May 28, 2024 • 14 mins
If you’re busy juggling work, family and everything in between, you know how overwhelming meal planning can be. Finding meals that are healthy, tasty, and satisfying for everyone can feel like an endless chore.
It’s tough to juggle healthy eating with the preferences and schedules of everyone in the family.
In this conversation, I’m going to share how you can simplify meal planning to save time and reduce stress. By the end, you’ll have practical tips to make your meal planning stress-free and enjoyable.
This is a huge opportunity to simplify your life. You can avoid the chaos of last-minute meal decisions that sabotage your peace of mind and your health goals for your family.
Resources:
- Learn more about The Weekly Preview in Episode 3
- Cook Once, Eat All Week: 26 Weeks of Gluten-Free Affordable Meal Prep to Preserve Your Time & Sanity [affiliate link]
- Pinterest board of weeknight meal ideas
00:00 Introduction
01:47 Step 1: Choose a Time and Space
04:09 Weekly Preview and Meal Planning
04:34 Helpful Resources and Shortlists
05:07 Using a Cookbook
06:49 Creating a Pinterest Board
08:36 Consistency in Grocery Shopping
09:51 Posting Your Meal Plan
11:08 Final Thoughts
11:47 AI for Meal Planning
12:14 Bonus Resource: Control Calendar Chaos
12:36 Leveraging AI for Meal Planning and Grocery Lists
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(00:01):
You're busy, juggling workfamily and everything in
between, you know, howexhausting meal planning can be
finding meals that are healthy,tasty and satisfying for
everyone in the family can feellike this endless chore.
In this conversation today, I'mgoing to share with you how you
can simplify meal planning tosave time.
He and reduced stress.
(00:22):
By the end, you'll havepractical tips to make meal
planning.
Stress-free and dare I sayenjoyable.
This is a huge opportunity tosimplify your life.
You can avoid the chaos of thoselast minute decisions that
sabotage your peace of mind andthe health goals for your
family..
As women, it's easy to feelover-scheduled over tired and
(00:43):
some days just over it.
It's time to ditch the guilt.
Still get things done and havetime left for ourselves and the
most important people in ourlives.
How do we do that?
You're about to find out.
Hey there.
My name is Jenna.
And here I share the latestbiohacks mindset shifts and
calendar control strategies tohelp you get to the other side
(01:06):
of busy.
I'll bring you insights on howto get more done in less time.
So you can shut off that workand prioritize what truly
matters.
In today's conversation.
I'm going to share with you howto create a weekly meal plan
without losing your mind.
I'll share resources,scheduling, and even ways to get
the family involved to help yousave some sanity.
(01:27):
But make sure you stick aroundto the end.
Right?
I'm going to share with you away you can leverage AI to
create your weekly meal plan.
With the grocery list in lessthan three minutes game.
Changing.
All right, so let's dive in.
How can you create this weeklymeal plan?
That helps you meet your healthgoals.
Without losing your mind.
(01:47):
All right.
Step one is just too.
Choose a time and space to makethat plan.
Are you going to do it?
On Monday mornings, are yougoing to do it?
On Saturday afternoons.
When do you have time to reallysit down and think about it?
I like to do this as part of myweekly preview.
If you haven't heard me talkabout the weekly preview, you
can go listen to episode three,where I talk about.
(02:08):
How not to miss importantmoments.
It's a 20 minute practice thatreally helps you review the last
week, gain any learnings toapply to the new week, but then
take a 20,000 foot view atwhat's coming first.
So you don't miss anything.
And secondly, so you can planahead.
This is my favorite time to mealplan.
When I am already looking atwhat's coming up the next week,
(02:29):
what work commitments do I have?
Where are the kids going to be?
What time do we need to be?
Where.
And so I can get a better ideaof just what's realistic.
I think one of the biggestchallenges we have is we have
these grandiose plans of cookinghealthy every single night.
And then we don't get home until20 minutes before we want to put
the kids to better be in bedourselves.
And then we just feel sodefeated that we can't do this.
(02:51):
So by creating this meal planwith your weekly preview, you
can see what's coming and youcan plan for those things.
