5 THINGS YOU SHOULD BE DOING WHEN MAKING A MEAL PLAN

drastic difference and it only takes me a few minutes I got some recipe books we are meal planning [Music] what's up guys it's coffee time all right first gotta get some beans and uh then we're gonna do the dang thing all right got some mugs we're ready to go thank you thank you I made this one a little full and this is Danielle's so I gotta take it upstairs and hope I don't spill any of it [Music] there you go what is it no spills I heard bam [Music] boom [Applause] drastic difference and it only takes me a few minutes everybody always asks me about my lashes most people assume that they are natural because they look the most natural out of any lashes I've ever seen they're not okay my natural lashes are like so short and blonde on the ends I don't know why every summer it's like they um the tips like just turn blonde which is funny because Tyler's are like that too but anyway so they look really short I don't really like putting on makeup like I'm just I just want to wake up and go you know I don't want to spend a whole bunch of time every day putting a bunch of stuff on my face it's just not I don't do it so when my friend launched flutter habit my friend Casey this is her baby her business I was super pumped to try it fell in love have never looked back y'all I do this like once a week and it takes me 10 minutes it takes a lot longer when I talk and do it but it takes me maybe 10 minutes to throw these lashes on they last for an entire week I go to bed in them I wake up in them I wash my wash my face but like just around around my eyes and my favorites are the happy medium let me get my stuff cleaned up I use their glue it's the best glue I've ever found and it doesn't have fragrance in it which is amazing um and so I just take the lashes they come in like a box set start on one eye I start on the inside out but a lot of people start from the outside anyway I get all the glue on all of them and then that kind of gives it time to get Tacky by the time I'm done and then I can just go and I put them on so they attach under the Lash which is not like most lashes most lashes you're laying it on top of your lashes these go up underneath so you're putting the glue on the top and then you are lifting just gently and then pressing gently I got glue on my tweezers and so the lashes stuck too that's funny pressing gently to your lashes and letting go I always do this so lift slightly press gently and then I let it dry a little bit more before I really like kind of press them together more [Music] little segments and kind of let it just get a little tackier and then I just push up lightly to help make sure that they are all lined up and bonding well with my lashes and that's it 10 minutes and this will last all week so then okay that's it so like my daily routine I wake up these are already on um I will put like a little bit powder on my brows because thanks to the 90s and those super thin eyebrows and years of over plucking they have been growing in a little bit better so I just I'm using a brow powder that I've had forever and a brush and I just like to make my brows a little bit more board just slightly more defined fill in the gaps from the over plucking thanks so much 90s was that you guys tell me did you grow up through that era of super thin eyebrows I just watched a movie the other day kids oh we watched George of the Jungle and oh my goodness Ursula's eyebrows were like the thinnest little line I'm like yep oh like them whatever really short or really thin and then we're super blessed when they didn't grow back I suppose they were lovely so this is kind of my my thing my routine here it's really simple if I'm like going somewhere I'll throw in a little bit of blush and maybe highlighter but not usually usually it's just like make sure your brows are filled in and again I tend to wash my face or like wash around my eyes so my brows don't even get done every day bulk of this will still be on tomorrow that's how I do things there we go that is my daily everyday makeup look and hack for you guys flutter habit lashes you can literally roll out of bed if you want to put on a little concealer or whatever you do you can do that I don't have to do mascara I don't have to worry about it running in the rain and getting into my eyes or anything like that the happy medium these ones are my favorite and yeah I can use my coat and get a discount I'll put a link in the description for you guys but so now I don't normally like I said get ready for the day but I'm ready for the week it's Sunday we're starting a new week good to go today on our list of things to do is to make a meal plan clean out our closet uh and then just kind of plan out the rest of our week we have our big camping trip for the Feast of Tabernacles coming up so we have to kind of start thinking about that start thinking about what we need in terms of food we need to go get our RV lots of planning and preparation for that this month um I'm really excited anyway I'm gonna drink my coffee and I am going to get to work what's up okay we're to it we're working together as a team today John and I we got our computers I got some recipe books we are meal planning so that we can get groceries tomorrow your mom's coming this week we it our house has been a revolving door of guests which is fine but I feel like the normal like let's go get a bunch of groceries and then we go through them doubly fast and nuts we're gonna try to get ahead this week right we're gonna we're thinking who could possibly come at any point in the next two weeks and let's make sure we get enough anyway uh we thought we'd walk you guys through how we meal plan what that looks like we don't do it living in the middle absolutely need to do it consistently because again we can't seem to keep groceries in the house which is normally it's not a problem we're used to because we can always just easily the store was a minute and a half away and now it's like 45 minutes so we're needing to get a little bit more intentional the cost of everything is going up it's getting insane I'm hating weekly grocery trips that are costing way more than I feel like is what I'm comfortable with so we're gonna get down and dirty this week and meal plan some affordable family size recipes I think the goal is to find some that coordinate where we can just make like a whole bunch you know like make chicken and use it for two recipes or make something with sweet potatoes and cook all the sweet potatoes and then use it in two recipes like that's kind of the goal is to see what we can buy in bulk and kind of cook costs that way so John's favorite way is to look online we're Googling gluten-free what is that we usually look up yeah so I do a couple ways one I just do gluten-free recipes two I go find a specific thing I want and then see what websites populate because it's not always the same so so you get like right so like well yesterday we'd made pizza dough yeah so I looked that up it was so good found different websites that had it and I was like oh okay let me try to see what other recipes they have on their website okay hang on because that gluten-free zucchini ricotta gnocchi sounds amazing so we're looking up John likes to look that way I've bought a couple books this one is going to be more applicable to our life next year as soon as we get our garden established you guys I found this at Costco it's called six seasons and basically it goes through the different seasons of like a garden and what grows that time of year and then what you can make with it so the recipes that are really going to help us