currently eating
here is our meal rotation for all our breakfasts, snacks, lunches, and dinners:
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sunday:
breakfast:
mom’s oatmeal pancakes or lemon cream cheese crumb muffin
here’s why i make a weekend breakfast to help my week go smoother
dinner: grill and chill
no grill and chill - going to see our friend’s band play at outdoors at a brewery!
whenever I don’t feel like doing a routine - for whatever reason - I skip it, guilt free. when I skip routine, I realize how much I miss (and benefit from!) that routine. and I return to the routine with newfound appreciation and enthusiasm.
so, grill and chill is skipped this week so that we can instead go on an adventure. and that’s okay!
monday: sandwich night (+ soup/salad, if we're feeling it)
why we love a weekly sandwich night
build your own grilled chicken sandwich bar
with oven roasted bacon
turn salad leftovers into mason jar salads
tuesday: taco-ish tuesday
build-your-own breakfast tacos
some monterrey jack cheese
gooooood flour tortillas
wednesday: pizza, pasta, or rice
leftover salad + fruit
thursday: chicken, fish, or sausage
balsamic glazed sheet pan gnocchi with sausage (with cornbread! and roasted green beans! and gooood parmesan! can you tell this is one of my favorites?)
friday: takeout or leftovers
saturday: snack dinner saturday
chili (from freezer)
learn how I freeze - and thaw! - soup here
fixings for Frito Pie: fritos, shredded cheese, etc
and/or leftover cornbread
fruit
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my salad dressing containers - we have two, but I might need a third
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currently meal prepping
i usually do a little meal prep on Sundays, but I may do a bit here and there throughout the week. at a minimum, I try to always do this - makes the whole week SO much smoother!
below is the list of what I hope to meal prep this week - it may not all happen, and that's okay! even 5 minutes of prep is super beneficial.
prep some dinner components:
make salad dressing, prep salad ingredients
prep some sort of dessert for the week
yep! one of my favorite podcasters said this is an incredibly easy way to plan joy into your week and I SO agree.
prep some things to make breakfasts/snacks/lunches smoother
make some turkey wraps with honey mustard for easy lunches (omit lettuce so wraps last longer)
make mason jar salads for a few of my lunches
make healthy breakfast bars with jam with gooood peach preserves
cut apples for KK and me for the week
transfer some frozen fruit to thaw in the fridge for KK (she loves cherries and mango this way)
life changing soft scrambled eggs
yes, I’ve been known to make these ahead of time for the week. Project Meal Prep taught me how: “For [make-ahead scrambled eggs], it’s best to just slightly undercook your eggs. Maybe 30 seconds away from when you would actually want to eat them. You’re going to have to reheat everything and you don’t want hard overcooked eggs! They’ll cook a little more in the microwave during reheating.”
currently reading
just started the invisible life of addie larue, just finished the forgotten room
currently wearing
my sister knows how much I love a good longline bra and how much I hate underwire (I will not wear it). she swore by this brand* and I skeptically ordered a few of their bras to try. HOLY MOLY THEY ARE MY NEW FAVORITES. I am never wearing anything else.
so basically nowadays I’m wearing my beloved shorts and these bras*. 99.9% of the time. what a time to be alive.
*although I authentically love these bras and paid for them with my own money, know that if you use my link I earn free leggings. YAYYYY!
currently streamlining
our medicine + first aid area. in September and March, I take inventory to see what’s expired, low, or empty. here’s my annual list that I swear is the reason I sleep so deeply - on this list I dump any household task, adulting thing, or family tradition that I like to do (or should do) in certain months.
currently loving
that my lashes are back, thanks to my lash serum!!!
as a result of our pregnancy loss, all my mature eyelashes fell out. I was devastated - not only because it felt like yet another insult added to an already-traumatic injury, but losing my eyelashes - something I love so much about myself - felt unnecessarily cruel. (not to mention I looked like a naked mole rat. which is a separate devastation in itself.) I’M SO HAPPY THEY’RE BACK.
our new doormat. because wow, there will never be a doormat more fitting for us.
currently working on
behind-the-scenes prep work here and there for my fall weddings.
our September cleaning schedule - each area of our home is assigned two months a year to get a goooood scrub, and September is the month we give the bedrooms some much-needed TLC.
remembering what works for other people may not work for us, and that’s okay.
currently sharing
always sharing our favorite routines, our favorite systems, and our favorite dinners on Instagram - come say hi! your kind words make my day. truly.