So I like to ask questions likewhat nights of the week are we.
She going to be home for afamily meal together.
You know, my kids are young andso we don't have as much going
on.
If you have older kids, youprobably know that it's hard to
get the family together for ameal, or if you just have one or
(03:12):
two people at home, maybe youhave other commitments that
prevent you from sitting downtogether every night.
So first identify what are thenights that we truly need to be
cooking.
I also like to ask.
Are there things where I knowwe, aren't going to be home in
time to make a really good mealwhere maybe we need a grab and
go.
Maybe this is going to be aleftover night.
Based on commitments that aregoing on.
(03:32):
So if I have a networking eventfor work or the kids have soccer
practice until six 30, we wantto make sure we have quick
options so that we aren'tderailing everyone's bedtime,
the kids and mine included,which isn't going to set us up
for a good day, the next day.
I also like to think about.
What is the ideal time we wouldeat on some of these nights, you
know, ideally it's the same timeevery night, but sometimes that
(03:54):
shifts, especially if you are afamily of one or two, and you're
juggling a lot of, a lot ofsocial commitments.
Uh, picking a time that youmight eat every night is really
going to help you identify whatcan we actually make in the time
that we have.
So for me, this looks likespending time doing my weekly
meal plan as part of my weeklypreview on Sunday mornings.
(04:15):
This used to happen for me onMondays, but I just didn't feel
like I could get enough in frontof the week.
So I've started sitting downwith my cup of tea and my
planner to look at what's comingup in the week on a Sunday
morning.
It's so nice to sit on the frontporch.
I can reflect and I can thinkabout what's coming to help
myself feel more prepared.
After meal planning for a while,I realized the most exhausting
(04:37):
part of it was really justcoming up with ideas.
Every single time I get soexhausted and trying to pull
something out of the air thateveryone's going to, like,
that's going to be healthy.
That's going to be easy.
So I realized a few years agothat just keeping a short list
of quick, easy, healthy mealsnow that my kids like is really
a sanity saver.
(04:57):
When it comes to meal planningfor me.
Then I don't get bogged down bythe sheer volume of decision
that I have to make.
I know my shortlist.
One of the ways I cut down onthe sheer volume is by using a
cookbook I love.
A link to it in the show notes.
It's called.
Cook once eat all week.
It's from Cassy joy Garcia.
Now this is a gluten-freecookbook.
(05:19):
Uh, 26 weeks of gluten-freeaffordable meal prep to preserve
your time and sanity.
And it truly does.
I eat gluten and dairy freebecause that's what I feel like
helps me show up as my best.
And if that's not you, maybethere are other resources, but
what I love about this cookbookand the way that it approaches
meal planning is it provides anidea for a protein, a veggie,
(05:40):
and maybe one other thing.
And then you prepare meals threemeals each week around that.
So for example, maybe itchooses, pulled pork sweet
potatoes and kale.
So you only are buying thoseingredients and it gives you
three different ways to prepthat.
So you don't feel like you'reeating the same thing every day.
What I have found that is sohelpful is it simplifies my
(06:00):
shopping list.
And then it even provides someideas if I say have an hour or
two on a Sunday that maybe I cancook the meat in advance or do
any other advanced meal prep,it'll give me some ideas of how
I can do that.
So I can save myself time duringthe week.
Now caveat here.
Not everyone has time to mealprep.
On a weekend when I totally getthat.
(06:21):
What I will say is that theweeks that I actually do a
little bit of meal prep inadvance and follow this
cookbook.
And I feel like I won thelottery on a random Wednesday.
When I'm running in late.
Or something happened that Iwasn't expecting.
I'm tired from the day.
And I know I have dinner readyin the fridge.
All I have to do is pop it inthe oven.
So if you choose this option,you'd need to schedule in an
(06:43):
hour or two on the weekend.
But again, you don't have to dothat.
If you're stressed and you can'tfit this in.
Another option to have a shortlist of recipes is to create a
Pinterest board.
I have one that I'll share inthe show notes here.
I have curated a list of 20,maybe 30 meals here that are
quick and easy that I know mykids like that I know take 20
minutes or less.
