how dinner happens these days: I wear KK in this carrier or I set her in our bouncer while I prep dinner (or, or! I do what I can during her naptimes), we set KK in the tripp trap high chair with the newborn insert while we eat, and we answer questions from this book (like we used to do when we were dating). And grocery delivery. Weekly grocery delivery.
See my Instagram stories for peeks at my daily life + this week's dinners.
sunday:
grill and chill
monday:
grill and chill
- brett grills burgers for dinner
- brett grills chicken for the week
- see this instagram post for an explanation of our weekly grill and chill tradition
- brett loves his grill and smoker
- see our other weekly routines here and our yearly traditions here
weekly meal prep:
- visit my Pinterest boards to see where I save all food inspiration and ideas, like yogurt parfaits and snack boxes
- shop my favorite meal prep goodies here
- my version of Meal Prepping is asking myself, “What can I do now that will be helpful in the future?” AKA “What can I do now to make Thursday’s dinner easier?”
- I love this article for inspiration
- make a batch of this oatmeal
- store in small, individual glass containers like this for the week
- make a batch of rice for tuesday's burrito bowls
- cut up broccoli
- prep lettuce for caesar wraps + burrito bowls + BLTs + caesar salad
- make a batch of instant pot black beans for me + for tuesday's burrito bowls
- make snack boxes in divided glass containers like this:
- instant pot black beans + soft scrambled eggs + grapes
- inspiration: this
- or instead of scrambled eggs, oven omelette (or this recipe)
- see my "snack box" highlight on my instagram for this better explained + past boxes
- see my Pinterest boards to see where I save all food inspiration for snack boxes/adult lunchables/bistro boxes/whatever you call them
- make smoothie cups and/or yogurt parfaits, if needed
- see more about my smoothies here, here, and here
- see more about my yogurt parfaits here and here
- shop my favorite smoothie cups, straws, and blender here
- shop my favorite meal prep goodies here
- see my other routines here
monday:
- use grilled chicken from sunday
- use refrigerated caesar dressing (near the produce) - its SO MUCH BETTER
- we use halved cherry tomatoes, romaine lettuce, and shredded (not powdered!) parmesan cheese with good flour tortillas
- brett crumbles croutons (either caesar croutons, or cheese/garlic croutons) to sprinkle on top - this part is essential to add crunch to every bite
- brett adds thinly sliced red onion to his
- see this post and this post for photos + ingredients + step by step
- with roasted sweet potato cubes?
- (I don't peel them and I cook them much longer - until caramelized - like in this photo)
tuesday:
leftover grilled chicken from sunday
rice + instant pot black beans (both prepped on sunday)
lettuce + pico + crema + costco queso + mashed avo
- I use my favorite avocado tool when dealing with avocados
caesar salad + grilled chicken from sunday
garlic bread
thursday:
chicken spaghetti (from freezer in these containers)
- roasted broccoli: cut into tinyyyy pieces, coat in olive oil + garlic salt, 400 degree oven, upper rack, until crispy (clearly I wing this recipe, so you do you - somewhere around 20ish min, maybe? sometimes I add good parmesan at the end?)
- roasted brussel sprouts (I kinda wing this recipe, so take these directions with a huge grain of salt)
- i buy shredded brussel sprouts from HEB or Trader Joe's (or! or! I'll buy whole brussel sprouts, slice off the stem thingy, and cut the brussel sprout in half so that it falls apart deliciously in layers on the cookie sheet), I toss them in olive oil and generously sprinkle with garlic salt. I cook in an oven at 400 degrees (move the rack to the top third of the oven) and I cook until browned and crispy (like 20-30ish minutes? I DON'T KNOW). Then I drizzle them with TJ's Balsamic Glaze and put back in the oven for 2-3 minutes. thank you for coming to my ted talk.
leftover garlic bread
friday:
BLTs + leftover roasted sweet potatoes
lauryn wedding
saturday:
snack dinner saturday
- see my "snack dinner" highlight on my Instagram for my posts
- finger foods, apps, cheese + crackers, various produce*, dips, anything goes
- I'm a relatively picky eater, so I use this time to try produce I haven't necessarily liked before + experiment with different ways to cook/eat said produce - serving a new food alongside, say, cheese and crackers makes it less threatening to me
- peek at my "snack dinner" pinterest board where I find inspiration
- aaaand this article in favor of snack dinner (+ ideas)
- my favorite place to learn cheese plates is this instagram account or her book
- if our budget allows, we love renewing our Cheese of the Month membership to celebrate our wedding anniversary - we discovered this cheese shop while dating in college, so it's one of our favorite nostalgic things. It’s pricey, but perfect for an at-home date, and perfect for our weekly snack dinner.
my favorite posts/pages to help you:
- meal planning 101, for those that want to start menu planning, what to know how I menu plan each week, or want to laugh about what I did before menu planning
- shop my amazon store
- read about my five things I'm loving this week: a weekly series
- here's my list of things to do at home, haley wynn style
- see my favorite things I did/prepped/bought for postpartum here
- click here for my postpartum meal plan + what I froze for postpartum
- or read all about my pregnancy so far + how I'm prepping for baby
- see this Instagram post for more on my freezer cooking
- (also peek at the "freezer" highlight on my Instagram)
- have a question? I may have answered it in my questions of the week blogpost or saved it in one of my highlights on instagram.
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