You’re planning out your menu for the week. You’ve decided to make a whole chicken on one of the nights. Excellent! Whole chickens tend to be less expensive than buying the parts and they are really easy to cook. But there is one problem:
You’re left with approximately 2 pounds of chicken when you’re done. 
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Now that Adam and I have moved and mostly settled in, it’s time to get back to business as usual with meals. Most of the summer I flew by the seat of my pants when it came to meals. Sometimes it was fun (hey unexpected dinner out) other times it was weird (hey weird bowl meals) and sometimes it was just downright stressful.
That’s why I’m getting back into the swing of meal planning. 
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I’m going to be honest with you, life feels a little crazy right now. Ever since my decision to start a new job with my dad, I’ve been trying to find some sort of rhythm/routine/pattern.
It hasn’t quite happened yet. 
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Hello and Happy Monday!
You know what’s hard? Balance. Not just the standing in an upright position and not falling, although that can be a struggle sometimes, but life balance. Making sure I have enough of everything and that everything I want to do gets accomplished.
Especially right now. 
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There are some weeks where the last thing I want to do on this planet is meal plan/prep. My brain just doesn’t want to think of meals and ingredients and preparation and planning and cooking. I don’t want to shop for anything. I don’t want to look at my cooking utensils. I don’t want to turn on a burner or my oven.
Basically, I want food to magically appear with zero effort or thought on my part. 
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