(07:04):
So when I'm meal planning, Iopen this Pinterest board and I
just searched through whathaven't we had in a while.
What sounds good?
What are the kids going toenjoy?
Enjoy based on the schedule.
And what I know, I have time toprep.
Again, this helps because I'mnot analyzing hundreds of recipe
options.
I know my 20 to 30 that we like,and it really cuts down on that
(07:24):
time of choosing what we'regoing to make.
I think it's also really helpfulto curate your own.
So you can start with mine, pinsome of it, but make sure you're
adding to this list and you havesome variety.
So you don't feel like you'regetting stuck eating the same
old things.
Ultimately, what we're trying todo here is help you create a
system.
So that meal planning can befast and easy.
(07:47):
Can you make a decision one timethat will make all other future
decisions easier?
And that's what this mealplanning system will do for you.
I used to work with a flightnurse who would work two days on
two days off, two days on, andthen five days off.
And so meal planning was reallysporadic for her because of her
weird schedule.
So what she decided to do wascreate four weeks of meals, five
(08:11):
meals each week, and then shewould just rotate.
So she knew, Hey, this is a weeka week.
B a week C a week D and shedidn't have to think about it
now.
Creating that system took her alittle time upfront, but it
saves her so much time on thebackend and it helps her
husband.
Help her get those things readyfor their young kids, because he
knows what the plan is becausethere's communication and a
(08:34):
system in place.
So once you have your weeklymeal plan, And a grocery list
it's important then to choose aconsistent time to grocery shop
every week.
Why?
Because you're not thinkingabout it.
You're not trying to fit it in,in between work.
And going to pick up the kidsand rushing to do this.
Right.
I ideally recommend it beforeyou start the week.
(08:55):
So if you can do it on aSaturday or Sunday, it's ideal
to get that stuff in the house.
If you want to advance mealprep, you have time to do it,
but otherwise you're just nottrying to fit it in the little
confetti pieces of your week.
So consistency can be reallyhelpful here.
I used to love doing my groceryshopping on Monday afternoons
because I felt like nobody wasin the grocery store, but now
(09:16):
I've adjusted.
And since I do my meal planningearly on Sunday mornings, we
grocery shop on Sundayafternoons.
After we go to church.
We live in the country and we goto church in town.
So it's a great opportunityafter I've created my meal plan
and my grocery list, we go tochurch, we go to the grocery
store, I get help from the kidsdoing all the groceries.
And then I feel like on aSunday, I am ready for the week
(09:38):
and this isn't going to derailme.
So I just invite you to thinkabout when are you going to have
the time and space consistentlyfor the most part to do this
kind of shopping.
So you're not trying to rush itthrough the week.
Then step three is to post yourmeal plan on the fridge or in
some other command center areawhere others in your family can
(10:00):
see it, or you can remindyourself.
Y, well, if it's just you ormaybe one other person in your
household, it's really helpfulthat you're not trying to carry
this meal list in your head.
You can just see it, you know,what's coming, you know, you
have a plan and you can justreference the plan.
It saves so much mental capacitywhen you have it written out in
an easy place.
If you have other folks in thehouse.
(10:22):
It can help because thiscommunication can help leap frog
some of those nights when you'rehaving trouble catching up.
So for example, my six year oldmight have soccer from five to
six, 15 on a certain night.
If I have something in thefridge that I've already prepped
and had ready to go, I can justhave a note that says for my
husband, can you pop this in theoven for 30 minutes at three 50.
(10:44):
Right.
So when we get home, The kidsand I.
Dinner is almost ready insteadof having to start it.
When we get home.
Now, again, this does requirethe forethought and the
proactive planning, but itreally does make me feel like
supermom.
When I have this plan going intothe week.
So we can stay on target withour consistency and our goals
(11:06):
for our kids and for ourselves.
So just some final thoughts.
I'm not perfect in operatingthis system.
But the weeks that I do operateit.
I feel so much less stressed.
I know the clients that I haveshared this with feel the same.
I'm actually feeding my familyhealthy foods, as opposed to
whatever I can grab quickly.
