sunday:
dinner:
grill and chill, explained in this ig post about our latest dinner themes
brett grills the hamburgers and hotdogs we never got around to grilling a week or two ago
meal prep:
unload groceries for the week
prep any fruit for easy snacking + easy dinner sides
assemble our veggie box
prep a few mason jar salads for the week with mixed greens, goat cheese, red onions, candied pecans, honey crisp apple, and bal vinaigrette
oven roast a pack of bacon
monday:
dinner:
friend dinner, explained in this ig post about our latest dinner themes
if it falls through for whatever reason, we’ll do build your own sandwich bar, build your own breakfast tacos, or my favorite, easyyyyyy build your own bar of all time
meal prep:
make a big batch of our favorite ip oatmeal for the week
here’s why this serves us well all week long
make a batch of ip pasta alfredo for easy lunches
do this trick to add in veggies
make a few yogurt parfaits
make some sort of egg thing for the week
like these egg muffins
tuesday:
dinner:
something with beans
Tuesdays are my day I meal prep all this. so Tuesday Dinner is something with all that, and something with beans.
Quesadilla Night or Pinto Bean Bowls or Build Your Own Tostadas, or Burrito Bowls again. We can’t get enough lately.
big bowl of fruit + big bowl of mashed avo
meal prep:
here’s everything else I meal prep on Tuesdays and why - Tuesday is a very, very important cooking day and it takes care of us the entire rest of the week
let’s make “refried” black beans, mexican rice, creamy jalapeno, and queso (looooosely based on this bean recipe, this rice recipe, this creamy jalapeno recipe, and this queso recipe - I promise I’ll write out my recipes soon!)
wednesday:
the trader joe’s mandarin chicken in our freezer
brown rice + orange slices + avocado slices
roast the lurking carrots in our fridge
also roast the last few sweet potato fries in our freezer because why not
trying to clean out our freezer, tbh
also make two loaves of this easy artisan bread - one for dinner, and one to gift to my MIL with this jam advent calendar :) :) :)
meal plan:
make some sort of muffins - let’s do these spinach muffins
thursday:
thanksgiving:
friday:
that frozen chicken teryaki thing we have in our freezer
a big bowl of fruit + some lurking avocado
leftover toast because why not
yogurt or a smoothie to round it out, if need be
if you missed it on IG, I’m trying to reallyyyy use up what we have, and the nights surrounding Thanksgiving feel like an especially good time to do so
other options, just in case:
saturday:
dinner:
snack dinner saturday, explained in this ig post about our latest dinner themes - lately we love some sort of cheese, cracker, and smoothie combo
usually a toddler-friendly movie is involved, too
meal prep:
clean out the fridge
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