School days are in full swing around here. Our 3 year old began preschool this year and is loving every minute. With three of us needing to leave the house by 7am so that I can drop off baby boy at the sitter and G at her preschool, I needed to find a way to shave off some minutes in the morning so that we aren't running frantically out the door. My friend was telling me how she has started prepping her kids' meals for the week. The week! I typically try to do them each night, but if I'm too tired, I convince myself that I can just get them done in the morning. This clearly has not been working...so I decided to give this weekly meal prep thing a go.
I try to carve out about an hour of time on Sunday evening to compile all of the meals. It does not typically take this long unless I need to make muffins or something else that needs to bake so that it can be frozen for future meals. We are going on week 3 and I like the way things have been playing out. The prep takes a little time but it is well worth it. I have chosen to rotate out the same 5 meals each week for the month. G eats breakfast at home before heading to preschool and N eats at the sitter. Their breakfasts vary but are quick (and I try to keep them generally healthy-protein packed and full of whole grains- as much as possible.)
Here are the meals that I've been rotating out for August. I hope this will help you save a little sanity in your crazy, beautiful life.
The Pumpkin Muffin recipe can be found here.
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These are some really great ideas. My son is so picky but I think I might try to make him some ham roll ups! His favorite is macaroni and cheese but we're trying to expand his food horizons a bit! ;-)
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like such a great idea. I might have to try it myself when school starts!!
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