And it makes me feel a littlebit more like supermom.
(11:27):
Like I can do it all.
Or at least the right things andthat confidence runs into other
areas of life.
So give this system a try, letme know what you think or send
me some of the tips that youhave used to help simplify what
can be a daunting task.
Drop me a DM.
That Jenna dot pisher.
P I C H E on Instagram.
In a moment I'm going to sharewith you how you can leverage AI
(11:49):
to create your weekly meal planwith a grocery list in three
minutes or less.
But first.
If you're already feeling likesuperwoman crushing your
professional goals and showingup as your best self for your
family and your personal life.
Awesome.
But most women, I know.
I need a little bit more helpkeeping all those plates
(12:09):
spinning and maintaining theirsanity.
So I've put together somethingreally valuable for you.
It's called five ways to controlthe calendar chaos.
In it, I share with you threefilters to help you prioritize
your to-do list.
So you can skip that paralysisanalysis and just get the
important work done.
This helps you feel moreaccomplished.
(12:30):
You can sign up for thisresource@theothersideofbusy.com
slash chaos, or click the linkin the show notes.
All right.
Want to know how to leverage AIto create a healthy weekly meal
plan with a grocery list inthree minutes or less.
Here we go.
Step one.
Open your favorite AI tool.
Step to enter a prompt similarto this.
(12:51):
Please act as a nutritionisthelping plan healthy meals for a
family of blank.
These meals should have anoption for the blank insert any
kind of dietary modifications,pickiness, things like that,
that you might need here.
Ideally there's protein andvegetables with every meal.
And then you tell them what youwant.
(13:12):
Please create five quick andeasy.
Dinner ideas with links torecipes for this family.
Boom.
That took me 30 seconds to typein.
And then it spits out ideas.
Like you can make chicken stir,fry baked salmon.
Here's a link to the recipe.
Here's a modification.
If you're gluten and dairy free,I might even say, oh, I know my
kids.
Aren't going to like thoseTurkey meatballs.
(13:34):
Can you swap Turkey meatballsfor something else?
Great.
They'll pop in another recipewith another link.
And then you can say these lookgreat.
Now create me a shopping listfor these meals organized by
grocery store department for aneasy shopping trip.
That took 15 seconds.
What spits out is a listorganized by produce meat and
(13:55):
seafood grains and pasta spices,and seasonings making my grocery
store list all of the more quickand easy and easy because it
spit that out.
Give this a try.
Let me know what you think.
And if you have found any othertips, tricks, and hacks to make
meal planning, a little less ofa pain and a little bit more of
an enjoyable experience for youand your family, I'd love to
(14:17):
hear them.
If you got something out oftoday's episode.
I hope you share it.
Until next time may the workthat you do create the meaning
and the life that you deserve.
I'm rooting for you.
You're busy, juggling workfamily and everything in
between, you know, howexhausting meal planning can be
finding meals that are healthy,tasty and satisfying for
everyone in the family can feellike this endless chore.
In this conversation today, I'mgoing to share with you how you
can simplify meal planning tosave time.
He and reduced stress.
(00:22):
By the end, you'll havepractical tips to make meal
planning.
Stress-free and dare I sayenjoyable.
This is a huge opportunity tosimplify your life.
You can avoid the chaos of thoselast minute decisions that
sabotage your peace of mind andthe health goals for your
family..
As women, it's easy to feelover-scheduled over tired and
(00:43):
some days just over it.
It's time to ditch the guilt.
Still get things done and havetime left for ourselves and the
most important people in ourlives.
How do we do that?
You're about to find out.
Hey there.
My name is Jenna.
And here I share the latestbiohacks mindset shifts and
calendar control strategies tohelp you get to the other side
(01:06):
of busy.
I'll bring you insights on howto get more done in less time.
So you can shut off that workand prioritize what truly
matters.
In today's conversation.
I'm going to share with you howto create a weekly meal plan
without losing your mind.
I'll share resources,scheduling, and even ways to get
the family involved to help yousave some sanity.
(01:27):
But make sure you stick aroundto the end.
