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Welcome to my real-life menu for January 14–20, 2024
This is what I planned to feed my large, gluten-free family that week: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack idea each day.
These menus aren’t prescriptions for how you should eat. They’re a collection of possibilities from a household that has spent years figuring out how to make gluten-free food, Trim Healthy principles, family preferences, food boundaries, budget, capacity, and ordinary life coexist in the same kitchen.
A Few Notes About This Menu
I use recipes from a variety of cookbooks, my own recipe collection, and recipes I’ve found around the internet. When a recipe comes from a cookbook or another website, I’ll link the resource and include a page number when applicable.
You’ll also notice Leftover Days built into my menus. That’s intentional.
I frequently double—or nearly double—the recipes I make because I’m cooking for a large family and because cooking once to feed us more than once is one of the systems that makes our kitchen work. Leftovers aren’t a failure to plan around here. They’re part of the plan.
You can explore more about how I use Leftover Days as part of our household food rhythm.
You can also browse more of the Treehouse Recipes I’ve developed and collected over the years.
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Gluten-Free in the Treehouse
Our household eats gluten-free because gluten is a genuine food boundary in our family—not simply a menu preference.
That means the meals I share are created within the context of our gluten-free kitchen. However, ingredients, brands, manufacturing practices, labeling, and individual needs can change.
That’s where The Treehouse Standard comes in:
Safe, not sorry. Always.
I don’t ask you to trust my ingredient interpretation—not even my own family does. Read the label. Verify the source. Make the decision that best supports your home.
You can read more about Gluten-Free Living in the Treehouse and The Treehouse Standard before adapting any of my menus or recipes for your household.
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A Note for My Trim Healthy Readers
This menu is also built around the Trim Healthy lifestyle, because that’s how I eat and how I naturally approach meal planning.
If you follow Trim Healthy Mama, you’ll probably notice quite a few Crossovers in this particular menu.
There’s a reason for that.
When I originally published this menu in January 2024, I was nursing, and this menu reflects what eating on plan looked like for me during that particular season of life.
I shared more about how I approached Trim Healthy eating while pregnant and nursing here in this video.
You can also explore more of my Trim Healthy Living resources for the way I currently talk about building flexible, sustainable food rhythms around real life.
My menus are shared to give you possibilities—not prescriptions. I’m not a nutritionist or dietitian, and these menus aren’t individualized nutritional or medical advice. They’re simply a peek into what worked in my kitchen during a particular week and season.
Take what serves your household.
Adapt what needs adapting.
Leave what doesn’t fit.
And build a menu that supports the life you’re actually living.
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My Menu: January 14–20, 2024
Sunday-
- Breakfast: Creamy Apricot Oats
- Lunch: Salsa Verde Chicken Soup
- Dinner: Sausage and Sauerkraut
- Snack: Good Morning Coffee Smoothie with Cacao Nibs
Monday-
- Breakfast: Vegan Chocolate Banana Bread
- Lunch: Tuna Sandwich with Slow Risen Millet Bread
- Dinner: Crockpot Chicken Leg Quarters with Caboodle Veggie Salad
- Snack: Cherry Sparkle Gel-O (In Recipe Testing)
Tuesday-
- Breakfast: Pre, Pro & Post Shake Trim Healthy Future P. 81 with Veggies
- Lunch: Flexible Fajita Soup Trim Healthy Future P. 181
- Dinner: Smokey Mexi Skillet
- Snack: Game Day Enchilada Dip with celery and bell pepper slices
Wednesday-
- Breakfast: French Toast in a Bowl
- Lunch: Get Methylating Soup
- Dinner: Mongolian Beef Egg Roll in a Bowl with Quinoa
- Snack: Snickers Gluccie Pudding
Thursday-
- Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs/Veg/Fruit
- Lunch: Red Curry
- Dinner: Mashed Potatoes & Gravy Trim Healthy Future P. 203
- Snack: No Bake Snack Bar
Friday-
- Breakfast: Fried Eggs/Veggies/Fruit(kids)
- Lunch: Tuscan Soup
- Dinner: Pizza Meatloaf and Slaw
- Snack: Popcorn & Wholesome Hot Cocoa
Saturday-
- Breakfast: Sweet n Spicy Quiche
- Lunch: Leftovers
- Dinner: Leftovers
- Snack: Peanut Butter Buckeye Brownies
Here is the printable for this week’s menu, and find more nourishing ideas through these links:
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Nicole Burch is a Trim Healthy Lifestyle Coach, author, and holistic family life mentor helping women and families rebuild through rooted rhythms, personal governance, and sustainable living. Blending nourishment, discernment, and restoration, she guides others toward resilience, peace, and healing—creating lives that are grounded, aligned, and nurtured at home.
Wellness That Withstands.
Rooted. Resilient. Restored.
Trim Healthy Coach Disclaimer
Nicole Burch is a Certified Trim Healthy Mama Lifestyle Coach, independently offering services based on the THM plan. This coach is not an employee or agent of Trim Healthy Mama, LLC. Coaching services are independently managed, and THM is not responsible for results, business practices, or claims made by this coach.
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