currently eating
here is our meal rotation for all our breakfasts, snacks, lunches, and dinners:
currently cooking
sunday:
breakfast: no cooking - out for a family adventure this morning!
dinner: grill and chill
no grill and chill
monday: sandwich night (+ soup/salad, if we're feeling it)
why we love a weekly sandwich night
build your own sub sandwiches with jimmy johns bread
get stuff for my turkey sandwich, and stuff for brett’s italian sandwich
I like to get stuff for our favorite sandwiches from our favorite sandwich places - checking menus gives me ingredient idaes
chips + big bowl of fruit
tuesday: taco-ish tuesday
my favorite slow cooker pinto beans with sausage
with mashed avocado and shredded cheese
either over brown rice or served with frito scoops
wednesday: pizza, pasta, or rice
bagged caesar salad + my favorite prepackaged broccoli
thursday: chicken, fish, or sausage
chicken and rice soup or my favorite chicken noodle soup
freeze leftovers - here’s how I freeze + thaw soup
friday: takeout or leftovers
saturday: no snack dinner saturday
brett’s family visits! serve thanksgiving-ish lunch
roast chicken - Brett’s in charge of these and he usually does something from this cookbook
mashed potatoes + gravy
currently using
my salad dressing containers - we have two, but I might need a third
my favorite freezer containers for leftover soup
my avocado tool - one of my most-used kitchen items, no lie
my electric kettle - alllllll day for tea/hot water. the only way I survived this cold.
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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:
none - I’m resting + recovering from a cold
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.
none - I’m resting + recovering from a cold
prep some things to make breakfasts/snacks/lunches smoother
transfer some frozen fruit to thaw in the fridge for KK (she loves cherries and mango this way)
snickerdoodle muffins, freeze half of the batch for a future week
life changing soft scrambled eggs
yes, I’ve been known to make these ahead of time for the week. Project Meal Prep taught me how: “For [make-ahead scrambled eggs], it’s best to just slightly undercook your eggs. Maybe 30 seconds away from when you would actually want to eat them. You’re going to have to reheat everything and you don’t want hard overcooked eggs! They’ll cook a little more in the microwave during reheating.”
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
I once read, “Overspending is a sign of unfulfilled passions,” and it stuck with me good. Anytime I notice I’m becoming too caught up in things I should buy, I check in with myself. Am I reading enough? Walking enough? Cooking enough? Swimming enough?
And the answer is usually no.
So I’m back to prioritizing resting + reading in the evenings. And not only does it fill my cup, I notice I’m much more content (as is our budget) - and aware/grateful of all I have.
Win, win.
currently wearing
my favorite robe. always.
currently streamlining
nothing. we’re recovering from our first family cold - and it, might I add, was an awful cold - and we’re just thrilled to be back to somewhat functioning, back on our daily rhythm, and back to normal-ish sleep schedules. lawdddd.
currently loving
that I’m done with weddings. whew. I love flowers, but I’m so grateful and happy to put my SAHM hat back on full-time.
it was important to us that I stay home with KK. and i wanted to have my own small floral design business that I could pick and choose my schedule, depending on my season of life. so right now with KK so young (and with the hopes of growing our family), i really don’t take many weddings at all. when I do take a wedding, I do it for fun and as a creative outlet, so I have a pretty strict screening process to determine which weddings I accept. I also love that at any point in the future I can add more weddings to my calendar if I so choose - or, alternatively, I can take an entirely different direction in the realm of florals. it’s all flexible and fluid, just how I wanted.
by not being overly busy, i have time for the things that are important to me. like raising my babies and spending time with family and reading good books and working out and running our household and cooking dinner. so while our income is smaller, our lives definitely feel richer. i’m so incredibly grateful for brett for providing for us, and he’s so grateful for all I do to take care of us and our home. design a life you love. that said, whatever you do that works for your family is absolutely fantastic. this just works really well for us.
we live completely on brett’s income. when we are intentional with both our time and money, we live so very comfortably. this is where having routines and a daily rhythm really helps us - we’re not spending our days mindlessly blowing tons of money (and time!) on things not in our budget, like, frequent trips to the drive-thru or daily Target runs. we spend our days going on walks and going to the pool and taking care of our home and prepping dinner and playing at home and reading good books and helping Brett grill and going to the park and making menu plans and checking our budget - a daily rhythm helps us stay intentional in so many ways.
all that to say, I’m so happy to be back to our slower-paced days.
currently working on
resting, kicking the remnants of this nasty cold, and savoring this season.
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