May-be (see what I did there? 😁) you’ve been struggling to find some good meal ideas for May? If so, you’ve come to the right place. Scroll down and steal my family’s favorite meal ideas for fast and easy meal planning!
Gearing up for a jam-packed month? May tends to be full. Lots of holidays, end of school, graduations, field trips and field days, awards ceremonies, plays, etc. Yeah, it can all be a bit much and then you wonder why you can’t get a decent meal on the table!
No more, friend! I am giving you some easy and classic meal ideas below. And most of them are completely make-ahead. Take one or two days in your week and just make some food!
If you’re already in a good groove with meal planning, keep things going strong into the summer months with these amazing and quick meal ideas for May! And if you are barely making it and want to start meal planning more, just plug these meal ideas into your calendar. It’s so simple!
Tried-and-True Meal Ideas for May
Most of the meals I have listed for May are either classic recipes or super easy meals. Either way, you can make most of them ahead of time or even prep certain ingredients to make cooking easier (see The 15-Minute Meal Prep Solution That’ll Free Up Your Weekends).
Any recipe with a link is one that we love at our house. The ones with asterisks and links are recipes I’ve been meaning to try and haven’t yet. The recipe ideas without a link are ones we like but don’t have a specific recipe we follow.
Recipe Ideas for May
- Texas caviar
- Avocado shake
- Blueberry muffin overnight oats
- Brown sugar oatmeal pancakes
- Easy basic homemade granola
- *Breakfast yogurt popsicles*
- Honey yogurt fruit dip
- Instant pot coconut oatmeal
- Mediterranean feta egg wraps
- Basic {secret ingredient} vinaigrette
- Mustard pickles – canned
- Dairy free coconut leche flan
- Strawberry frozen yogurt
- Homemade salsa
- Easy peasy charcuterie board
- Pressure cooker mac and cheese
- Vegetarian pitas
- Veggie pizza
- Cashew chicken lettuce wraps
- Copycat sweet pork
- Grilled pork tenderloin
- Mexican tostadas
- Mini tostada salads
- Roasted broccoli chickpea arugula salad
- Sheet pan teriyaki chicken and vegetables
- Tropical island chicken
- Bacon and green onion pasta salad
- Caesar salad
- Italian confetti pasta salad
- Mexican tomato and corn salad
- BLT sandwiches
- Chimichurri sauce
- Simple fruit sauce – the recipe is in the notes section of the cheesecake recipe
- Cilantro lime rice
- Classic potato salad
- Macaroni salad
- Trail mix
- Frozen yogurt bark
- Popcorn on the stove
Seriously, don’t click away from this page until you’ve written down some of these meal ideas. Better yet, make sure to plug them into your meal plan for the month!
