Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

Today we are going to talk about meal planning, but first I am going to play a lovely

recorded submission from a listener named Hannah, who shares the processes that she and her husband

to some extent used together to bring planar peace to their family. And I love how she divides

her different planning rituals into daily,

weekly, monthly, and quintiles. I felt so seen and excited when I saw that or listened to that.

So I hope you enjoy this planner piece segment. And then we're going to talk a little bit about

meals and meal planning and get into our interview. Here it comes. Hi Sarah. This is Hannah

from Portland, Oregon, and I was inspired by your recent how Sarah plans her life to share my

version of how I plan my life and a little planner piece segment. I use a really basic,

generic Amazon A5 size paper planner that was probably under $20 and Google Calendar, which I share with my partner as well. So we have all of our

events and appointments and important dates on our shared Google calendar.

We also have his call schedule on there and my work schedules.

We can easily see who is working when, since I'm a nurse, my days each week change, and he is a resident.

And so his call schedule changes.

As far as my personal planning rhythms,

my daily planning ritual is in the morning with my coffee after a few pages of nonfiction. So similar

to yours, I pull out my planner and my Google calendar up on my phone and I make sure to look and see what I have on the docket

for my day, and then I make my daily task list, which I do in my weekly planner from the right

hand side of the page where I've put the to-do list for the week, and then I just kind of

divide it up with whatever day I'm able to.

And then for my weekly ritual, the beginning of each week, my husband and I sit down together,

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