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Quick meals I am making for my busy season · SAY GRACE | Weight Loss + Health for Overwhelmed Women- Stress, Busy, Consistency, Realistic, Motivation, Starting Over, No Restrictions

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All right, y'all. I am about to have a newborn.
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And honestly, I am really low-key praying that by the time this episode airs,
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the newborn will be here.
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I'm at that point in pregnancy. But along with the newborn, we are all heading
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into summer, where if I'm totally honest, I want to chill out, y'all.
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Like, I don't know about you, but the school year is not only hustle and bustle
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for getting up and getting to school and doing the homework and all the things,
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but we have so many activities in the evenings too.
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It just sometimes feels like we're going from one thing to the next to the next
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and it can get really exhausting and overwhelming.
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And so for us, the summer is a really cherished time where things slow down a little bit. Okay.
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And now with a baby coming in the summer as well, we were going to get really
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slow over here at the Shelby house.
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And so I want to do things like feel like I have time to play outside with my
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people when Jess gets home from work or enjoy like slow evenings with newborn
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snuggles without having to rush to make dinner or rush to, you know.
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Hit certain timelines or whatever.
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And honestly, just feel the ease to be able to keep my sanity if the baby does
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decide to have a meltdown at 5.30 p.m.
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You know, I don't want to feel like, oh, well, crap, this is going to push dinner way far back.
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We're not going to be eating until 7 30 because it's going to take me
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an hour to cook or whatever you know so in
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this season for me I refuse to let mealtime be the thing that like sends me
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over the edge in the evenings and I know all you mamas have been there where
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it's like you kind of can maintain everything until dinner and if one thing
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goes wrong it's just like the whole day it feels like it collapses on top of you. So.
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I do not want this to be me. And because of that, I have been preparing a list
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of quick meal ideas that will still work for my post-baby weight loss goals,
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number one, but also like time management struggles, you know,
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that comes with the unpredictability of having a newborn.
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So today I thought we could chat about that, plus, you know,
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how to plan meals that are quick and work well for your family.
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You know I want to I'm going to share some meal ideas that I'm
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compiling I'm going to share some thoughts on what
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we need to focus on to make sure you know our evenings are as least stressful
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as possible and then I also have a freebie that I'm going to give you guys so
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make sure to stay till the end or at least check the description for that because
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it's a really good one and so I know if you're like me I mean I'm gonna have to pause this,
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recording multiple times because I'm just wore out, right? And I know if you're
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like me, you're probably wore out too.
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You don't have to be 38 weeks pregnant to be wore out.
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But I know that at the end of a day or at the end of a, you know,
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week or whatever, the question of what's for dinner is probably your least favorite question of the day.
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And oh my gosh, my kids, I don't know about y'all, but my kids ask it every
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single day, every single day, what's for dinner?
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Sometimes multiple times a day. I'm like, I literally already told you, right?
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But on the flip side of that, right, dinner time is also what a lot of women
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blame for their downfall in their weight loss efforts, right?
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Like they're like, oh, I did so good until dinner.
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And that's very, you know, there's lots of reasons behind that.
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But for a lot of us, the end of the day is where most of us finish one job,
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right, just to start another.
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And we're tired. We're overstimulated. We're dealing with maybe some stress
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from work or just some irritability in general.
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Some of us have not eaten enough earlier in the day. So then when they do get
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to dinner or even preparing dinner, it's like free for all, you know,
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because you have finally let your mind off of work.
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And so your body says, okay, can we please eat now? You know,
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so then you feel ravenous at the end of the day.
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And on top of all that, it's like we just don't have the energy that maybe we
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feel like we need for the battle that may come with picky kids, a picky husband,
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dang y'all, even doing the dishes, right?
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Like some days I'm like, I don't want to cook simply because I don't want to
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have to do these dishes. You know what I mean?
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And so I want you to know that I feel you and I see you. And I think the thing that is most important,
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like, unfelt by a lot of women is that it's okay to be in that place and no
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one asks you to be perfect at it.
