You're listening to the Decluttered Mom podcast. A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom. I'm your host, Diana Renee. And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,

but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,

I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back.

I kind of feel like I hacked the mom system, and I'm here to share all the tips,

tricks, and encouragement.

Let's listen to today's show.

Welcome to another episode of the Decluttered Mom podcast.

Today is going to be probably a pretty quick one.

But I want to talk about meal planning in a way.

Meal planning is something.

Meal planning is something that really used to stress me out.

A big part of that, honestly, I think, is that I hate cooking. I hate cooking. I hate baking. I know that's not like a popular thing. So many of my friends like absolutely love to cook and find it like something that relaxes them or they really enjoy and it's a hobby or they just love it, right? And that

is not me. Like I, if I could just warm everything up in a microwave, I would be so happy.

Or if like just food just appeared on a plate before me. Like I would be, that's just I don't

enjoy cooking. And I've tried different ways

to enjoy it. And I just don't enjoy it. And what I've come to learn, first of all, is that that's okay.

I don't have to enjoy it. We don't have to enjoy everything that we do that we choose to do for our

homes or for our families. And I, if you don't know, so last year

in like April of 2022, we had like a kitchen flood. I don't think, I don't know if I'd call it a

flood, but we had a water leak in our kitchen that was behind the wall. It was in the dream pipe of our kitchen sink.

And we didn't know it was there until we discovered that it was there.

And by then, the water had gone under all of the cabinets except for two.

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