sunday: grill and chill
- brett smokes ribs for dinner + grills chicken for the week
- with potato packets + bagged salad + fruit
- serve with cornbread (cook in a hot, oiled cast iron to get that good crust)
- see these instagram posts for more on our grill and chill tradition + our sunday routines
- brett loves his grill, his smoker, and his prep table (see other grill and chill favorites here)
- see our other weekly routines here and our yearly traditions here
weekly meal prep:
- fyi
- here and here's how I meal prep
- see all my meal prep instagram posts here
- here's what I do when I don't feel like meal prepping
- shop my favorite meal prep goodies here
- I love this article for inspiration
- prep dinner things: “What can I do now that will make eating at home this week easier?"
- prep food for kk's breakfasts, if needed
- see more about how we introduced solids to KK here
- make food for me
- make a batch of this oatmeal for the week, if needed
- make a batch of soft scrambled eggs, if needed
- make an oven omelette for the week, if needed
- here's my recipe (I loosely tweaked this oven omelette recipe and this recipe) or here's my post on similar egg cups.
- make smoothie cups and/or yogurt parfaits, if needed
- see my "smoothies" highlight on my instagram
- see more about my yogurt parfaits here
- make snack boxes in divided glass containers like this, if needed:
- 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
sub sandwich bar + leftover fruit
- (from freezer - frozen in these containers)
- omit bacon for personal preferences - only because I hate mushy bacon - oven cook bacon to sprinkle some on brett's? use leftover bacon on Wednesday or for BLTs for lunch?
- if I'm feeling lazy, I'll use preshredded carrots (like, the kind for salads)
- I used four small potatoes and I used a little less broccoli (we were low) - then we put the broccoli florets in the food processor and essentially riced them (which we ended up loving the teeny tiny pieces of broccoli, as I detest large broccoli chunks in my soup)
tuesday:
leftover grilled chicken from sunday
rice + instant pot black beans (both prepped on sunday)
pico + crema + costco queso + mashed avo
wednesday:
creamy white chicken chili (SO good!!)
- I omit the chicken out of personal preference and will do four-five cans of beans total instead
- sometimes i'll add in cooked brown rice at the end at that's a lovely touch or I'll serve over rice - use rice prepped on sunday
serve with small pieces of leftover diced grilled chicken so brett can add chicken to his
+ leftover cornbread from sunday
thursday:
one of those amazing bagged, chopped salads (add in grilled chicken from sunday)
+ leftover cornbread from sunday
+ leftover potato packets from sunday OR or leftover soup from monday
+ whatever fruit's lurking around
- also, on fridays I menu plan + order groceries. I try to post my step-by-step each week in my instagram stories if you want to see how I menu plan, but I have a highlight of me talking through my process in my "how I menu plan" highlight, if you prefer that.
- here are my three go-to dinner strategies I repeat over and over. and over.
- here's what I do when I don't feel like making what's on the menu plan.
- see this quick instagram post on my friday routines here.
- see this blogpost for a list of all our routines, if you'd love some ideas.
saturday: snack dinner saturday
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