)

3 - Easy baked chicken thighs and 15-minute stovetop mac and cheese

4 - Shrimp and snow pea stir fry

7 - The best game day chili (it's what I make every year for the Superbowl)

8 - Slow cooker Mexican chicken stew

9 - Chicken enchiladas

10 - BBQ salmon or honey dijon salmon

11 - Quick chicken curry (just 15 minutes!)

12 - Spaghetti dinner or Instant Pot spaghetti

14 - Twice-baked potatoes

15 - Acorn squash with kale and sausage

16 - Mahi mahi fish tacos with salsa verde

17 - Balsamic pork tenderloin or Instant Pot pork tenderloin

18 - One pot creamy chicken and mushroom pasta with peas

19 - BBQ turkey burgers or BBQ chicken burgers

21 - Ina’s roast chicken

22 - Turkey sloppy Joe’s

23 - Easy chicken fajitas or sheet pan chicken fajitas

24 - Southwest salmon burgers or easy salmon cakes

25 - Chicken penne pasta with broccoli

26 - Loaded chicken nachos

28 - Easy skillet pork chops with gravy

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!