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Enjoy this April meal plan with a printable calendar and easy, family-friendly recipes.

It’s April! With weather as mild as we’ve been having, I believe it! I might be jinxing us, but I washed and put away my boys’ snow pants and winter boots. I wasn’t naive enough to put away the winter coats yet, but I’m hoping we won’t have to bust out the heavy snow gear. So if we get a blizzard in Nebraska at the end of the month? You’ll know it’s my fault!

This April is a fun month for us! We have 2 Easter celebrations. We have 2 birthday boys in this month. We have 2 boys playing Baseball this year. We have 2 boys playing in a piano recital. We have Spring Break. We have our firstborn starting his first “punch a time clock, get a paycheck every 2 weeks” job. We have a landscaping project. We have a fairly significant home maintenance scheduled. We have an international vacation planned! All kinds of fun things! But I’ll menu plan through it. That way I have the desserts at the right celebration. The right Birthday cakes made on the right days. And it’ll go a fair way towards helping me stay sane! Plan with me! Whether you use this one or one you make yourself, a menu plan will bring you more peace in the kitchen. Want a menu plan that’s even more simple than this one? AND includes a shopping list? Try this one: ‘Incredibly Easy 5-Ingredient Meal Plan and Cookbook’ available on Amazon!

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Recipes in this menu plan:

Pizza Casserole
One Pot Homemade Hamburger Helper
Oven Roasted Chicken
Chicken Lo Mein
Chicken & Broccoli
Smoked Sausage & Potato Hash
Oven Fried Chicken
Baked Honey Mustard Chicken
Pepperoni Roll
Chicken Caesar Salad Wraps
French Dip Sandwiches
Sesame Chicken
Marlboro Man Sandwiches
Ham & Swiss Pinwheels
Grilled Burritos
Ham & Cheese Crescent Bake
BBQ Pork Tenderloin
Baked Teriyaki Chicken
Slow Cooker Ham
Santa Fe Chicken Foil Dinners
Sweet Asian Chicken
Queso Chicken Bake
Taco Soup
Broccoli Alfredo Stuffed Shells
Slow Cooker Chili
Baked Cornflake Chicken
Instant Pot Lemon Chicken
Sloppy Joes – Slow Cooker or Instant Pot
Broccoli Cheddar Chicken
Easy Skillet Nachos
Oven Baked Tacos

April 2026 meal plan calendar

Jayme is a wife to 1 and a mother to four boys. She tries to save money in the kitchen by building a smart stockpile and meal planning. While she likes to cook, she’s in the stage of life where simple is usually better – she never knows how crazy it’ll get at dinner time. You can find her on Instagram.

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