Creating Rotating Seasonal Meal Plans: what I’ve been learning – S2, E43

Finding Joy in Your Home

Jami Balmet

Religion & Spirituality, Homemaking, Living, Kids & Family, Christian, Mother, Healthy, Christianity, Joy, Homemaker, Wife

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🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

For many years, I’ve functioned well with a loose meal planning system. I needed my days to be extremely flexible and it’s worked well for the most part. This past year or so I’ve felt the need to take my meal planning to a new level but getting things more planned out and a bit more rigid, but still with the flexibility I need. Today I’m discussing the new rotating seasonal meal plan I’ve been talking about. Listen in! Listen to the Podcast: Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. I am excited to say that my first of 4 meal plans, my summer plan is almost done. Today I’m going to give you a run down of how this is working and what I’ve been learning about meal planning along the way. As the manager of my home, the kitchen is such a large area of responsibility that can either run like a well oiled machine or feel like complete and utter chaos. The past 6 months has seen more chaos than I’d like. So I’m going back to the drawing board and asking “What does my meal planning need in this new busy season?” I’ve come up with my plan: Rotating seasonal meal plans. My goals are a few: 1) To make more food from scratch in order to save money 2) Increase the health of my families food so that we all have vitality and energy to tackle the things that God has called us to and 3) Free up brain space and put more of my meal planning on autopilot for smoother routines. The most important thing to me for finally getting to this more advanced level of meal planning, is having family favorite recipes down. If you are in a stage of need to meal plan for the first time, I suggest you come up with a loose plan that allows you to try out new recipes and hone those recipes that your family loves. Don’t just drift through life and meal planning, come up with a plan to figure out those recipes and save them. Decide on a meal plan and then stick to it. Honestly a huge part of meal planning is literally just having the discipline to stick to it. With that said, start with the simplest version of meal planning that you can and build from there (the MVP idea). Stick with it and develop it as you go so that it makes sense for your family! Links and Resources: Our Sponsor:Go to HelloFresh.com/homemaking16 and use code homemaking16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping! Our Sponsor: For 50% off your first Care/of order, go to TakeCareOf.com and enter code home50. Check out our bookstore opening through 7/21 at FindingJoyBookstore.com And join our meal planning bootcamp at FindingJoyShop.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Balmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.
0:12.6	Hey, friends, welcome back to the Finding Joy in Your Home podcast. I am your host, Jamie Belmay. Today we're talking about meal planning, which has been a topic.
0:21.9	We have talked about several times in the last couple of months. And the primary reason for that
0:26.8	is that I am hardcore working on my own meal planning for my kitchen. And so much of what I talk
0:33.2	about and do here on the podcast is just coming out of my real life, the things that I am
0:37.3	personally working on. So today we're back with another meal plan episode. And then about and do here on the podcast is just coming out of my real life, the things that I am personally
0:37.6	working on. So today we're back with another meal plan episode. And this one's going to be
0:42.5	really practical. And I'm going to be sharing very specifically what I have been doing in meal
0:47.0	planning lately, which has like changed my meal planning. It has been time for me to come up with a more
0:52.7	sophisticated system for my meal planning. I've been very nervous me to come up with a more sophisticated system for my meal planning.
0:55.3	I've been very nervous about it. I haven't really known how it was going to go. I had these grand
0:59.8	ideas on what it was going to be. And I'm actually doing it. And so I'm going to share how it's going.
1:06.2	And how, yeah, I'm going to share an update. So we'll talk about that. In a little while, we'll hear from our
1:11.1	sponsors for today's episode. We have Hello Fresh and Care of. But I have one announcement for you
1:17.2	before we jump in. If you are listening to this episode in the middle of July when we are publishing
1:21.9	it live, then I did want to let you know that there's just about or less than a week left
1:26.6	in our summer collection shop
1:29.1	opening. So if you go to Findingjoybookstore.com, you will be able to find our summer store
1:33.6	opening. We have got dresses for the first time ever. We have two dress of the quarters.
1:38.6	We've got a couple sizes that have already sold out on that. And we have a new ice cream recipe
1:43.3	cookbook. We've got my cookbooks.
1:46.2	We've got Jason's children book series. All of this, you can order in digital or you can order
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