This Week’s Flexible Meal Plan (+ Life Updates!)

Hey friend,

This week is shaping up to be such a good one — the weather is going to be summer-like (82 degrees on Tuesday, whaaat!), and we’ve got some fun things happening: pollinator workshop, back to school after a week off, meet-ups with our friends, Tinkergarten, a healthy happy hour, and even the cleaners coming on Friday (major celebration 🙌).

We didn’t really stick to last week’s meal plan. But the plan is never about perfection. It’s about having a few ideas in place so when life is a little chaotic, (ok so like every day,) I’m not scrambling at 5PM.

Here’s what we’re aiming for this week:

🥳 Monday: Chicken wings (defrosting + marinating them today so I'm not scrambling tomorrow AM). I'll serve this with a classic caesar salad or something like that.

🍔 Tuesday: Cheeseburger sliders, a side salad, sweet potato fries and alll the toppings. Wednesday: Breakfast-for-dinner — always a favorite

Thursday: Probably leftovers/clean out the fridge dinner

🍕 Friday: Takeout or freezer pizza always on Fridays! (we love Rao’s for our emergency pizza stash)

✨ My Approach to Meal Planning:

• Defrost key proteins early (ground beef, chicken wings)

• Keep meals flexible and kid-approved

• Expect real life to happen — and have backup options

  
  

The goal isn’t to control every meal perfectly. I don't cook a lot of food ahead; I may keep some prepped salads on hand like quinoa and chicken and some items in the freezer for breakfast on school days (pancakes, waffles, blueberry muffins.) Other than that, I make everything the night of which is just my preference.

Kimmie also wants to make chocolate cupcakes today and I'm not objecting to that!

What are you making this week?