Right?
I'm going to share with you away you can leverage AI to
create your weekly meal plan.
With the grocery list in lessthan three minutes game.
Changing.
All right, so let's dive in.
How can you create this weeklymeal plan?
That helps you meet your healthgoals.
Without losing your mind.
(01:47):
All right.
Step one is just too.
Choose a time and space to makethat plan.
Are you going to do it?
On Monday mornings, are yougoing to do it?
On Saturday afternoons.
When do you have time to reallysit down and think about it?
I like to do this as part of myweekly preview.
If you haven't heard me talkabout the weekly preview, you
can go listen to episode three,where I talk about.
(02:08):
How not to miss importantmoments.
It's a 20 minute practice thatreally helps you review the last
week, gain any learnings toapply to the new week, but then
take a 20,000 foot view atwhat's coming first.
So you don't miss anything.
And secondly, so you can planahead.
This is my favorite time to mealplan.
When I am already looking atwhat's coming up the next week,
(02:29):
what work commitments do I have?
Where are the kids going to be?
What time do we need to be?
Where.
And so I can get a better ideaof just what's realistic.
I think one of the biggestchallenges we have is we have
these grandiose plans of cookinghealthy every single night.
And then we don't get home until20 minutes before we want to put
the kids to better be in bedourselves.
And then we just feel sodefeated that we can't do this.
(02:51):
So by creating this meal planwith your weekly preview, you
can see what's coming and youcan plan for those things.
So I like to ask questions likewhat nights of the week are we.
She going to be home for afamily meal together.
You know, my kids are young andso we don't have as much going
on.
If you have older kids, youprobably know that it's hard to
get the family together for ameal, or if you just have one or
(03:12):
two people at home, maybe youhave other commitments that
prevent you from sitting downtogether every night.
So first identify what are thenights that we truly need to be
cooking.
I also like to ask.
Are there things where I knowwe, aren't going to be home in
time to make a really good mealwhere maybe we need a grab and
go.
Maybe this is going to be aleftover night.
Based on commitments that aregoing on.
(03:32):
So if I have a networking eventfor work or the kids have soccer
practice until six 30, we wantto make sure we have quick
options so that we aren'tderailing everyone's bedtime,
the kids and mine included,which isn't going to set us up
for a good day, the next day.
I also like to think about.
What is the ideal time we wouldeat on some of these nights, you
know, ideally it's the same timeevery night, but sometimes that
(03:54):
shifts, especially if you are afamily of one or two, and you're
juggling a lot of, a lot ofsocial commitments.
Uh, picking a time that youmight eat every night is really
going to help you identify whatcan we actually make in the time
that we have.
So for me, this looks likespending time doing my weekly
meal plan as part of my weeklypreview on Sunday mornings.
(04:15):
This used to happen for me onMondays, but I just didn't feel
like I could get enough in frontof the week.
So I've started sitting downwith my cup of tea and my
planner to look at what's comingup in the week on a Sunday
morning.
It's so nice to sit on the frontporch.
I can reflect and I can thinkabout what's coming to help
myself feel more prepared.
After meal planning for a while,I realized the most exhausting
(04:37):
part of it was really justcoming up with ideas.
Every single time I get soexhausted and trying to pull
something out of the air thateveryone's going to, like,
that's going to be healthy.
That's going to be easy.
So I realized a few years agothat just keeping a short list
of quick, easy, healthy mealsnow that my kids like is really
a sanity saver.
(04:57):
When it comes to meal planningfor me.
Then I don't get bogged down bythe sheer volume of decision
that I have to make.
I know my shortlist.
One of the ways I cut down onthe sheer volume is by using a
cookbook I love.
A link to it in the show notes.
It's called.
Cook once eat all week.
It's from Cassy joy Garcia.
Now this is a gluten-freecookbook.
(05:19):
Uh, 26 weeks of gluten-freeaffordable meal prep to preserve
your time and sanity.
And it truly does.
I eat gluten and dairy freebecause that's what I feel like
helps me show up as my best.
