First of all, thank you everyone for following the journey and for all the positive feedback. I really appreciate everyone taking the time to comment and share their best recipes. This experiment has brought me a lot of joy and definitely helped me improve my culinary skills and expand my recipe repertoire over the first five weeks. A special thanks to the 80 people who started following my account on Reddit. I don’t really know what it means, but now I can annoy my wife by calling myself an “influencer.”
This week’s recipes:
Texas Chili
French onion baked lentils and farro
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I tried my best to source all the ingredients, but I couldn’t find everything for this week’s recipes. I live in a small town in Canada, and our grocery store doesn’t carry everything. I did my best to adapt. I had to swap the farro for barley and the dried peppers for canned chipotle.
The Texas chili isn’t done yet. It’s still cooking and thickening in the crockpot, which is why it might look a bit watery. I had a bit of free time and decided to post earlier today.
I also made another chickpea salad. My wife is addicted, and in the last 10 years I’ve been with her, I don’t think I’ve seen her go a week without it.
I wish you all a great week, and thank you again. Keep these recipes coming!
by Intelligent_Finger88
12 Comments
Report back on the French onion lentils! I’ve had that same recipe saved for a long time, but just have never gotten around to making it. It looks fantastic though.
Looks so good!! Yum 😋
Can you share the recipe for the chickpea salad please?
I was just browsing the previous weeks posts and was wondering when we were going to get this weeks drop, looking forward to a whole year of inspiration.
Everything looks wonderful!
ngl sounds like a winner! how’s the flavor? thinking of making it next week too
idk idk what i just read but i’m here for it lol
Enjoy!
Yum!!!
Next week do a crock pot French dip
Would you mind sharing what you do for your fruit salad? Looks so good!
I’ve been obsessed with these chicken caesar smash tacos lately. It’s so easy to sub different flavor combos (chicken smash tacos with cobb saladish toppings, pork smash tacos with a cooked cabbage slaw topped with Bachan’s Japanese bbq sauce, beef smash burger tacos topped with burger sauce and all the usual burger toppings. So easy and quick and super tasty.
[chicken caesar smash tacos](https://simplehomeedit.com/recipe/chicken-caesar-smash-tacos/)
Love the commitment to letting Reddit decide! The French onion lentils sound incredible – never thought to combine those flavors.
One thing that helped me stick to meal prep was building in some flexibility. I’d prep 4-5 base components (like your chili and lentils) then mix and match during the week. Keeps it from feeling like you’re eating the exact same thing every day.
Also started tracking which combos worked best – turns out chili over baked sweet potato was a game changer I never would’ve thought of myself.
What’s been the wildest suggestion you’ve gotten so far?