I'm Stephanie Safarian and this is episode 93.

You are listening to the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast, a show about living simply and sustainably with your family.

Here's your host, Stephanie Safarian.

Hello there and welcome back.

Today I am outlining in seven steps

exactly how I feed my family, three meals a day, 21 meals per week.

Now you have heard about meal planning on this podcast before.

It was episode 38 with guest Stacy Ducharm. If you haven't

listened to that episode yet, you should as it's a great starting point to

what we're talking about today. In the past year since recording that episode with

Stacy, I have incorporated her tips into my own kitchen. I've tweaked them to

fit my life and I've updated her method to reflect my low plastic

eco-friendly principles. That's what we're getting into today. Now first

things first why did I even start meal planning and prepping?

Well, the short answer is that what I was doing wasn't working.

Feeding my family took way more mental energy than it needed to.

Dinners weighed on me. The longer answer here is that my family was spending much more money

than we should have on eating out and we

were resorting to eating out because I had failed to properly plan for the week's

meals. My husband and I had also put on a couple pounds and we're pretty diligent about exercising.

So I found myself wondering whether those extra pounds were due to the extra calories we were eating

from eating too much takeout.

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