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You know, like, we hold expectations for ourselves sometimes that are unrealistic,
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especially for, like, a working mom or a mom who is sleep deprived or a mom
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who is running kids to and fro from all these different activities.
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Like, it is impossible for you to also spend an hour cooking from scratch,
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like homemade meals, right?
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Like, but somehow we still feel like we should, you know what I mean?
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And so I hope if anything today, you hear me say that like, you don't have to do that.
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And if you follow me on social, you know that sometimes I actually do do that,
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right? Like I love sourdough. I love to bake from scratch.
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I love a really good home cooked scratch made meal, you know?
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But the difference is, is when I am doing those things, I am choosing to do it in a state of flow.
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I have put on good music. I'm excited about it. Like, I want to show up and do those things.
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I am not doing it in a state of, I have to, you know.
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And I mean, sometimes, you know, don't get me wrong. Like, obviously,
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there are things that we have to do. But like, you know what I'm saying?
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Most of the time when I choose like a scratch-made home-cooked meal that takes
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a little bit longer, it's because I want to.
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And I want to encourage you in that way. Like, if you just don't want to,
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then it is okay to open your hands and say, I do not want to, right?
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And so I know that as I head into this season of baby, I'm not going to want
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to, you know, and there might be days that I do and that's fine.
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But I know for the most part, I'm going to want to take a nap,
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or I'm going to want to cuddle this last baby of ours, or just spend that time,
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you know, that I talked about earlier.
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So it is about simply finding balance, right?
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That mental balance between saying it's okay that you don't do it all.
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Also still feeling like, hey, even though I'm not making this scratch made super
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healthy meal, I can still reach my health goals.
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Like that doesn't mean that I totally blew it because I didn't make this hour long dinner tonight.
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Right. It doesn't have to mean that anyway.
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And so you're trying to find that balance between reaching those health goals,
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managing your mental health. Right.
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By like your sanity also, but also by appeasing your family, right?
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But then also protecting yourself and your time by not cooking multiple meals
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for hours at night, right?
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And so again, this is a dance. This is a balance. This is something that does
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not come, you know, immediately. But I really want to encourage you to think
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about that in that way as we dive into this little bit today, because it is possible.
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You just have to be willing to, you know, throw some spaghetti at the wall until it sticks, right?
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And here with this conversation, I really want to make sure you hear me say,
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managing your mental health and protecting your time, right?
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Because our babies are not going to remember, you know, well,
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heck, they may remember from a traumatic perspective, the broccoli mom made, you know what I mean?
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But they are going to remember the time you spent with them.
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And so the last thing you want is your last few or your only few hours of the
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day with them being spent, you know, with them watching you kind of in a tailspin
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and trying to do all the things, right?
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So dinner is something that we can make an easier atmosphere and an easier chore, you know, for mom.
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Okay, so before I dive into specific meals that I'm planning for post-baby,
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I want to share some tips for how to actually make sure your meals are helping
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you get the best return on investment, right?
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Meaning they're quick, people like them, and they are also not going to totally
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blow your weight loss efforts at the end of a decent day, right?
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And so I've got, what is it, three tips here before we dive into those meals. And so the first tip is.
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For me, y'all, I love a plan. I just really, I listened to a podcast today where
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she was talking about how, like.
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Having structure, having strategy in place is the way to every, the way to improvement.
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Now, it's not like militant, right? But if you don't have a plan.
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Then you can plan to fail, right?
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Like, that's a lifelong lesson we all know, you know?
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And so, again, it doesn't have to be, a lot of people mistake a plan.
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When you hear a plan, they feel like stressed.
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They feel overwhelmed because they're like, well, now I need to go research
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healthy recipes and I'm going to have to go buy all these ingredients that I don't have.
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Like, no girl, I've said this a hundred times.
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A plan can be heated leftover Domino's pizza on Tuesday because you know you're
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going to pick it up on Sunday after church. You know, like that's a plan.
