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here is our meal rotation for all our breakfasts, snacks, lunches, and dinners:
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sunday:
breakfast: none - we’re off on a family adventure
dinner: grill and chill
brett grills that lurking frozen steak in our freezer for dinner
turn it into some sort of steak and eggs breakfast situation
or build your own breakfast tacos with scrambled eggs, steak, hash browns, etc
brett grills thighs for later this week
monday: sandwich night (+ soup/salad, if we're feeling it)
why we love a weekly sandwich night
build your own sub sandwich with jimmy john’s bread
tuesday: taco-ish tuesday
use grilled chicken thighs from sunday
mexican rice (I omit the oil and make this in my rice cooker)
pico, queso*, salsa, guac, onion, cheese, TJ’s street corn, etc
wednesday: pizza, pasta, or rice
thursday: chicken, fish, or sausage
turkey trot + thanksgivinggggg meal
friday: takeout or leftovers
saturday: snack dinner saturday
leftovers
or frozen taquitos + leftover queso + guac + any leftover burrito bowl things
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my tomato knife…but really I use it for everything
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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:
egg and cheese pockets? or cheesy scrambled eggs with spinach?
yes, I’ve been known to make scrambled eggs 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.
cottage cheese pancakes (double recipe, freeze leftovers), if time/energy
make tuesday’s instant pot black beans or slow cooker refried beans early since KK and I love these for breakfast/lunch? (with lots of mashed avocado always - and sometimes soft scrambled eggs - yummmmm!)
sliced baked apples or instant pot applesauce to use up the million sad apples on our counter - double recipe and freeze leftovers for Future Us
make easy orzo salad since I never got around to it last week and this would be perfect for our lunches, if time/energy
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our holiday season with our beloved fridge calendar. see full list here of allllll the tiny things we do to simplify holidays and celebrations.
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our local wildflower center membership and our Texas State Parks pass. we’re currently in a season where we can’t afford vacations - and that’s okay! - so these two things are making for such enjoyable Sunday Grill and Chills. the loveliest way to inject some fun - yet affordable - adventures into our weeks!
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making over that Ikea play kitchen to better fit KK’s needs…and to better fit my home aesthetic. i’m having THE BEST time with this project! can’t wait to show y’all the finished product and can’t wait to play with this gem for years to come.
ignoring all the gift guides and the general holiday shopping panic - see how we plan (and budget for) christmas here.
deciding we may not send out christmas cards this year in light of all these prices going up and us being a one-income family. and that’s okay - there’s always next year! trying to trim up our budget and cut back on spending during this time - when we’re veryyy intentional with our money, we live very comfortably on brett’s income. but that means prioritizing what’s reallyyy important to us, and this year christmas cards didn’t make the cut.
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