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Today's tip is to make a little extra on Sundays.

By overcooking on Sunday, you can make the beginning of the week a little easier.

So long-time listeners know that I am not a huge fan of elaborate meal prepping.

When I first started writing about women and work and life,

I quickly realized that some working mothers had absorbed the message from somewhere

that they needed to spend their entire weekends preparing for the week ahead.

Sunday would be devoted to making meals for the upcoming week, so they could be pulled out of the freezer on weeknights and served. The problem, of course,

is that it still takes some time to thaw and reheat complicated dishes. People who did this often had a tendency to then decide to make

side dishes for those pre-made meals. All of a sudden, they are cooking all day Sunday, and during the

week as well. That is a lot less time available for relaxing or hanging out with family members.

Given that I have found that most men who are not, say, training for a bodybuilding competition,

just don't tend to do this, I tend to think that maybe there is another way.

Maybe we can just make simple meals during the week that take 20 minutes or so and leave Sundays open.

But if you are eating Sunday dinner, meaning that someone is going to have to cook something,

then I think there is an argument for making a little bit more than you would have,

in order to have a little extra, to cover at least some parts of meals during the week. For instance,

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