And if that's not you, maybethere are other resources, but
what I love about this cookbookand the way that it approaches
meal planning is it provides anidea for a protein, a veggie,
(05:40):
and maybe one other thing.
And then you prepare meals threemeals each week around that.
So for example, maybe itchooses, pulled pork sweet
potatoes and kale.
So you only are buying thoseingredients and it gives you
three different ways to prepthat.
So you don't feel like you'reeating the same thing every day.
What I have found that is sohelpful is it simplifies my
(06:00):
shopping list.
And then it even provides someideas if I say have an hour or
two on a Sunday that maybe I cancook the meat in advance or do
any other advanced meal prep,it'll give me some ideas of how
I can do that.
So I can save myself time duringthe week.
Now caveat here.
Not everyone has time to mealprep.
On a weekend when I totally getthat.
(06:21):
What I will say is that theweeks that I actually do a
little bit of meal prep inadvance and follow this
cookbook.
And I feel like I won thelottery on a random Wednesday.
When I'm running in late.
Or something happened that Iwasn't expecting.
I'm tired from the day.
And I know I have dinner readyin the fridge.
All I have to do is pop it inthe oven.
So if you choose this option,you'd need to schedule in an
(06:43):
hour or two on the weekend.
But again, you don't have to dothat.
If you're stressed and you can'tfit this in.
Another option to have a shortlist of recipes is to create a
Pinterest board.
I have one that I'll share inthe show notes here.
I have curated a list of 20,maybe 30 meals here that are
quick and easy that I know mykids like that I know take 20
minutes or less.
(07:04):
So when I'm meal planning, Iopen this Pinterest board and I
just searched through whathaven't we had in a while.
What sounds good?
What are the kids going toenjoy?
Enjoy based on the schedule.
And what I know, I have time toprep.
Again, this helps because I'mnot analyzing hundreds of recipe
options.
I know my 20 to 30 that we like,and it really cuts down on that
(07:24):
time of choosing what we'regoing to make.
I think it's also really helpfulto curate your own.
So you can start with mine, pinsome of it, but make sure you're
adding to this list and you havesome variety.
So you don't feel like you'regetting stuck eating the same
old things.
Ultimately, what we're trying todo here is help you create a
system.
So that meal planning can befast and easy.
(07:47):
Can you make a decision one timethat will make all other future
decisions easier?
And that's what this mealplanning system will do for you.
I used to work with a flightnurse who would work two days on
two days off, two days on, andthen five days off.
And so meal planning was reallysporadic for her because of her
weird schedule.
So what she decided to do wascreate four weeks of meals, five
(08:11):
meals each week, and then shewould just rotate.
So she knew, Hey, this is a weeka week.
B a week C a week D and shedidn't have to think about it
now.
Creating that system took her alittle time upfront, but it
saves her so much time on thebackend and it helps her
husband.
Help her get those things readyfor their young kids, because he
knows what the plan is becausethere's communication and a
(08:34):
system in place.
So once you have your weeklymeal plan, And a grocery list
it's important then to choose aconsistent time to grocery shop
every week.
Why?
Because you're not thinkingabout it.
You're not trying to fit it in,in between work.
And going to pick up the kidsand rushing to do this.
Right.
I ideally recommend it beforeyou start the week.
(08:55):
So if you can do it on aSaturday or Sunday, it's ideal
to get that stuff in the house.
If you want to advance mealprep, you have time to do it,
but otherwise you're just nottrying to fit it in the little
confetti pieces of your week.
So consistency can be reallyhelpful here.
I used to love doing my groceryshopping on Monday afternoons
because I felt like nobody wasin the grocery store, but now
(09:16):
I've adjusted.
And since I do my meal planningearly on Sunday mornings, we
grocery shop on Sundayafternoons.
After we go to church.
We live in the country and we goto church in town.
So it's a great opportunityafter I've created my meal plan
and my grocery list, we go tochurch, we go to the grocery
store, I get help from the kidsdoing all the groceries.
And then I feel like on aSunday, I am ready for the week
(09:38):
and this isn't going to derailme.
So I just invite you to thinkabout when are you going to have
the time and space consistentlyfor the most part to do this
kind of shopping.
