April has flown by and we’ve been so happy to have had all of you participating in One Pot April! If you are just joining us, please know that the challenge recipes will be available after the challenge ends and the Facebook Group will continue. You can join the challenge any time!
We’ve fallen in love with how easy and time-saving these meals are and we hope that we have equipped you with resources to continue preparing one-pan meals for your family.
I’ve tested all 20 of the recipes from the One Pot April challenge. Each batch of recipes produced a new favorite for me. Some of those favorites include: Sunday Beef Stew, One Pot Wonder Thai Style Peanut Pasta, Pork Tamale Pie, and Mediterranean Chicken Pesto Pizza. These are just a few of my favorites and all of the One Pot April recipes will show up in my meal plans in the future. This challenge has some truly spectacular offerings and we hope you have enjoyed them as much as we have!
Here’s how One Pot April works:
(If you don’t see the above video, click here to watch it)
One Pot April Facebook Group
Join our Facebook group to find friends, discuss tips and tricks and share recipes with other Plan to Eat users. This group is very active and we would love for you to be a part of it.
30-Minute One-Pot Meals
For our final week of the challenge, we partnered with the book 30-Minute One-Pot Meals. One of my favorites is from this cookbook: Mediterranean Chicken Pesto Pizza. Not only was it quick and delicious, but this pizza had a great freshness to it. It’s perfect for the warmer days of Spring! (I’ve actually made this recipe 3 times this month — that’s how much my pizza loving friends and family enjoyed it!)
One of my favorite parts of the one pot meal phenomenon is the vast variety that you can find with these recipes and 30-Minute One Pot Meals is no different. All of the recipes are done in half an hour, and are made in one baking pan, saucepan, casserole dish, bowl, dutch oven, or wok. Each one is unique, but uses the amazing technique of cooking in one dish to save you time and energy. You’ll also wow your family with these recipes — they’ll think you slaved for hours over some of these dishes. (hello 30-minute meals!)
One lucky winner received 30-Minute One-Pot Meals during our Week 2 giveaway and I wish that I could put this on each and every challengers shelf. In fact, I think that every book from our challenge is amazing! Because of this, we decided to give one lucky winner a copy of each of our giveaway books: One Pot Paleo, One-Pan Wonders, and 30-Minute One-Pot Meals! (see details below)
The Menu
3 of this week’s recipes come from 30-Minute One-Pot Meals, one comes from Rachel Schultz, and the 5th is a Plan to Eat Original. Here’s the lineup for the first week’s menu:
(if you are participating in One Pot April, all of these recipes are available to you directly in your Plan to Eat account)
Quick and Easy White Wine and Mushroom Risotto
Provided by 30-Minute One-Pot Meals
Mediterranian Chicken Pesto Pizza
Provided by 30-Minute One-Pot Meals
Garlic Parmesan Baked Tomatoes and Zucchini
Provided by 30-Minute One-Pot Meals
One Pot Spaghetti
Provided by Rachel Schultz
One Pot Shrimp and Sundried Tomato Tortellini
A Plan to Eat original!
Join us!
All of these simple recipes and many more are waiting for you in your Plan to Eat account when you join us for One Pot April. We’d love to see you there.
A few extra goodies…
Win all of the books that we have used throughout One Pot April! Grace your bookshelves with your own copy of 30-Minute One-Pot Meals, One-Pan Wonders, and One-Pot Paleo. We have one copy of each to give away!
Everyone who joins One Pot April by friending One Pot April in your Plan to Eat account will be entered into a weekly giveaway with an $136 prize package. The fourth week’s drawing will happen on April 29th. The winner will be contacted via email and will receive:
- ($39) 1 free year of Plan to Eat
- ($19) a Plan to Eat canvas shopping bag
- ($28) a copy of the book 30-Minute One-Pot Meals
- ($28) a copy of the book One-Pan Wonders
- ($22) a copy of the book One-Pot Paleo
Join One Pot April to Be Entered To Win!
The Giveaway Fine Print
By participating in the One Pot April you are entering and agree to the following Terms & Conditions:
- No purchase necessary.
- Open to residents of the U.S. 18+ (we apologize to those of you outside the US!)
- Opening date: 4/01/2017 3:00 pm MST
- Ending date: 04/29/2017 8:00 pm MST
- Giveaway sponsored by Plan to Eat, Inc. All rights reserved. 411 N Railroad Ave, Loveland, Colorado 80537
- 1 winner will win all of the prizes of the giveaway: ($39) 1 free year of Plan to Eat, ($19) a Plan to Eat canvas shopping bag, ($28) a copy of the book 30-Minute One-Pot Meals, ($28) a copy of the book One-Pan Wonders, ($22) a copy of the book One-Pot Paleo
- The winner will receive all of these items, mailed together, through US Mail.
- 1 winner will be chosen at random from all of accounts that are linked through a friendship to the One Pot April Plan to Eat account.
- Plan to Eat will contact the winner via email.
