Meal Planner Monday

Have you ever checked out allrecipes.com? It's one of my favorite go-to sites for dinner planning. While recipe planning for this week I came across this interesting meal planning strategy-Twenty for twenty.

Apparently if you stock your kitchen with the following ingredients you can make twenty meals. Now that's a nice promise. Maybe this style of planning works well for you. If it does I'd like to know!!

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Twenty for Twenty

Don't like repeated trips to the grocery store? Stock up on these 20 ingredients, and you can make 20 delicious dinners.

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Substitutions

To keep the list of ingredients at 20, we made certain substitutions: milk for cream, whole or diced canned tomatoes, boneless or bone-in chicken breasts; and have not distinguished between light and regular cheeses or green or yellow onions.

The Essential Pantry

Here are a handful of spices, condiments and other staples to have on hand:

• Dried basil
• Dried Oregano
• Salt
• Black pepper
• Dried parsley
• Paprika
• Garlic powder
• Garlic 
• Sugar
• Flour
• Olive oil
• Worcestershire sauce
• Mayonnaise
• Ketchup
• Butter
• Onions

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Your Turn!

So, do you have a favorite versatile ingredient to recommend? Use the comment box below to let us know what you always have inyour pantry. We'd love to hear from you!

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The Ingredients

To make the 20 recipes below, stock up on these 20 ingredients (and be sure your pantry includes the essential ingredients listed on the right).

1.  Jarred spaghetti sauce
2.  Milk
3.  Cheddar cheese
4.  White wine
5.  Lemons
6.  Dry bread crumbs
7.  Canned tomatoes
8.  Eggs
9.  Parmesan Cheese
10.  Sour cream
11.  Mozzarella cheese
12.  Boneless chicken breasts
13.  Bacon
14.  Ground beef
15.  Assorted Pasta
16.  Potatoes
17.  Frozen Broccoli
18.  Cream of chicken soup
19.  Cream of mushroom soup
20.  Frozen spinach

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The Recipes

With the above 20 ingredients, you can make these 20 delicious and distinct meals--everything from pastas, to stroganoff, to scampi and Chicken Parmigiana.

Garlic Chicken Quick Chicken Divan Baked Potato Soup V Chicken Noodle Casserole I Cheryl's Spinach Cheesy Pasta Casserole Ultimate Twice Baked Potatoes Breaded Hamburgers Bacon Spaghetti Macaroni and Cheese IV Simple Beef Stroganoff Florentine Stuffed Chicken Basic Baked Spaghetti Lori's Beef and Spaghetti Macaroni Spinach and Bacon Chicken Chicken Julienne Sour Cream Chicken Chicken Scampi I Potato and Cheese Frittata Tomato-Cream Sauce for Pasta Chicken Parmigiana