May Dinner Menu Ideas

Use the seasonal May Dinner Menu Ideas listed below as inspiration and a starting point for your own family menus - simple, whole foods everyone enjoys.

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May. The promise of warmer weather, the start of grilling season (at least up north where we are...), and hopefully fresh garden lettuce is coming on strong.

There are quite a few fresh seasonal choices for May, like asparagus, spinach, and green onions (find more seasonal foods for May here).

This month also finds us working hard to use up last year's food from the freezer so we have room for the new season's preserved food (here's your reminder to defrost your freezer now, too, to be ready for the new season!).

Asparagus is high on our list of seasonal foods and I love a good artichoke (which I get pretty much to myself in our house, ha - more for me!), but May is also a busy time of life for us so you'll find a lot of quick meals this month, too.

I hope this list of dinner menu ideas helps you plan your family's meals for May!

May Dinner Menu Ideas

Week 1

Savory Tomato Seafood Stew, green salad, Easy French Baguettes (freeze one loaf, cooked, for next week)

Rotisserie-Style Slow Cooker Spiced Whole Chicken, cabbage-carrot slaw with spicy vinaigrette

Spicy Noodle Salad with Asparagus, grilled chicken thighs with Addictive Tomato Chutney

Chicken-Bean Haystacks: freezer beans cooked with chili-powdered seasoned tomato sauce over tortilla chips topped with: shredded leftover chicken, shredded lettuce & cheese, chopped onions, salsa and guacamole and/or sour cream

Slow Cooker Sweet Chili Chicken & Vegetables served over noodles or rice

Week 2

Spring Asparagus Quiche, Broccoli Slaw with Cranberries & Feta (or cabbage slaw)

Quick Parmesan-Herb Crusted Baked Fish, Easy French Baguettes (made the week before & frozen) green salad with balsamic vinaigrette

Grilled sausages, grilled asparagus, onions & sweet peppers, leftover French bread

Chicken-Lime Lettuce Wraps, rice, Asian Slaw

Potato & Caramelized Onion Frittata, Roasted Beet Salad with Goat Cheese

Week 3

Cajun Beef on Crispy Spiced Potatoes, Caesar Slaw

Soft Tacos with homemade salsa & 10 Minute Baked Chips

Lemon-Garlic Roasted Chicken & Vegetables, Orange-Almond Salad

Individual Chicken-Tomato Shepherd's Pies (made with leftover roasted chicken), Three Pea Salad with Feta & Walnuts

Sauteed pork chops with Spicy Rhubarb Chutney, Simple Corn, Pepper and Onion Saute, green salad

Week 4

Mediterranean Scramble with Spinach & Bacon, green salad, toasted Easy Artisan Bread

Creamy Pesto Pasta, Quick Corn & Bean Chopped Salad

Homemade Tomato Soup, Black Bean Quesadillas

Easy Chicken-Spinach Calzone, green salad with creamy feta or best ranch dressing

Greek Style Shrimp and Orzo, spinach salad (with leftover dressing from above)

Note: Our family menu always have a couple of standards: Saturdays alternate between burgers on homemade buns (or pigs-in-blankets) & fries and homemade pizza; Sundays are mostly on-your-own leftovers (if nothing is available, a quick pasta is made using our frozen roasted tomato sauce or pesto).

I hope you enjoy and are able to use some of these favorite family meals of ours. You can follow me on Pinterest for even more simple, seasonal and from scratch dinner ideas!