With some light prep during the week, dinner will be on the table in a flash.

This easy-to-follow plan will save you time and energy when weeknights get busy.

Sunday Meal-Prep Steps = 1 hour

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How to Meal Prep for a Week of Healthy Dinners

Make the Slow-Cooker French Onion Soup recipe (steps 1-2) and freeze.

Start this recipe early in the day, as it needs 8 hours in the slow-cooker.

Make the marinade for the Chile-Marinated Skirt Steakand refrigerate.

Roasted Chicken

Make the socca batter for the Tomato-Pesto Socca and refrigerate.

Prepare salad greens and refrigerate.

Make the

Roasted Chickensfor tonight’s dinner.

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Carve the second chicken and reserve the meat for theCreamy Buffalo Chicken Saladrecipe.

Make a double batch ofEasy Brown Rice.

The prep-work for this recipe should only take about 20 minutes, plus 2 or so hours to cook.

Slow-Cooker Dal Makhani

This particular bean breaks down beautifully, giving the dish its rich, creamy texture.

We like the flavor of Frank’s RedHot hot sauce, but Sriracha and Tabasco are delicious options too.

This dish will be ready in a flash since, especially when using the cooked chicken from Sunday.

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Serve this healthy chicken salad as an open-face sandwich or scoop it on top of fresh salad greens.

You already have your riced cooked, so you’ve got the option to skip step one.

Or for a vegetarian fried rice recipe, omit the pork and add more vegetables or tofu.

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Thursday Night Meal Prep:Begin marinating the steak for tomorrow’s Chile-Marinated Skirt Steak dinner.

The recommended time to marinate the steak is anywhere between 2 hours and 1 day.

you’ve got the option to find dried chiles in the produce section of many markets.

Chile-Marinated Skirt Steak (Carne Asada en Adobo de Guajillo)

Serve the steak with black beans and a leafy-green salad.

Slow-Cooker French Onion Soup