March 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.

Last month, I started a new feature here on Family Food on the Table with my February meal plan, giving you an entire month’s worth of recipe ideas for easy, healthy family dinners.

I myself love to menu plan and schedule out our meals.

It does not feel like a chore at all, and I really do enjoy 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 March meal plan full of one month’s worth of ideas for healthy family dinner ideas.

This will carry you through the entire month of March.

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 March 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!
Of course, you can switch your "free" day around to Friday or Sunday or whatever works best for you.

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 March 1 on the calendar to March 31, with the date listed too, which will hopefully make things easier to find throughout the month.

Recipes for March meal plan

1 - Quick and easy chicken and black bean soup

2 - Turkey tacos (with easy homemade taco seasoning)

3 - Honey dijon salmon or southwest baked salmon

4 - 15-minute paprika chicken

7 - Slow cooker Mexican chicken stew

8 - Crispy soy marinated tofu

9 - Shrimp and penne pasta with arugula

10 - Easy chicken fajitas or sheet pan chicken fajitas

11 - Italian baked chicken and pastina

12 - Kung Pao chicken

14 - Instant Pot pork tenderloin or balsamic pork tenderloin

15 - Easy veggie burger or easy chickpea burgers

16 - Stuffed peppers

17 - Irish beef stew

18 - Mediterranean quinoa salad or quinoa Caprese salad

19 - Honey garlic chicken stir fry

21 - Crunchy baked chicken and 15-minute mac and cheese

22 - Spice rubbed pork chops

23 - Chicken and black bean quesadillas

24 - Southwest chicken and veggie frittata

25 - Easy Italian baked fish

26 - Instant Pot spaghetti or classic spaghetti dinner

28 - Balsamic herb grilled chicken

29 - White chicken chili

30 - Beef burritos

31 - Tuna noodle casserole

OK then, 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 valuable resource, so let me know how I can make it even more helpful for you.

(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!