Hi there! You're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra 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 number 97, one simple step that changes real planning forever. Is this an ad trick? No, but this very simple, incredibly practical step, it kind of works like magic.

I'll explain in just a second, but first before you get distracted by a dirty diaper or a load of laundry and forget to finish this episode, I want to make sure you know that my favorite thing I've ever made for you.

The meal plan, the lazy genius guide to Happy Diner's at home, is available now and will be available until Thursday, March 7th.

After that, the doors closed tight for at least six months. I'll mention it again at the end of the episode, but here's your quick reminder to not miss out on this incredibly helpful resource to help you meal plan in a way that makes sense for you.

Most meal planning systems, they don't work because you didn't create the system, someone else did.

I'm definitely not asking you to start from scratch and creating some system because you asked time for that. But in the meal plan, I teach you the five pillars of lazy genius meal planning and how to order them in a way that makes sense for your schedule, your cooking skills, your picky eaters, and your love of the table.

Most of us actually love the idea of the table of gathering and sharing and eating, but we don't so much love the kitchen part.

I believe that the meal plan can be the start of that love story of where you start loving your kitchen as much as you love your table.

So click the link in the episode info by tapping that little i icon in your podcast app or you can go straight to the source.

The word dot the lazy genius collective calm slash the meal plan.

Again, it is available until March 7th, but be careful waiting. I always get emails after a deadline ends for folks that just forgot because there is there's a live teaching component to the system.

And so we have to close the doors for real on March 7th. So plan accordingly. I don't want you to miss out.

Before we get going, I want to also apologize because guess what? It is a flu season. It is sickness season. If you follow me on Instagram, you know that my family has been sick basically for all of 2019, but super, super sick the last couple of weeks.

I think I'm getting the flu you guys. I think I'm getting the flu. So I am like recording this a couple days before it comes out, kind of like right under the door at the last second. And so I apologize.

Not that my voice sounds the way it does, but like I recognize that I don't I don't sound like myself. But if there's anything that's going to get me a little bit excited, even though I might have the flu, it is it is meal planning, which is a weird thing to say, but what are you going to do?

Okay, so I mentioned a just a second ago that finding finding your rhythm as a lazy genius meal planer is built on five pillars. And we're going to talk about one of those pillars today, possibly the most important one, brainless crowd pleasers.

Now, if you follow me on Instagram, which I encourage you to do because then you can see like my sick journey, but you can also see that talk about meal planning every single Monday. I am there at the lazy genius.

You have definitely heard me talk about brainless crowd pleasers. They are a pivotal part of my personal meal planning system. And if you are in a season of life where dinner feels like a chore, rather than something you look forward to, I imagine you're going to freely love this episode.

Brainless crowd pleasers are about to become your new best friend. The one simple step that changes your meal planning forever is making a physical list of your personal brainless crowd pleasers.

I want you to actually like write them down and hang the list on your fridge, put it in your planner, put it on your phone, tuck it into like a favorite cookbook that you open a lot.

It needs to be somewhere you remember or even better that you can see immediately. Now, you might think that you don't need a list that you mostly remember what would go on your list.

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