sunday:

dinner with my family
- back-up plan: leftovers

monday:

make a quick pasta for lunch
- that pasta + jarred sauce in our pantry
dinner at the splash pad with friends
- pack a huge $10 snack box with sandwiches, fruit, cheese, leftovers, snacks, anything!

tuesday:

dinner:
- the bowls we make every week
  - grilled chicken/grilled steak
  - instant pot mexican rice or instant pot brown rice
  - pinto beans + “ refried” black beans
  - shredded cheese or weekly batch of queso
    - why we make queso each week
    - these are my favorite containers for leftovers + meal prep
  - mashed avocado, corn, cilantro, tomatoes, jalapeno
  - tortillas, tortilla chips

wednesday:

biggg food prep day - eat any of these components for dinner!
- brett grills protein for the week
- make some sort of easy meal for after the pool/for the freezer
  - triple batch of chicken meatballs for the freezer
  - instant pot spaghetti
- prep salad stuff, make croutons for the week
  - I put my salad in this big container with this thin dish rag and I put my salad veggies in these containers,

thursday:

dinner:
- make a double batch of instant pot rice so we have leftovers
  - I take leftover grilled protein and toss it in this sauce or this sauce (we keep these on hand for easy meals!), then we eat over rice with some sort of Costco frozen veggie. THE BEST.
  - or make some fried rice yum
  - or grab those frozen dumplings in the freezer yummmm

friday:

parents’ house for 4th of july

saturday:

movie night + snack dinner saturday
- movie night must-haves - a play tent and a big ol crash pad
- why we have a dvd player and some special kid dvds
- snack dinner, with the kids’ snack dinner in muffin pans
  - why a weekly snack dinner is crucial for me to rest as a mom
  - our popcorn favorites + our smoothie favorites

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