it's a wedding week for me, so meals are super easy later in the week
sunday: grill and chill
- read all the ways our weekly ritual of grill and chill helps us here
- brett grills sausage for sausage wraps
- roasted potatoes (directions in above link) + cut citrus
- brett loves his grill, his smoker, and his prep table
- see our other weekly routines here and our yearly traditions here
weekly meal prep:
- 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
cut or supreme citrus
tbd
make food for me (and KK)
- *I adapt all these things for KK if need be if it's something we will share
- see more about KK's baby-led weaning journey here
- make a batch of this oatmeal for the week, if needed
- make oatmeal cups for KK, if needed (freeze leftovers for future weeks)
- make a batch of waffles, pancakes, or muffins, if needed
- freeze leftovers, or double the batch and freeze half
- 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.
- or make these egg cups for KK - freeze leftovers for future weeks
- 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
monday: soup + sandwich night
- diy sandwich bar (explained in above post)
- definitely do some oven roasted bacon (to sprinkle on soup, make BLTs, or use later in the week - see Thursday)
- I love my oven rack and baking sheets for baking bacon
- we also love our tomato knife + our panini press
- with perfect potato soup (I omit bacon bc I prefer to sprinkle on top, if at all + I use 1.5-2c pepper jack cheese)
tuesday:
tamales (from freezer, thanks to this holiday tradition)
- + big bowl of mashed avocado
- I love my avocado tool
- whatever fruit we have lying around
wednesday:
trader joe's mandarin orange chicken
+ rice (I love my rice cooker)
thursday:
or, or! leftover soup + pigs in a blanket or BLTs
we'll see how we feel.
friday: fajita friday or leftovers
- will probably use one of the ideas listed under thursday
- shop my favorite leftover containers here
- 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.
saturday: snack dinner saturday
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