Dinner Planning 101

My BIGGEST annoyance in life is to get up at 6AM, work all day, make it to the daycare by 4:20, get home, get Garett for a nap and then start dinner and clean up after dinner. Pretty much my daily routine gets in the way of all the snuggles and laughs I want to have, so I am constantly looking for easy peasy ways to change things up so I have more time with 2 of my 3 favourite men :) 

Starting with meal planning. Since cooking dinner (a quick hearty, healthy dinner) on weeknights is not exactly my go-to recipe for fun (see what I did there?), I have started planning out my meals, so I don't have to worry about what to make for dinner as I answer emails and run around all day.

BASKETS,people. Put them in your pantry and fill them up with the cupboard essentials (spices, etc that don't belong in the fridge, but do belong in your corresponding meal). Here is my coming weeks worth of meals :


Linguine with Turkey and Carrot Ragu. YUM.


Brushetta Chicken (in case you couldn't read the big writing up there), with roasted garlic squash and zuchinni.

Mongolian Beef on rice.

Proscuitto and olive angel hair pasta.

Baked cod with steamed asparagus

There you have it. As simple as that. 10 minutes of searching Pinterest. 45 minutes of cruising a grocery store. 15 minutes of sorting when you get home and BAM, not a care in the world for 7 nights other than how many butterfly kisses you can give those gloriously plump cheeks on the most handsome boy in the world :)




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