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You have a plan for what you're going to feed people on Tuesday night for dinner.
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You know what I mean? And so it doesn't have to be super detailed or super fancy, right?
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Like it can be burgers on Monday, tacos on Tuesday, spaghetti on Wednesday, right?
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And for me, a lot of times my plan is like I will pick three or four dinners
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and I will put them on certain days, but they change all the time.
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They change all the time as far as what day they fall on.
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And so, I mean, it is 2.30 in the afternoon and I texted Jess an hour ago and
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said, hey, I know we said we were having breakfast for dinner tonight,
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but we're gonna have orange chicken and rice instead.
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And I just wanted him to know that so he wasn't preparing for bacon and eggs
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and then I'm gonna whip out some rice.
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But it changed today, right? And so I'll move breakfast for dinner to tomorrow night.
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And so it's just the fact that you have meals there and ready to go.
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So that's one less thing you have to think about. One less thing you have to stress about.
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You've got the groceries bought already. Like you are ready to go, right? Because you're,
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that decision, like we always say, oh, I'll figure it out later.
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But like that decision on your drive home at five o'clock,
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when you really just want to unwind from the day, you ended the day with a stressful
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customer, you're exhausted, you're headed to go pick up your kids,
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they're going to, you know, drain you, you want just five minutes of quiet, right?
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You're not going to want to think about what you're going to cook for dinner
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and what groceries you need to pick up before you get home to do it, right?
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Like that is where our downfall is. And then what happens?
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Your emotions take a toll. You tell your husband, hey, will you pick up Chick-fil-A
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on the way home? Because I cannot manage dinner, right?
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And so just having a plan in place as loose as it may need to be can be super
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beneficial for, again, even leftover pizza, right?
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It may, could be a better choice for you nutritionally than if your husband
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picked up burger fries and milkshake or whatever it may be that you would otherwise choose.
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Two slices of leftover pizza with a bag salad you had in the fridge is a way
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better choice, right, caloric wise.
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Also with this for the plan, for me, I know that our dinners tend to be larger meals.
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Like all of us, we just tend to kind of like.
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We eat obviously during the day, but like our dinners are just that larger meal for us.
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And we sit down at the table like a family every single night that we're home.
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And so it's just a production a little bit.
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I mean, again, not a long production, but I do love to get my family all seated
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at the table together after a long day.
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And so I plan my other meals to accommodate that, meaning my breakfast stays
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lighter, my lunch stays leaner. I keep my snacks in check so that I do caloric
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wise have room for that dinner that I have planned.
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You know what I mean? And so for me, that is what works best.
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So even thinking about it in that way, like, are you guys not really big dinner eaters?
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You know, I know a lot of people in the summertime, they're just like.
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I mean, I'm good with a bowl of cereal for dinner because anything heavier makes
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me feel nauseous before I go to bed or whatever.
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Okay, cool. Plan cereal, girl. Like you got it.
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Try to get some vegetables in at lunch. You know what I mean? my
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second tip is to think about when you
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are cooking or when you are making your plan can you
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batch or prep multiple things at once
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to save time later in the week okay so like if you were running that meal plan
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that I just said earlier about the burgers then tacos then spaghetti could you
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cook that meat for the spaghetti at the same time that you're cooking the taco meat, right?
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So like maybe pull out two pounds of ground beef, cook them all together.
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And then when it's time to season with the taco meat.
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Sauce, pull that, pull a pound off and make, go ahead and season the tacos meat
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for how it needs to be, but then put the spaghetti meat,
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you can go ahead and put it in the spaghetti sauce if you wanted to and go ahead
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and put it in the fridge or put it just to the side, put it in the fridge so
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you can deal with that tomorrow night.
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Like that cuts down time for tomorrow night of you having to thaw and cook beef
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when you literally just did it yesterday anyway, right?
