Hi there, you are listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast.

I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter

and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 245, how I personally meal plan.

It's funny, I talk about meal planning a lot here on the podcast, on Instagram, and exciting

in my upcoming book that I cannot wait for you to read the Lazy Genius kitchen,

but I don't know that I've ever shared how I personally meal plan like in one fell swoop.

I guess is that's because I don't want to be prescriptive until you how to do it,

that you somehow have to copy what I do, but seeing the nitty-gritty, so to speak,

can be helpful in figuring out your own nitty-gritty.

So that's what I'm going to share today.

Now a quick word to you reluctant meal planners, the phrase meal plan is gross to a lot of people,

and I just want to acknowledge that.

It conjures up a lot of images of systems you do not want to maintain.

So I want to remind you of a couple of truths, a couple of things before we move forward.

First, you get to decide what matters.

You get to decide what matters about how you meal plan.

If a thorough system matters to you, and it helps you get food on a table in the way that you love,

please keep your thorough system.

If you are not in a season of life, so to speak, where planning ahead is feasible,

please don't feel badly about that.

The system that you use, or even the consistency of the system that you use,

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