Meal Plan #3 - Cozy Comfort Foods

As the weather cools and days grow shorter, this week’s Golden Grown Wellness Meal Plan #3 – Cozy Comfort Foods celebrates everything we love about home-cooked fall meals. Each recipe features warm, comforting flavors, seasonal produce, and simple, nourishing ingredients that make dinner feel special — even on busy weeknights. Perfect for easing into the changing season with warmth and balance.

Indoor fall scene with leaves, coffee, a blanket, and seasonal produce.


Easy Healthy Meal Plan for Busy Families

Welcome to the Golden Grown Wellness meal plan series. Each week, we share a curated collection of recipes from talented creators around the internet that our family is actually eating. All recipes are credited to their original creators, with direct links so you can easily find the recipes and explore more from these talented creators.

In our house, breakfast and dinner are the anchor meals and we usually enjoy leftovers for lunch the next day. Since mornings are busy, I often make breakfast for the next day while I’m making dinner the night before. This supports a healthy, stress-free morning routine.

Each Golden Grown Wellness Meal Plan includes breakfast and dinner ideas you can mix, match, and repeat without spending your whole life in the kitchen.

This week’s theme is Cozy Comfort Foods and features more fall themed foods that support your immune system by using the foods that are naturally in season this time of year.

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Golden Grown Wellness Meal Plan #3 – Cozy Comfort Foods

Warm, nourishing comfort foods made with seasonal ingredients and cozy fall spices — perfect for chilly evenings and easy weeknight dinners. Recipes curated and credited to the talented creators who developed these amazing recipes!

Monday

Golden Grown Notes: Serve dinner with rice or cauliflower rice.

Tuesday

Golden Grown Notes: Double the cherry crumble bars so there’s enough for everyone. Serve with Greek yogurt for extra protein.

Wednesday

Golden Grown Notes: Slimming Violet has so many variations — choose your favorite; you can’t go wrong.

Thursday

Golden Grown Notes: This breakfast is fiber-packed! I double the recipe and use half the sugar for balance.

Friday

Golden Grown Notes: Serve dinner with rice or cauliflower rice for a complete meal.

Saturday

Golden Grown Notes: A perfect Saturday soup night — hearty, comforting, and best enjoyed fresh.

Sunday

Golden Grown Notes: Bake a sourdough loaf on Saturday to enjoy with Sunday breakfast. Try our Beginner’s Whole Wheat Sourdough Loaf.

Golden Grown Wellness Tips for this Week’s Recipes

  • Prep breakfast while dinner cooks — it saves time and energy and makes breakfast simple with minimal clean-up on busy mornings.

  • Use leftovers for lunch to reduce food waste and make lunches easy.

  • Keep pantry staples like oats, lentils, canned beans, pumpkin purée, and maple syrup on hand to make weekly planning easier, read our pantry staples post to see what ingredients we keep on hand.


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Next Week’s Meal Plan

Next week’s theme: Healthy Harvest | Golden Grown Wellness Meal Plan #4. This menu features warming fall recipes to keep you feeling strong and healthy as the weather turns colder.

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Recipes shared with full credit to their creators. We love highlighting the amazing recipe developers behind the meals that make eating healthy at home easy!


About the Golden Grown Wellness Meal Plan Series

Have you ever tried following a meal plan and thought, “Who would actually eat this?” That was me. I used to spend hours flipping through magazines, cookbooks, and Pinterest boards every week — searching for easy, healthy, quick recipes my family would actually enjoy.

That frustration is what inspired this series. My goal is to help simplify your weekly meal planning, save money at the grocery store, waste less food, and make it easier to serve balanced, nourishing meals everyone will love.

The Golden Grown Wellness Meal Plan Series features curated collections of family-friendly recipes from talented creators across the internet. Every recipe is credited to its original author — we’re simply sharing the healthy, delicious ideas that inspire our family each week.

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Meal Plan #2 - More Fall Y’All