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The Lazy Genius Podcast

#199 - 7 Ways to Get Out of a Dinner Rut

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Arts, Education

4.85.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Most of you live in the United States, many of you have kids, all of us are living in varying degrees of isolation still because of the pandemic, and all the things. Yet we still have to eat, we still keep making dinner. But it feels like it’s getting harder and harder, right? Let’s try and give a couple of solutions here. 


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0:00.0

Hello, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to

0:06.9

help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

0:12.0

Today is episode 199, seven ways to get out of a dinner rut. I'm pretty sure there

0:18.2

are some major ruts happening in this community. Most of you live in the United States. Many

0:23.9

of you have kids. All of us are living in varying degrees of isolation still because of

0:29.6

the pandemic and all the things. Yet we still have to eat. We still keep making dinner. But

0:35.2

it feels like it's getting harder and harder, right? It's for me. So let's try and find

0:41.4

a couple of solutions here. Before I give you the seven ways, I think it's very important

0:46.6

to share why we're probably in a rut. It helps you name more specifically what the problem

0:53.3

is and it hopefully will give you a chance to be kind to yourself. One of our very important

0:59.7

lazy genius principles. Instead of beating yourself up that you're cooking the same five

1:03.8

meals over and over again. So real quick, there are two main reasons I think that you might

1:09.6

be in a rut in this particular time. The first is circumstantial. We're home more.

1:15.5

So we're likely preparing more meals at home than usual. On top of that, we are depleted.

1:22.5

For people are depleted. All of us have way fewer reserves than we usually do because

1:28.0

of how hard this last year has been. We're also very tired. At least I am very tired.

1:34.3

I hit a wall way earlier in the day than I used to and it very much affects the energy

1:40.1

around making dinner. And when we're tired and depleted and don't have a lot of margin

1:45.6

for rest, our ability to make decisions plummets. It's like we can't choose one more thing.

1:53.1

We just cannot do it. That often happens in relation to dinner in regular life, right?

1:58.4

But then you throw this pandemic into the mix. And even now it's winter. Texas was covered

2:05.4

in snow and like blacked out across the state. We've had ice storms. We've had even more

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