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So just thinking through things like that I have clients that will
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buy Costco has this shredded
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chicken in like a big bag it's shredded pre-cooked shredded
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rotisserie chicken and I have clients that will buy and
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like plan you know two dinners
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and maybe some lunches with that chicken just so they're not having to like
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thaw and cook chicken every single day in preparation for every single meal
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you know and so it's just kind of being thoughtful being a little proactive
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forward thinking about okay if I've got this coming down the line this week,
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if I know I want to make these things,
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how can I maximize my effort, right?
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And maybe double the main ingredient portion of this so that I can,
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you know, make it easier on myself, especially later in the week, y'all.
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Later in the week for us is always just so, first of all, I'm tired.
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But then this school year, it was like our crazy time. You know,
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we had soccer games, we had dance, we had all the things.
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And so I was always thinking about what can I either make double of,
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like extra of, so we can have leftovers for the end of the week, right?
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Or what can I make that is just like super easy for the end of the week?
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So it just takes a little bit of that forward thinking, you know,
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to accommodate maybe what you have coming as the week goes on,
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because I don't know about y'all, but...
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Thursday and Friday gonna be the quickest that I'm gonna say,
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let's pick up something to eat, you know, and so acknowledge it.
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Don't like promise yourself, okay, this week, I'm not gonna pick up anything
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for dinner Thursday or Friday, I'm gonna cook at home.
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Like, no, acknowledge that you're exhausted and rightfully so by the end of
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the week, like everybody's running in 500 directions on top of that.
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So what can I do to just make it easier on me so that I don't end up,
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you know, change that thinking so that I don't end up having to pick up
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on you know at the end of the week and but then also which
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some of my clients this is what we do and this is what we did at the Shelby
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home for a lot of Thursdays this week it's kind of like well because of our
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time we really couldn't eat at home unless we were eating at 5 p.m or 9 p.m
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like we would be out that long on Thursdays and so it's like okay well we know we we can't eat at home,
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unless we like, you know, pack a picnic or something like that,
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but I'm just not that extra these days.
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So we would plan, in the plan, we would plan to eat out, and everyone knew kind
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of ahead of time, okay, we're going to pick up Huey Magoo's,
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or we're going to pick up Nook's, like we knew where we were going,
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and that's helpful too, because you can go ahead and get your mind wrapped around
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what you plan to order there, so that you won't totally like wreck it, right?
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Okay, and then my third tip is to limit your amount.
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This is one that may surprise you, but to limit your amount of weekly TikTok,
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Pinterest recipe intake, all that, okay?
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Especially when you're already overwhelmed by food. So I know,
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I know when you hear things like this, you're like, okay, I can do this.
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Let me go find some healthy recipes to help me, you know make a plan and help
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me you know do this better but like y'all.
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When we consume so much information, it can actually do more harm than good.
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I know they're out here advertising a bunch of recipes as quick and easy,
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and they may very well be, right?
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But if you've looked at 20 recipe ideas, you know it's hard to decide which one to make.
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But then you also know if it's something you've never done, like if it's a new
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recipe, right, it can be uncomfortable.
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Like it doesn't feel easy when you're trying something new at the end of a stressful week, right?
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So sometimes sticking to what we know and not having to buy random ingredients
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is a better choice during the week, right?
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When you really want to make those dinners easy.
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I usually recommend to our ladies that start the program because we have what
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we have like over 130 recipes on our app. as soon as you join Perfect Fit Nutrition.
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You get access to all these recipes.
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And I usually recommend to them, try to stick to recipes that you know and are
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comfortable with just because you are starting a new weight loss program.
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And y'all, I believe our weight loss program is the easiest,
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most doable program out there, but it's still new and it can still feel overwhelming,
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you know, to just start trying something new, trying to adopt healthy habits,
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all the things that we encourage.
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And so the last thing that I want is them stressing out about a recipe on our app, right?
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And so I usually recommend, okay, if you want to try a PFN recipe,
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maybe try one a week, you know, but for the most part, cook what you're comfortable
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cooking until you get a little more comfortable here and until you start to
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understand kind of our way.