So you're not trying to rush itthrough the week.
Then step three is to post yourmeal plan on the fridge or in
some other command center areawhere others in your family can
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see it, or you can remindyourself.
Y, well, if it's just you ormaybe one other person in your
household, it's really helpfulthat you're not trying to carry
this meal list in your head.
You can just see it, you know,what's coming, you know, you
have a plan and you can justreference the plan.
It saves so much mental capacitywhen you have it written out in
an easy place.
If you have other folks in thehouse.
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It can help because thiscommunication can help leap frog
some of those nights when you'rehaving trouble catching up.
So for example, my six year oldmight have soccer from five to
six, 15 on a certain night.
If I have something in thefridge that I've already prepped
and had ready to go, I can justhave a note that says for my
husband, can you pop this in theoven for 30 minutes at three 50.
(10:44):
Right.
So when we get home, The kidsand I.
Dinner is almost ready insteadof having to start it.
When we get home.
Now, again, this does requirethe forethought and the
proactive planning, but itreally does make me feel like
supermom.
When I have this plan going intothe week.
So we can stay on target withour consistency and our goals
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for our kids and for ourselves.
So just some final thoughts.
I'm not perfect in operatingthis system.
But the weeks that I do operateit.
I feel so much less stressed.
I know the clients that I haveshared this with feel the same.
I'm actually feeding my familyhealthy foods, as opposed to
whatever I can grab quickly.
And it makes me feel a littlebit more like supermom.
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Like I can do it all.
Or at least the right things andthat confidence runs into other
areas of life.
So give this system a try, letme know what you think or send
me some of the tips that youhave used to help simplify what
can be a daunting task.
Drop me a DM.
That Jenna dot pisher.
P I C H E on Instagram.
In a moment I'm going to sharewith you how you can leverage AI
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to create your weekly meal planwith a grocery list in three
minutes or less.
But first.
If you're already feeling likesuperwoman crushing your
professional goals and showingup as your best self for your
family and your personal life.
Awesome.
But most women, I know.
I need a little bit more helpkeeping all those plates
(12:09):
spinning and maintaining theirsanity.
So I've put together somethingreally valuable for you.
It's called five ways to controlthe calendar chaos.
In it, I share with you threefilters to help you prioritize
your to-do list.
So you can skip that paralysisanalysis and just get the
important work done.
This helps you feel moreaccomplished.
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You can sign up for thisresource@theothersideofbusy.com
slash chaos, or click the linkin the show notes.
All right.
Want to know how to leverage AIto create a healthy weekly meal
plan with a grocery list inthree minutes or less.
Here we go.
Step one.
Open your favorite AI tool.
Step to enter a prompt similarto this.
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Please act as a nutritionisthelping plan healthy meals for a
family of blank.
These meals should have anoption for the blank insert any
kind of dietary modifications,pickiness, things like that,
that you might need here.
Ideally there's protein andvegetables with every meal.
And then you tell them what youwant.
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Please create five quick andeasy.
Dinner ideas with links torecipes for this family.
Boom.
That took me 30 seconds to typein.
And then it spits out ideas.
Like you can make chicken stir,fry baked salmon.
Here's a link to the recipe.
Here's a modification.
If you're gluten and dairy free,I might even say, oh, I know my
kids.
Aren't going to like thoseTurkey meatballs.
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Can you swap Turkey meatballsfor something else?
Great.
They'll pop in another recipewith another link.
And then you can say these lookgreat.
Now create me a shopping listfor these meals organized by
grocery store department for aneasy shopping trip.
That took 15 seconds.
What spits out is a listorganized by produce meat and
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seafood grains and pasta spices,and seasonings making my grocery
store list all of the more quickand easy and easy because it
spit that out.
Give this a try.
Let me know what you think.
And if you have found any othertips, tricks, and hacks to make
meal planning, a little less ofa pain and a little bit more of
an enjoyable experience for youand your family, I'd love to
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hear them.
If you got something out oftoday's episode.
I hope you share it.
Until next time may the workthat you do create the meaning
and the life that you deserve.
I'm rooting for you.
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