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here is our meal rotation for all our breakfasts, snacks, lunches, and dinners:
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sunday:
dinner: grill and chill
no grill and chill - hosting brett’s family for brunch instead
build your own biscuit bar:
oven roasted bacon and/or sausage and/or ham
cheese slices
butter + several jams
roasted potatoes
strawberry spinach salad and/or fruit
monday: sandwich night (+ soup/salad, if we're feeling it)
why we love a weekly sandwich night
frozen french fries + fruit
tuesday: taco-ish tuesday
chips and my favorite guac
copycat Jack Allen’s guac: mashed avo + cotija cheese + pepitas
here’s a recipe (or here!) if you need - I tweak it a bit for my own preferences
brett’s gone for dinner, but if for some reason that changes I’ll throw some frozen taquitos in the oven (or make crunchy black bean tacos) for him
wednesday: pizza, pasta, or rice
when the soup is finished, i add in arborio rice and let the soup bubble until the rice is cooked. makes the most delightful creamy tomato and rice situation. and i’m sorry - i have neither an exact measurement of rice nor a more detailed set of instructions. I follow my heart - which makes for a terrible recipe.
here’s an oldddd instagram post if you’re a visual person and would like to see a boomerang of what a bigggg pot of this rice-y soup looks like
big bowl of fruit and/or a bagged salad
thursday: chicken, fish, or sausage
bagged salad or blistered garlic green beans or roasted frozen vegetables
fruit
friday: takeout or leftovers
saturday: snack dinner saturday or dinner with family
friends are in town, so I’m not 1000% sure what that means for dinner. will play it by ear!
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i usually do a little meal prep on Sundays as a part of our Grill and Chill, but I may instead do a bit here and there throughout the week. (you’ll notice I allow space in my daily rhythm for potential meal prep.) 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:
none this week
prep some sort of dessert for the week:
one of my favorite podcasters said this is an incredibly easy way to plan joy into your week and I SO agree. see here why it’s our new favorite thing for our marriage.
prep some things to make breakfasts/snacks/lunches smoother - at a bare minimum, I try to always prep some sort of eggs, some sort of oats, and some sort of muffins/waffles/pancakes for our breakfast rotation, and I try to change up the recipes each week so that cooking stays fun for me and so KK is exposed to variety:
take egg muffins out of freezer or prep instant pot hardboiled eggs
take banana oatmeal muffins out of freezer or make healthy banana cookies
take yogurt muffins out of the freezer or make overnight oats with yogurt and blueberries
make a stack of freezer pb&js, if time/energy
make a few bean and cheese quesadillas, if time/energy
move some frozen mango/pineapple/cherries to mason jars in the fridge for KK
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recipes - here’s where I find new recipes.
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my water routine, courtesy of my dear friend lisa. i got this cup (i’m OBSESSED) and I fill one for me and one for Brett in the morning, and I refill them again in the early afternoon. our water intake is on through the roof, and it’s been so easy.
here’s a quick instagram post where I model how I came up with my routine. (I’ve since tweaked my water routine shown in the post to meet my current needs, but the process is still the same.)
our vitamins and supplements - cleared space so they could live on our counter, tucked in and behind this basket. and now we never forget to take them. make your home work for you!
recognize the basket? it used to be my postpartum basket!
full list of routines that help me feel my best - like a detailed list of my vitamins - coming soon!
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making a few smallllll greener changes to our household - see the list here!
finishing KK’s play kitchen - photo to come soon!
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