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.
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sunday:
breakfast: my favorite breakfast casserole
excerpt from my new “my breakfast and lunch favorites” blogpost:
I have a bigggg weakness for McDonald’s Sausage Egg and Cheese Biscuits after a good, hard swim. this casserole tastes pretty similar, so of course I’m a fan.
also, also. this casserole freezes well. what I do is after baking this casserole, I let it cool and cut it into granola-bar size strips. and I freeze the casserole in these strips so that when I need a quick breakfast for the week, I take a few of these casserole “bars” out of the freezer. I did this all the time as a teacher.
dinner: grill and chill
brett grills burgers YAY!
monday: sandwich night (+ soup/salad, if we're feeling it)
why we love a weekly sandwich night
freeze leftovers - here’s how I freeze soup
caesar salad (or fruit)
make mason jar salads with salad leftovers
tuesday: taco-ish tuesday
wednesday: pizza, pasta, or rice
or pasta + jarred sauce
or leftover caesar salad
thursday: chicken, fish, or sausage
friday: takeout or leftovers
saturday: snack dinner saturday
frozen chicken nuggets + frozen french fries + whatever fruit we have laying around
currently using
my favorite freezer containers for soup + taco meat
my electric wok - one of my favorite christmas gifts ever
my blue and white dishes, of course
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:
probably won't this week
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.
peanut butter chocolate chip cookies (freeze leftovers)
prep some things to make breakfasts/snacks/lunches smoother
pull yogurt muffins out of the freezer
make a batch of instant pot hardboiled eggs
make some turkey wraps with honey mustard for easy lunches (omit lettuce so wraps last longer)
make a batch of oatmeal like this
excerpt from my new “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
the fall issue of the food network magazine :) :) :)
currently wearing
these shorts. still. at this point I have three pairs and just rotate through them.
currently streamlining
my inbox and unsubscribing to alllllll the emails I don't need. BLISS.
a few things re: the upcoming holidays. see full post here.
currently loving
that football season is back. PRAISE. i don't even like football per se, but my WORD I love the ambiance of a football game playing in our home. snack dinner saturday and grill and chill sunday just got a whole lot more fun.
my Panera coffee subscription. we're currently doing the free trial, and I love it because there's a Panera right on our way home from 99% of our outings. these days I grab an iced coffee on our way home, I doctor it up at home with my beloved Horizon half and half, and I enjoy it while I work during KK's nap. the loveliest spot of joy!
my new workout class with KK. we go to class in the morning, we drive through and get a coffee on our way home, we sometimes swing by the car wash, we come home and rest. it's a magical little routine. here's a peek into our daily schedule.
currently working on
drinking enough water - I've been slacking lately. here's my water routine.
creating our Summer photo book. here's our easy system for getting our photos off our phone and into our home!
ordering our outfits for our annual family photos - one of my August routines is to book our annual family photos and one of my September routines is to figure out clothes for the photos. see allllll my annual routines here.
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.
