Simple Meals + Honest Book Reviews + Practical Living
The last time I posted an Overrated Reads series was back in April of last year, we’re very overdue for another round. Most of these reviews are going to be unpopular opinions, but hey! that’s what this series is all about.
Besides an unplanned McDonalds run on Sunday afternoon, I’m proud of this weeks meal planning. Especially since I didn’t overdo it with the grocery shopping and we had zero food waste. How did your family do last week?…
VARIETY! A lot of people get caught up in this idea that we need to cook a wide variety of complicated recipes each week. Which in turn, makes the entire meal planning process much more complicated than it needs to be….
So many of us get caught up in this idea that a “good” home cook needs to churn out a dazzling array of complicated recipes every single week. We scroll past endless reels of creative dinners and intricate lunchboxes, convincing ourselves that this is the standard we should measure up to. But here’s the thing—it doesn’t have to be that way.
Welcome back to another installment of What We Ate This Week. I’m having a lot of fun with this series and I hope you learn some tips and tricks along the way. Here are the lunches and dinners we ate during the week of February 01-07. Enjoy!
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Now that we’re in the new house and have settled into a good rhythm and routine, I figured it would be fun to share what meal planning and grocery shopping look like in our household. This is going to be a series I plan to keep up with, since I’m really, really trying to get a fool-proof system in place between the grocery lists and meal planning….