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Because sometimes people will just come in and want to cook all PFN recipes,
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breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and then they burn themselves out.
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Because again, and we'll talk about this from a neuroscience perspective on
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next week's episode, but.
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Anything new makes it feel harder in our brain.
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And I just don't, I don't want that for you guys who are truly out here just
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trying to make it easier, right?
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So stick to what you know, especially at the end of the day with young kids
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and exhaustion and all the things, right? So, okay.
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So I did want to hop into some meal ideas. So these are some meal ideas that
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I took from my list. I have a running list of...
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Like in my notes on my phone. It's called like quick and easy meal ideas, okay?
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And so a lot of them are actually PFN recipes that I had, but I did just kind
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of want to list off some ideas that you can just be thinking about for your family.
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Okay, so we're just going to dive on into them.
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So first of all, for us, my husband's a hunter,
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and I've talked about that a lot here, but he we keep deer
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sausage in the freezer at all times and so
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for us a really easy dinner is deer
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sausage with roasted veggies and then roasted potatoes so and you can do like
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right you can do this with turkey sausage you can do this with some people love
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that chicken apple sausage to sausage with a roasted vegetable we will usually
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do roasted broccoli roasted Brussels sprouts or sometimes asparagus or green beans.
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And then I cut up potato and roast them in like little diced,
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you know, squares or whatever.
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Now, the potato and the roasted veggie take a little bit longer than I prefer, but it's easy.
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Meaning I can put it in the oven, put the kids in the bath, put it in the oven,
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make a lap around our loop outside that I walk, you know, put it in the oven, do a load of laundry.
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Like it's low maintenance cooking. Okay.
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Another meal idea is if you followed me on social this year,
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in January, I kind of committed to trying to cook pork chops.
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I just have not been able to ever cook pork chops. And so my family,
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we just don't have pork chops. But this year I have really gone all in on pork chops.
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And one of my clients actually gave me this recipe where she seasons the pork
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chop on both sides with seasoned salt, pepper, and I think I add a little garlic powder to ours too.
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And then you broil it on both sides for like three to four minutes and it's
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done. I mean, how quick of a,
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dinner to just broil a pork chop for three to four minutes on each side.
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And then I usually like to serve it with rice.
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So Costco has got these really great 90 second rice bags.
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So if I don't feel like making it, you know, from top to bottom,
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I'll just get a rice bag or two and then canned green beans.
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I mean, that is the fastest dinner you've ever made, you know,
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and good and balanced, right?
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Another one that we really like, especially in the summer, is air fried those
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just bare chicken nuggets.
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So we air fry them and we put it over salad with like a light ranch.
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So I use the Perfect Fit Nutrition Ranch.
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But it's quick, it's easy, it's good for a hot day. Again, it's low maintenance,
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right? You've got lettuce, you put whatever toppings on it.
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Ranch can already be in the fridge. And so then all you have to do is put those
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chicken nuggets in the air fryer, let them cook up and then you're done.
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You're not in there, you know, having to mix a ton of things or,
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you know, make a ton of things.
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Another one is tacos. We love a taco day and we kind of change it up,
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right? Like we'll do soft tacos.
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We'll do hard tacos. I'll make taco meat and put it on top of,
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Tostitos or whatever and tell them it's nachos.
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I will do the taco meat on like a bed of lettuce a lot of times and that helps
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with calories obviously.
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Or sometimes I'll like put it over a bed of lettuce and then just put a few
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tortilla chips on top to give me that crunch.
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So we kind of just change it up however you know but the base is the taco meat
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and that's very very easy.
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Another really good idea, especially I like to do this at the beginning of the
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week, is a whole chicken in the crock pot.
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So if you buy a whole chicken at the grocery store, you can find any crock pot recipe.
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I mean, you put a rub around it and put it in that crock pot,
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girl, and it is ready to go. So don't stress about, you know, exactly what recipe.
