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🍁 Meal Plan for Oct.26-Nov.01, 2026 🍁

Published about 10 hours agoΒ β€’Β 1 min read

Here are my dinner recommendations (and salads!) for the upcoming week (October 26 - November 1, 2026). And don't forget to enter my October 2026 Cooking Challenge (for a chance to win a $250 Amazon E-Gift Card), Just make one of the 3 featured recipes, snap a photo with your phone by October 31, and submit it here. That's all it takes to enter!

DAY 1: Creamy Sausage Tortellini Soup​

DAY 2: Spaghetti Squash Stuffed with Chicken, Tomatoes, Spinach, and Feta Cheese​

DAY 3: Butternut Squash Ravioli with Brown Butter Sauce and Pecans (you can use store-bought ravioli and sweet potatoes instead of squash)

DAY 4: Autumn Dinner with Sausage, Pasta, Brussels Sprouts, and Butternut Squash​

DAY 5: Stuffed Pork Tenderloin (with spinach, cranberries, pecans, and bacon)

DAY 6: Chicken Enchilada Soup​

DAY 7: Greek Chicken and Lemon Rice​

Halloween: Monster Cookies​

SALAD 1: Pear and Pomegranate Spinach Salad with Maple-Lemon Mustard Dressing​

SALAD 2: Strawberry Avocado Salad with Feta, Pistachios, Pecans, and Poppy Seed Dressing​

SALAD 3: Roasted Brussels Sprouts Salad with Maple Butternut Squash, Pumpkin Seeds, and Cranberries​

If you try any of these recipes, I'd love your feedback in the comments section for each one on my website. Please do not respond to this e-mail.

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