currently eating

here is our meal rotation for all our breakfasts, snacks, lunches, and dinners:

see this blogpost for more on why we love our meal rotation, how we created it, and tips (plus a freebie!) for making a meal rotation work for you. see how I menu plan here and where I find new recipes here.

currently cooking

sunday:

breakfast: lemon quick bread or dutch baby pancake

dinner: grill and chill

brett grills chicken for chicken caesar wraps
a big bowl of fruit + parmesan roasted sweet potatoes

monday: sandwich night (+ soup/salad, if we're feeling it)

why we love a weekly sandwich night

sloppy joes
- freeze leftover meat in these containers
french fries
salad + ranch dressing (or for dipping fries)

tuesday: taco-ish tuesday

tamales (or taquitos?)

mashed avo + queso + chips

wednesday: pizza, pasta, or rice

thursday: chicken, fish, or sausage

frozen fish + tartar sauce
crispy roasted brussels sprouts with balsamic glaze
blistered garlic green beans
leftover salad, leftover fruit, or leftover garlic bread

friday: takeout or leftovers

saturday: snack dinner saturday

frozen chicken tenders + honey mustard
french fries + leftover ranch dressing
leftover salad + leftover fruit

currently using

my salad dressing containers - we have two, but I might need a third
my favorite freezer containers for leftover sloppy joe meat
my avocado tool - one of my most-used kitchen items, no lie

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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:
- prep 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.
- blueberry banana cream pie or soft oatmeal cookies
prep some things to make breakfasts/snacks/lunches smoother
- pull pancakes out of the freezer
- pull my chicken noodle soup out of the freezer for my lunches this week
  - here’s my full list of favorite breakfasts and lunches!
  - here’s how I freeze/thaw soup
- make egg muffins with bacon and cheese
- make a batch of oatmeal like this
  - excerpt from my “my breakfast and lunch favorites” blogpost:
  - up until, like, a year ago, i swore I disliked oatmeal. but it turns out I was just eating the wrong kind. my mom one day made oatmeal like this with good oats, and served it to me plain with a generous slab of butter stirred in. it was this savory risotto-like situation. it was heavenly. and from then on, I was a converted oatmeal lover.
  - so now I make a batch - at least once or twice a month - of the above recipe, and I portion them out into smaller mason jars like this. that way, when it’s breakfast/lunch time, I can grab one of the containers, heat it up, stir a slab of butter into the hot oatmeal, and enjoy. i thank Past Haley profusely whenever I find these gemstones in my fridge.

currently reading

nothing this week - it was a wedding week around here!

currently wearing

when I have flowers in our house for a wedding, the thermostat is turned wayyyyy down. which means alllll the cozy clothes and slippers!

currently streamlining

we decided we want to make family bike rides a priority now that KK is older and the weather is better - and it’s also something we can do for Sunday Grill and Chill - so we added “get bikes tuned up” to the October section of our “yearly tasks + expenses list”
added “clean stroller” to my list of monthly routines now that KK eats snacks in it every time we go to our Fit4Mom class. wooooo buddy.

currently loving

our pillows, always and forever. one of our favorite investments we ever made. last week we gave them a good wash - per our September cleaning schedule - and MAN ALIVE it has been the ultimate guilty pleasure.

currently working on

brett’s birthday - weeee! we have a set list of traditions we like to do for my birthday, and we’re having the best time brainstorming and dreaming what he’d like to do for his.
planning what I’d like to put in our Christmas Eve Box this year - aka our gift tradition for Brett and me. the box has three categories: something(s) to increase the comfy + cozy factor of our home, something(s) to strengthen our marriage + cultivate intimacy, and something(s) to do together in the coming year. read more about this beloved tradition - and what we’ve put in the “box” in years past! - here.

currently sharing

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