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You put it in the crock pot. When you get home from work, it's ready.
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And then again, you can do it with something easy on the side,
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a vegetable, potatoes, rice, whatever.
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And then what's cool about it is usually if you don't have just a huge family
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or if you don't just have like a small chicken,
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you can usually use that chicken again for something else later in the week
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or use it for maybe topping for your salad or something or inside of your dog.
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Wrap for lunch this week. Another one that we really, really do over here is breakfast for dinner.
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I just talked about it, right? Like we are going to do it this week.
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We did it last week. I will say being pregnant, it just sounds good.
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It sounds better to me more often lately, but we do.
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We do bacon, we do eggs, we'll do toast, or we'll do biscuit.
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Just there you've got to watch what you're putting on your biscuit,
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what you're putting on your toast.
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You know, For me, if I'm going to put syrup on my biscuit, then I know I don't
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really have to have the butter.
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I try to be mindful there, but sometimes I just want a piece of taste with a
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little bit of jelly on it.
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I know we demonize these ingredients, but they're really not that terrible,
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especially when you're pairing them with good things like eggs or fruit on the side.
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It's not about being perfect. it's just about getting something that is decent
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you know and feeling like you did okay.
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Some of my clients love the pfn breakfast casserole which is going to be in
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this freebie offer that i've got for you and that's their breakfast for dinner
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you know and so the sky's the limit for what you can serve for breakfast for
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dinner and most of it is very low maintenance and no one complains, you know.
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Another one is a turkey burger quesadilla. So this is like, truly,
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you cook up hamburger meat using seasoning that you would use for your regular hamburgers,
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and you could, but you, you know.
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Crumble it in a pan, and then you put it inside of a,
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wrap of some sort, like a tortilla. We use the Olay Extreme Wraps because they're
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just a little lower carbs, lower calories.
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Put some cheese in there and then you're making a quesadilla,
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right? You can add lettuce. You can add pickles, tomatoes.
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Like you can do whatever you want to that you like on a burger,
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right? Like mustard, whatever.
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And so it's just a fun take on an easy quesadilla type night.
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Again, you can do quesadilla anything, right? It doesn't have to be burger flavored.
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So that's just another option.
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Nachos for the fam. This is one that we love. It's a perfect fit recipe as well.
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So we do nachos just the way you would do nachos, right?
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Like either you're going to put the ground beef or the ground chicken on there,
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or excuse me, shredded chicken on there.
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You're going to put cheese, black beans, corn, like whatever you want to put on your nachos, right?
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But on half of the pan, you're going to use split mini peppers.
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So you get those mini peppers at the grocery store, cut them in half,
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seed them, and then you use those as the base on half of the pan.
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And then the other half, you can use tortillas.
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So this one we love because it's good for me to keep the calories a little bit
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lower by not having a ton of tortilla chips. I've got the mini peppers there
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and my kids are not complaining about the mini peppers.
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You know, they've got the tortilla chips that they know and love and want.
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But also it gives me the opportunity to have a few of those tortilla chips, right?
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Instead of just feeling like, oh my God, I'm eating nachos on top of mini peppers.
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I'm like, no, I'm going to get mainly
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mini peppers, but I've also got some tortilla chips over here as well.
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And Jess really enjoys this option too, especially lately. like he eats lunch out a lot.
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So he's eating a lot heavier meals out. And so some days he just really loves
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to have the mini peppers instead of, you know, the heavier tortilla nacho situation.
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Anything sheet pan is a go for me. I'm always looking for sheet pan recipes.
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I will say sometimes they're a bust, you know, it's like things don't cook evenly,
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you know, or whatever, but anything sheet pan is a good one for something quick
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and easy and low maintenance.
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We, again, because we just have so much deer around here, we do cut up deer
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sausage with just any vegetables that sound good to me, you know,
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and we put them all on a pan. Also, anything in a bowl.
