Jac's Healthy Recipes

Jac’s Healthy Recipes

Five Dinners for After Halloween

For two or four people, with one shopping list

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Jacqueline Whitehart
Oct 31, 2026

Five healthy dinners, one shopping list…

…and one less thing to think about this week.

It's Halloween, so tonight's tea is probably whatever goes in the oven before the trick-or-treaters start knocking. Monday onwards is another matter.

The cooking's the easy bit. What gets me is half five on a Wednesday, trying to think of something that isn't one of the same three things again. Five nights of that and the shopping list ends up as a few bits and hoping for the best.

So here's next week.

Monday: Moroccan Spiced Beef
Tuesday: Pork Chilli Burrito Bowl
Wednesday: Tomato Chicken Spaghetti
Thursday: Creamy Baked Salmon with Mange Tout
Friday: Spanish Chicken & Potatoes

Beef on Monday, pork on Tuesday, chicken twice and salmon on Thursday, so it's not the same thing every night. The quickest take 15 minutes. Each one is under 600 cals with the macros worked out as always, so they'll slot in fine if you're watching cals or after more protein.

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