utilize what we will be growing in our garden help Inspire us on what to plant because the thing is you can look up what grows well this time of year you can plant it and then you can Harvest it and you go I don't know to make with this and then you have vegetables and food that's going you know to waste or to the animals because you don't know how to cook it so this is going to eliminate that for us I thought it was really cool to start experimenting with some things that we wouldn't normally eat but when we are trying to live off of what we can grow it's going to be really helpful like this Swiss chard leek herb and ricotta cristata oh that looks good it does look good but would I have ever thought let's plant some Swiss chard and leeks and eat them no okay I thought that was just cheap look at this no it's like this leafy stuff oh um rainbow charred with garlic and jalapenos I don't know if her kids would eat this but the idea is to just start catering our taste to what we can grow that way we're a little bit more self-sufficient and if you go into the grocery store and the shelves are bare and your favorite foods are unavailable gonna mean you're going hungry because you actually are growing food that you can cook and eat that's kind of the goal that's why we moved to land in the first place so our meal planning is going to incorporate both of those things our comfort Foods our favorite foods but starting to experience experiment and Branch out into seasonal Foods so that we are well prepared when we are growing our own when you're getting recipes do it on the computer that way you can copy and paste or you can go on your phone too but make a note in there copy and paste the links that way you can go back pull it anytime you need it make a list because like my mind when I'm trying to think like what's meals that we've made I've made tons of meals but I can't remember any of them so when I go back and look at my list I'm like oh yeah I forgot we made that like two months ago and it was delicious so another good thing to do because let's face it we don't always have internet we may not always have Internet it's print them out print out your favorite recipes and store them in a binder that's a good idea we got to get our printer working again and and that's like I've just bought a recipe box my goal is to start writing things down and having physical copies of all these things so save them in notes but also print them out save them in a recipe book I like this recipe um yeah the gluten-free so recipe number one that we are gonna make is gluten gluten-free zucchini ricotta gnocchi here's what it looks like so this website John's looking at is free on a shoestring yeah thanks Nicole for your gluten-free recipes we'll tag it we'll link it so we're going to scour this website because I did see a couple other ones that caught my eye and we'll basically go through for us Celiac diseases in our family we try to eat organic the kids are eating more meat now we've started introducing that but we do still try to largely eat like fruits and vegetables and then like meat is kind of added in does that make sense so that's what we look for personally when we're looking for recipes what's going to get in a wide array of nutrients and what is easily made gluten-free so he's gonna go based off of that that's already like one kind of pasta e dish it's going to utilize zucchini we can go to Costco and pick up a bunch of zucchini so what else can we make with zucchini that's how my mind works like could we do kebabs could we do you know like zucchini boats could we do a chili a soup something like that so we can use zucchini in two places then we can cook it once use it twice so the other aspect to this is taking and again making that that shopping list the more common ingredients we have the easier the shopping is going to be because we can just buy bigger quantities of the same item usually you can get them cheaper that way um that's kind of what we're looking at but what we're going to do is compile all of the recipes we're going to feed our family for the next couple weeks and the different websites that we found them on and I mean we can even break down our shopping list if you guys want if this is something that like excites you and you're really interested in let us know because we might consider doing this on a monthly basis and sending out an email newsletter with recipes with links with a grocery shopping list let me know if it's something that sounds like like you would be willing to sign up for do you want to make our Shabbat dessert this week I'm thinking cake pops cake pops you make some gluten-free cake pops yeah nice or the oh look at this you're looking at the wrong stuff no no no no no no no no no no we're gonna eat this we're gonna make some chili with that extra zucchini and some of this it is gluten-free pumpkin cornbread with pumpkin butter it's fall it is fall it is fall okay you guys I have got a whole bunch of recipes now saved like probably too many they might all be like breakfast and muffin and bread so I might have a little more work to do but I want to show you what I've been doing I have this uh Hosanna Revival planner and I just ripped out all of the earlier months so it looks like it's only from October to December but it's not so it has like an actual calendar section so it's got like scripture and it's really cool and then it's got um the actual like calendar style but then it has a weekly breakdown so each day gives you like a list to there's little check boxes but I am going BLD breakfast lunch and dinner on each day so I can just go through and plan out there what's for each day I used to just do it all on a piece of paper like Monday BLD on Tuesday but that is making it so much easier and then I am going through in this notebook I really like to write John is like do it on a computer let me just copy paste into notes and this that I just need like a pen and real paper I don't know why so then I've made a list of like breakfast and a bunch of our favorite breakfast foods lunch and a bunch of different options for lunch dinner so far these are just categories we have Italian Mexican-American Indian and Greek I'm gonna actually go through and figure out which recipes we want to put in here but I thought if I could have a list of each of our favorites then I could go through day by day and pick and that will help me kind of plan a little bit to make sure our meals are like broken up and that we're getting a good variety of things but it'll also help me to take like if we do you know sweet potato enchiladas or something black beans sweet potatoes and enchilada one night for dinner the next day we could use leftover sweet potatoes and black beans we make extra and plan well we could put those in a separate dish in the refrigerator and the next day we could use those for quesadillas for lunch for the kids so kind of helps me to lay it out that way where I have a list I can pick and choose from and see what meals we're going to make and then plug them into a weekly calendar and then I'm going to try to do two weeks that way we can avoid an extra grocery shopping trip we are going to have another big shopping trip towards the end of the month when we get ready to go camping so the less I can think about for the next two weeks the better I'd like to think about this once and then not again so that's the plan right now I'm just filling in the dinner options and picking um some really good recipes some new ones and then some tried and true favorites and then I'm gonna go ahead and plug it all in [Music] I can't believe it comes [Music]