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So, thinking about, like, rice or salad type thing, rice or lettuce,
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right, with a protein, chicken, beef, shrimp, whatever,
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a sauce, right, and then veggies. So, like, you can make,
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a rice with a chicken, like a shawarma chicken with a tzatziki sauce,
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with lettuce, with kalamata olives, with, you know, tomatoes, with cucumbers, right?
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And you've got yourself like a Greek bowl and most of that you just pull out of the fridge.
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Or one we love is a shrimp fajita bowl, which is rice with a shrimp kind of
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cooked in a Mexican seasoning with sautéed bell peppers.
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And, you know, we can use salsa on the side. You can use guacamole on the side for that.
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You know, you could do a teriyaki bowl instead. Like there's just so many options
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if you take the time to think about, okay, this flavor is what I'm feeling.
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How can I turn that into a quick and easy bowl, you know.
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Another one that we really love is, well, the next three are perfect fit recipes,
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and they are all in this link, but pizza sliders.
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My kids and my clients love me for this recipe, so they're just like a lightened
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up version of a pizza slider, and they're so, so good.
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Loved by all. Very easy. Another one is cowboy casserole.
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It's like a ground beef casserole with tater tots on top and very filling,
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like one and done kind of pan dinner.
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Mississippi chicken, which again is...
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A pretty, down in the South anyway, it's pretty much a staple type dinner,
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but we just kind of lightened it up.
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You know, we took some of the butter out, added something else to make it a
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little more weight loss friendly. And it's so good.
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We serve this with potatoes or mashed potatoes and a veggie on the side and it's so good.
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So these are just a few meal ideas. I will say a lot of the things we eat here
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are perfect fit recipes.
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Like I do not create recipes for clients and then, you know.
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Not use them myself because I create them for people who are like me,
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who have kids that are kind of picky and don't have a lot of time to cook in
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the evenings and, you know,
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like flavors that taste good, like don't want to feel like they're eating diet food, you know.
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And so a lot of the recipes that we eat here are these recipes that I am going to give you today.
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Because I believe that you don't need the perfect meal, right?
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You just need a handful of go-to meals that work for your life and your season
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that tastes good, right? And that you enjoy.
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So that's where you start and you build from there. And so with this resource,
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I'm going to give you over 25 PFN exclusive recipes that are quick,
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loved by my family and all these clients, families as well.
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And obviously, they're weight loss friendly, right? And so this is going to
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help you build, again, don't go cooking them all this week, right? But.
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Start adding them in slowly into your rotation and just see how it goes,
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because these are going to help you get confident in your ability to pull off
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an easy and delicious dinner alongside a healthy lifestyle, right?
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Like I think so many of my clients say that, like they just,
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there was such a disconnect between, it felt like they either had to focus on
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their healthy lifestyle or focus on appeasing their family.
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Like they couldn't do both, right? And like that is just impossible.
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We have to be able to balance both in a somewhat easy, breathable way.
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And so I feel like these recipes, all my recipes bring that vibe.
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And so I would love for you to have them to help you start moving in this direction.
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So you can click the link in the description or just go to perfectfitnutrition.com
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backslash free-recipes.
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And you will be able to get those for free. And I hope they help you and your family so much.
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I will say y'all should, if you don't follow me on social at Perfect Fit Nutrition, you should.
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I do feel like once I get, well, if my track record serves me anyway,
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with my other two kids, once I get, you know,
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solidified with this baby and we kind of find a routine around here,
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I will start posting what I'm cooking and showing y'all a lot more of like what
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I'm doing in the kitchen because, you know, I will be...
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Full focus, trying to cook and eat in a way that helps me get this baby weight off.
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And so I think that'll be something fun you guys can follow along.
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So if you aren't following me on social, Perfect Fit Nutrition.
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And again, to get that freebie with the 25 recipes, it's perfectfitnutrition.com
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backslash free dash recipes. As always, especially at dinnertime,
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Y'all remember to say grace.
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Thank you for listening to today's episode of Say Grace Podcast.