Getting back to meal planning after a crazy season - S4, E38

Finding Joy in Your Home

Jami Balmet

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

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

After months of chaos, with hospital stays, a move, and postpartum recovery, meal planning completely fell off my radar. But now, I’m picking it back up with fresh eyes and a much simpler, grace-filled approach. In this episode, I’m sharing how I’m easing back into meal planning after survival mode, the strategies that are working right now (including planning just 3–4 dinners a week), and why I’m prioritizing flexibility over perfection.

I also talk about how I’m using my own meal planning app to stay on track, how to meal plan even when your life is unpredictable, and the mindset shift that’s making cooking joyful again instead of stressful. If you’re in a messy season or just want a fresh start in the kitchen, this one’s for you.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast.
0:03.1	I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.
0:12.9	Hey, friends, welcome back to the podcast. I am excited to be here with you today.
0:18.6	We are going to be talking about meal planning and really just
0:21.8	kind of getting back into solid routines after a really crazy season. That's what we're going to chat
0:29.2	about. Before we do, I wanted to give one really fun, super fun announcement. If you are a member
0:36.2	of Joyful Home app and you have not logged in this week, you need to go check it out because I have spent the better part of about a month and a half, redesigning, redoing this app literally from the ground up.
0:49.9	Every single page has changed.
0:52.0	I mean, it's really amazing.
0:53.0	It sounds so minor when I'm like,
0:54.3	I did a new like design, but really the navigation is different. Everything is different. And it's
1:00.5	to give you guys a better user experience because our Joyful Home app has literally hundreds of
1:07.0	resources. We have podcasts. We have audiobooks, e-books, and then video courses galore. And so the
1:13.5	amount of information packed in there is truly outstanding, but that comes with the problem of
1:18.3	trying to find what you need, trying to log in and be like, I want to learn something. What do I
1:23.4	want to learn? So we've really been devising ways to make it a lot easier to you can land on it and be
1:29.2	like, okay, I want something in the kitchen. Oh, that course looks good. And we've also designed
1:33.6	something called learning paths where you can sign up for a learning path. And it's usually about
1:38.5	seven to ten days. And it's just kind of this guided journey. For example, we have one on studying
1:43.7	Proverbs 31. And it kind of takes you through this guided journey through Proverbs 31. And every day there's assignments. So you'll listen to, you know, watch a video and then do a writing prompt, read a passage of scripture. Like there's different things that you're doing each of those days. We only have two learning paths right now, but there's going to be a
2:01.2	good 10 or so very soon, and then we're going to keep adding to them. So you need to go check it out. If you're a current user, hop in there because everything's are, well, I have a few more things that I'm going to be working on this week, like an audiobook page and some things like that. You'll notice a few more changes coming.
2:24.4	But for the most part, this new, whole new design is done. And it is amazing. So go check it out. And if you're not a user, now is the perfect time to jump in. If you go to finding joy in your home.com
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